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CCG 1171 First Contact Physiotherapist in General Practice

Note on term First contact physiotherapists in General Practice

  • When an individual contacts their GP they can be offered a consultation with the First contact physiotherapists instead of seeing the GP and without needing to see the GP first.
  • First contact physiotherapists in General Practice provide assessment, diagnosis, exercise/ self-care advice, and if necessary, referral for investigations or treatment.
  • They are mainly part of musculoskeletal (MSK) services and see people who contact their GP service with MSK issues.
  • They may work solely in General Practice (s) or they may be both part of the GP team and a physiotherapy team providing services in community or secondary care.

·         First contact physiotherapists in General Practice have been given a variety of different job titles

Request 1

Please tell us about first contact physiotherapy roles in General Practice in your area by answering the following:

(a) Please confirm/deny whether the areas covered by NHS Rotherham CCG has any first contact physiotherapists in General Practice

Yes

(b) If yes to 1(a) please confirm/deny whether this is a pilot service

Yes

(c) If yes to 1(a) please confirm/deny whether it is a permanent service

No

(d) if yes to 1(b) please confirm/deny whether you have plans to roll out the pilot to other GP surgeries in the areas covered by NHS Rotherham CCG

No

Request 2

Please tell us about how first contact physiotherapy roles in General Practice in your area are funded by answering the following:

(a)If yes to request 1(a) please confirm/deny whether this is funded all or in part by NHS Rotherham CCG

Yes – fully funded

(b)If yes to request 1(a) please confirm/deny whether this is funded all are in part by individual GP (s) or GP federation (s) or GP cluster (s)

Not funded at all by GPs

(c) If yes to request 1(a) please confirm/deny whether this is funded all or in part from temporary national funding

No

(d) If yes to request 2(c) please specify what this source of funding is

 

 

Not applicable

 

 

Request 3

Where are the services that are using first contact physiotherapist roles in General Practice

(a)  If yes to 1(a) please provide the name of the GP (s) practices or GP federation (s) or GP cluster (s) in the areas covered by NHS Rotherham CCG that have first contact physiotherapists working in General Practice

 

 

Name (s)

Broom Lane

Woodstock Bower

The Village

Shakespeare Road

Manor Field

Market

Stag

The Gate

St Anns

Clifton

 

 

(b) if yes to 1(a) please provide the name of the physiotherapy provider (s) in the areas covered by NHS Rotherham CCG who delivers a service that has a first contact physiotherapist working in General Practice

 

Name (s) The Rotherham Hospital NHS Foundation Trust