As the former chair of the APA Business group, Scott Willis, APAM, is already a familiar face to many physiotherapists working in private practice and in policy and advocacy circles. This year, Scott will become more familiar to the wider membership and profession as he becomes the ninth member of the APA Board of Directors.

In this article, I would like to address members of the Western Australian Branch, highlight our achievements and thank everyone for their help.

The Victorian Branch is a diverse and engaged group of volunteer members whose areas of expertise cover both private and public practice, community health and aged care, advanced practice, management, education, digital health and public policy.

A redesign of a physiotherapy session that educates women on how to self-manage back/pelvic pain—and associated marketing collateral—is resulting in increased engagement and an uptake in services among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at the Women’s and Children Health Network.

Essentially four ‘new’ models of CTP were presented and a ‘no faults’ scheme was chosen. Under this scheme all injured parties are entitled to compensation for injury for up to five years. Up to $5000 will be made available for treatment for up to six months after an accident. This model will go straight to legislation. Roy also attended an APA national insurance summit in Melbourne in July so the ACT was well represented.

International speaker Dr Mary Massery discusses her course, ‘If you can’t breathe, you can’t function: integrating cardiopulmonary and postural control strategies in pediatric and adult populations’, which she will present in 2019.

A pioneering exercise program to help in the recovery of prostate cancer patients who are undergoing hormone therapy offers so much more than just a catchy title.

APA member Karen Finnin is the Director of Online.Physio. She talks to Skye Mitchell about Australia’s first online publicly accessible private practice.

DATA SAFETY In the second part of this two-part series, APA Digital Technology Advisor Barry Nguyen looks at encrypted messaging and security.