Standing on stage at one of the largest respiratory conferences in the US to present her research work, Alisha da Silva APAM had to pinch herself. 

Alisha had thought she’d be in the audience. 

Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) sit in the gap between GP clinics and hospital emergency departments (EDs) and are designed to relieve pressure on hospital care. 

Sport provides any number of examples and illustrations to explain a process, situation or policy. 
Many of our commonly used clichés derive from sport. 

For example, we ‘let one go through to the keeper’—a cricket term that also means letting a comment go without response or not bothering to act or pursue an issue.

Sitting in the auditorium at the International Brain Injury Association’s World Congress on Brain Injury in Dublin, Ireland, in late March this year, Dr Adam Scheinberg broke into a grin when a name flashed up on the screen during the keynote address.

Physiotherapy associations across the world are working to remove barriers to healthcare and physiotherapy so that patients can have safe and affordable—if not free—access to the physiotherapy services they need, where and when they need them.

As the APA advocates for publicly funded first contact physiotherapy in primary care in Australia, we look at overseas models and at their challenges and opportunities.

The Physiotherapy Board of Australia is committed to helping to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Fifteen per cent of the world’s population currently lives with disability and it is considered a global human rights and public health issue (World Health
Organization 2015). 

A major aspect of the APA’s advocacy involves partnering on research projects to support the excellent work through which researchers are contributing to the field of physiotherapy (as discussed in the February 2023 issue of InMotion here).

‘Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet we cannot build a community-based health system.’

These were the words of one of this country’s leading health policy experts when we sat down to discuss the current state of our health sector.