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As a result of the application of section 59A of the Workers Compensation Act 1987, some patients may soon no longer have their claim for medical, hospital and rehabilitation expenses compensated through the workers compensation system. They may need your assistance to prepare for this change.

The date these changes come into effect will vary, with some patients ceasing entitlements from September 2019.

When Abeba arrived at Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s hospital in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, she was in a wheelchair, and could barely move her legs—let alone stand on her own two feet.

Learning to ride a bicycle is a rite of childhood, but for children with cerebral palsy it can be a major achievement.

For more than 20 years, Kate Hood was an able-bodied actor, writer and director, best known for her role as Kath Maxwell in the cult television series Prisoner.

At the age of 42 she was diagnosed with hereditary spastic paraplegia.

Judith James (nee Welch), or Judy James, as she was known to many of the children, parents and colleagues she worked with, passed away this year after a long career as a physiotherapist from the 1950s to the 1990s.

The Victoria Government Gazette of 13 August 1979 shows that she was registered as a physiotherapist, number 835, on 6 September 1954 as a 21-year-old, fittingly on her birthday.

The disability sector had a significant win in July.

Following months of campaigning, the federal government was forced to remove the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s (NDIS) independent assessments.

It is rare to get an advocacy win this late in the policy cycle and it is worth reflecting on how we got here.

It was a policy backflip like no other.

In 2000, Associate Professor Bernie Bissett left university wanting to work as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist.

But in her first year at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, she worked and fell in love with intensive care (ICU) physiotherapy. ‘What I loved about it is that it’s a combination of cardiorespiratory, neuro and musculoskeletal, all in one.’

Changes in the professional indemnity (PI) market in Australia and around the world, which began being felt in 2017 and have continued throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–21, are expected to affect a broad range of professions.