Ensuring that informed consent is properly obtained is a legal, ethical and professional requirement on the part of all treating health professionals and supports person-centred care in Australia. 

Informed consent is a person’s decision, given voluntarily, to agree to a healthcare treatment, procedure or other intervention. 

Universities that provide physiotherapy education and the broader physiotherapy profession should seek to develop sustainable and mutually beneficial educational partnerships. 

I have served the APA and the physiotherapy profession for nine years, including over four as CEO. 

In that time I have gained a profound respect for physiotherapists and appreciation for the under-celebrated role they play in people’s lives.

Less than a decade ago, advocacy on behalf of the profession was largely reactive. 

In the contemporary workplace, many workers now value non-monetary benefits such as flexibility and a healthy workplace over the traditional, monetary-based incentives that have previously reigned supreme. 

This does not mean that financial benefits are irrelevant; rather, it emphasises the importance of employers adopting a nuanced approach. 

In clinical practice, discrimination against people in the LGBTQIA+ community can take many forms, from overt discrimination—
also known as macroaggressions—to more subtle but still harmful microaggressions.

Macroaggressions are public, visible and direct forms of discrimination that affect entire communities. 

How established is simulation as part of the clinical training of physiotherapy students?

Loretta Kirkovski joined the Victorian branch of the APA as a receptionist/membership clerk on 1 December 1983—passing an incredible 40-year milestone with the APA in December 2023.

Loretta was 17 and a half years old when she was employed by the APA, having finished her Higher School Certificate year just months before commencing work. 

It can be incredibly overwhelming for new employees to begin employment in a completely new workplace, whether it’s their first job after graduation or their tenth. 

It is in the employer’s best interest to facilitate the employee’s transition into the workplace as smoothly as possible and this is best done through an induction process. 

It was during the second COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney in 2020 that things began to change for Lauren Wade FACP.