Earlier this year, Melbourne-based NeuroRehab Allied Health Network decided to take a closer look at its company culture by completing a certification through global workplace consulting firm Great Place to Work (GPTW).

Graduating soon and excited to start your career as a physiotherapist?

Or are you a registered physiotherapist due to renew your registration?

This month we share some tips on registration.

Before you can start practising and using the protected title ‘physiotherapist’, you must be registered with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia.

Being a treating physiotherapist puts a practitioner in close contact with a patient.
 

This means that understanding your obligations regarding professional boundaries is pivotal.
 

The Australian College of Physiotherapists currently provides two pathways to Fellowship—Original Contribution (Research pathway) and Specialisation (Clinical pathway).

When thinking about partnerships, there are many greats that come to mind.

Freddie Mercury and Brian May from Queen—yes, I have seen the movie, which highlights that you can have disputes but also resolve them—Paul McCartney and John Lennon—from The Beatles, for our younger readers—Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar from Afterpay, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar from Atlassian, and Barack and Michelle Obama.

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency’s research unit recently undertook a project to analyse the physiotherapy workforce in Australia.

Data was collated from the 2019 workforce data survey, registrations, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Commonwealth Department of Health to produce a report on the Australian physiotherapy workforce.

Almost three-quarters of the APA membership works in private practice.

This means that the item numbers, descriptors and fees determined by third-party schemes are major topics of discussion for the APA’s Business group and the focus of frequent meetings and a broad range of other advocacy activity.

APA CEO Anja Nikolic and I met with Minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt to discuss the Value of Physiotherapy report that the APA commissioned and released late last year.