Shanan Procter, APAM

Mother of three, Gold Coast, Queensland

I’ve always had an interest in the human body and helping others.

I am an employee and I have been ordered by government or health authorities to isolate after returning from interstate. What am I entitled to be paid?

Tasmania’s first physiotherapy degree is set to launch at the University of Tasmania.

The new Master of Physiotherapy is part of the university’s Allied Health Expansion Program and will be based within the College of Health and Medicine’s School of Health Sciences at the Launceston campus.

With many physiotherapy students choosing to work in private practice upon graduation (up to 70 per cent), universities have been working with the private practice community to identify challenges that may limit student placements in the sector.

It comes some five or six years after the launch of the APA Career Pathways and the creation of a framework of learning and achievement for the profession that sits alongside, and provides an alternative to, traditional education pathways.

Career Pathways is an ambitious undertaking by the APA for the profession.

Amanda Mulcahy, APAM

Mother of one, Sydney, New South Wales

My daughter is 12 months old, her name is Harper and she was born right in the middle of the pandemic in July last year.

The ‘new normal’ continues with isolated lockdowns, border closures throughout the country, amended travel plans, Zoom calls, telehealth, mask wearing, COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and social distancing.

But for the majority of physiotherapy practice, the profession has pivoted and adapted to this new way of being.

Since its start in 2010, the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme has been an important national regulatory reform that benefits everyone accessing healthcare anywhere in Australia.

Before the National Scheme was introduced, health practitioner registration in Australia involved eight separate state and territory regulatory systems with differing legislation, requirements and scope of professions.