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Self referral pilots to physiotherapy: Information pack

An information pack on the self referral pilots to physiotherapy - including information on data collection.

The White Paper 'Our Health, our care, our say' made a commitment that:

‘in order to provide better access to a wider range of services, we will pilot and evaluate self referral to physiotherapy.  We will also consider the potential benefits of offering self-referral for additional direct access for other therapy services’.

DH has been working with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and six pilot sites were identified. The pilots run until end of December 2007 with data collection continuing until end March 2008.

The information pack has been produced in response to requests for further details and includes links to the published work in Scotland which has helped inform the pilots.

• Download Self referral information pack (PDF, 1077K)