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English Regional Networks

The new CSP Regional Networks can help you benefit from interaction with a wide range of colleagues. Use this page to find out more about them and how you can get involved.

What are the Regional Networks?

The Regional Networks:
  • Support physiotherapists from across different specialities and organisations and enable them to work together
  • Help physiotherapists share information and improve patient care
  • Work to influence regional SHAs and local commissioners
  • Seek to influence CSP decision making and strategy.
Your involvement and contributions as a CSP member in England will shape the success of the regional iCSP pages: how do I sign up?
Funded and supported by the CSP centrally, the English Networks are an up to date version of CSP regional 'boards'. Please also note that each CSP Regional Network covers a Strategic Health Authority (SHA) region.

Why Regional Networks?

Physiotherapy has much to offer modern health care and there are many opportunities. However, these can bring challenges, eg how do we:
  • Organise services in pioneering ways to improve quality?
  • Demonstrate that our services, and potential new services, fit with SHA regional visions or imperatives?
  • Survive and surmount world class commissioning?
  • Empower and inspire physiotherapy staff, at all levels, to be innovative leaders?
  • Agree which data to collect, how to analyse and present data, and how to demonstrate most effectively what physiotherapy achieves?
  • Imaginatively use patient experience to improve services?
  • Establish self-referral as an access route into our services?
  • Promote the notion that physiotherapy is a safe treatment?
  • Effectively manage our greater freedom but also our enhanced accountability?
  • Develop inclusive community services for people with long-term conditions?
  • Become a more flexible and responsive workforce?
  • Promote public health (especially physical activity), in a practical and innovative way?

Your CSP Regional Network can help raise awareness among local decision makers of the contribution physiotherapy brings to modern healthcare. Your CSP Regional Network will enable local physiotherapists to work together on projects - addressing local priorities to effect change, address challenges and opportunities, and minimise threats.

How do they work?

Each Regional Network is run by local physiotherapy activists and has its own style. You can share information and talk together in a 'virtual' network on interactiveCSP (iCSP), and Regional Network core teams meet regularly in person. All CSP Regional Networks have:
  • A core team of key members who coordinate the Network and can promote regional priorities to help Network participants influence health care decisions and maximise opportunities
  • A regional iCSP site to encourage sharing of ideas and discussion of local priorities
  • Access (via their core team) to an iCSP site for core teams across England - this is a forum for sharing ideas and achievements across all of the 10 English Networks
  • A voice at CSP Council through your regional Council representative who is a key member of your Regional Network's core team and attends the English Networks Forum to share successes and challenges with colleagues across England.

Who can be involved?

The Regional Networks help you share experience and ideas, and work together across different groups and organisations. All CSP members bring their own knowledge and experience and can participate including:
  • Associates / assistants / technicians
  • Clinicians
  • Educators
  • Health and safety representatives
  • Managers
  • Non working members
  • Private / independent sector physiotherapists
  • Researchers
  • Stewards
  • Students
With a Regional Network team that represents all these groups we are likely to be most successful in rising to the challenges that face us and in influencing local decisions. Looking ahead - as we progress specific regional priorities, we might work with partners e.g. colleagues in medicine, health and social care, or in the voluntary sector.

How can I be involved?

    How can I access pages in a different region?
  1. through your regional iCSP pages:
    • Log on to iCSP
    • Click on 'Your CSP region' on the menu bar at the top.
    Your regional iCSP pages are currently developing as a part of the English Networks Programme but as the Programme progresses they will begin to include:
    • Information from your Regional Network team activity and projects
    • A lively 'discussion', and this is your chance to contribute, to say what you think, identify regional priorities and to ask questions
    • Information from the central CSP to share with the English regions and to listen to the voice of the English regions
    • Details of regional activity and events
    • The activity of any CSP Branches in your region
    The success of the regional iCSP pages is dependent on your involvement and contributions as a CSP member in England.
  2. contact your Regional Network lead:
    To see who this is (and for clarification on locating your regional network) see our contacts page.

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