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Dr Robert Jones PhD, MPhil, BA, FCSP, Grad.Dip.Phys, CIHM, MMACP Honorary Life Fellow of Brighton and Fellow Plymouth Universities Rob is a Director and Trustee of Moorfields Eye Charity and a member of Moorfields Hospital FT Governors Council, he is Chair of the non-executive Governance and Remuneration Committee and chair of the Governor Governance committee. Rob is co-director of JJ Consulting Healthcare Management, which specialises in providing management/ leadership services across the UK and internationally including service reviews, surveys, coaching, masterclasses, workshops and presentations. He is joint author/editor of seven books on management and leadership topics for the AHPs and has published twenty-five papers and articles in peer reviewed journals and other publications. His published work includes clinical, management, leadership, IM&T and health policy topics and his most recently published peer reviewed paper is an in-depth history of blind and partially sighted physiotherapy in the UK. He is also an executive member of the International Physiotherapy History Association. Rob has lectured and led masterclasses in many countries around the world and extensively throughout the UK. He has presented at five WCPT Congresses including leading three international symposia. He has substantial clinical and professional experience and was a former Chairman of CSP and the first physiotherapy representative to the health care professions Regulator, the HCPC. He successfully completed the Clinical Leadership and Strategists programme at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, and has been a member of several UK Department of Health Working Groups. He has a doctorate in management, MPhil in social policy and BA in Humanities specialising in philosophy, history and english. Rob is also a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and a Companion of the Institute of Health Care Management.

The process of physiotherapy professionalisation in the UK – Development of autonomy, Part III

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Physiotherapy in the UK suffered several setbacks on the road to professional autonomy.  This was very disappointing for physiotherapy in the UK, particularly given the developments which took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s with the advent of Government and public

The process of physiotherapy professionalisation in the UK – Development of autonomy, Part II

Introduction¹ My previous contribution to IPHA articles (March 2020) presented an overview of the relationship between the medical profession and physiotherapy following the introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK exemplified through the Cope Report. This contribution continues the story via an overview of the development of

The process of physiotherapy professionalisation in the UK – Development of autonomy, Part I

Notes on the relationship between physiotherapy and the medical profession in the early days of the National Health Service In the early days of the UK National Health Service (which came into being on 5thJuly, 1948) the influence of the medical profession in terms of the direction, prescription, education and

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