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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.

Guy's Hospital, Southwark: an aerial view. Engraving by W. H. Toms after R. West, c.1738. Wellcome Collection.

Guy’s Hospital School of Physiotherapy, London

An Overview of the Origins and History 1888 to1992 During the early to mid-1970s I was privileged to work as a member of the physiotherapy staff at Guy’s Hospital London.  Guy’s was founded in 1726 and is recognised as one of the great and famous hospitals in the United Kingdom

Blinded ex servicemen training as Masseurs, one of whom was Leonard Howell who lost his sight at Highwood on the Somme in 1916.

Lest We Forget

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them. The Armistice (Latin = “to stand arms still”) agreement to end the hostilities of the First World War at the beginning of peace negotiations, began at 11am on the 11th of November 1918. 

Physiotherapy is Handling: Then and Now

The seminal paper “Physiotherapy is Handling” was presented by Joyce Williams at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Founders’ Lecture at the CSP Annual Congress in 1985 and was reproduced in the Physiotherapy Journal in February 1986 (Vol.72, no.2).  Joyce’s biographical details current at the time of publication appear following

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Queen Elizabeth II: Late Patron of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

This article reflects some of the key contributions of our late and much-loved Queen Elizabeth II, as Patron of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), as we look to the Coronation of King Charles III on 6th May 2023.   There are many references in physiotherapy publications to Her Majesty

Reflections on two unique and great women who served as presidents of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Baroness Boothroyd and Baroness Masham who both died during the early months of this year were unique and great women who achieved and gave so much to Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).   The CSP was fortunate to benefit from their commitment, expertise and advocacy as Presidents and figureheads. Baroness

Guidelines for Computerised Information Systems in the UK NHS Physiotherapy Services: An Historical Perspective

Background This paper (below) was published in the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Journal “Physiotherapy” in April 1994.  At that time, there were very few computerised information systems specifically designed for physiotherapy services and Allied Health in the UK but computerised information systems were gradually becoming more widely used in the

Why Information Systems for Physiotherapy? – An Historical Perspective

I think the service I led and managed was the first in the United Kingdom to make Personal Computer (PC) access fully available to all physiotherapy staff and by the time I retired from that role all of my out-patient staff had their own work stations complete with PC.  I

Introduction of General Management into the UK NHS – CSP Response

The introduction of General Management into the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK) which commenced in 1983/1984 was one of the most extensive and radical sets of changes to have taken place in the Service during its 73-year history. Arguably, the Griffiths recommendations which brought general management

Significant Landmarks in UK Physiotherapy Through Official Memorobilia

Historical Notes and Personal Reminiscences 1994 was a significant date in the history of physiotherapy in the British Isles; it was the celebration of the Centenary of the founding of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP).  It was during the summer of 1894 that four nurses and midwives, Lucy Robinson,

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

A Watershed in Professional Independence in the UK – The McMillan Report NOTE: Readers may be interested to know that Mr E.L. McMillan (Chairman of the McMillan working Party, in whose name the Report was published) was a patient of the author during the period that the working party was

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