Service Development and Advancing Practice blogs
We all have a responsibility to ensure we are delivering best-practice in our clinical roles. These blog entries aim to share service development ideas to support the physiotherapist working with and for people living with axial SpA / AS. We also want to highlight the emerging advanced practice and extended roles of physiotherapists and other members of the multi-disciplinary team in supporting axial SpA / AS services.
Key Documents
Our Aspiring to Excellence Journey
Maureen Motion, Extended Scope Physiotherapist Rheumatology, based at Freeman Hospitals, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Our team, led by Dr Lesley Kay and Dr Ben Thompson applied to be part of the First cohort of Aspiring to Excellence in July 2019....
A Physiotherapy Response to the BSR “Rheumatology Workforce” Report
July 2021: The British Society of Rheumatology have recently released a “Workforce Report”, it includes exciting potential developments for all of the multidisciplinary team. This BSR document talks about "enhancing roles" for the AHP workforce in rheumatology and...
Setting up an Axial SpA / AS clinic
July 2020: Our May 2019 blog memorably described Juliette’s experience in the early-to-mid 1990s in setting up clinics for people with Ankylosing Spondylitis and the side-by-side work of developing the Bath scores (https://secure....
Tap, Tap…What’s App?
February 2020: Firstly, I must apologise for my attempt to bring the classic ‘Knock Knock’ humour of my past into your digital present. I suspect it has not worked. However, it has introduced the topic of Digital Health in Rheumatology for this latest blogpost in the...
About us
AStretch is a not for profit organisation; our main aim is to provide a co-ordinated approach to the planning and delivery of education and best practice. Also to support physiotherapists working with people who have Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) and Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS).
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