Rehabilitation First Award Win for Physio Med and NHS Client

Physio Med has been recognised at a prestigious awards ceremony alongside its client St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (STHK).

STHK was awarded the Employer’s Rehabilitation Initiative of the Year at the Rehabilitation First Awards having worked with Physio Med to increase productivity and reduce sickness absence rates amongst its staff.

As a public sector organisation STHK delivers a vital service to the local community which requires employees to be in excellent physical condition, but they were experiencing high levels of sickness absence due to musculoskeletal injuries and conditions and having to wait too long to see the in-house physiotherapist.

Physio Med provided STHK with robust early intervention via a blended approach of fast track telephone triage, remote multimedia self-management and on-site face-to-face treatment. In an 11 month period, a total of 226 cases were progressed by Physio Med, resulting in a 146% improvement in productivity and function - equating to 2.5 days per week per person working a five day week - and the reduction of sickness absence levels among those suffering an MSD from an average 28 days to 12  or 58%

Recognising these results at the Rehabilitation First Awards the judges said:  “The 'blendedness' of this approach is particularly commendable as it gets away from the one-size-fits-all attitude that often gets in the way of successful outcomes. To round it all off, they have been able to measure and demonstrate the effectiveness, especially in terms of absence.

“We need more of this to demonstrate to all the value of early and proactive services and to challenge other data that has been reported in the media.”

Physio Med’s Clinical Director Mark Fletcher, said: “The results we helped St Helens and Knowsley to achieve were fantastic and we are absolutely thrilled that the innovative nature of the Physio Med service has been recognised as excellent within the rehabilitation industry.” 

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