Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics

ACPOHE will again be presenting at the Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference.  Now in its 15th successful year, the event will be virtual with over 100 hours of insights and learning – you can sign up for a day, a week or a week plus a further 30 days on demand.  20 conference programmes profile the latest innovations, ideas and best practice within occupational health and ergonomics, with a dedicated programme on Managing MSDs and Ergonomics.  Here are just some of the highlights to look forward to:

Free Webinar: Introduction to the Journal of Physiotherapy in Work and Health

Thursday, 04th March 2021 @ 12:00-13:00

The new ACPOHE online journal is committed to providing a platform for sharing contemporary research and ideas regarding physiotherapy education and practice and is now LIVE. We are keen to add new reviewers to our list, welcome new authors and learn about your work and research! Even if you do not currently review for the journal or do not have any author experience we’d love you to attend this webinar to get more information about authoring an article and/or adding your name as a peer reviewer.

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ACPOHE's new online journal is committed to providing a platform for sharing contemporary research and ideas regarding physiotherapy education and practice and is now LIVE.

Please visit the website where you can find our first editorial.

Health and Wellbeing at Work have published their 2021 Trends Report.  ACPOHE Chair Miles Atkinson contributed to the report.  To download a copy of the report click here.

The Society of Occupational Medicine and Public Health England have been hosting a series of free webinars with two still left to run in March:

- 3rd March 2-4pm Developing a COVID secure health and wellbeing strategy 

- 10th March 2-4pm Managing change – from restructuring, redundancy to home working

Recordings of the previous webinars are also available.  Click here for the link and further details.

A successful first virtual ACPOHE AGM was held on Tuesday 1st December.  Over 50 members attended with many more clinicians joining for the webinar.

ACPOHE Committee and members would like to thank three outgoing committee members for their work and commitment: Maggi Holmes, Michelle Kitson and Bryan White.

Five new committee members were elected: Glykeria Skamagki, Paul Shawcross, Alex Bell, Latika Sethi and Paul Scallan.

ACPOHE would also like to thank Tracy Long for her many years of admin support.

The Webinar and AGM recording is now available to view, as well as the slides from the AGM and webinar.

The SOM Occupational Health Awards are a celebration of the superb work that occupational health professionals undertake every day. The awards showcase occupational health, demonstrating the value of occupational health to organisations and the wider community and discovering and sharing the innovative and important work that is being done at both an individual and organisational level.