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Canadian Physiotherapy Association

2 communications in the past year

What they’re lobbying about

Value for physiotherapy in diverse sectors such as primary care. Discussion includes physiotherapy access, expansion of services and scope of practice. Scope of Practice: Physiotherapy scope of practice, skill-set optimization, value for physiotherapy, economic impact. Raise awareness about the role of physiotherapy within a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare and educate policymakers on how physiotherapy can help reduce healthcare costs, maximize current spending and funding allocation through physiotherapy skill optimization, support preventative care and contribute to a healthier Canadian population at all stages of life. Internationally Educated Health Professionals: Monitoring issues related to emerging needs of profession and population. Improving access to safe and effective pain management, such as physiotherapy as a non-pharmacological care, as an upstream and early intervention and prevention response to the opioid crisis Health Human Resource Strategy: Explore opportunities to develop health human resource strategy for the profession of physiotherapy. Discussion includes health human resources planning, health human resource crisis, workforce planning, workforce shortages, scope of practice. Enable support and funding for those communities that could potentially benefit most from telerehabilitation and virtual services, including Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis and rural and remote populations, where infrastructure may presently exclude them from access (no cellular or internet service/access). Discussion on equity of access to physiotherapy services. Caseload Guidelines: Joint application for funding from Health Canada for Caseload Guidelines development for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy. and Speech Language Pathology. Including research regarding physiotherapy specific caseload guidelines. Adult physiotherapy services covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits program. This includes NHIB, orthotics, medical devices, coverage.

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