October 2008

The International Scientific Committee has designed several surveys to provide feedback to help in the planning for WCPT's congress in 2011 and ensure the topics most important to you are covered.  The surveys are targeted at WCPT's member organisations and subgroups, as well as individual physical therapists.  They have been designed to be completed on-line and should take less than 10 mins of your time. Please complete by 12th November 2008.  Please extend the invitation for completing the survey open to individual physical therapists by bringing it to the attention of your members.

If you are a member organisation please click here to complete the survey.

If you are a WCPT subgroup please click here to complete the survey.

If you are an individual physical therapist please go to www.wcpt.org/congress and follow the link to the survey.

Help us promote the 16th WCPT Congress in Amsterdam.  WCPT now has a variety of web ads for you to select from to place on your websites and help bring World Physical Therapy 2011 to the attention of your members.  To download the artwork please go to http://www.wcpt.org/congress/downloads.php.  You will also see that a PowerPoint slide has been designed to be incorporated, where possible, within your presentations.

A small selection of print quality colour and black and white adverts are additionally available for download from the WCPT site.  

If you have any queries about the artwork, please contact Rachel Moore at rmoore@wcpt.org. 

Thank you to all those who submitted comments on the draft position statement on patient record keeping.  All comments are currently being analysed and will be used to revise the draft for consideration at the Executive Committee meeting in November.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common neurological disorders and causes of disability in young adults.  In response to this the World Health Organization (WHO) have just published Atlas: Multiple Sclerosis Resources in the World 2008.  This new publication summarises information from 112 countries and presents evidence on the global epidemiology of MS and the resources to diagnose, treat, rehabilitate, support and provide services to people with MS.

To order a copy please go to www.who.int/bookorders quoting order no. 11500747.   

The following month looks set to be a busy one for many of WCPT's member organisations who are holding their annual conferences, including those in Brazil, Nigeria, Nepal, the Netherlands and  Bangladesh.  For further details please go to the events section of the WCPT website at http://www.wcpt.org/events/index.php.