Abstract
Purpose: Chronic pain services within Glasgow have traditionally run on the model of individuals being assessed by a medical consultant at first contact. With growing demands on the pain service and the drive towards new models of care, advanced physiotherapy practitioners (APP) are well placed to step up to support and meet this demand. The recent advancement of physiotherapists as non-medical independent prescribers (NMP) has offered further scope for benefitting patient care and flow within the service. An initial one-year pilot study was undertaken whereby at initial referral, appropriate patients were triaged to physiotherapy as the first point of contact.
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