Involving people with lived experience in physiotherapy education - Research report one: Reflecting together to enhance teaching outcomes

Abstract

In September 2014, the physiotherapy regulator for England and Wales (Health and Care Professions Council) introduced an education and training standard requiring service user and carer involvement in all approved programmes (HCPC 2018) including physiotherapy. Despite this, a scoping literature search on the involvement of people with lived experience in physiotherapy education and training returned only two results (Thomson and Hilton 2011, 2013), both of which pre-date the regulatory requirement. This means that there is no documented scientific literature on a client's lived experience involvement in a physiotherapy course since the introduction of this standard.