Musculoskeletal - Advanced Physiotherapy

The Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust MSK Clinical Assessment and Treatment Service (MSKCATS) is a community team, which manages Orthopaedic, Pain and Rheumatology referrals from GPs in East & North Hertfordshire localities. The APP is the first point of contact. APPs are experts within their field whose role it is to triage, assess/diagnose and treat patients with highly complex multi pathologies who would normally have been seen in a consultant outpatient clinic. The management of such patients requires advanced clinical reasoning skills and the resolution of conflicting views.

The APP triages patients into primary and secondary care services; discharging and prioritising patients, including those with serious pathology. The APP is a musculoskeletal expert resource for the Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Musculoskeletal Service providing the highest level of expertise on MSK conditions and advice to other services and professions including GPs and hospital medical staff. Word versions of documents are available if needed to allow for any adaptations to be made i.e. font, colour, background, convert to Read Aloud.