{"id":6641,"date":"2024-02-08T12:12:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:12:42","slug":"nova-scotia-physiotherapists-to-be-allowed-to-order-x-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/02\/08\/nova-scotia-physiotherapists-to-be-allowed-to-order-x-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia physiotherapists to be allowed to order X-rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6642\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6642\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/physiotherapy-5624921_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/physiotherapy-5624921_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/physiotherapy-5624921_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/physiotherapy-5624921_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/physiotherapy-5624921_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Licensed physiotherapists in Nova Scotia will soon be able to order X-rays. (Matias Maiztegui photo via Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Rick Conrad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Physiotherapists in Nova Scotia will soon be able to order X-rays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Physiotherapists employed by Nova Scotia Health or IWK Health can already order the scans. But the province will expand that ability to those in private practice in early spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEnsuring all physiotherapists can request necessary X-rays for their patients means more timely access to the care people need,\u201d Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson said Thursday in a news release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis change will reduce unnecessary demands on family physicians, nurse practitioners, and emergency departments, and save patients and physiotherapists time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Physiotherapists must be in good standing with the Nova Scotia College of Physiotherapists to request an X-ray.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health are working with the Nova Scotia College of Physiotherapists and the Nova Scotia Physiotherapy Association to get the practice up and running provincewide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rick Conrad Physiotherapists in Nova Scotia will soon be able to order X-rays. Physiotherapists employed by Nova Scotia Health or IWK Health can already order the scans. But the province will expand that ability to those in private practice in early spring. \u201cEnsuring all physiotherapists can request necessary X-rays for their patients means more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[418,241,537,1727],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-michelle-thompson","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nova-scotia-health","tag-physiotherapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6644,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}