Clinical Assessment Service (CAS)
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What we do
Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) is made up of a large team of experienced advanced clinical practitioners (Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Occupational Therapists as well as GP’s with a special interest in musculoskeletal) who will assess, diagnose and help you to manage your musculoskeletal condition at health clinics spread across the local community.The aim of the service is to ensure that patients with MSK conditions are seen by the right clinician at the right time to facilitate the most effective management of your condition.
All practitioners have a broad knowledge and understanding of both conservative and surgical options that may benefit the patient. This allows discussion around the subject of best care for the patient and most appropriate steps in their treatment and outcomes. Where surgery may be required the clinician will refer the patient to the appropriate hospital. Onward referral to other departments can also be arranged, if appropriate such as Physiotherapy, Rheumatology, Pain clinic and Neurology. -
Our team
- Peter Meers – Consultant Physiotherapist
- Stephanie Marsh – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Digant Patel – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Thomas Skinner – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Sarah Oakham – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Arun Samueljkumar – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Ramandeep Singh – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Nitin Sharma – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Jack Broady – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- David Field – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Dan Horgan – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Noopur Shah – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Bhavna Chawla – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Aminat Adeleke – Advanced Podiatrist Practitioner
- Daniel Morris – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Padmini Sharma – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Alex Armstrong – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner (Hand specialist)
- Charmaine Mensha – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Matt Busby – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Susan Falconar – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Sandra Fassenfelt – Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner
- Julie Kennedy – Advanced Occupational Therapist Practitioner
- Dr Arjun Sohanpal – GP with special interest in Orthopaedics
- Dr Paul Staker – GP with special interest in Orthopaedics
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What we offer
- A thorough holistic assessment – tailoring and reaching a treatment plan we both agree on
- Advice and self management strategies
- Soft tissue and joint injection therapy (including ultrasound guided injections)
- Prescriptions to help manage your pain
- Diagnostic requests (although not always necessarily required) such as Xrays, MRIs, bone scans, nerve conduction studies and ultrasound scans.
- Assessments and opinions from GP’s with a special interest within musculoskeletal
- Onward referral to physiotherapy to continue with your rehabilitation
- Onward referral to various other departments if required.
- Provide or refer for equipment such as walking aids
- Refer to our OT for a home assessment
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How to prepare for your appointment
During assessment, you may be asked to remove some items of clothing during your appointment. Please ensure you dress appropriately to enable this.
You are welcome to bring a relative or a friend to your appointments. Alternatively, we can arrange a chaperone if you would like someone to be with you.
Please bring a list of your current medicines.
If you have had a scan or x-ray outside your local NHS provider, please bring the report if you have it or the details of where you had your imaging performed
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Clinic locations
To be referred to our service, GPs can send a referral letter to us using the electronic referral system. If you have had an injection with us in the past year, self-referral will be accepted.
The GP will fill out the healthcare professionals MSK referral form. The referral will be reviewed by one of the CAS clinicians to assess the best person to see you.
Published on: 19 February, 2025
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