Table 1.
Site | Urban/rural | POPPY experience | Current dominant model |
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1 | Urban | POPPY recruiting centre | Primary and secondary care provision of specialist physiotherapy referred by primary care and acute services with a mix of 1:1 and group provision available. Women not routinely sent to physiotherapy as first line treatment. Several POPPY physiotherapists providing current input to women with POP |
2 | Urban | Large involvement in medically driven trials but no focus on physiotherapy based trials | Currently has some specialist physiotherapy involvement but greater specialist nurse-led service for women |
No POPPY involvement | |||
3 | Rural | No POPPY involvement and limited other trial involvement | Current interest in re-design and expanding to junior grade physiotherapists and other nursing staff (as practitioners with special interest) |
POP Pelvic Organ Prolapse, POPPY Pelvic Organ Prolapse PhysiotherapY trial