Helen Welch

Clinical & Operational Lead CMATS physiotherapist MSK Sonographer Chair Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapy

About Helen Welch

Helen is currently consultant MSK physiotherapist and FCP lead overseeing first contact physiotherapy provision in West Belfast Federation providing expert assessment and management of MSK conditions. She has done additional training to act as a non-medical independent prescriber and to perform joint and soft tissue injection. As well as post graduate training in physiotherapy, she is a CASE accredited sonographer, training in the provision of ultrasound guided injections.

She has been active within the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapy (MACP), recently stepping down as Chair of the organisation. She also previously co-chaired the MSK partnership group acting as project lead for the development of the UK MSK advanced practice standards. She is lecturers on the post graduate MSK provision for the Ulster University and injection therapy for SOMM. She is currently undertaking Professional Doctorate in Health at University of Bath looking at management of complexity in primary care and is currently CAHPR Research Champion for Northern Ireland.