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About: Community Physiotherapy Service (CPS)

(as a service user),

Rather than travel all the way to Fremantle, it was a blessing to be able to access the physio closer to me. I’m 86 and I was having to go into the hospital at Fremantle for my physio. When my physio was on leave, I was only getting 30-minute appointments, which—it’s so much for me to catch the bus and the train—and I only got half an hour. My son informed me that I could go to public physio closer, at Riverton. That was once a week, and that was for six weeks, and I’ve been over the moon with it.

I go in for one hour, and so it’s a bit of bike, a bit of this and that. It’s for my knees.

I’ve been very happy, very, very happy with the physio department from Fremantle. I’ve been very happy.

They are physios—you get a different one all the time. There were about half a dozen physios. I start by getting on the bike and then they come and show me what to do.

I’m just over the moon I don’t have to travel all the way to Fremantle Hospital. This one is just around the corner.

I’ve been very happy with the service, and I need to wait six months, then get another appointment to have six more weeks.

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Response from Kate Gatti, Executive Director, Clinical Service Planning Population Health, South Metropolitan Health Service 2 weeks ago
Kate Gatti
Executive Director, Clinical Service Planning Population Health,
South Metropolitan Health Service
Submitted on 11/06/2025 at 4:45 PM
Published on Care Opinion Australia on 12/06/2025 at 8:53 AM


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Dear trianqulumqr93,

Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on the physiotherapy services you have been receiving in the community. Our aim is to make care more accessible and closer to people's own home so it is wonderful to hear these classes have made your physiotherapy a lot easier for you to get to. We will make sure that your positive feedback is passed on to the physiotherapists at Riverton.

Kind Regards

Kate Gatti

Executive Director

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