Physiotherapy self-referral

For information

If you are aged over 18, you can refer yourself to our physiotherapy service with musculoskeletal problems such as: muscle and join pain, sports injuries, back and neck pain, sprains and strains.
If you prefer, you can still see your GP and be referred to us in the usual way.
If you are under 18, please speak to your GP and they can refer you to us if appropriate.

Self-referral to musculoskeletal physiotherapy (MSK) service

Worthing, Southlands, Lancing and Littlehampton

To refer yourself to our MSK service at Littlehampton, Worthing, Lancing and Shoreham, download and complete the Physio self-referral form and email it to one of the following addresses:

Worthing, Southlands, Lancing and Littlehampton

Worthing [email protected]

Southlands [email protected]

Littlehampton [email protected]

Please be aware that email communications with UHSussex Hospitals are not secure if you are contacting us from outside the Trust’s secure IT environment or from a non-NHS address. The Trust cannot be held responsible for the security of these communications outside the Trust network. Please contact us via another method if you have concerns:

Download the physiotherapy self-referral form

Alternatively, you can post the form or deliver it by hand to one of the addresses listed on the form.

Outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy in the Bognor and Chichester areas is accessed through the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.

You can find out more about this service on the community trust’s website.

What happens once you have contacted us

Once we have your details, we will contact you by telephone and discuss your problem with you.

There is a currently a long wait for routine physiotherapy telephone assessments across all 3 sites, if you have not heard from us after 10 weeks please call the department to see where you are on our call back list.

At the end of the telephone consultation, we will decide what type of treatment is best for you. This might be:

advice on how to manage your problem
advice and a home exercise programme sent to you by post or email
advice to see your GP if we think the problem is not suitable for physiotherapy
Or you may be given an appointment for face-to-face treatment in the physiotherapy department that is most convenient for you.

We hope this service will help people access physiotherapy in a more convenient way, so they can get their treatment started at the right time, and get better more quickly.