Placement assessment in physiotherapy has always come with its share of friction. Paper forms misplaced between clinic and campus, feedback captured in a rush and disconnected from any wider picture of progress, supervisors and students working from different versions of the same document. For students navigating multiple placements across three years of study, the experience could feel fragmented, and more of an administrative hurdle than a genuine learning tool. The CPAF 20

Reconciling tariff hours in spreadsheets? Every few months, placement offices across England run the same exhausting cycle, which can look like: export placement data. Merge with timesheet records. Cross-check against placement provider figures by email. Reformat everything into the NHSE Placement Activity template. Upload. Hope the portal doesn't reject it. Repeat three more times before July. It works... just about. But it's three weeks of your placement team's time, every