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Can I ask all of you who would be kind enough to sign this on-line petition to help increase the funding for Physiotherapists in the NHS. If you’re wondering why it can take up to nine months to get an appointment with a physiotherapist then check out these facts:

Due to cuts in NHS posts, a crises has been reached in the number of UK trained new graduate Physiotherapists who are unemployed. In 2006 a survey of graduate unemployment showed that 86% of the 2006 year nearly 2,500 graduates in England failed to find permanent positions. In Scotland the figure was 91% and in Northern Ireland 85%. In Wales the figure a little better, with 68% having failed to find permanent employment. Taking account that a new student cohort will qualify in 2007, the government needs to take urgent action to substantially increase the number of Junior Physiotherapist posts in the NHS.

Each physiotherapist costs the tax payer £30,000 to train and the majority of us will end up working in supermarkets at a time when waitting lists are terrible.

Please follow the link and sign up, it only takes a minute and could help thousands of people like myself, not only physios but the people waiting for treatment.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Physiotherapists/

Thanks for your support

Sarah - Team CoopersGuns