Patients needing NHS physiotherapy are waiting up to six months to be treated and are receiving fewer sessions due to cost-cutting and staff shortages, a new report from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists has found.
Joe Korner, director of communications at The Stroke Association said: “It is very worrying that so many patients have to wait for such long periods of time to access the physiotherapy they need. We know that the sooner stroke survivors start their rehabilitation the more likely they are to make a better recovery, and that breaks in therapy can halt their progress.”
