What is our future?

[Fiona Schreuder]

Just wondering what people think the future is for us as Respiratory Physiotherapists (or whatever we want to call ourselves)? In the current climate of the NHS where there are redundancies and Respiratory Physios being asked to provide evidence for what we do do you think there is a future for us? I think this is particularly pertinent in ITU where there is not a lot of evidence, many hospitals can't recruit Senior Physios into ITU and the post is lost. Is this happening outside the UK too?

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[guysunil]

I Disagree that Respiratory physiotherapy is a down going field
I have been working in this field for the past 5+ years (around the world)
I believe the problem is physiotherapist generally does not look for evidence
there are enough and more evidence for us to continue our work.
More over very few physiotherapist read journals and articles and keep themselves abreast of the develpoments in their field
Very few physiotherapist are again interested in conducting research and bringing out research output in their field of study.
When physiotherapist start reading journals and conducting very good research then and only then we will be able to stand up to other professions and do justice to our profession.