UNITE members protested outside No 10 North over a lack of jobs for NHS-trained mental health workers today.

The union is calling for emergency funding to be made available for newly qualified clinical psychologists facing the prospect of being unable to find work within the NHS.

Next month in the north-west of England alone, 77 newly qualified clinical psychologists will face the prospect of unemployment or leaving the NHS for private practice despite the NHS spending £19.25 million training them over three years, it warns.


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