NHS Plans Cuts to Jobs and Services to Avoid ₤ 6.6 Bn Deficit > 자유게시판

NHS trusts have been asked to make drastic cuts as the service faces a forecasted shortfall of almost ₤ 7 billion, health leaders alerted today.

In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 percent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to stabilize the books, while another 43 percent are thinking about doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and diabetes services for youths are among services at risk.

Eighty-six percent of participants said their organisation is needing to cut tasks in teams, while 37 percent strategy to cut medical posts.

A number of trusts are intending to cut 500 jobs or more, with one planning as lots of as 1,000.

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile said: "Ministers should not be insisting trusts stabilize their books while overlooking the damaging effects for client care and a demoralised workforce.

"The NHS needs more staff - not less employees - if delays and waits on patients are to end."

It comes as NHS primary executive Sir Jim Mackey told a Medical Journalists Association occasion in London the service had "maxed out on what is affordable."

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