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NHS trusts have been asked to make extreme cuts as the service deals with a predicted of almost ₤ 7 billion, health leaders warned today.
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In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders alerted they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 percent are thinking about doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and diabetes services for youths are amongst services at threat.

Eighty-six percent of participants said their organisation is needing to cut jobs in non-clinical teams, while 37 per cent plan to cut medical posts.

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

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile stated: "Ministers should not be firmly insisting trusts stabilize their books while ignoring the harmful repercussions for patient care and a demoralised workforce.

"The NHS requires more personnel - not less workers - if delays and waits on patients are to end."

It comes as NHS chief executive Sir Jim Mackey informed a Medical Journalists Association event in London the service had "maxed out on what is inexpensive."

He stated that the NHS was most likely to have a ₤ 6.6 bn deficit this year, in spite of a budget plan of around ₤ 200bn.

Though he has demanded extraordinary cost savings, he knocked the "normalisation" of bad care, stating that, ten years earlier, "we would have never ever accepted old ladies being on corridors next to an [A&E] department for hours on end."

We Own It founder and director Cat Hobbs stated: "Back in 2012, the NHS was ranked as the very best healthcare service on the planet.

"That was before the legislation that intentionally opened our whole NHS to profiteering.

"Sir Jim Mackey is dead-on to state that clients being dealt with in corridors and parking lot is undesirable. If he wishes to stop this scandal while conserving cash, he must end privatisation as quickly as possible.
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