NHS faces job cuts as financial crisis deepens

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.743

BMJ 2006;332:743 (1 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7544.743

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NHS faces job cuts as financial crisis deepens

Michael Day

London

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The NHS was last week engulfed in a political storm over spirallingdebts and mounting job losses. In the space of seven days, hospitaltrusts announced that nearly 3000 jobs were to be axed, as thefinancial crisis deepened. By the beginning of this week healtheconomists were predicting a total end of year deficit of £800m( ${euro}$ 1.2bn; $1.4bn).

One of the country's leading teaching hospitals, the Royal Freein north London, announced that 480 jobs would go, while theaxe will fall most heavily at the University Hospital of NorthStaffordshire, which is preparing to shed up to 1000 staff.

The opposition Conservative Party predicted that in total morethan 20 000 NHS posts were under threat. The shadow health secretaryAndrew Lansley said, "There is a financial crisis, and theydon't know how to cope with it."

The health secretary Patricia Hewitt hit back, accusing theConservatives . . . [Full text of this article]

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