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Axe set to fall on health jobs
Hundreds of health workers will lose their jobs and services face cuts under a planned multimillion-pound cost-cutting exercise, according to a union.
The Northern Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has released information collected from every NHS Foundation Trust and Primary Care Trust (PCT) in the region detailing plans for cutting costs, shedding jobs and reducing bed numbers.
Cuts affecting Wearside and Durham include:
- City Hospitals Sunderland will cut 22.5million this financial year
- NHS County Durham and Darlington is undertaking a three-year 200million cost-cutting exercise.
- Sunderland TPCT has identified 85 posts for redundancy
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is cutting 300 beds and losing 300 nursing jobs through natural wastage. It will save 20million from the 2010/11 budget and 60million by 2014.
Health chiefs estimate they need to make 800million of efficiency savings by 2014, and all cash saved will be reinvested directly into frontline services.
Glenn Turp, regional director for the RCN, said: "It's inevitable that when trusts announce cuts to beds, staff or other areas, but do not announce new investment of equivalent value in, for example, key clinical staff, the suspicion is that this is not a genuine reinvestment programme but just plain old-fashioned cuts."
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