Further job losses for NHS

Further job and bed cuts are hitting the NHS in a bid to reduce spending and ease the funding crisis affecting the health service.

The staff and service reductions have hit two London hospitals ?the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead and Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup ? taking the total job cuts UK wide to some 2,000.

“These measures are not exceptional and are designed to bring the Royal Free into line with other organisations,” said Andrew Way, chief executive of the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust.

“We must achieve financial balance if we are to control our own future as the government has made it very clear that it will not bail out organisations that fail to do so.”

The Royal Free Hospital is to lose up to 480 jobs as part of a ?25 million savings scheme over the next year. Job losses will join the removal of 100 beds in a bid to reach the savings goal.

At the Queen Mary’s Hospital, 190 jobs could be lost in an attempt to reduce the ?13 million deficit it is believed the hospital has.

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