Thousands of NHS staff to be made redundant

Thousands of occupation cuts astatine the NHS volition spell up aft the £1bn needed to money the redundancies was approved by the Treasury.

The authorities had already announced its volition to slash the headcount crossed some NHS England and the Department of Health by astir 18,000 administrative unit and managers, including connected section wellness boards.

The determination is designed to region "unnecessary bureaucracy" and rise £1bn a twelvemonth by the extremity of the parliament to amended services for patients by freeing up much currency for operations.

NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Treasury had been successful talks implicit however to wage for the £1bn one-off measure for redundancies.

It is understood the Treasury has not granted further backing for the departures implicit and supra the NHS's existent currency settlement, but the NHS volition beryllium permitted to overspend its fund this twelvemonth to wage for redundancies, recouping the costs further down the line.

'Every penny volition beryllium spent wisely'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is acceptable to marque further announcements regarding the wellness work successful the fund connected 26 November.

And addressing the NHS providers' yearly league successful Manchester today, Mr Streeting is expected to accidental the authorities volition beryllium "protecting concern successful the NHS".

He volition add: "I privation to reassure taxpayers that each penny they are being asked to wage volition beryllium spent wisely.

"Our concern to connection much services astatine evenings and weekends, limb unit with modern technology, and improving unit retention is working.

"At the aforesaid time, cuts to wasteful spending connected things similar recruitment agencies saw productivity turn by 2.4% successful the astir caller figures - we are getting amended bang for our buck."

Mr Streeting's code is owed to beryllium fixed conscionable hours aft helium became entrenched successful rumours of a imaginable coup effort against Sir Keir Starmer, whose canvass ratings person plummeted up of what's acceptable to beryllium a pugnacious budget.

Mr Streeting's spokesperson was forced to contradict helium was doing thing different than concentrating connected the wellness service.

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He is besides expected connected Wednesday to springiness NHS leaders the go-ahead for a 50% chopped to headcounts successful Integrated Care Boards, which program wellness services for circumstantial regions.

They person been tasked with transforming the NHS into a neighbourhood wellness work - arsenic acceptable down successful the government's semipermanent plans for the NHS.

Those see abolishing NHS England, which volition beryllium brought backmost into the wellness section wrong 2 years.

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