It is becoming
apparent that the Labour Government is closing the National Health Service
down through it's incompetence, constant meddling and failure to fund
it's "changes" to the NHS. Here are listed the latest sad
events.
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NHS
staff job cuts that will run into more than 19,568
have been announced in recent weeks as the NHS struggles to balance
the books. Here is a roll call of the latest tragic announcements:
17
November- A&E closure decision
West
Hertfordshire NHS Trust, facing a £40m debt, said it is closing
Hemel Hempstead Hospital's A&E department and relocating other services
to Watford. Critics said the decision will cost hundreds of jobs and
is the result of budget overspends not clinical needs. Trust chief executive
David Law said financial constraints were a cause.
23
October- 480 jobs axed
St Helier in Carshalton and Epsom District hospitals announced
that up to 170 beds and 480 jobs are to be axed at the two NHS hospitals
in Surrey and south-west London as part of a drive to save £24m
over the next 18 months.
A newly-merged NHS hospital trust in Nottingham has been given two more
years to balance its books and shed hundreds of jobs. Nottingham University
Hospitals NHS Trust includes the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham
City Hospital. Managers said without the extension, they would need
to make at least 800 redundancies this financial year.
After
a merciful break it now looks as though a new wave of NHS job cuts and
closures may be about to happen as financial reviews kickin 6 months
after the start of Labour's latest new red tape process called Payments
by Results (PbR): Why
PbR is doomed to fail- explained
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NHS closures to date.
2
August- 200 more NHS jobs axed
Derriford Hospital in Plymouth has announced it is cutting 400 jobs,
200 more than originally planned. The hospital, which has 3,145 nurses
and midwives, said there would be some compulsory redundancies, but
most jobs would go by not filling vacancies. The biggest hospital in
the South West, which is facing a £25m deficit this year, is also
planning to cut 50 beds.
26
July- 658 more NHS jobs axed
An NHS trust is to axe 500 jobs in order to save £12m this year,
instead of the 342 jobs originally announced. Brighton and Sussex University
Hospitals said the trust had not made the "financial inroads"
it needed to. The trust said more than 100 beds will close, consultant
sessions will be reduced, and non-clinical budgets would be cut by up
to 15%. When the cuts of more than 300 jobs were originally announced,
the trust was setting out to save more than £10m.
City
Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust plans 500 job cuts said it had
to cut 10% of its 5,000 workforce to clear a debt of £5m. The
trust, which runs Sunderland Royal Hospital, Ryhope General and Monkwearmouth
Hospital, wants to save £20m over the next few years.
21
July- 325 NHS jobs axed
Pennine
Acute Trust which runs four hospitals in Greater Manchester announces
325 job cuts.
14
July- 40 NHS jobs axed
Norfolk
and Waveney Mental Health Trust to cut up to 40 jobs to deal with a
£5m funding shortfall.
July
8- 80 NHS jobs axed
A
National Health Service trust that is to be the site of an independent
treatment centre run by Bupa has announced up to 80 job cuts as part
of a drive to cut its workforce by 250, or 10 per cent. Southport
and Ormskirk NHS Trust has announced 33 compulsory redundancies and
says that it may need 50 more as it tries to save £14m over the
next two years to cope with a financial deficit.
7
July- 60 NHS jobs axed
North
Devon Hospital, Barnstaple to cut 60 staff, including about 30 nurses.
30
June- 130 NHS jobs axed
Royal
Bolton Hospital to cut about 130 jobs to save up to £8m a year.
No compulsory redundancies expected.
28
June- 600 NHS jobs axed
Southampton
University Hospitals NHS Trust to cut around 100 jobs to tackle a £27m
deficit.
East
and North Herts NHS Trust to cut up to 500 job cuts at hospitals in
Hertfordshire in order to help make £18m of savings.
29
June- 550 NHS jobs axed
Southampton
University Hospitals NHS Trust said about 100 staff would be made redundant
and about 450 would be redeployed to vacancies or other wards as they
try to cut a £27m deficit by cutting 150 beds
Last year,
the trust axed about 600 jobs. It is anticipating the new cutbacks and
changes will help save about £20m in 2007/08.
9
June- 1,100 NHS jobs axed
The
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust, which covers Dewsbury and Wakefield,
announced 1,100 posts are to be lost at the hospital trust as it attempts
to cut its pay bill by £18m.
27
June 320 NHS jobs axed
United
Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust axes nearly 320 jobs, including 100 among
agency staff, to tackle a £15m overspend.
25
May- 600 NHS jobs axed
Oxford
Radcliffe NHS Trust is to cut 600 staff cuts as part of its cost-reduction
plan to help make £33m in savings.
19
May- Another 150 NHS jobs axed
Up to 150 jobs are to be cut by St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, which
runs St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, after it was told
to balance its books by the Department of Health.to make an additional
£10m of savings. St George's, which reported a deficit of £11.5m
at the end of the last financial year is making the cuts on top of £19m
in savings already planned for 2006-7.It reduced its workforce by 300
posts last year.
11
May- 500 NHS jobs axed
A
string of community hospitals are to close and up to 500 jobs will be
lost to help balance a £38 million deficit, Gloucestershire Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust said today. The PCTs face a funding gap of £23
million and the county's NHS provider trusts face a deficit of £15
million. The 36-bed Dilke Memorial Hospital and 21-bed Lydney and District
Hospital, the 22-bed Winchcombe Hospital and 20-bed Berkeley Hospital
are all set to be closed. Stroud's Maternity Hospital will close this
year as part of the plans. The previously suggested closure of the 86-bed
Delancey Hospital in Leckhampton was also confirmed. The beds to go
include those already closed at Fairford and Tetbury
The Maternity ward in Cheltenham will also be closed down following
on from the recent closure of the Childrens' ward. Further bed reductions
at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and the Cheltenham General Hospital
were also announced.
8
May- 1,000 NHS jobs axed
Key
NHS services in Lincolnshire could be moved from Boston and Grantham
to Lincoln as A& E departments are closed at nights. Managers need
to reduce debts of £17.5m and stem the current overspend of almost
£2.5m a month. More than 7,000 people work for the trust and unions
fear 1,000 jobs could go when final plans are announced.
5 May- 800
NHS jobs axed
Four hospitals in north Manchester will lose up to 800 jobs as a health
trust struggles to cope with a deficit of £21m. The cuts will
be made by Pennine Acute Trust at North Manchester General, Royal Oldham,
Rochdale Infirmary and the Fairfield General Hospital in Bury.
4
May-
200 NHS jobs axed
Up to 200 posts are being cut from the new Great Western Hospital in
Swindon. The Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust which runs the new private
finance initiative facility said it needs to save nearly £6m this
year.
3
May- 295
NHS jobs axed
95 jobs are to go
at Birmingham Women's Hospital in Metchley Park Road. NHS jobs are to
be lost as a West Midlands health trust tries to make savings of £1.5m
before its next budget in March 2007.
St
Richard's Hospital in Chichester announced 200 job cuts. The Royal West
Sussex NHS Trust has overspent by a total of £40m and had a £14m
deficit last year.
2
May- 200 MHS jobs axed
The
NHS Blood and Transplant service is set to close three of its 10 blood
centres across the country and make 200 redundancies. The service will
shut its blood centres in Southampton, Plymouth and Bristol and make
significant service reductions at its Birmingham site.
28
April- 650 NHS jobs axed
Up to 650 jobs are to be cut and 190 beds closed by Barking, Redbridge
and Havering Hospitals NHS Trust in East London, which said the measure
would tackle a £24m deficit as 70% of spending went on staff.
27
April- 80 NHS jobs axed
More
than 80 management and administration posts could be lost from two NHS
trusts in Wiltshire. Kennet and North Wiltshire Primary Care Trust along
with the West Wiltshire Trust made the announcement on Thursday - blaming
a savings target of £20m.
26
April- 615 NHS jobs axed
The
Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk is looking at axing 105 posts as part of
its bid to make £16m of savings.
The flagship Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which has a deficit
of £14.8 million, said it was planning to axe 450 jobs.
Weston
General Hospital, in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, said that 60 jobs
and 56 beds would go in an effort to save £6 million.
24
April
The
East Sussex NHS Hospitals Trust, which runs the Conquest Hospital in
Hastings and Eastbourne District General, says up to 250 jobs could
be axed in a bid to tackle a £5m deficit.
18
April
Children's hospitals warn ministers of £22m funding crisis. The
chairs and chief executives of Great Ormond Street, Alder Hey, Birmingham
and Sheffield hospitals- together the four hospitals form the National
Children's Health Alliance, and they claim the proposed funding will
damage the provision of cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and spinal surgery.
13
April- 800 NHS jobs axed
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust is to shed up to 800
jobs at its three Birmingham and Black Country sites, it said at a budget
meeting. Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has an annual
budget of £308m, more than 7,000 staff and serves a population
of 500,000.
Its
budget will fall to £303m in the next financial year and a £3m
debt has to be repaid. It said expenditure on staff rose from £180m
in 2003/4 to £217m last year.
11
April- 500 NHS jobs axed
The West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust said up to 500 jobs would
have to go in the next 12 to 18 months to help tackle debts of £28.6m.
7
April- 200 NHS jobs axed
York Hospital is to cut 200 jobs in a move to save £2.5m. The
savings from jobs are part of a wider £7m cost-cutting package.
6
April- 720 NHS jobs axed
The Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust announces 720 losses. It
needs to save £30m.
5
April- 300 NHS jobs axed
The Royal United Hospital NHS Trust in Bath announces that 300 jobs
are to go.
4
April- 400 NHS jobs axed
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which manages Crawley Hospital
and East Surrey Hospital, announces 400 jobs cuts as it tries to reduce
a £2m a month overspend and a total debt of £41.2m.
3
April- 160 NHS jobs axed
1,000 NHS Direct jobs to be axed in face of £20m deficit
Up
to 160 jobs to go at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent,
the trust confirms. It needs to save £11m in 2006-07 and claw
back a £1m overspend from last year.
1
April- 1,000 NHS jobs lost
1,000 NHS dentists have left the NHS is protest at the untested Labour
new contracts. This figure does not include dental technicians, dental
hygenists nor dental therapists.
29
March- 575 NHS jobs axed
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust announces plans to
cut 325 posts to save £10m.
The
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust in Woolwich says up to 100 jobs could
go to save £10m.
Mid
Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust plans to cut more than 150
jobs, to save £10m next year.
28
March
Gloucestershire Health NHS Community confirms plans to close an 86-bed
hospital and says jobs may also go.
27
March
The Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital says it will need to make
cuts to address a £22m shortfall.
24
March- 74 NHS jobs axed
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust says 74 jobs including 21 specialist
specialist nursing jobs are "at risk".
23
March- 700 NHS jobs axed
East Kent Hospitals Trust gives warning of possible cuts to claw back
a £35m deficit.
County
Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust announces up to 700
job cuts over the next three years.
22
March- 670 NHS jobs axed
Queen Mary's, Sidcup, south-east London says it will consult over the
loss of 190 jobs.
The
Royal Free Hospital, north-west London, announces 480 posts and 100
beds cut to save £25m and reduce a £13m deficit.
20
March- 800 NHS jobs axed
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust announces around 200 job cuts
to make savings of £22m.
About
300 job losses are announced at Shropshire's two main hospitals, the
Princess Royal Hospital and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
Health
chiefs announce 300 job cuts in Wolverhampton to claw back a £38m
deficit.
16
March- 1,000 NHS jobs axed
Up to 1,000 jobs to go at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire
NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, with up to 750 compulsory redundancies.
13
March- 185 NHS jobs axed
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Trust will lose 185 jobs and
plans to shut an operating theatre to save £2m.
10
March
The United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which has £17.5m
debt, says there will be major job losses.
8
March- 300 NHS jobs axed
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, which is facing an £8.1m shortfall,
announces it is set to cut 300 staff.
Surrey
and Sussex Strategic Health Authority says it is expecting an £83m
deficit.
1
March
Selby and York Primary Care Trust announces jobs will have to go as
part of a plan to tackle debts of £23.7m.
13
February- 185 NHS jobs axed
The Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals trust has identified 185 posts
that could go and says 100 of these will be clinical posts, mostly nurses.
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