Two more hospitals announced job cuts yesterday, as they struggled to balance their books, reports the Daily Telegraph.
The decision by Barking Havering and Redbridge Hospitals National Health Service trust in east London to shed 650 staff and by Barnsley District Hospital to cut 150 jobs, brings the total announced this week to more than 1,300.
Earlier the Norfolk and Norwich, and the Weston Hospital at Weston-super-Mare announced cuts of 450 and 60 respectively.
A job survey by the Royal College of Nursing estimates that 13,000 are to be cut, of which a third will affect nurses. Trusts say that staff turnover will account for most of the cuts with redundancies used as a last resort.
The latest announcements came as the health select committee said it was launching an inquiry into the scale of the financial problems affecting the NHS.
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