About 10% of beds are to be cut across four Greater Manchester hospitals to help an NHS trust balance its books - reports the BBC.
Staff at the Pennine Acute Trust were told of the plans to cut 221 of its 2,279 beds at a meeting on Tuesday.
The trust runs Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, North Manchester General, the Royal Oldham Hospital and Rochdale Infirmary.
Royal Oldham will lose 69 of its 703 beds; 60 beds from a total of 664 to go at North Manchester; Fairfield Hospital will lose 55 of its 518 beds; 37 beds lost out of Rochdale's 394.
Pennine Acute Trust was £28m in debt last year and the bed cuts are part of a number of measures on its "recovery plan".
The Royal Oldham Hospital will lose an 18-bed surgical unit and 12 of 28 beds on an orthopaedic ward.
At North Manchester the cuts will include the closure of a 20-bed short-stay ward.
At Rochdale, a medical ward will be lost and at Fairfield an orthopaedic ward will be cut from 22 to 12 beds.
Roger Pickering, director of human resources and organisational development at Pennine Acute, said: "Our aim is as before, to deliver financial recovery, while minimising the impact on patient services and staff."
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