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Leeds NHS health bosses face axe
More than 130 NHS management jobs in Leeds are being cut in a bid to save £5m – though the entire organisation is set to be axed eventually.
NHS Leeds, which pays for health services for the city's population, needs to lose 134 posts over the next three years and is planning for redundancies.
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But since drawing up cost-cutting plans, the Government has announced that the organisation is to be abolished from 2013.
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Primary care trusts like NHS Leeds will be phased out and groups of GP
practices will instead commission health services from hospitals.
Prior to that, NHS Leeds was already working out how to cut management costs by 30 per cent or 5.69m by 2014.
Staff numbers will be cut by workers leaving and voluntary redundancies, but compulsory job losses have not been ruled out.
John Lawlor, chief executive of NHS Leeds, said: "All NHS organisations are faced with making significant savings on management costs over the next four years.
"NHS Leeds management teams, trust board and staff representatives are currently discussing a number of options including voluntary arrangements for severance, redundancy and retirement.
"To date we have managed to deliver the bulk of management cost savings for this financial year through a vacancy control process. This reduces the need for any compulsory redundancies."
The latest planned job cuts come after Leeds hospitals said it was to reduce its workforce by 700 and the city's mental health trust is to cut numbers by 300.
Hospitals in Wakefield, Pontefract and Dewsbury need to find 55m savings, which could hit hundreds of jobs.
The Government's announcement about the massive reorganisation of the way health services are provided was the latest move in a series of NHS changes.
Yesterday Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced bodies like the Health Protection Agency, which deals with public health, and safety watchdog the National Patient Safety Agency are among several to be axed.
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