A hospital trust in the first wave of a national turnaround programme for struggling NHS organisations has announced plans that could reduce its staffing establishment by 7%.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, which is one of 16 organisations in the first wave of NHS Improvement’s financial turnaround scheme, says it may cut up to 350 whole-time equivalent posts.
Retiring staff and not filling current vacancies should account for a proportion of the reduction, but a voluntary redundancy programme will also be launched. The trust has not ruled out cuts to clinical posts.
A senior source at the trust said that the reductions could include clinical and non-clinical posts, but any proposed cuts to clinical posts would have to go through a risk assessment panel.
Around 30 vacant posts could count towards the total, they told Nursing Times’ sister title Health Service Journal.
Full story in The Nursing Times 29 July 2016