English National Health Service to Fire 650 MDs and 2000 Nurses

[Elmore Furth]

The new US healthcare legislation had a projected $500 billion in savings. I suspect the cuts in expenditures will not be pretty.

HUNDREDS of doctors and thousands of nurses will lose their jobs over the next five years under secret cost-cutting plans.

The cuts to clinical staff, exposed in documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, undermine Labour’s election pledge to protect services.

Half of all hospitals that responded to the FoI requests said they were planning to cut the number of doctors and nurses. Two-thirds also said they would cut the number of hospital beds.

Ministers have always insisted that the planned efficiency savings could be achieved by cutting waste and bureaucracy alone.

Andy Burnham, the health secretary, said last week: “Our savings proposals are not contingent upon redundancies.” However, the survey of English hospital trusts, conducted by the Conservatives, reveals that over the next parliament there will be a net loss of at least 650 doctors and 2,000 nurses.


Secret NHS cuts to axe thousands of medics

[Captain Hilts]

1. We'll accept them over here!

[Warren Stupidity]

2. "However, the survey of English hospital trusts, conducted by the Conservatives,"

Who under their version of Reagan, Thatcher, gutted the NHS.

This is election propaganda.