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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Hospitals in England could shed 100,000 jobs in response to cost-cutting orders

Emergency ambulances sit parked at High Wycombe hospital
The NHS is bracing itself for an unprecedented loss of jobs. Photograph: Ben Montgomery/Getty Images

Hospitals in England could axe more than 100,000 jobs as a result of the huge reorganisation and brutal cost-cutting ordered by Wes Streeting and the NHS’s new boss.

The scale of looming job losses is so large that NHS leaders have urged the Treasury to cover the costs involved, which they say could top £2bn, because they do not have the money.

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