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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jane Kirby

NHS trusts cut frontline clinical jobs and axe services ‘to balance the books’

Staff on a hospital ward (PA) - (PA Wire)

NHS trusts are cutting frontline clinical jobs and axing patient services to balance the books, health leaders have warned.

A survey of trust leaders by NHS Providers found clinical jobs have already gone or are earmarked for cuts, while services such as virtual wards, diabetes clinics, rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and stop-smoking services are at risk or are being scaled back.

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