NHS leaders are taking the first step to reversing the huge rise in health service management costs, with a series of PCTs planning deeper than expected cuts as soon as the coming financial year.
Thousands of NHS managers are set to lose their jobs under the plans. Documents reveal PCTs across the country will be asked to reduce their spending on managers by as much as a fifth in the coming financial year, with GPs warning the cuts are a sign of just how bloated trusts have become.
Early findings from Pulse’s pre-election survey, of more than 700 GPs, reveal almost 90% support for sweeping NHS cuts in management costs, as a way of avoiding reductions in front-line services such as those proposed in London last week.
NHS East Midlands plans for all its PCTs to cut management spending by 20% in the next financial year, with further cuts to follow.
Areas affected will include Derby, Nottingham, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, which will be required to come up with plans for job cuts. The SHA said up to £10m could be saved by contracting out back-office functions alone.
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