One of the region’s largest hospital trusts, employing more than 20,000 people, has launched a major redundancy scheme and frozen recruitment in a bid to cut costs.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) runs some of Greater Manchester’s biggest hospitals including Salford Royal, the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General, and Rochdale Infirmary.
The Health Service Journal (HSJ) has reported that the trust is rolling out a sweeping redundancy scheme, along with a recruitment freeze on non-clinical staff.
The cutbacks follow trusts across the country being mired in financial difficulty, including the NCA which is running a deficit in the tens of millions and is on a cost-improvement plan to make savings of an eye-watering £87.8m.
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