Commenting on an announcement by health secretary Wes Streeting that £1bn funding for thousands of NHS staff redundancies has been found, UNISON head of health Helga Pile said:
“This process has been a shambles and should never have taken so long. Demoralised staff have had months of uncertainty, with the threat of job losses hanging over them.
“Large-scale redundancies like these should never be callously dismissed as cuts to ‘bureaucracy’.
“In a few short months, the NHS will lose thousands of staff whose skills and experience will continue to be needed.
“That’s because these cuts are being rushed through ahead of proper decisions being made about how best to run services. That’s bad news for patients and staff left behind will be under enormous pressure.”
Notes to editors:
– UNISON is the UK’s largest union with more than 1.3 million members providing public services in education, local government, the NHS, police service and energy. They are employed in the public, voluntary and private sectors.
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