More reports of potential job losses

We have recevied information of further potential job losses at the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, the Kennet and North Wiltshire Primary Care Trust and West Wiltshire Primary Care Trust and the Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

However, we have not included any figures as yet in our totals, until we receive confirmation from the Trusts themselves.

If confirmed these new figures will push the total back over the 10,000 mark!

Our current running total, live on the Internet since 1st April 2006 currently stands at 9,699.

Correction to Job Loss figures

We received information yesterday afternoon (26th April) from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust that they have not and will not be cutting any Jobs at their trust and therefore we have removed their entry from our table. Along with the news that the number of jobs that will be lost at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust has been revised to a lower figure of 450 (instead of the original 700 discussed in the media), we see a reduced total number of NHS Job losses.

Current total of Job Losses now stands at 9,459 since we first started tracking these numbers at the beginning April.

 

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More NHS Job Losses announced

Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Trust has announced that 70 jobs are being lost as part of their plan to deal with an £11m budget deficit.

NHS Job Losses continue to rise with the addition of the latest figures, the current total of Job Losses now stands at 10,349 since we first started tracking these numbers at the beginning April 2006.

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Total reported job losses in the NHS pass the 10,000 level.

We discovered that we had overlooked an announcement by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust of 640 (see info at bottom of linked page) job losses, this pushes the total of NHS job losses over the 10,000 mark since we first stared tracking these numbers at the beginning of April.

This total does not include Hospitals/Trusts that have announced job losses, but as yet have not release any figures.

Current total of Job Losses now stands at 10,279 since we first started tracking these numbers at the beginning April.

NHS Job Loss total now stands at 9,389!

We were surprised over the weekend to see various comments in the main stream press that the NHS Job losses was running at around 7,000, or just over. This made us wonder if we had made a mistake with our information gathering and our current total. So over the weekend we re-checked our sources of information, all of which is publicly available and reconfirmed the numbers at each Trust/Hospital that we have listed. We can reconfirm that the current total in as stated 9,389!

This total does not include a number of Trusts/Hospitals that we have listed in the table, but as yet have been unable to confirm any actual Job Loss numbers. We will update these as soon as we received new information.

We were also told by Blogger.com over the weekend, that this Blog has been flagged as a 'spam blog', which is a surprise to us, as clearly it is not. We have replied to Blogger.com about this and await the rectification of this error.

In the meantime, we continue to track various aspects of the NHS including an updating of our Car Parking charges table.

NHS - Where is all the money going?

51% of the money invested in the NHS in 2005/06 goes on higher pay, with only 13% on new services, extra beds and more operations and only 6-9% on capital costs!

In a new article at the News.Telegraph, detailed analysis charts by the Kings Fund indicate how the money is allocated.

Also in the same story, the BMA chart confirms recent press coverage about GP average salary rates. Full Story...

More NHS Trusts announce their intention to make job cut-backs.

Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust and the East and North Herts NHS Trusts declined divulge numbers on impending NHS job losses. Check back for further info on the numbers. Full Story...

NHS Job Losses creeps closer to 10,000 mark!

With news that at least 700 jobs may be lost at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, our running total of NHS Job losses creeps closer to the 10,000 mark. Full News Story...

Another hospital announces NHS job cuts.

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust has announced that the Edmonton Hospital will shed 50 jobs as part of its budget saving measures. Full story...

Another hospital announces job losses

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust has announced that the Edmonton Hospital will shed 50 jobs as part of its budget saving measures. Full story...

Hospitals cutting 250 nursing jobs

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust have announced that 250 nursing jobs will be the first to disappear as they work out which jobs will go first out of a proposed total of 800! Full story...

Dozens of NHS hospitals to close as crisis deepens

A story that will send shivers through many people this Easter Tuesday morning is news of the impending closure of dozens of NHS hospital as the NHS budget crisis deepens. Full story...

More info on this story as it unfolds during the day.

8,500 NHS Jobs now Lost - a new total!

In a recent announcement, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust confirmed that the number of Job Losses across their hospitals have now increased from 320 to 800. Full story...

NHS Job Losses total passes 8,000 mark!

With the announcement of 150 job losses at the Sheffield Children's Hospital Trust, the running total of NHS Job Losses now stands at 8,115!

Call for review of NHS IT upgrade!

Now we have a problem with the IT upgrade?

Leading on from the original article in Computer Weekly other news organisations (BBC etc.) are now reporting more background information.

We have been looking at various aspects of the NHS IT upgrade over a long period and although the linking of more than 30,000 GPs in England to nearly 300 hospitals by 2012 is usually the main subject put forward, there is much more to the IT upgrade.

For example, the electronic viewing of X-Ray images - saving on transportation of film X-Rays images from storage buildings, many miles away! Allowing NHS clinicians access to commercial online clinical databases - helping with faster diagnosis of illnesses. Upgrading the basic hardware of the NHS, such as networking and other peripheral equipment.

With such a huge organisation, it should not be a surprise to anyone that there will be some implementation issues, but of course the 'devil is in the detail'. We're going to look at the details of the claims of the 'academics' see what we can find out and we'll post what we find out here.

If you have any feedback on the 'IT Upgrade' then let us know by posting your comments here.

Total of job losses rises close to 8,000!!!

From reports today we have added the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust announcement of 320 job losses at the trust to the list.

This now pushes the total of NHS job losses to nearly 8,000 since we first started tracking these numbers back at the beginning of April this year.

NHS Job Losses - So who knows what's going on?

A recent press release from the NHS federation on the ePolitix.com site says that the LibDem NHS Job Loss figures are 'spurious'!

Check out our Job Losses Table for the latest total.

Unless 'you' of course know of other impending Job Losses to increase the total.

Contact us via the Web Site or post a comment here at this blog.

Sources of information now added

We have added some links to the Job Losses pages to show where the source of the data comes from. Hover over the number in the Job Losses column to see the source or click the number to go there.

Also we have received an anonymous email this morning informing us that 3,000 more job losses will be announced this week.

However, as state on the web site and as we have no confirmation from the original source or others as yet, we cannot publish this on the web site.

If you sent the email, then please contact us again to discuss.

More Jobs to go

Another 100 hundred jobs to go, with rumours now indicating that the total we have in the NHS Watch Job Losses tables could double over the coming months!

Do you have any news on NHS job losses, send us the info and we'll add it to the table.

NHS Job losses pass the 7,000 mark

Two more hospitals have announced job losses which pushes our tracking table over the 7,000 mark.

Check out the tables for full details.

Anyone know other hospitals that are announcing job losses?

Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) Job Losses

Jobs to go at York hospital, the tracking total now stands at 6,475!!!

More info here...

What is happening in the NHS?

How many jobs are being lost in the NHS?

Check out our web site www.nhswatch.info for full details.

See our tracking table for the latest news on the total number of jobs lost to date...

Currently 6,275 as at 22:30hrs - 6th April 2006.

Do you know of more NHS jobs that will go?

Comment the blog and we will add the info to the tracking table.