The executive director of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) warned that the Labor are imposing the tastes he has never seen in his career.
“I think it will be a very, very difficult year,” Matthew Trainer said to a meeting of the Board last month.
“I don’t remember having to make a savings program of this scale in my time in the NHS and I think it is twisting to a new very radical territory.”
The Trust, which runs the Queen’s hospital at the Romford and King George hospital in Ilford, has already reduced £ 30 million of its budget during the last two consecutive years.
Mr. Trainer warned that the main cuts of the Board were coming, although Romford A & e had the busiest winter in its history, with “shameful and difficult” images in the media of their corridors full of patients.
“We are seeing really significant increases of two digits in the assistance,” he said, adding: “We are fortunate that we have housed” anything worse there. ”
However, he told the January Board meeting: “Our expectation next year is that we will have to deliver a savings plan greater than 50 million, which is a bar is the son of the territory that the trusts rarely reach in terms of percentage of percentage.”
He warned that the trust faced “really difficult decisions”, including “deliberate decisions for the access of Constain to services.”
A £ 50 million cut was equivalent to 770 full -time jobs, he said.
The trust now says that the real need to reduce £ 61 million.
Mr. Trainer returned to the Board in March, with the members of which recently with the Secretary of Occupational Health Wes Streeting, local deputy of many of the patients of the trust in Ilford North, in an event in Parliament.
He said that Streeting had “some very clean messages about what are the expectations of NHS in the next two years, and I think we can see it throughout the public sector.
Imminent cuts, said the coach, “were going to get more involved doing more to adjust the belts in some places.
“I think we have tried to make the son of ‘more for less’ for years. This is also less for less in some cases.”
The trust would have to “restrict access to certain services in a way that we believe will cause the least damage as a result.”
The trust expects to find £ 7.5 million by reducing 115 full -time equivalent positions in corporate services, through a combination of layoffs and eliminating vacant works, in addition to 40 works already eliminated last year.
He also hopes to cut £ 35 million of its annual expenditure of £ 90 million in banking staff and agency improving their direct employee recruitment.
But it remains to be seen if this can be achieved, and where the rest of the savings will come.
“Although our budget increases by £ 100 million to £ 1 billion, the demand for our services continues to grow and our costs have increased,” Trainer told Newsquest.
“We need to save £ 61 million of our operating costs and we are working on plans to do this.”
He told the Board last month that even if the trust delivered the planned savings, it would still end the next financial year with £ 50 million.
The Health Department refused to comment directly on Bhrut’s situation, but said he had “inherited a broken NHS” and was “investing an additional £ 26 billion” to “fix it and do it appropriate for the future.”
“Our reforms are trying to cut the Cracy of the office and the bureaucracy, so we can fix the broken system that contains the working personnel and deliver to Huggeds of millions to the front line,” he said.
I would not explain how to force NHS in eastern London to restrict patients access to treatment was to achieve this goal.
