NHS in Scotland will have to wield jobs axe

The NHS in Scotland has predicted it may have to cut the equivalent of nearly 4,000 full-time jobs over the next year, including over 1,500 nursing posts.

Scotland’s largest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, have already confirmed plans to cut staff by 1,252 by 2013.

Labour said more than half the reductions in the Greater Glasgow area were nursing posts, while health chiefs in Lothian were cutting 700 jobs, with 500 going in Tayside, almost 600 in Grampian and 100 in Highland.

Jackie Baillie, Labour’s health spokesperson, said: “You simply cannot remove thousands of doctors, nurses and midwives from the NHS without damaging standards of care.

“Labour believes these cuts are unacceptable and we will campaign relentlessly to defend the NHS.”

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