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NHS trusts have actually been asked to make extreme cuts as the service faces an anticipated shortage of almost ₤ 7 billion, health leaders cautioned today.

In a study for NHS Providers, 47 percent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to stabilize the books, while another 43 per cent are considering doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and diabetes services for young people are amongst services at danger.

Eighty-six per cent of participants stated their organisation is having to cut jobs in non-clinical groups, while 37 percent strategy to cut clinical posts.

A number of trusts are intending to cut 500 jobs or more, with one preparation as many as 1,000.

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile said: "Ministers should not be insisting trusts stabilize their books while neglecting the destructive consequences for client care and a demoralised labor force.

"The NHS needs more staff - not fewer workers - if hold-ups and waits for clients are to end."

It comes as NHS president Sir Jim Mackey informed a Medical Journalists Association occasion in London the service had "maxed out on what is economical."

He said that the NHS was most likely to have a ₤ 6.6 bn deficit this year, in spite of a budget plan of around ₤ 200bn.

Though he has required unprecedented cost savings, he knocked the "normalisation" of bad care, stating that, ten years earlier, "we would have never accepted old girls being on passages beside an [A&E] department for hours on end."

We Own It creator and director Cat Hobbs said: "Back in 2012, the NHS was ranked as the very best healthcare service worldwide.

"That was before the legislation that deliberately opened our whole NHS to profiteering.

" Mackey is definitely ideal to state that clients being treated in corridors and parking lot is unacceptable. If he wishes to stop this scandal while conserving money, he must end privatisation as rapidly as possible.