{"id":1374,"date":"2025-05-12T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/nhs-job-cuts-unprecedented-says-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:50:24","slug":"nhs-job-cuts-unprecedented-says-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/nhs-job-cuts-unprecedented-says-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS job cuts &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; says chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Job cuts at NHS hospitals across England have been described as \u2018unprecedented\u2019 by DAUK chair Helen Fernandes in a national newspaper article.\r\n\r\nMs Fernandes contributed to a story in <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/summer-nhs-strikes-loom-medics-breaking-point-3686460\">The i Paper<\/a> on cuts to thousands of doctors, nurses, and other clinical staff roles.\r\n\r\nServices such as diabetes care, rehab centres, and talking therapies, are at risk or are being cut back. The cuts aim to meet a \u00a36.6 billion deficit.\r\n\r\nMs Fernandes told <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/health\/summer-nhs-strikes-loom-medics-breaking-point-3686460\">The i Paper<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve never seen this type of action in the NHS in all the time I\u2019ve been a doctor.\r\n\r\n\u201cThat\u2019s because deficits have traditionally been signed off and rolled over into the next year so we seem to have reached a pinch point with the Government playing hardball.\u201d\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-the-work-of-the-doctors-association-uk-dauk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3C2g7K4vo0MhujHA6swNwN\">our crowd funder<\/a> or by <a href=\"https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dauk.org\/membership\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1742658988093000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3rlt6OKUEPJcwIoZj22ohz\">becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job cuts at NHS hospitals across England have been described as \u2018unprecedented\u2019 by DAUK chair Helen Fernandes in a national newspaper article. Ms Fernandes contributed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[644,176],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","tag-ms-helen-fernandes","tag-nhs-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}