FOUR thousand jobs are being axed from the NHS on Merseyside, according to the Liverpool Post.
Amongst the people whose jobs will be going are nurses, midwives and health visitors.
850 jobs are set to go at Fazakerley Hospital by 2014, with Alder Hey losing 350.
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen hospitals will also lose almost 450 jobs.
At least 236 nurses, midwives and health visitors working at hospitals and mental health trusts on Merseyside lost their jobs in the first six months of last year – but that number is now set to soar.
Srtaff are already complaining of shortages, which is affecting the care of patients.
Paul Summers, regional organiser for Unison, told the Post: “These losses will have a really detrimental effect on the services for the public and the staff left behind.
“They will have to do more with less resources. People are really fearful for their jobs, morale has reached rock bottom.
“Whether its nurses, doctors, medical secretaries, we are losing a range of skills.”
Compulsory redundancies have not been ruled out as trusts bid to make £20 billion cuts in the NHS.
On top of the Merseywide figures, North West jobs are also being cut, some of which will be in the Liverpool region.
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