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Wednesday, 28 September 2005 12:09 | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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Fears have arisen that the NHS budget crisis may lead to a loss of senior doctors in England after Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare Trust said it was looking to cut seven consultant posts by March.
Half of NHS trusts have been forced to consider recruitment freezes this year after one in four health service organisations posted a deficit for the financial year.
The Oxford Mental Healthcare Trust has managed to balance the books in recent years but was ordered by regional health bosses to make savings of £5.9m to help other local trusts reduce their deficit.
Julie Waldron, the trust’s chief executive, said officials had fought against the move but had reluctantly accepted that “radical measures” were needed.
"We continue to believe that there is every need for more investment, not reductions, in mental health funding and we shall ask primary care trusts to reconsider their decision," she said.
The NHS Confederation, which represents health service managers, said that trusts faced “tough decisions”.
But Jonathan Fielden of the British Medical Association’s consultants committee said that cutting consultant posts had been unheard of for 20 years.
"This is the culmination of what we have been saying for many months, the NHS is facing severe deficit problems and it will hit services," he said.
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