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NHS trusts have been asked to make extreme cuts as the service deals with an anticipated shortfall of nearly ₤ 7 billion, health leaders cautioned today.

In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 percent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 percent are thinking about doing so.

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

Eighty-six percent of participants said their organisation is having to cut tasks in non-clinical teams, while 37 per cent plan to cut medical posts.

A variety of trusts are intending to cut 500 jobs or more, with one planning as numerous as 1,000.

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile stated: "Ministers should not be firmly insisting trusts balance their books while ignoring the damaging consequences for client care and a demoralised workforce.

"The NHS needs more not fewer employees - if hold-ups and awaits clients are to end."

It comes as NHS president Sir Jim Mackey informed a Medical Journalists Association event in London the service had actually "maxed out on what is budget-friendly."

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

Though he has actually demanded extraordinary cost savings, he knocked the "normalisation" of bad care, saying that, ten years ago, "we would have never accepted old women being on corridors next to an [A&E] department for hours on end."

We Own It creator and director Cat Hobbs stated: "Back in 2012, the NHS was ranked as the very best health care service on the planet.

"That was before the legislation that intentionally opened up our entire NHS to profiteering.

"Sir Jim Mackey is dead-on to say that clients being treated in corridors and parking area is undesirable. If he desires to stop this scandal while saving cash, he needs to end privatisation as quickly as possible.