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Flashman .......2010.......I will not change the NHS.......NHS is safe in our hands................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7,000 key NHS clinical staff made redundant amid enforced cuts
Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the BMA, says £20bn savings drive to blame, as doctors and nurses are made redundant
Department of Health has disclosed that 4,620 frontline staff were made compulsorily redundant between 2010-11. Photograph Bernardo Bucci/Corbis
An "arbitrary" straitjacket on the NHS's budget by Whitehall is leading to job losses, recruitment freezes and inadequate care for patients, the leader of the country's doctors warns on Tuesday.
Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association, said forcing the NHS in England to make £20bn of "efficiency gains" by 2015 at a time of rising demand for healthcare was wrong and damaging.
Porter was speaking to the Guardian after the Department of Health (DH) admitted that 7,060 NHS clinical staff, such as doctors and nurses, have been made redundant since the coalition took power in 2010, at the same time as David Cameron was pledging to protect the service's frontline from cuts.
Responding to a freedom of information request, the DH disclosed that 4,620 frontline staff were made compulsorily redundant between 2010-11 and 2012-13, and a further 2,430 voluntarily redundant.