{"id":203685,"date":"2025-06-21T23:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203685\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:10:31","slug":"herefordshire-and-worcestershire-nhs-staff-facing-redundancy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203685\/","title":{"rendered":"Herefordshire and Worcestershire NHS staff facing redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Wilkinson Jones<\/p>\n

Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/p>\n

\"HerefordshireHerefordshire and Worcestershire ICB<\/p>\n

The ICB’s chief executive, Simon Trickett, said between 150 and 200 backroom staff could lose their jobs<\/p>\n

Up to 200 people face being made redundant as an NHS board attempts to halve its costs.<\/p>\n

The move would affect administrative staff at NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB), which has a budget of \u00a32.2bn and commissions healthcare services across the two counties.<\/p>\n

Chief executive Simon Trickett said this would free up \u00a323m to re-invest in frontline healthcare and could see the board merging with its counterpart in Warwickshire.<\/p>\n

ICBs have been set a target of halving their costs by the government, as part of wide-ranging health reforms that will also see the abolition of NHS England<\/a> which, in March, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said would take place within two years.<\/p>\n

Most ICBs are expected to reduce their costs by merging with a neighbouring health board, which in this case is Coventry and Warwickshire ICB (CW), although there is no immediate plan for this to take place.<\/p>\n

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Mr Trickett said the money saved could be invested into frontline health services<\/p>\n

“We are now in the midst of a re-organisation of how the management of integrated care boards work,” said Mr Trickett.<\/p>\n

“We won’t merge ICBs but we will share management and leadership capacity and have one team running two ICBs \u2013 Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB and Coventry and Warwickshire ICB.<\/p>\n

“The net result of that will be a 50% reduction in running costs \u2013 that equates to \u00a323m. This is a lot of money taken out of management to be available to put into frontline care.”<\/p>\n

Addressing Worcestershire County Council’s health and wellbeing board on Tuesday, he said it would likely result in between 150 and 200 redundancies.<\/p>\n

The ICB said it employed 408 members of staff, working the equivalent of 322 full-time roles.<\/p>\n

‘No compromises’<\/p>\n

Mr Trickett described the deal with CW as “an interim arrangement that can allow the savings to be delivered”.<\/p>\n

However, he said there would be no merger with that board at this stage because the government wanted health boards to align with strategic mayoral authorities.<\/p>\n

Some savings would be made by not having to service NHS England’s infrastructure, Mr Trickett added.<\/p>\n

He said the role of the board was also changing, with staff being asked to be less “hands-on” as it becomes a more strategic commissioner.<\/p>\n

“The NHS in this part of the country is far from perfect, but we have made some good progress,” Mr Trickett said. “We want to continue that.<\/p>\n

“I won’t be willing to compromise things that make a difference for patients, to hit this target.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Wilkinson Jones Local Democracy Reporting Service Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB The ICB’s chief executive, Simon Trickett, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114723883382719103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}