{"id":216879,"date":"2025-06-26T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216879\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:24:28","slug":"northants-icb-staff-fear-job-losses-amid-nhs-cost-cutting-drive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216879\/","title":{"rendered":"Northants ICB staff fear job losses amid NHS cost-cutting drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managers in Partnership (MiP), the NHS managers union, warned the cuts will damage local economies and hinder the ability to retain skilled workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MiP chief executive Jon Restell said: &#8220;The government&#8217;s massive gamble to cut half of the ICB workforce was taken without any plan or assessment of what new structures need to do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Three months on from that decision there is still no sign of the Ten Year Health Plan and still no national mechanism to make staff redundant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The speed of the cuts, to be made by the end of the year, is causing chaos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.bbci.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service,<\/a> it was confirmed at a recent Integrated Care Partnership meeting that formal proposals to create a Leicester, Northamptonshire, Rutland ICB cluster were submitted to NHS England in May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If approved, it would not be a full merger, but would introduce shared management and functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Managers in Partnership (MiP), the NHS managers union, warned the cuts will damage local economies and hinder the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-216879","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\/114751777592098127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216879","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=216879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}