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Health Secretary Wes Streeting (Image: PA)<\/p>\n‘Hopefully this will see the end to the uncertainty our staff have been facing for the last eight months’, said Greater Manchester health chief, Sir Richard LeeseHealth Secretary Wes Streeting (Image: PA)<\/p>\n
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is making a major announcement about thousands of redundancies being made across the NHS.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Mr Streeting is expected to confirm that a funding settlement has now been reached for the ’50 per cent reduction in headcount’ across NHS England, the NHS’ governing body.<\/p>\n
It comes after the 1,600-strong NHS workforce in Greater Manchester had been left with an ‘incredibly uncertain’ future as the government refused to approve a redundancy scheme, the Manchester Evening News has previously reported.<\/a><\/p>\n Join the Manchester Evening News <\/strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> group <\/strong>HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Some 600 NHS employees in the region who work for Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board are facing redundancy amid deep cuts being demanded by the government.<\/p>\n But months after announcing the reforms, national health bosses would ‘not approve\u2019 a government-backed redundancy scheme<\/a> needed for the huge savings ordered by Westminster.<\/p>\n For months, there was no clarity on if jobs will be lost, which jobs those might be, and when they might be lost \u2013 effectively leaving the total 1,600 staff, and their families, with no security.<\/p>\n The absence of information has been slammed as ‘Kafka-esque’<\/a>, ‘an impossible situation’ and a ‘dreadful position for our staff’, by the region’s health leaders in recent month.<\/p>\n On November 12, Mr Streeting will announce at the NHS Providers Conference in Manchester that ‘funding arrangements have been agreed with HM Treasury’.<\/p>\n “We will not be cutting any investment to the NHS, frontline or backroom. Further detail will come forward in the coming weeks,” Mr Streeting is expected to confirm.<\/p>\n Sir Richard Leese, chair of NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board told the M.E.N. responded to the news: “We still need to see the detail, but hopefully this will see the end to the uncertainty our staff have been facing for the last eight months.<\/p>\n “For the ICB, losing skilled and hard-working staff is never good news, but this should allow us to fully implement our new operating model and get on with the business of improving health outcomes in Greater Manchester.”<\/p>\n The government announced in spring that the country\u2019s 42 regional health boards, responsible for planning and paying for health care services, will have to lose around half of their 25,000 staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n NHS<\/a> Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board, the region\u2019s oversight body, was told to cut its costs by 39 per cent and save \u00a341 million from its \u00a3106m staff budget under the government\u2019s reforms.<\/p>\n After the sweeping NHS cuts were announced, Mr Streeting was asked by MPs whether he recognised a reported figure that the total cost of redundancy payouts could reach \u00a31bn nationally.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6_121019arndale14.jpg\")
Sir Richard Leese(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n