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NHS trusts have actually been asked to make extreme cuts as the service faces a predicted shortage of nearly ₤ 7 billion, health leaders alerted today.

In a study 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 people are amongst services at threat.

Eighty-six per cent of respondents said their organisation is having to cut tasks in non-clinical teams, while 37 percent strategy 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 said: "Ministers should not be firmly insisting trusts stabilize their books while disregarding the harmful repercussions for patient care and a demoralised workforce.

"The NHS requires more staff - not less workers - if hold-ups and waits for clients are to end."

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

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

Though he has actually required extraordinary savings, he knocked the "normalisation" of poor care, saying that, 10 years back, "we would have never accepted old ladies being on passages beside an [A&E] department for hours on end."

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