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NHS trusts have actually been asked to make drastic cuts as the service deals with an deficiency of almost ₤ 7 billion, health leaders alerted today.

In a study for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders warned they are rolling back services to balance the books, while another 43 percent are considering doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and diabetes services for youths are among services at danger.

Eighty-six percent of respondents said their organisation is having to cut jobs in non-clinical teams, while 37 per cent plan to cut scientific posts.

A number of trusts are intending to cut 500 tasks or more, with one preparation as many as 1,000.

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile stated: "Ministers should not be insisting trusts balance their books while ignoring the damaging repercussions for client care and a demoralised labor force.

"The NHS needs more personnel - not fewer employees - if delays and awaits clients are to end."

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

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

Though he has demanded extraordinary cost savings, he slammed the "normalisation" of poor care, saying that, ten years ago, "we would have never accepted old women being on corridors beside an [A&E] department for hours on end."