An NHS trust in charge of Birmingham and Black Country hospitals is set to shed a staggering 1,400 jobs, the Mail can reveal.
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust will stagger the swinging cuts over a five-year period.
The cutbacks will punch a huge hole in the already stretched 7,500 workforce, one worker said.
The trust, formed in 2002, runs City Hospital in Birmingham, West Bromwich’s Sandwell General, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham Treatment Centre and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre .
It is currently developing a new, super hospital – Midland Metropolitan – to serve the 530,000 people living in Sandwell and West Birmingham. It is set to open in 2018.
A whistleblower last night broke ranks to say: “Morale is at rock bottom. Our concern is for patients and the ancillary services which rely on the trust.
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