Black Friday
Reporter: KAREN DOHERTY
Date published: 08 October 2010
One-in-12 council posts under threat
Oldham NHS faces crippling overspend
HUNDREDS of council and health jobs are under threat in a massive blow for Oldham.
Some 800 council jobs could be awxed — one in 12 of all posts — to help save £45 million.
And NHS bosses have admitted that they could not rule out jobs losses at hospitals and other health services as they attempt to claw back millions.
Today it was also announced that routine operations at weekends and evenings were being halted at the Royal Oldham Hospital.
Local authorities are bracing themselves for cuts when the Government’s spending review is announced on October 20.
Lib-Democrat council bosses said that there were “no easy answers” to the cash crisis.
But there are fears that the elderly and vulnerable will be hit hardest.
Staff and trade unions are being briefed on initial proposals and the earliest that any compulsory job losses will be announced is January.
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