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NHS trusts have been asked to make extreme cuts as the service faces an anticipated shortfall of nearly ₤ 7 billion, health leaders warned today.

In a survey for NHS Providers, 47 percent of warned they are rolling back services to stabilize the books, while another 43 percent are thinking about doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking treatments and diabetes services for youths are amongst services at risk.

Eighty-six per cent of participants said their organisation is needing to cut jobs in non-clinical groups, while 37 per cent strategy to cut clinical 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 shouldn't be insisting trusts balance their books while ignoring the destructive effects for client care and a demoralised workforce.

"The NHS requires more personnel - not less employees - if delays and waits for clients are to end."

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

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

Though he has actually required unprecedented savings, he knocked the "normalisation" of bad care, saying that, 10 years ago, "we would have never accepted old women being on passages next to an [A&E] department for hours on end."

We Own It creator and director Cat Hobbs stated: "Back in 2012, the NHS was rated as the very best healthcare service in the world.

"That was before the legislation that intentionally opened up our entire NHS to profiteering.

"Sir Jim Mackey is definitely best to state that patients being dealt with in passages and vehicle parks is undesirable. If he desires to stop this scandal while conserving money, he must end privatisation as rapidly as possible.