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NHS trusts have been asked to make extreme cuts as the service faces a predicted shortage of almost ₤ 7 billion, health leaders warned 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 per cent are thinking about doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and diabetes services for youths are among 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 preparation as many as 1,000.

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile said: "Ministers shouldn't be insisting trusts stabilize their books while neglecting the destructive consequences for patient care and a demoralised labor force.

"The NHS requires more personnel - not less employees - if hold-ups and waits for patients are to end."

It comes as NHS chief executive Sir Jim Mackey informed a Medical Journalists Association event in London the service had actually "maxed out on what is inexpensive."

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 required unprecedented cost savings, he slammed the "normalisation" of poor care, stating that, 10 years back, "we would have never ever accepted old ladies being on passages next to an [A&E] for hours on end."

We Own It founder and director Cat Hobbs said: "Back in 2012, the NHS was rated as the very best healthcare service on the planet.

"That was before the legislation that deliberately opened our whole NHS to profiteering.

"Sir Jim Mackey is definitely right to state that clients being treated in passages and vehicle parks is unacceptable. If he wishes to stop this scandal while saving money, he should end privatisation as quickly as possible.