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NHS trusts have been asked to make extreme cuts as the service faces a forecasted 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 percent are considering doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and diabetes services for young people are amongst services at threat.

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

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

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile said: "Ministers should not be firmly insisting trusts balance their books while neglecting the destructive consequences for client care and a demoralised workforce.

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

It comes as NHS primary executive Sir Jim Mackey told a Medical Journalists Association occasion 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, in spite of a budget of around ₤ 200bn.

Though he has required unmatched savings, he knocked the "normalisation" of bad care, saying that, 10 years earlier, "we would have never ever accepted old girls being on passages beside an [A&E] department for hours on end."

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

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

"Sir Jim Mackey is dead-on to say that being treated in passages and vehicle parks is undesirable. If he wishes to stop this scandal while saving money, he should end privatisation as rapidly as possible.