{"id":474522,"date":"2026-06-03T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:21:08","slug":"teesside-nhs-trust-outline-where-550-cuts-will-be-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474522\/","title":{"rendered":"Teesside NHS trust outline where 550 cuts will be made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, Neligan suggested efficiencies could be made by reducing the number of patients who miss appointments, reducing unnecessary follow-up appointments, using theatres more efficiently, and reducing staff sickness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A voluntary redundancy process is under way, but chief people officer Rachael Metcalf said it would be unlikely offered to ward-based nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants and doctors in training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, she said corporate services could be &#8220;leaner&#8221; and efficiencies could be made by streamlining how the trusts worked together through the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Metcalf said a recruitment freeze was in place and the trusts would consider whether people needed to be replaced once they left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To quote our chief executive, we absolutely have got a Herculean financial plan ahead of us,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know we have, but that&#8217;s the hand we&#8217;ve been dealt from our government, and that&#8217;s the boundaries we have to operate within.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Neligan suggested efficiencies could be made by reducing the number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-474522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}