Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) is confronting unprecedented budget cuts, with CEO Matthew Trainer predicting a savings plan exceeding £50 million. Having already reduced budgets by £30 million for two consecutive years, the trust, which oversees Queen's Hospital and King George Hospital, anticipates a significant drop in service access amid record A&E attendance. Trainer highlighted the impending hard choices, emphasizing that £50 million in cuts equates to around 770 job losses, stating these circumstances are beyond anything he's experienced during his NHS career.
Our expectation next year is that we are going to have to deliver a savings plan in excess of 50 million which is taking us into the kind of territory that trusts rarely reach in terms of percentage of income.
I canât remember having to do a savings programme of this scale in my time in the NHS and I think itâs taking us into quite radically new territory.
We are seeing really significant, double-digit increases in attendance, he said, adding: We are lucky we havenât seen anything worse happen there.
A cut of 50 million was equivalent to 770 full-time jobs, he said. The trust now says it will actually need to cut 61 million.
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