Among the job losses: — Socialist Resistance newspaper

Among the job losses:

Socialist Resistance no34 | page 6

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• Nottingham 1200 • North Staffordshire 1000 • Worcestershire 720 • Norfolk & Norwich 700 • County Durham 700 • Royal Free 480 • Crawley 400 • Wolverhampton 300 • Shrewsbury 300 • Hull 300 • Lincolnshire 300 • Bath 300 • Cornwall 300 • Gloucestershire 200 • Plymouth 200 large-scale redundancies, service cuts and closures.

The axe has tended to fall heavily on the more expensive staff to employ - with hundreds of qualified nurses in the frame for "rebalancing": but the cuts are also continuing to focus heavily on services for older people and on mena meado care waco are not included in the six priorities which ministers al c insisting must shape spending plans this year.

Meanwhile ministers can clearly hardly believe their luck: the wholesale attack on NHS jobs has so far led to no concerted response from the trade unions - and not a single ballot for strike action.

Activists may seek to turn this around at this month's UNISON Health Conference in Gateshead, which takes place just days before the local elections on May 4.