Mass NHS redundancies to cut bureaucracy and raise £1bn a year

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By Claudia Tanner and Jane Kirby, PA

Thousands of NHS staff will be made redundant in a bid to save £1 billion each year “to be reinvested in frontline care”.

The government had already announced that headcount across both NHS England and the Department of Health will be cut by around 50%, and has now revealed plans to let go of around 18,000 administrative staff and managers, including on local health boards.