According to the website False Economy, more than than 50,000 jobs are disappearing from the NHS, according to which reveal for the first time the extent of cuts by local health trusts struggling to save £20bn from their budgets.
The survey, by the union-funded website False Economy, highlighats that in England alone, 24,000 posts will be lost in hospitals, another 10,000 will go in primary care trusts and 6,000 will disappear from mental health trusts.
They include doctors, nurses and dentists as well as administrative positions, undermining government pledges to protect frontline services.
Within this context it will be interesting to see how many NHS Trusts seek to use mediation anxd interrnal mediation schmes as an additional tool to resolve conflict.
Justin Patten, Solicitor and Mediator