Hospital trust looks to cut 150 posts

A hospital trust is looking to reduce its overall number of posts by 150, to help meet its savings target for the current financial year.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust said it would look at options such as redeployment, not filling vacant posts and reducing hours before it was forced to consider compulsory redundancies.

The trust has a target of saving £41.4m by March 2026 and it said it aimed to cut spending on staffing by £8.7m.

It said 2% of its workforce would be affected by the proposed cuts.

The hospital trust's chief executive, Jo Williams, said she wanted to have "the right staff, with the right skills, in the right places".

That would mean increasing the number of posts in "critical" areas by 267, but the net loss would be 150 posts.

She also said she wanted to reduce hospital spending on agency workers.

She said she accepted this would be a "worrying time for some staff" and promised to support them through the changes.

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