THE health trust running the Alexandra Hospital will need to keep cutting jobs in order to save money, according to its chief executive.
However John Rostill said Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is on its way to balancing its books.
After overspending by £4.95 million last year, the trust faced a funding gap of £30 million and announced job cuts after the Government said it must balance this year.
Mr Rostill said that the trust was currently carrying 450 vacancies. One person had left as a result of compulsorary redundancy, 23 staff took voluntary redundancy, and 59 people had received compulsorary redundancy notices but been redeployed elsewhere in the trust.
"We've taken out 139 posts. What is clear is the only way to really save money in the health service is to take people out," he said.
"We will continue to reduce the number of people we employ but we will do it as sensitively and as sensibly as we can."
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