Thousands back bid to halt Rotherham Hospital job cuts

Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is planning to shed 750 jobs in a bid to save £50m over four years.

But the signatures protesting at the move to make Rotherham Hospital smaller and with ‘substantially fewer beds’ have been collected by campaigners from the Trade Unionists and Socialists Coalition, who presented the petition to the trust’s council of governors this week.

Hundreds of nurses, therapists, clerical and technical staff and some managers were then issued with “at risk of redundancy notices” in the week before Christmas.

Many staff face pay cuts, some departments could be privatised and three wards have been earmarked for closure in the cuts which the trust says are necessary because of the economic downturn.

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