Doctors; Nurses;  Patients; Visitors & the General Public are furious, dumbfounded, dismayed and very angry as they say this is the 4th largest country in the world and our NHS is appalling; the Government do very little despite the many promises made!  This is a Crisis and the Government should step in now!

400 Hundred jobs are being cut at the region's four main hospitals to claw back a £13.5m+ deficit.

Scarborough & North East Yorkshire NHS Healthcare Trust has just laid off 100 staff  Relief Nurses, Auxiliary and Agency staff have been axed?  It is now taking staff from other hospitals to help out with the short fall in staff as it tries to cope with demand?  The Scarborough Trust as a deficit of between £4.5m & £6.9m. The Trust as also Banned all overtime across the board. 
  
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust today said it would not be replacing about 300 staff when they leave. It employs almost 7,000 workers.

CUTS: Withernsea Hospital: Closure of Minor Injuries at Night 8;00pm to 8:00am daily Angered the Town

CUTS: Hornsea Cottage Hospital: Closure of Minor Injuries Unit Completely; Reduction of Ward bed size from 22 to just 12 Appalling

Fears and beliefs now are that all Parking Charges at all hospitals will be increased in a money making operation!! The Trusts think this is a license to print money by ripping-off patients and visitors alike? 

If these Trusts & PCT's think that patients will not be affected then they must all live in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land ; what about! The long waiting lists, shortage of beds, patients dying waiting for treatment, full Accident & Emergency, the list goes on! 

The cuts could come in any department, and may include Doctors, Nurses and Administrators.  This as out-raged the Nursing Community who have described the treatment as utterly disgraceful; Unison & Amicus the Union Amicus been the largest have condemed the laying off of 400+ staff as ludicrous   

The trust said it would not be making people redundant but the reduction would be made by people leaving and retiring. It said the cuts would need to be made as soon as possible.

Stephen Morrison, director of human resources for the trust today said: "The trust, like many other NHS organisations is facing significant financial constraints and we are endeavouring to minimise any potential overspend at the end of the financial year.

"Our priority in dealing with these constraints is to ensure that we do not impact on the level or quality of patient care we provide.

"In any organisation where more than 70 per cent of costs are attributable to staffing, it would be foolish to pretend we can constrain costs without looking at the number of people we employ."

He said managers had been asked to conduct a full review of costs and to be absolutely sure that the staffing levels were efficient and deployed effectively.

Mr Morrison said: "At the moment, this number is being analysed closely but could be up to 300 out of a workforce of over 6,800."

The move comes after the Strategic Health Authority wrote to trust chairman Stephen Greep this week, telling him to shed hundreds of jobs.

The trust, which is responsible for Hull Royal Infirmary, Castle Hill Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital, admitted it may have to make cuts last September.

Health managers said then key services may have to be cut. It came just a month after they pledged cutbacks would not directly affect patients.

The health authority, which oversees the trust's performance, told Mr Greep last year he had to make savings of £13.5m in the current financial year.

However, the Mail reported last September, it had made savings of just £1.3m, with just six months remaining.

The situation led to fears the Trust would have to cut jobs and close wards.

Today, Unison branch secretary Thelma Gray, a nurse at Hull Royal Infirmary, said she feared for any changes to front line staffing levels.

She said: "We don't know whether or not we can deliver safe quality patient care with a reduction of people. This will put pressure on our frontline staff if posts are left unfilled.

"The trust has spent around £200,000 this financial year on employing four managers, and I will be interested to see if these cuts affect any of those posts."

The trust, which covers already had a £5.4m deficit from 2004.

Last year it drew up a recovery plan identifying 20 areas where money would be saved, including plans to cut the number of agency staff, stopping overtime and freezing recruitment in some areas.