Health chiefs must find £41m of savings in new NHS reforms

NHS Greater Manchester will have to save £41m of its £106m ‘total cost of people’ under the government's new NHS reforms, the M.E.N. can report.

- By HELENA VESTY

There has been ‘no detail on a national approach to any redundancies associated with these changes, says NHS Greater Manchester's chief officer for strategy, innovation and population health, Warren Heppolette.

But NHS Greater Manchester is ‘required to submit an outline plan by the end of May [of how the savings will be achieved]: That plan will involve a ‘reduced headcount and cost’ from that £106m in running costs, a Greater Manchester joint health scrutiny committee meeting was told yesterday.

This is yet more financial strife for the organisation which commissions and pays for much of Greater Manchester's NHS services. The body is already under pressure to make huge savings after spiralling into hundreds of millions of pounds of debt - amid NHS strikes, hikes in medication prices, and funding shortfalls - since it was created in 2022.

Just over a month ago, the Prime Minister announced that NHS England, dubbed ‘the world’s largest quango; will be dismantled.