NHS trusts have actually been asked to make extreme cuts as the service deals with a predicted deficiency of nearly ₤ 7 billion, health leaders alerted today.

In a study for NHS Providers, 47 per cent of trust leaders cautioned they are rolling back services to stabilize the books, while another 43 per cent are thinking about doing so.

Rehabilitation centres, talking therapies and diabetes services for young individuals are among services at danger.

Eighty-six percent of participants said their organisation is having to cut jobs in non-clinical groups, while 37 per cent plan to cut medical posts.

A variety of trusts are intending to cut 500 tasks or more, with one planning as lots of as 1,000.

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile stated: "Ministers shouldn't be firmly insisting trusts balance their books while ignoring the damaging consequences for client care and a demoralised workforce.

"The NHS requires more personnel - not fewer workers - if hold-ups and waits on patients are to end."

It comes as NHS primary executive Sir Jim Mackey informed a Medical Journalists Association occasion in London the service had actually "maxed out on what is affordable."

He said that the NHS was likely to have a ₤ 6.6 bn deficit this year, regardless of a spending plan of around ₤ 200bn.

Though he has actually required unprecedented cost savings, he slammed the "normalisation" of poor care, saying that, 10 years ago, "we would have never accepted old women being on passages beside an [A&E] department for hours on end."

We Own It creator and director Cat Hobbs said: "Back in 2012, the NHS was rated as the very best health care service in the world.

"That was before the legislation that deliberately opened up our whole NHS to profiteering.

"Sir Jim Mackey is dead-on to say that clients being treated in passages and parking area is inappropriate. If he desires to stop this scandal while conserving cash, he needs to end privatisation as quickly as possible.