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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hospitals-job-loss-plans-savaged.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Unions have slammed proposals to cut hundreds of jobs at two hospitals" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-hospitals-job-loss-plans-savaged.jpg" alt="Unions have slammed proposals to cut hundreds of jobs at two hospitals"/></a></p>
<p>Union leaders have attacked announcements of cutbacks at two hospitals which they said would lead to the loss of almost 1,000 jobs and the closure of wards.</p>
<p>Unison said 500 jobs would be axed at St George&#8217;s Hospital in Tooting, south London, while a further 486 were under threat at Kingston Hospital in south-west London.</p>
<p>General secretary Dave Prentis said: &#8220;This is a terrible day for patients in London, who have found out they stand to lose nearly 1,000 health workers. This nails the lie that the frontline will be protected &#8211; more than 200 nurses at Kingston will lose their jobs.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unison said Kingston&#8217;s Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg both used the hospital as a backdrop during their election campaigns, asking: &#8220;Where are they when we need their support?&#8221;</p>
<p>St George&#8217;s Hospital said it was not immune from the financial challenges facing the NHS, revealing it needed to achieve £55 million of savings this year, although it would not speculate on the number of likely job losses.</p>
<p>&#8220;The trust is a major trauma centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and centre of excellence for cancer, cardiac and women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s services and we are committed to providing quality care to our patients. </p>
<p>&#8220;We cannot speculate at this stage on the exact number, or nature, of posts that will need to go but we hope to avoid the need for any compulsory redundancies. With this in mind we have already put in place a recruitment freeze and are stopping the use of agency staff.&#8221;</p>
<p>A spokesman for Kingston Hospital NHS Trust said: &#8220;We expect the reduction of these 486 posts over five years to be managed as part of natural staff turnover, as on average, we see between 300 and 400 staff leave the trust each year.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are in the process of applying to become an NHS Foundation Trust. As part of our application, we have to put together a long-term plan, which shows how we are going to manage with 25% less money, over the next five years. Other NHS trusts who are applying to be Foundation Trusts are in the same position.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nora Pearce, Unison&#8217;s representative at Kingston Hospital, said: &#8220;This is terrible news for staff and for people living in Kingston. All through the election we were told that the health service would not suffer frontline cuts &#8211; but now my hospital is set to lose more than 200 nurses. This Government is ripping the heart out of the NHS.&#8221;</p>
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