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NHS trusts have actually been asked to make cuts as the service faces an anticipated shortfall of nearly ₤ 7 billion, health leaders cautioned today.

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

Rehabilitation centres, talking treatments and diabetes services for youths are amongst services at danger.

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

A variety of trusts are intending to cut 500 jobs or more, with one preparation as many as 1,000.

NHS union Unison's head of health Helga Pile stated: "Ministers shouldn't be insisting trusts stabilize their books while overlooking the harmful repercussions for client care and a demoralised workforce.

"The NHS requires more staff - not fewer employees - if delays and awaits patients are to end."

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

He stated that the NHS was likely to have a ₤ 6.6 bn deficit this year, despite a budget plan of around ₤ 200bn.

Though he has demanded unmatched savings, he slammed the "normalisation" of bad care, saying that, ten years earlier, "we would have never accepted old women being on corridors 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 best healthcare service worldwide.

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

"Sir Jim Mackey is dead-on to say that clients being dealt with in corridors and car parks is unacceptable. If he desires to stop this scandal while conserving cash, he needs to end privatisation as quickly as possible.