 Sandwell Hospital in West Bromwich is one of the sites run by the trust |
Up to 140 jobs are going at three hospitals, it has emerged. Staff at City, Sandwell General and Rowley Regis hospitals in Birmingham and the Black Country were given redundancy notices on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust said it was to shed up to 800 jobs to save up to �20m in the next year.
The remaining posts have been lost through voluntary redundancies and early retirement.
The trust has an annual budget of �308m, more than 7,000 staff and serves a population of 500,000.
Its budget will fall to �303m in the next financial year and a �3m debt has to be repaid. It said expenditure on staff rose from �180m in 2003/4 to �217m last year.
The trust had a "cost reduction programme" last year which saw �10m saved with 200 lost posts, but said this only involved one compulsory redundancy.
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