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Health Secretary Wes Streeting is making a major announcement about thousands of redundancies being made across the NHS.

On Wednesday, Mr Streeting is expected to confirm that a funding settlement has now been reached for the '50 per cent reduction in headcount' across NHS England, the NHS' governing body.

It comes after the 1,600-strong NHS workforce in Greater Manchester had been left with an 'incredibly uncertain' future as the government refused to approve a redundancy scheme, the Manchester Evening News has previously reported.

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Some 600 NHS employees in the region who work for Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board are facing redundancy amid deep cuts being demanded by the government.

But months aft

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