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MDF Emergence Ouch Feature - PD Exhibition 50,000 NHS job cuts hit mental health services "We promised to reduce NHS bureaucracy and plough this money straight back into patient care, and that is exactly what we are delivering. Since May, we have 2,500 more doctors, more nurses and more midwives - and 2,000 fewer managers." But has seen figures suggesting that some of the deepest cuts will hit some of the most vulnerable people – in mental health services. In total, 6,346 jobs could be at risk across the 53 mental health trusts, with a high proportion of the jobs on the clinical, rather than management, side. Campaigners said that it was seen as a "soft" cut because often people using mental health services either can not or dare not speak up. {*style:<i>Rethink Mental Illness Chief Executive Paul Jenkins </i>*} Rethink Mental Illness Chief Executive Paul Jenkins told : "This is a devastating blow to the already chronically under-funded services for people with a mental illness. "These figures are just the tip of the iceberg and are a very worrying indication.