Staff from Epsom Hospital demonstrated outside the hospital gates yesterday to help try and save the future of many of the hospital's behind the scenes workers.

As part of the Save our Jobs, Save our Services campaign, 50 members of staff congregated at 1pm to show their concerns to Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust and Epsom MP Chris Grayling about future job losses.

Epsom and St Helier NHS trust announced it had a £38m budget deficit in May and began a 90 day consultation with staff and unions regarding jobs cuts.

Geoff Martin from the Health Emergency campaign and the local TUC said: "We are stepping up the "Save our jobs - Save our services" campaign alongside the Unison branch in the Trust to force back this savage package of cuts and we intend to drag local MP's and government ministers Paul Burstow and Chris Grayling centre stage.

“We are demanding to know what the Employment Minister Chris Grayling is doing to stop this NHS jobs carve up in his back yard. The medical secretaries and schedulers under threat are the glue that holds the whole admissions process together and it is a scandal that they are being threatened with the axe."