More than 4,500 NHS staff across the Merseyside area will face the axe when all primary care trusts (PCTs) will be abolished when £70bn of work "commissioning" care is transferred to groups of family doctors from 2013. There are more than 4,500 managers and administrators employed by PCTs across Merseyside, North Cheshire and Central Lancashire. However, that total excludes clinical staff — such as community nurses, health visitors, physiotherapists and speech therapists — who are thought more likely to be re-employed. Southport MP John Pugh, a Liberal Democrat, wanted the government to explain how "local citizens, not doctors, will be making any decisions".
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