SCORES of nurses were facing the dole after nearly 350 hospital jobs were axed.
Bosses at the Brockhall and Calderstones mental handicap hospitals today spelled out the cost in human terms of the shutting down of the Brockhall unit in April of the following year. They told union chiefs 87 nursing staff and 50 ancillary workers were set to receive their 90-day compulsory redundancy notices at Christmas.
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