A leaked document has shown that the medical staff in the UK might have to accept drastic pay cuts or face sacking as the hospitals look to address their funding crisis.

The leaked document shows measures from 19 NHS chiefs to maintain services for the patients amid a multimillion-pound budget cuts. Under the new plans, the staff might have to take pay cuts of up to 5 per cent. Overtime payments for working nights, weekends and bank holidays will be scrapped and the staff might have to deal with reduced holidays and longer shifts.

If the new plans backed by the 19 NHs bosses are implemented, it would end the contract called Agenda for Change, under which health service staff, including nurses, midwives and porters were unrolled in a standardized pay scale system.

Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary might agree with the NHS bosses as is concerned about the financial health of the trusts because NHS bosses struggle to make £20bn worth of efficiency savings over four years.

It is believed that the NHS bosses think that their joining together will help them overcome stiff opposition from the staff members.