HEALTH bosses have pledged not to get "nasty" to get staff to leave amid a cash crisis.
The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has to save £2.5million by cutting 320 jobs.
And now the first of these staff are starting to leave but bosses need to get the process happening more swiftly.
Once the workers have left, it will allow health bosses to create some different posts.
The move - revealed in The Lancashire Telegraph - was widely condemned following the Government's insistence that the NHS was recruiting more staff.
But Gary Graham, the trust's deputy chief executive, has pledged managers would not get "nasty" to get people to leave.
He said: "Before, if someone wanted to leave we might have asked if there was any way we might keep them, but we will do less of that as it allows us to find posts.
"We will say thank you very much for working for us but we have produced a vacancy for someone else to fill'."
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