STAFF redundancies are due to be made at a Herefordshire doctors in a bid to bring its running costs down.

Integral Medical Holdings, who help to run Kington Medical Practice, has confirmed that they are due to make four or five back office staff redundant this month.

Last year the national medical company took over the running of the HR, finance and recruitment at the building which opened in September 2012 at a cost of £3.5 million.

CEO Richard Power said the redundancies will affect back office workers “to bring the practice’s running costs down”.

He said: “We have made good strides in the fact we have appointed two new doctors.

“But the practice needs to run sustainably within the funding given to us by the NHS and we are overstaffed.

“The redundancies will not affect the clinical staff but we do have to be more efficient in the back office.

"We are working through the process, the clinical staff are remaining and we are streamlining the back office which every GP practice has to do."