Bournemouth and Poole hospitals have told Fire news - a merger of their NHS Trusts won't necessarily mean 750 job losses...

That's the number of redundancies being reported if the 2 trusts join forces next year to save money - but they've stressed the vast majority of posts going will be from those who retire or move on.

If the merger's given the go ahead next year - it would be the first of it's kind in England.