HEALTH and social care services in Argyll and Bute face having to make savings of £22 million over the next two years.
The ‘extremely challenging’ cost-cutting was announced to members of the Argyll and Bute Integrated Joint Board (IJB) at their meeting on Wednesday January 25.
A budget outlook report estimated that IJB will be required to make savings of £16.3 million for 2017-18 and a further £5.7 million for 2018-19 from its annual budget of £256 million.