Tens of thousands of hospital beds in England must be axed to save money and improve care, a think tank says.
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BBCPolitics on 17th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Tens of thousands fewer criminals will go to prison over the next four years in a bid to save money, the Ministry of Justice disclosed yesterday.
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Telegraph on 21st Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Streets across Britain are being left in darkness as town halls cut back on lighting to save money.
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Streets across Britain are being left in darkness as town halls cut back on lighting to save money.
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Changes made by the government to university tuition fees in England are as likely to cost public money as to save it, the Higher Education Policy Institute says.
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BBCPolitics on 14th Dec 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Iain Dale is wasting money, and needlessly polluting the environment. He is driving around in his new Audi on Britain's roads without a water booster. Figures given on the www.waterboost.co.uk website, show that he could save himself a lot of money, and cut his emissions at the same time. If his desire to save money is not strong enough, then maybe his environmental conscience will get the btter o...
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The Guardian big-ups Nick Clegg’s plans to cut waste in the public services, specifically by trying to rein-in hospital trusts using their monopoly position to drive up costs. The paper bills it as “one of the most radical ideas of any of the main political parties to save money”: Under the Lib Dem plan, hospital trusts
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 28th Aug 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
The Conservatives say they would save the NHS money by scrapping plans for a central database of patient records.
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BBCPolitics on 9th Aug 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Following news that the Scottish NHS is to follow in the footsteps of the Welsh NHS and abandon car parking charges in hospital car parks, the CEP has issued the following press release: Hospital parking charges to remain in England The British Government is failing England - hospital parking charges are the latest example. The Welsh Government has
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CFAEP on 3rd Sep 2008 (via thecep.org.uk)
Oh God. He’s going to borrow YET more money on the plastic, and then give us all a fiver each to be getting along with whilst shovelling billions of our money into failing banks, the EU, PFI, 7 million public sector employees, thousands of Quangos and pointless wars. Stop it, you fucking dribbling oaf. Stop it NOW. We need to SAVE money NOW, not spend yet more of our children’s inherit...
The latest way DEFRA intends to save money: a £300 million "voluntary retirement" scheme to any DEFRA employee over 50 who wants to jump ship. There is much jostling on the decks. As one insider, quoted by the Evening Standard comments: "They can't believe their luck. There are retirement parties all the time stretching into next spring. It seems an odd way to save money but no one is c...
