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    Chris P Bacon wrote:
    mavrick wrote:
    I hope the people who did not bother to vote, are tracked down the made to be the first to pay for the NHS services.
    how can a nation just simply sit back and let this happen? Is it not just a couple of weeks ago the NHS reported an underspend of £900million!!!!! time to wake up, The defence NHS should cut accross all political classes.
    Who would you suggest they vote for? This Blatcherite economic strategy that's ruining the nation is served by two masters; Labour = Bad, Conservative = Bad, Lap-dogs = Worst of the lot.

    When faced with the pencil and ballot paper, it's weighing up who's the least worst so you cannot blame anyone for their apathy in the face of such selfish thievery.
    You appear to be an unthinking moron Chrispy.

    Why are the "Lap-dogs" the worst of the lot? You mean they get hammered for making decisions based on what's fair, rather than what's popular?

    It's true, in the world of spin and popular politics, the lib-dems do get hammering for doing the right thing. But that's because morons happily believe the same old rubbish that the existing parties keep coming out with.

    You are living proof of that."
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Lancashire ambulance service shrinks as part of £13.4m savings programme

12:56pm Tuesday 10th April 2012 in Blackburn

ONE hundred and thirty-three posts are being axed by East Lancashire’s ambulance chiefs as part of a £13.4 million savings programme.

Union chiefs say the lost positions for North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust have been achieved without the need for compulsory redundancies.

But Unison leaders have warned that yet further cuts are expected for paramedics in future years due to constraints being placed on the NHS by the government.

Trust bosses have rubberstamped a cost-cutting exercise across NWAS, with the majority of losses being incurred by the passenger transport service.

Under a cost improvement programme, the PTS section is being reduced by the equivalent of 33 full-time posts.

Around 22 of these will be lost at ambulance control due to the introduction of a new automatic vehicle licensing system which enables ambulance to be tracked more efficiently.

Another 48 positions are being shed because of a reduction in demand for the PTS service, which picks up and drops off patients for non-emergency appointments.

Craig Wilde, Unison branch secretary for NWAS, said: “All of the people who were at risk of redundancy were offered alternative employment on the emergency or paramedic side of the service.

“Much of the reduction has been achieved through natural wastage, such as people taking early retirement or voluntary redundancy.

“Financial constraints have been placed on the trust this year and it is a sign of the times. We are expecting it to get worse next year.”

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