Cutting beds is 'an option' at Accrington hospital (From Lancashire Telegraph)

The only two residential units in Hyndburn that help facilitate hospital discharges and provide further rehab are due to close at the end of October and this plum is waffling about how to improve discharge rates???
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Unbelievable.

Inevitable! "New Labour" are responsible for the economic and moral decline of the U.K. All the cuts taking place in the NHS and in the public sector are due to "New labour" politically disorientated, spendaholic, champagne socialist, politically (in) correct policies. We must never allow " New Labour" to infect and corrupt the UK again. When your Health facilities are closed and you lose your job remember that "New Labour" are to blame. Never vote for " New Labour" they have thrown away the future of your family and freinds.
Deus Vobiscum

DEO VOLENTE wrote:
Inevitable! "New Labour" are responsible for the economic and moral decline of the U.K. All the cuts taking place in the NHS and in the public sector are due to "New labour" politically disorientated, spendaholic, champagne socialist, politically (in) correct policies. We must never allow " New Labour" to infect and corrupt the UK again. When your Health facilities are closed and you lose your job remember that "New Labour" are to blame. Never vote for " New Labour" they have thrown away the future of your family and freinds.
Deus Vobiscum

Every time I read a story about cuts i have to read your copy and paste of comments that you have already put on other stories.
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on the other hand the biggest waste of money has been the PCT's like Blackburn with Darwen PCT and East Lancashire PTC good riddance to bad rubbish

On the contrary my uneducated "comrade". "New Labour are indeed responsible for the economic and moral decline of the U.K. Thre only "cuts" that you need to concern yourself with are the "cut's" that the excellent new coalition are having to make due to the "New Labour legacy". The only "pasting" that you need concern yourself with is the "pasting" that "New Labour" recieved from the U.K. electorate. As for my need to "cut and paste" where else have you heard or seen "Mr Nihiliband"? I am a true genius at work sir, it is best that you do not endeavor to challenge me, my superior knowledge or my truly inspirational thinking. You will lose as they say in the vernacular, with which you are familiar, "Big Time". From your superior now and your superior always "Fiat Lux"
Deus Vobiscum

ricksh wrote:

DEO VOLENTE wrote:
Inevitable! "New Labour" are responsible for the economic and moral decline of the U.K. All the cuts taking place in the NHS and in the public sector are due to "New labour" politically disorientated, spendaholic, champagne socialist, politically (in) correct policies. We must never allow " New Labour" to infect and corrupt the UK again. When your Health facilities are closed and you lose your job remember that "New Labour" are to blame. Never vote for " New Labour" they have thrown away the future of your family and freinds.
Deus Vobiscum

Every time I read a story about cuts i have to read your copy and paste of comments that you have already put on other stories.
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on the other hand the biggest waste of money has been the PCT's like Blackburn with Darwen PCT and East Lancashire PTC good riddance to bad rubbish

There's no one more stupid on planet earth than that moron. He's taken feeble-mindedness to hitherto unimagined levels. When the next tsunami or volcanic eruption hits in the southern hemisphere, he'll be on flinging around illiterate Latin nonsense in condemning Labour for the latest geological disaster. There's no bigger advert for stupidity than that leperous social-life-free zone

Where is Bucko the Moose and the others who say there won't be frontline cuts - nothing more frontline than a hospital bed.
I fully agree that the public sector gravy train is a drain on society but when are people going to realise that none of these cuts will change that? The passengers on the gravy train are the ones deciding what to cut - not the people who actually work in delivering services to the public.
The gravy train has been an aspect of our society for a very long time regardless of which party is in power - it exists in Westminster as much as in local councils and hospitals.
I think it is very naive to believe that the current and future cuts will do any more than chip at the very edges of it.
Public spending cuts ARE essential to get this country back on track but not cuts in the actual services we get.
We will still see higher taxes and will still get less for our money and the gravy train will roll along into the next century.