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    newscritic wrote:
    And yet £24 billion spent on the Olympics.

    How many millions on the Jubilee and over a £1 billion lost due to the extra public holiday on top of Wills and Kates wedding last year.

    Big companies let off billions in tax.

    Locally £43 million spent on York councils new HQ and money squandered just about everywhere it seems.

    Possibly £60,000 on a new limousine etc.

    Yet no money for the NHS.

    Makes you wonder don't it?
    Well said. I couldn't agree more. If the government taxed properly the richest 0.003% in society, you could clear the deficit overnight. Cuts would not be as severe. Democracy in the UK has become a watered-down train of deceit and lies fronted by mortgage-flippers with vested interests who give you no control over how your taxes are spent.

    BTW - it's 24billion and the rest spent on the 'LONDON' Olympics. Very little benefit to other parts of the country. I suspect that the silent law-abiding tax-paying majority know this and are completely fed up.

    PMSL

    And let us not forget the locally wasteful facts:
    £150,000k+ Cermonial Chief Exec
    £160,000k+ Temporary Director
    £60,000k+ Stretch Limo

    Don't pay your taxes. Take a stance."
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Tough choices loom in health cash crisis

8:40am Wednesday 20th June 2012 in Health & Wellbeing Photograph of the Author By Richard Catton , richard.catton@thepress.co.uk

PATIENTS are being warned the way NHS services are delivered in York and North Yorkshire must change after the area’s primary care trust (PCT) announced it was facing a £19 million deficit.

Bosses at NHS North Yorkshire and York said it now faced “difficult decisions” and warned there was little chance of a bail-out after £18 million of “legacy debt” was wiped out last year.

Christopher Long, chief executive of NHS North Yorkshire and York, said: “The PCT has been in serious financial difficulty for a number of years and this must be addressed in order for us to protect the future of the area’s health economy.

“The way services are currently delivered in North Yorkshire and York is not sustainable, and we must look to new ways of working to ensure the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are in the best possible position when they take over commissioning responsibilities in April 2013.”

The trust is now holding talks about whether the CCGs or the National Commissioning Board could inherit the debt.

Mr Long said: “We know there will be some difficult decisions to make over the coming months.

“However, we want to reassure the public that providing high-quality sustainable services remains our top priority.”

The trust said it would now be looking to ensure value for money in areas such as outpatient and out-of-hours services, monitoring the performance of contracted services and “reusing existing funding to support care closer to home”.

Key areas will include primary and acute care, mental health services and those for people with learning disabilities.

Corporate and back-office functions will also come under the spotlight.

NHS North Yorkshire and York described the £19 million debt as “historical” and put it down to “a range of factors including the relatively low funding allocation per head of population, the diverse geography of the county and a continued overspend on contracts”.

When North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust – NHS North Yorkshire and York’s previous guise – was created in 2006, it inherited £45 million of debt incurred by the county’s former health trusts. The debt was eventually wiped out.

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