More hospitals cut office supplies to save cash
19/02/2007 16:46

Hospitals on the south coast have implemented a ban on sandwiches and biscuits in an effort to help cut costs, it has been revealed.

East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust (PCT) has brought in the ban to stop unnecessary spending on hospitality and corporate events.

This sandwich ban has been implemented alongside a restriction on the ordering of office supplies and non-clinical medical equipment.

A similar ban was brought in elsewhere last week, with staff at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn told that they could no longer order office supplies as bosses looked to cut £7,000 from the institute's outlay.

In a letter to staff, Nick Yeo, chief executive of the East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT, said: "No non-essential equipment or non-clinical items of any sort are to be ordered for the remainder of the financial year.

"This includes stationery, external printing, office equipment and sandwiches or other catering for meetings."

However, Bob Lacey, a local councillor, has told Eastbourne Today that the cost-cutting measures are "tokenism" and that they are measures that have come too late.

Mr Lacey has said that overall strategies are to blame for the financial trouble that the trust now finds itself in, not small purchases such as office supplies and sandwiches.

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