Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley are to charge NHS staff £234 a year to park their car at the hospital. This represents a £54 increase in the annual fee & has been branded, rightly so, by trade union bosses as 'immoral'. Some may rightly shirk at the fact we charge patients arriving for treatment at the hospital, but is really is quite a landmark in this rotten system that we now find ourselves in that we charge nurses to park their car on the site were they will be saving lives. You can read more of the details here (link)
Figures just released by the Office of National Statistics claim that the number of households living in fuel poverty has declined by 0.7million ( see data here ). The government say that less than 5 million households live in fuel poverty, while Uswitch claim that 6.3 million households live in fuel poverty. Uswitch's figure is much more reliable as their's summer 2011 price hikes. We say a family is in fuel poverty when it spends 10% of household income on its dual energy costs of heating the home and operating cooking and electrical appliances. However, as USwitch explain the governments figures are appallingly out of state ( here ). The publication today by the government only examines fuel costs up to the end of 2010. The Office of National Statistics does admit that if it factored in housing costs then 3 million more households could be described as living in fuel poverty, it also admits that 72% of English households faced a high risk of fuel poverty at year end (2010)....
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