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Addenbrooke Hospital staff struck by serious paper cut
Bosses banned staff from buying vital stationery supplies
BUDGET cuts at a crisis-stricken NHS hospital are so severe that staff were banned from buying paper, the Morning Star can reveal.
The desperate cost-cutting diktat was imposed at Addenbrooke hospital in Cambridge, which is under special measures.
With spending £1.2 million more than it receives every week, management rejected all requests for stationery for weeks.
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