LIB DEM DISGUST AT £15 MILLION IN 'ASH PAYMENTS' RECEIVED BY DOCTORS
Doctors working in hospitals earned almost £15m last year in so called 'ash cash' payments made by grieving families, figures released this week by the Liberal Democrats have revealed. The payment is made to doctors to sign a form releasing a body for cremation and our own NHS Trust, the Scarborough and North East Yorks Health Care Trust has been revealed to have earned £69,438 during 2008 and 2009 from this practice.