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Britons debate who should pay for hospital chaplains

Britain's privately-funded National Secular Society has called on the government to end public support for hospital chaplains, reports Ecumenical News International.

The organization has sent a report to Britain's Health Minister, Alan Johnson, calling on him to review hospital chaplaincy services with a view to ending taxpayer funding for them.

"People are shocked to learn from us that chaplaincy services are costing the hard-pressed [publicly funded] National Health Service more than 40 million pounds (US$60 million) a year," Keith Porteous Wood, chief executive of the NSS, told Ecumenical News International.

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[04/30/2009]

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