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NHS money should be spent on front line services, not chaplains and prayer rooms.

That's the the view of the National Secular Society. It says if churches and faith groups want representation in hospitals they should provide it at their own expense.

A freedom of Information Request by 91热爆 Local Radio found that nearly 40% of England's hospitals have fewer chaplains than they did five years ago, but in Northamptonshire chaplains have increased their working hours slightly or have at least maintained them.

Reporter Carroll Weston meets Marie Newbury from Weston Favell who used the chaplaincy service at Northampton General Hospital earlier this year. Stuart talks to Stephen Evans, Campaign Manager at the National Secular Society, and to lead chaplain at Kettering General Hospital, Philip Staves, and to George Sarmezey, Chaplain at Northampton General Hospital.

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