Budget cuts and other financial issues are affecting many UK hospitals, leaving them looking for ways to cut costs and make ends meet. Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge is one of these medical facilities that need to find ways to tighten the belt. One of the solutions the have found is to stop providing ice for patients’ water jugs.

It may sound like a frivolous cut, but on paper the hospital stands to save almost £40,000 per year by just not providing ice for patient’s water glasses. With that said, the hospital still has ice and will continue to use it for mouth care and for icepacks to cool down injuries. For more on this bizarre budget cut, click here:: Addenbrooke’s Hospital stops ice in patient water jugs