GPs offered payments to send patients private
NHS managers are offering "bribes" to GPs to persuade them to send patients to a private treatment centre instead of local NHS hospitals, it emerged last night.
The unor...
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Human cost of farm payment delays
You were right to question why the bill from Accenture doubled without query from either Defra or the Regional Payment Agency (Leaders, April 28). The National Audit Offi...
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Victims say payment caps are unjust
Victims of miscarriages of justice today condemned government plans to limit compensation payments for people wrongly convicted of crimes.
The victims, who include men w...
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OFT investigates payment protection insurance
The lucrative payment protection insurance offered by banks and credit card companies will be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading, it announced today.
Financial s...
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Court drops appeal over pregnant trainee payments
The government today had to abandon a legal challenge against three trainee midwives whose bursary payments were suspended when they took leave to have babies after it em...
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BAE ordered to name payment agents
BAE Systems, Britain's biggest and most influential arms company, was yesterday ordered to reveal the identity of agents it uses to make secret payments abroad.
These mu...
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Payment at your fingertips as Co-op tests checkout scanners
Shoppers in Oxford are being offered the chance to ditch their cash cards in favour of their fingertips. Three shops in the area yesterday launched a system allowing cust...
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Sainsbury's staff told to up pension payments
J Sainsbury announced today it would reduce the payout it offers workers with final salary pension schemes unless they agree to increase payments.
The UK's third biggest...
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OFT may reduce late payment fees for credit cards
The Office of Fair Trading is believed to be considering limiting the size of the fee that the country's credit card companies can charge late payers in a move that could...
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Debt firms rapped over payment plans for benefit claimants
People on state benefits with huge debt problems are being put into expensive, and often inappropriate, repayment plans by some of the growing number of firms specialisin...
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