NHS in row over uniforms

By Paul Jump, Third Sector, 20 February 2008

Umbrella bodies have criticised an NHS trust's use of £400,000 of charitable funds to buy uniforms for nurses.

Four years ago, the trustees of Tayside NHS Board Endowment Fund agreed to allow Tayside University Hospital Trust, of which they were also board members, to use its funds to buy the uniforms. The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator looked into the matter after it received a complaint from...

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