NHS trust loses pounds sterling3.5 million on business venture

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust in Britain has lost pounds sterling3.5 million, more than a tenth of its annual running costs, in a business venture with an outside company. The hospital, which is in Stanmore, has written off an incinerator which it built in 1992 in partnership with the Scottish firm Motherwell Bridge Envirotech. All of the trust's …