Today's The Sentinel reports:
"NHS managers in the Potteries needed to cut waiting lists. So they paid £10m for 10,000 minor operations at a private hospital in Burton. But they forgot to ask local people what they thought.
Now - two years and £4m later - they've still only persuaded 200 patients to travel for treatment... at a cost of £20,000 each!"
Read about the whole saga here.