It was revealed that Mid-Yorkshire hospital trust had made more than £80,000 from use of a 0844 telephone number in two years.

A councillor calls for a review of parking charges after a hospital trust reveals more than £1.3m was collected in the last financial year.

Yes Guv 49% of the beds in your local hospital trust, going for a song.

The study looked at all emergency patients admitted to 163 hospital trusts across England between 2005 and 2006.

Immediately before the local elections two of the new self-governing hospital trusts announced 1,000 redundancies.

Some hospital trusts commit just £2.57 for each patient's daily food and drink, despite growing concern about poor ward nutrition.

For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could, at a future date, be simply floated off as private bodies.

In June the Coalition said it would no longer "performance manage" hospital trusts on the 18-week target.

The figures show that there were 18 hospital trusts with 100 patients waiting in excess of six weeks for tests.

The hospital trust ruled out such a move due to the projected costs.