THE controversial co-location plan to build private hospitals on public hospital grounds has been scrapped, leaving the taxpayer potentially exposed to a multimillion euro compensation bill.

THE medical group, whose plans to co-locate private hospitals alongside public facilities are in jeopardy because of the VHI’s refusal to provide cover, has called for the private health insurer to be forced to the table.

THE future of the Government’s controversial plan for co-located hospitals is in serious doubt after yet another contractual deadline was missed and opposition parties said they would bin the project if returned to government.

MULTI-MILLION euro proposals by a business consortium to construct a hotel on the grounds of a public hospital were ruled out by the HSE, it emerged last night.