The intention was to achieve VAT benefits, as well as pay bill savings, by recruiting new staff on less expensive non-NHS contracts.

The Value Added Tax Act 1994 provides a mechanism through which NHS trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted out services.

[21] In August 2014, Brett and Naghemeh King took their 5-year-old son Ashya from the hospital, where he was being treated for medulloblastoma, without doctor's knowledge.

[22] Brett King claimed this was in order to avoid the proposed treatment of chemotherapy and photon beam radiation therapy which he feared would result in brain damage to Ashya.

When the parents asked what would happen if they refused any kind of treatment, they were told the hospital could seek an emergency protection order.

[26] When the child subsequently went missing the hospital informed the police and the CPS issued a warrant for the arrest of the parents.

The family were eventually located in Spain, where the parents were arrested and child put in a high dependency ward in a hospital in Málaga.

[29] In late September NHS England agreed to fund the cost of the proton therapy treatment.

[30] NHS England had been told by the European Court of Justice to fund treatment abroad in previous cases.

[31] In March 2015 the King family announced that the treatment appeared to have been successful and Ashya's most recent scan showed no sign of the tumour.

In November 2014 the Trust announced that they would not be renewing its lease due to expire in 2016 - because it no longer fits with the "healthcare environment" it is trying to create in its main reception area.

[33] Hampshire GP Dr Hilary Jones approved and said that in the grip of an obesity problem in the UK, hospitals should be setting a good example to patients.

"[35] The fast food outlet was replaced by a Marks & Spencer shop and cafe and a Subway franchise as part of a £2.5m redevelopment which began in mid-2015.