They should be rewarded instead:
Ipswich Hospital, in Suffolk, which is more than £16m in the red, accidentally breached an agreement to ensure all patients had similar waiting times.Ipswich Hospital agreed with the East Suffolk Primary Care Trusts, which fund treatment, that patients should wait at least four months for treatment.
However, doctors had treated patients inside that time and the trust refused to pay the £2.5m cost of treatment.
