GIVING more responsibility to the Medical Specialist Group could help reduce health spending, its chairman said yesterday.

HEALTH minister Hunter Adam stands to benefit financially from taxpayers’ money being paid through a States’ contract which his department helps to negotiate.

TAXPAYERS are not getting value for money from a £13m. a year contract with the Medical Specialist Group, an independent report has found.

ONE of the problems of discussing value for money in the context of the healthcare provided by consultants at the Medical Specialist Group or by the island’s GPs is that the individuals are so readily identifiable.