Acting chief executive of the hospital, TonyBell, has said he was "deeply sorry" for the hospital's actions over a four year period, but added that pathologist Professor Dick van Velzen must now explain his comments.
Tony Blair's annoyance was plain last week when Bell challenged him in the Commons to allow more freedom to his backbenchers "so that this place might become rather more the free Parliament of a free people, and rather less a rubber-stamp assembly".