Whether public pensions truly are as sophisticated at evaluating the risks and rewards related to complex privately offered investments as they claim to be is a question deserving of an answer sooner rather than later.
The government has now announced anti-avoidance measures targeted at this bed and breakfasting, as well as other more complex loan related planning arrangements.
Dr Patrick Cadigan, of the Royal College of Physicians, added the problems were also related to the increasingly complex conditions patients, many of them "elderly and frail", have.