Behind the headlines - Champagne perks of NHS watchdog
11 January 2014 - Accusations that officials at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have used credit cards on luxury hotels and champagne bars are reported in the Daily Mail.The paper says that officials at NICE have âracked up £115,000 on taxpayer-funded credit cards in the past two and a half years, including £5,000 on luxury hotelsâ.