The V.A.'s medical inspector is investigating the deaths, as is a panel of doctors commissioned by the department.
Margaret Thatcher initiated the division between the purchasers of hospital care (local doctors commissioning services for patients) and providers (usually large hospitals).
The reforms of the last decade have created bodies ranging from family doctor commissioning groups, foundation hospital trusts which run their own affairs and Monitor, the powerful standards regulator.
Labour health spokesman Jamie Reed has signed an amendment put forward by Burstow to require more consultation and give doctors who commission services a veto over any reorganisation that follows failure in a separate hospital.
Burstow wants to give local doctors who commission services from a particular hospital not directly involved in the other's problems the right to veto any such plans for an administrator to interfere in its running.
I've never had any objection to involving doctors in commissioning.
If the clause passes, protesters, MPs, doctors and commissioning groups are set aside.
Mr Le Grand thinks that involving hospital doctors in commissioning "could well lead back to cartels of local providers, keeping out competition".Competition was at the heart of the argument over Mr Cameron's reforms.
We have called for the promotion of co-operation not competition, for a stronger local government role and proper democratic accountability, for national patient standards, and for the involvement of nurses and other doctors in commissioning.
However, that still equates to about 2.1 million people seeking A&E care when they could have gone elsewhere, according to the College of Emergency Medicine, which represents A&E doctors and commissioned the study.
Primary care doctors are commissioned by dividing a cash limited budget according to the points that each doctor has earned, with different numbers of points for different medical acts.
