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The Campaign for Fair Funeral Practices - 21/01/98
Independents' condemn American funeral giant's UK sales tactics.
The press release followed the ITV 'World in Action' programme that was produced across the nations screens. The Programme revealed that an SCI employee had offered the hospital patients' officer of the Royal Free Hospital, London £500 towards his annual holiday.
The employee later resigned from SCI. Later on SCI admitted to having offered inducement payments to nursing homes. SAIF urged the then Secretary for Health, Frank Dobson MP, to look into bereavement service contracts that had already been awarded to SCI at the Central Middlesex Hospital.
The Society had a meeting following the World in Action report with consumer affairs minister, Nigel Griffiths MP, calling for a single code of practice regulated by a single ombudsman.
