His comments follow the publication of an interim report into out-of-hours GP care by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), prompted by Mr Gray's death, which found primary care trusts may be failing to spot patient safety issues because of a lack of scrutiny.

BBC: 'Tighten' vetting of out-of-hours GP services

Interim Report of a Multi-Disciplinary Study.

ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgments

In its six-month interim report, the insurance firm said it had been operating on a "substantially standalone basis" from RBS since 1 July, with independent functions and governance.

BBC: Direct Line nears RBS separation

The interim report from the Pensions Commission - published last October - said a mixture of higher taxes, more saving and a higher average retirement age was needed to solve the UK's pension crisis.

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But an interim report from the official post-mortem examination suggested "there were no marks of injury or bruises on the body except the rope marks on the neck, " Dr Sharif Astori, an official spokesperson, said.

BBC: Raja Pervez Ashraf (June 2012)

This is an interim report, based on a year-long study of 63 pupils in England, with the final report expected next year, but so far researchers have not found a negative association between using text abbreviations and literacy skills.

BBC: Phone texting 'helps pupils to spell'

The Lords was debating an interim report by a group of peers, chaired by Tory ex-cabinet minister Lord Hunt of Wirral, on "options for allowing members to leave the House of Lords permanently".

BBC: Leaders' group report debate

In its interim report published in April, the commission said that, in the build-up to the crisis, lenders and borrowers took on "excessive and ill-understood risks", and that implicit taxpayer support for the banks encouraged "too much risk-taking".

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Some of his figures changed in the interim - he wrote about the Senate bill in January and this week's report includes changes made by the reconciliation package that altered the Senate bill - but overall, Foster's assessment is the same.

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