The hard-up NHS is blowing taxpayers' cash on porn for sperm donors, a report reveals today.
A health think-tank discovered one in three hospitals with fertility services lays on dirty mags. Some also offer blue movies.
Last night the smut was slammed as an affront to the three-quarters of NHS staff who are women - many of whom fear for their jobs. Seventeen hospitals admitted buying in porn when contacted by the think-tank 2020health.org, which campaigns against NHS waste.
Most top-shelf mags were purchased from newsagents.
But two hospitals confessed they bought porn direct from publishers.
Others said stashes were donated by staff, patients and visitors. One was given material by a top consultant.
The think-tank's director Julia Manning said: "We know of no government authorisation that sanctioned this.
"The reality of porn today is that it increasingly uses younger girls and is more violent and extreme. Seventy-seven per cent of the NHS workforce is female and they should never have to work in an environment that endorses pornography."
She pointed out that only 33 out of 92 hospitals in the investigation used porn as a helping hand for donors.
The Sun revealed earlier this year how Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust splashed out £7,500 on computers, flat-screen TVs, a DVD unit and blue movies for hospital sperm donors.
