Hospital bought out of PFI contract

A mental health foundation trust has exercised a clause in its contract and ‘bought back’ a PFI hospital. The MJ website reported that it is thought to be the first healthcare organisation in the country to undertake such a move, after using £18m from its £41m cash... <<Read More>>

PFI hampered hospital building and ‘endangers patient care’ – report

Many more hospitals could have been built without so much PFI influence on NHS capital funding, academics have claimed. Professor Allyson Pollock and colleagues at the Centre for International Public Health Policy at the Uni... <<Read More>>

Don’t throw the baby out yet!

If you read many of the headlines around the Private Finance Initiative in the NHS, you might believe that PFI is in its death throes whilst simultaneously leaving a legacy of empty and unsuitable buildings that divert funds away from patient services in locations where they are most needed...

PFI Q&A

NHE asked representatives from three trusts for their views on how PFI worked for them...

Kingston Hospital – Kingston Hospital NHS Trust*

Royal Blackburn Hospital – East Lancashire NHS Hospitals Trust

Newham General Hospital – Newham Healthcare NHS Trust

How PFI delivered for Hexham

Jonathan Hills , PPP Forum

With over 500 PFI projects now operational, the benefits of new hospitals, schools and transport systems are being experienced by communities all around the UK. Since 1997 over 100 major hospital schemes have either been built or are in construction...