The long-delayed Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) in Smethwick, West Birmingham, is now planned to open on October 6, six…
John Hutton signed off thirteen NHS Private Finance Initiative (PFI) building projects as a Labour health minister in 2002 (see…
In June the New Statesman magazine published a study of hospitals funded through Private Finance Initiative between 1997 and 2018,…
The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) began life in November 1992, two years after the enforced departure of Margaret Thatcher, and…
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the parameters of NHS planning for the future. The NHS “Long Term Plan” has had…
NHS Trusts operating from the 100+ buildings constructed under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) since 1997, and effectively leased from…
Details of the NHS trust debts to be written off were published by the Department of Health & Social Care…
After two years at the helm of South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust, Siobhan McArdle, announced her resignation in a letter…
The use of the ‘Private Finance Initiative’ (PFI) to fund new hospitals and infrastructure was a nightmare solution most famously…