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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why this year's planning round is going to be bloody
This week, the HSJ team look at money and what is coming for what is expected to be the toughest financial year for the NHS in a generation.
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NewsNHS must no longer rely on ‘free capital’, claims government adviser
The health service must accept that it can no longer expect to rely on “free capital” and will have to borrow private funding for investment in buildings and tech, a senior government adviser has said.
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NewsPritchard backs private borrowing for NHS capital
The chief executive of NHS England has backed a return of private investment to improve hospital buildings for the first time.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: PFI is overdue a comeback
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsTrust ‘could force us out of business’, claims PFI firm
A private finance initiative company has warned it may go bust if a trust imposes any more fines after “severe” fire safety defects were found at its community hospital run by the firm.
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HSJ LocalFire concerns at PFI hospital sees key services move
A hospital built under the private finance initiative has been forced to move key services due to “severe” fire safety defects found by investigators.
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NewsCollapsed PFI firm sues fire safety advisers
Administrators acting for a collapsed hospital PFI firm have started legal action against the fire safety testers it employed.
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HSJ LocalTrust finally launches review into consultancy contract that was never tendered
A major trust has launched an external review into a decade-long consultancy contract that was never subject to a public tender process.
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NewsMinister wants to ‘inject private capital’ to upgrade NHS buildings
A health minister has indicated he wants to use private finance to help ‘stretch capital budgets as far as possible’ for the NHS estate.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The Lloyds Bank £56m
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The NHS’s latest PFI problem
A legal battle has erupted between a hospital trust and bank-backed PFI company over fire safety and payment refusals. We discuss why the case has potentially wider implications for other NHS trusts.
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NewsSuing trust for £56m is ‘last resort’, says Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it supports a PFI firm taking legal action to claim £56m from an NHS hospital trust, including tens of millions said to be owed to the bank, HSJ has learned.
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NewsHospital ‘left in unsafe condition’ by private contractor
A PFI contractor left a hospital ‘in an unsafe condition’ for nine months after a fire which required patients to be evacuated, a trust has claimed in legal papers.
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NewsCollapsed PFI firm sues trust for £56m
A PFI company that fell into administration three years ago is suing a London acute trust for £56m in compensation, according to papers lodged with the High Court.
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NewsBuilding firm to pay £5m over ‘defects’ at major cancer centre
A construction firm has been ordered to pay £5m after fire and electrical safety defects were found at one of the NHS’s largest cancer centres.
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NewsLiquidators for failed PFI provider launch court case against trust
One of England’s largest mental health trusts is embroiled in a multi-million-pound legal battle with its former private finance initiative provider.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The biggest job in hospital-land
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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NewsCCG accused of ‘colluding’ to evict charity at centre of PFI dispute
A clinical commissioning group has been accused of ‘colluding’ with an NHS facilities company to evict a children’s centre.
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NewsGovernment bailout coming for major hospital redevelopment
The government is expected to have to bail out a major hospital redevelopment within the next few weeks, HSJ has been told.
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NewsTrust admits it will miss financial plan by £20m
A foundation trust in the North East has admitted it will miss its financial control total by more than £20m, after failing to meet efficiency plans set at the start of the year.