All Private finance initiatives (PFI) articles – Page 19
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Angry BMA votes to increase its opposition to PFI
The British Medical Association has voted to increase its opposition to the private finance initiative, following concessions won in Scotland, where the scheme has been vigorously opposed.
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Government under pressure to publish delayed PFI review
A Labour MP opposed to the private finance initiative has tabled a series of parliamentary questions to flush out the government's promised PFI review.
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Dead and buried: Milburn's PFI review
A key Department of Health review of the private finance initiative is now unlikely ever to see the light of day, according to HSJ sources.
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Minister forced into pensions statement by PFI row
The row over a privately funded replacement for Edinburgh Royal Infirmary continued into the final days of campaigning for the Scottish Parliament elections.
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Unions attack Labour on PFI
The Labour Party is facing a tough challenge to its use of the private finance iniative this week, at the Scottish Trade Union Congress in Glasgow.
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Treasury accused of stalling PFI
The Department of Health has given outline approval for 10 third- wave private finance initiative hospital building schemes amid concerns that an overall review of PFI is being stalled by Treasury interference.
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PFI is handy smokescreen for opposing change
'Building anxiety' (special report, 4 March) was a good try at summarising the private finance initiative debate.
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Staff strike as PFI row rumbles on
Indefinite strike action by staff protesting against a private finance initiative project was due to start this week at one of London's largest trusts.
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Not so private: views on PFI
'There were a lot of hopes pinned on PFI. I think in terms of its aspirations it was seriously flawed. A lot of the schemes were predicated on pretty poor foundations. The only way they were ever going to be viable was by including so many of the support services ...
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MPs call to limit PFI to pilot projects amid staff and patient care worries
MPs have called for reduced use of the private finance initiative in the health service until its impact has been properly evaluated through pilot schemes.
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CHC wins access to PFI scheme in 'groundbreaking' deal on rights
A community health council has secured 'groundbreaking' access to a new private finance initiative hospital.
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Damning Unison analysis of PFI hospital is 'wrong', claims trust
A scathing analysis of the case for a leading private finance initiative project has concluded that it will deliver poorer service and cost more than a publicly funded scheme.
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The way forward: proposed 'improvements' to PFI procurement
A halving of trusts' PFI procurement costs (from 3 or 4 to 2 per cent of capital cost) and the time from when a project is first advertised to financial close (from an average of three years to 18 months).