All Private finance initiatives (PFI) articles – Page 20
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PFI mortgages the future of the NHS, and professionalism is at risk when profit drives the system
David Stelmach (Letters, 15 October) feels it is not the role of the Society of Radiographers to influence trusts in their choice of cost- efficient ways to acquire high technology.
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The human cost of PFI
That unions have won rights to screen private finance initiative bidders' employment records is to be applauded, but what of patients?
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Feeling nervous as trusts fall for a quick fix of PFI
David Stelmach (Letters, 15 October) feels it is not the role of the Society of Radiographers to influence trusts in their choice of cost- efficient ways to acquire technology. The society would argue it owes such a responsibility to the professions operating in medical imaging and oncology, to the healthcare ...
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Unions will scrutinise PFI firms' track record
Health minister Alan Milburn has issued details of a 'three-point plan' to 'better protect staff' involved in private finance initiative projects.
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Widdecombe considers widening PFI to NHS clinical services
The private sector would manage NHS hospitals and clinical services through an expanded private finance initiative under policy proposals being considered by shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe as part of her review of Tory health policy.
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HA 'underestimates' PFI plan costs
The cost of replacing two acute hospital sites with one private finance initiative scheme may have been 'significantly underestimated' according to a report commissioned by the health authority behind the proposals.
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Annual 'waves' of 'five or six' PFI projects set to get go-ahead
NHS finance director Colin Reeves has predicted that 'five or six' large private finance initiative projects are likely to be given the go- ahead each year.
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Change in account rules could spell the end for PFI
Strict new accountancy rules will mean the end of the private finance initiative in the health service, it has been predicted.
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Unison prepares to strike in PFI battle despite High Court threat
Union leaders claim they will be able to deliver strike action at one of London's largest trusts despite a management threat to challenge the dispute in the High Court.
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PFI 'milestone' for Edinburgh
Contracts have been signed for Scotland's flagship private finance initiative hospital building project - a 180m replacement for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, City Hospital and Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital.
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Unison strike threat hits PFI project
A strike ballot called over a private finance initiative scheme at University College London Hospitals trust has been condemned by managers as 'pointless and politically motivated'.
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New lease of life for PFI
Health ministers want to develop a 'hybrid' form of the private finance initiative which does away with the complications of service contracts. Matthew Limb reports from the Commons health committee
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Spending review bonanza set to 'transform' scope of PFI projects
Millions of pounds of public capital poured into the NHS as a result of last week's comprehensive spending review announcement will 'transform' the scope of private finance initiative projects, MPs have been told.
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BMA drops PCG ballot threat but demands stop to PFI
A last-ditch attempt by GP hardliners to scuttle the government's NHS reforms was overwhelmingly rejected by the British Medical Association's 'annual parliament' this week.
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Firm pulls out of PFI scheme
A contracting firm has pulled out of Scotland's flagship hospital building project a month before contracts were to be signed.
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Calls for halt to £200m PFI development
Calls for Scotland's most prestigious hospital building project to be pulled out of the private finance initiative intensified this week with a row over data.
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Scots trusts told to open PFI plans to public scrutiny
Scottish trusts have been told to open up key private finance initiative documents to public scrutiny.
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Union ballots on action to resist PFI
Staff at one of London's largest trusts will be balloted on possible 'indefinite' strike action over plans to privatise health facilities and hundreds of hospital jobs.
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10 projects worth £900m given the green light in second wave of PFI
Ten hospital building projects worth almost £900m were given the go-ahead by ministers this week in a second wave of private finance initiative approvals.
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Economics guru urges Labour to scrap PFI
New Labour economics guru and Observer editor Will Hutton has urged the government to scrap the private finance initiative.