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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was the first to buy out a PFI contract, borrowing £114.2 million from Northumbria County Council in a deal which reduced its costs by £3.5 million per year.
It said in 2017 that PFI companies had made pre-tax profits of £831m in the past six years which could have been spent on patient care. [2] In 2022 it pointed out that expenditure on staff, equipment and other capital projects can be cut by an NHS trust, but not their PFI payments. [ 3 ]
1 Powers of NHS trusts to enter into agreements (1) The powers of a National Health Service trust include power to enter into externally financed development agreements. (2) For the purposes of this section, an agreement is an externally financed development agreement if it is certified as such in writing by the Secretary of State.
In 2014-2015 the trust was given a loan of £6.2 million by the Department of Health which is supposed to be paid back in five years. [11] In 2020, the trust was rated "Good", with its main hospital (Kings Mill Hospital) being rated "Outstanding". In 2021 it was named by the Health Service Journal as the Acute or Specialist Trust of the Year. [12]
In 2014, the Trust planned to buy a new electronic patient record system and sent 14 members of staff to the USA to evaluate the competing systems from Cerner and Allscripts, the final two competing for the £38 million contract shortlisted from eight bidders. A contract was due to be signed in early 2015 with the system implemented in mid-2016.
The hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative ('PFI') contract, to replace outdated facilitates at the Pierremont Unit and the Beaumont Ward at Darlington Memorial Hospital and at the Gables Unit in Sedgefield, in 2002. [1]
The hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract to replace the old Lymington Hospital in 2004. It was designed by Murphy Philipps Architects and constructed by Ryhurst [1] at a cost of £36 million. [2] The hospital was opened on 6 February 2007 by Princess Anne. [2]
Another controversy was the long term cost of the private finance initiative (pfi) deal to build the hospital: In 2019 it was revealed that University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust paid 12.5% of their income per year to the contractor, and that by the end of the contract, they would have spent an estimated £3.7 billion, almost ...