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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 ...
As of June 2019, CDDFT has three ongoing private finance initiative (PFI) contracts, which were used to build University Hospital of North Durham (UHND), Chester le Street Community Hospital (CLS), and Bishop Auckland Hospital (BAH). They were taken out in March 1998, May 2002, and May 1999 and borrowed £92.6 million, £13.2 million, and £49. ...
The trust complained in July 2019 that inflexible Treasury rules were preventing it from buying out its 40-year PFI contract, which could deliver savings of £30 million a year. The contract equity holders are receiving around £20 million in annual dividends which is "double the figure envisaged at the start of the project and [is] projected ...
[1] [2] It was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 1999. [3] It was designed by MacLachlan Monaghan, built by BAM Construction at a cost of £9 million and completed in August 2000. [4] [5]
The Trust was the first to buy out a PFI contract, borrowing £114.2 million from Northumberland County Council in June 2014 in a deal which reduced its costs by £3.5 million per year. [16] It was named by the Health Service Journal as the best acute trust to work for in 2015.
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust pays the private PFI Octagon consortium in the region of £41 million a year. [4] In 2004, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants assessed the actual costs at £1.16 billion, or around five times the initial cost of £229 million.
The old Nithbank facility was subsequently used to accommodate the offices of NHS Dumfries and Galloway. [4] The hospital moved again this time to a facility at Bankend Road, which was designed by Boswell, Mitchell & Johnston and opened by the Queen in 1975. [5] A cancer care centre was opened by Princess Alexandra in 2003. [5]
In 2017 there were 127 PFI schemes in the English NHS. The contracts vary greatly in size. Most include the cost of running services such as facilities management, hospital portering and patient food, and these amount to around 40% of the cost. Total repayments will cost around £2.1 billion in 2017 and will reach a peak in 2029.