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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.
The PFI hospitals also have higher cleanliness scores than non-PFI hospitals of similar age, according to data collected by the NHS. [ 130 ] Jonathan Fielden , chair of the British Medical Association 's consultants' committee has said that PFI debts are "distorting clinical priorities" and affecting the treatment given to patients.
The third main film used to advertise the launch of the NHS was a much briefer, information short, centred on the use of voice-over and a combination of still and moving images to encourage members of the public to register with an NHS GP before the National Health Service Act came into force on 5 July 1948.
The hospital was procured under a private finance initiative (PFI) contract to replace Harold Wood Hospital, Oldchurch Hospital, Rush Green Hospital and St George's Hospital, Havering in 2004. It was designed by Jonathan Bailey Associates and built by Bovis Lend Lease at a cost of £312 million on Rom Valley Way, near the now demolished Romford ...
The first PFI hospitals contain some 28% fewer beds than the ones they replaced. [18] As well as this, it has been noted that the return for construction companies on PFI contracts could be as high as 58%, and that in funding hospitals from the private rather than public sector cost the NHS almost half a billion pounds more every year. [19]
Patients could be diagnosed with dyspraxia or related disorders at the Nuffield Speech and Language Centre and referred to the Unit for care and instruction. [9] As hearing problems became diagnosed earlier through better and more sensitive screening methods, the unit's specialty or expertise expanded to include disorders of speech and language ...
It received praise for brevity, being only 39 pages, and lacking the illustrations which had graced its predecessors. Like the NHS Plan 2000 with which Stevens was also associated it was supported by the great and good of the NHS, but in this case it was regulators - Monitor, the Care Quality Commission and the like, rather than the Royal Colleges and Trades Unions of the earlier plan.
The NHS in Wales was also running a national programme for service improvement and development via the use of information technology – this project was called Informing Healthcare. A challenge facing both NHS CFH and Informing Healthcare was that the use of national systems previously developed by the NHS Information Authority were shared by ...