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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.
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 UK has the fifth largest share of healthcare financed through government schemes out of the 36 OECD member states. [6]According to the Department of Health and Social Care a total of £9.2 billion was paid to private providers in England in 2018-9, or about 7% of the departmental budget (it would be a larger proportion of the NHS budget).
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 National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately and is often locally referred to as "the NHS". [ 2 ]
Site work started the following day (12 January 1998). The project was the first large PFI hospital scheme in the NHS. In July 2000 approval was given to extend the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with a second phase that included an additional 144 beds and took the project cost to £229 million. [4]
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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 ]