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PFI contracts are typically for 25–30 years (depending on the type of project); although contracts less than 20 years or more than 40 years exist, they are considerably less common. [8] During the period of the contract the consortium will provide certain services, which were previously provided by the public sector.
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.
Public Contracts Scotland was created as a result of John McClelland's 2006 Review of Public Procurement in Scotland. [1] The McClelland report called for a single public sector "electronic portal" to be established as a part of the Scottish Government ’s Public Procurement Reform Programme.
Innisfree Ltd is a fund management company based in the United Kingdom which manages substantial interests in private finance initiative (PFI) schemes in the UK, Canada, Sweden and The Netherlands. It invests funds in social infrastructure projects such as hospitals and schools on behalf of institutional investors such as local authority ...
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 ]
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.
Allyson Pollock is a consultant in public health medicine and was the Director of the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University.She is an academic who is known for her research into, and opposition to, part privatisation of the UK National Health Service (NHS) via the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and other mechanisms.
In early September 2018, the NHS Trust revealed that the cost of rectifying serious faults, including replacing non-compliant cladding installed by Carillion, was holding up plans to restart and finish the £350M project; with the project further delayed, the Trust was considering invoking a break clause to terminate the PFI contract.