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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ]
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In June 2018, a consortium of banks financing the project withdrew their support, and HM Treasury cancelled the PFI contract for construction of the hospital, leaving the NHS trust with a lengthy search for new investment and pushing the completion date back to at least 2022. [12] [13]