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Senior government lawyers and auditors are to be sent into seven NHS hospital trusts on the brink of bankruptcy which have been saddled with ?absolutely disgraceful? private finance initiative contracts.
Simon Burns, the health minister, said that he will be sending in ?hit squads? to make savings at hospitals where the contracts have gone ?horribly wrong?.
He says that the deals show a ?cavalier disregard? for taxpayers? money and points out that hospitals are being forced to pay ?242 for a padlock to be changed and ?466 for a new light fitting.
Throughout the NHS, hospitals have signed PFI deals worth more than ?79 billion, of which only eight per cent had been repaid by 2010. The deals involved private firms building and maintaining hospitals, with the money repaid over decades.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9502335/Hit-squads-to-take-over-seven-NHS-trusts.html
Simon Burns, the health minister, said that he will be sending in ?hit squads? to make savings at hospitals where the contracts have gone ?horribly wrong?.
He says that the deals show a ?cavalier disregard? for taxpayers? money and points out that hospitals are being forced to pay ?242 for a padlock to be changed and ?466 for a new light fitting.
Throughout the NHS, hospitals have signed PFI deals worth more than ?79 billion, of which only eight per cent had been repaid by 2010. The deals involved private firms building and maintaining hospitals, with the money repaid over decades.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9502335/Hit-squads-to-take-over-seven-NHS-trusts.html