Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics
by Denis Campbell Health policy editor from World news | The Guardian on (#708SQ)
Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build neighbourhood health centres' in England
Ministers have handed firms 6m in contracts to help devise plans to build a network of new NHS clinics using private capital, despite fears the move could turn into a PFI-style disaster.
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded contracts worth 3m each to the management consultants Deloitte and the lawyers Addleshaw Goddard. They are advising the DHSC on whether to use public-private partnerships (PPPs) to help build dozens of the promised neighbourhood health centres" in England.
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