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Private finance initiative

July 2024

  • Exterior of a relatively modern-looking hospital

    Could Labour use public-private projects to fix England’s hospitals?

  • Acitivists in black stand next to oil slicks on the pavement, and others hold a banner that reads 'largest shareholder of Shell'

    Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly

    Daniela Gabor

November 2023

  • A walkway is closed off as a piece of metal lies on the floor

    Newcastle school closed for three weeks over safety concerns

    Jesmond Park Academy in repair bill wrangling after Storm Babet caused steel panel to fall from covered walkway

October 2023

  • Daren Fitzhenry has just finished his six-year term as Scottish information commissioner.

    Call to extend Scottish FoI laws to private firms running public services

    Exclusive: Outgoing information commissioner says transparency eroded by rapid rise in outsourcing

October 2022

  • A hospital ward

    NHS hospital trusts paying hundreds of millions in interest to private firms

    Exclusive: Guardian analysis of hospital trust accounts found 101 owe about £50bn in future unitary PFI payments

March 2021

  • The housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, has signed loan deals with eight councils that will have to be repaid via sales of public land.

    Britain's public wealth and health are up for sale again

    Phillip Inman
  • Prof Marcel Levi , Chief Executive of UCLH

    Underfunded but ‘fabulously well organised’: a hospital trust chief on the NHS

January 2021

  • Youssef El-Gingihy with his father Ali El-Gingihy for Guardian Opinion piece on NHS deaths

    My dad might have had a fighting chance if the NHS he loved hadn't been undermined

    Youssef El-Gingihy
  • Clare Allan

    It's my life
    A flood in my social housing block lays bare the folly of placing profit over people

    Clare Allan

September 2020

  • A person using the NHS Covid-19 app

    NHS Covid app in England now able to log all test results after flaw fixed

  • Prof Pat Thomson with books in background

    Nepotism, fraud, waste and cheating ... welcome to England's school system

June 2020

  • Capita’s central London headquarters

    Capita to axe at least 200 jobs amid coronavirus cost-cutting

    Outsourcing firm is working on 100 government pandemic response projects, but says these will not be affected

May 2020

  • Signs in support of the NHS are seen in East London.

    Creeping NHS privatisation is hampering our Covid-19 response

  • Medical staff in Aintree hospital, Liverpool

    Coronavirus has exposed the dangerous failings of NHS marketisation

    David McCoy

January 2020

  • Dumfries and Galloway hospital

    Watchdogs say Scottish PFI schemes weren't properly scrutinised

  • The Royal Liverpool University Hospital

    How Carillion collapse stymied two state-of-the-art hospitals

December 2019

  • The £2bn tree-felling programme under a PFI contract has met fierce opposition.

    Sheffield council asked police for names of anti-felling campaigners

    Register of meeting between police and protesters requested to help with potential future court action

October 2019

  • Tony Blair in 2003

    Who will select and train the technocrats?

    Letters: Philip Wood and John Airs take issue with Norman Strauss’s proposal for a ‘new constitutional specification and pluralist project team’

September 2019

  • The PFI contract for the Royal London hospital, at almost £1.2bn, is the largest by value in the English NHS.

    NHS hospital trusts to pay out further £55bn under PFI scheme

    Some spending one-sixth of entire budget on repaying debts from Blair-era policy

April 2019

  • Members of the 1st battalion, Welsh Guards

    UK frontline troop numbers down by as much as a third

    Calls to scrap recruitment deal with Capita as data reveals army battalion shortfalls
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