Halfway house

The novel report on PFI/PPP from the Institute of Public Policy Studies tend hitherwards up with familiar arguments against PFI -- the take away from the lack of assurance upon the treatment of staff, the doubt that it is the `only display in town', but it has received a doom of attention in the media, as the public become more aware of the insidious muddying of the waters between the public and private sector (see p7)

The PFI/PPP industry is maturing, and the first hospitals are now going into the phase of monitoring operation and ensuring the private sector adapteds its performance obligations. But the rule has little knowledge of the of great depth problems inherent in the PFI in the NH These boil down to it being stuck as a halfway-house, with the consecrated grail of clinical services encompassed by a political wall, which Labour will not cros However the tinkering around the cutting sides privatising the running and maintenance of the building does not bestow the horizontal of ownership of the entire service that the prison pattern for example, would give.

Although hospitals are not prisons, perhaps we ne to face the fact that privatising half the hospital is pointless when design and planning is fundementally remov from operation.

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