PFI schemes 'to cost NHS
- EXEC
- 30/10/2006
The figures emerged in a response to a Parliamentary Question tabled by Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. Under PFI, a private company builds a hospital and then collects "rent" from the...
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