“All trust debts should be wiped clean by the Treasury, and contracts renegotiated and brought back into public ownership on grounds of poor value. The premise of PFI that the private sector is more efficient in delivering and managing infrastructure projects has repeatedly been shown to be false,”
Dr John Puntis, retired paediatrician, co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public

The Barts Trust is deeply in debt and sinking deeper, with projected deficits for 2014-15 rocketing upwards from £43m at the end of December to £93m, according to its February board papers – or even as much as £100 million, according to the Health Service Journal

The financial problem has been a ticking time-bomb beneath the surface ever since the then Bart’s and the London Hospital Trust was given the go-ahead in 2006 to sign up for the costly £1.1 billion scheme to redevelop both Bart’s and the Royal London, financed under the ruinously expensive Private Finance Initiative (PFI).… Read on ...

Some staff at Whipps Cross, and in the social care sector, are being asked to work in extremely dangerous conditions.
The Trades Council is organising a Petition To Bart’s Health Trust to demand adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to keep them safe.
Sign here…