Profiting from closure: the private finance initiative and the NHS

Design quality and the private finance initiative

The private finance initiative: PFI in the NHS--is there an economic case?

The private finance initiative: a case study of wastage in the NHS in Wandsworth.

Private finance initiatives during NHS austerity.

417 ANALYSIS The NHS is facing serious revenue pressures if it is to meet the target of £15bn-20bn efficiency savings by 2013-4. 1 One important pressure for trust budgets in England is the annual private finance initiative (PFI) charge, which is ring fenced and indexed to inflation. Since 1991, all NHS trusts have had to pay a charge on NHS buildings and equipment to the Treasury, which averag...

The Malaysian Private Finance Initiative and Value for Money

The concept of value for money (VFM) is the fundamental reason for most PFI projects to be attractive in many developed and developing countries. The concept encourages governments to deliver Mega projects by using PFI procurement method. The aims of this paper are to investigate the notion of VFM for PFI projects by different countries (i.e. UK, Australia and Japan) and to discover the detaile...