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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Hospital building schemes face cuts
Financial Times | Nicholas Timmins
The National Health Service's £12bn hospital building programme in England under the private finance initiative faces a cut of up to 40 per cent, according to leaked documents. Although the department has repeatedly denied there is a review or moratorium on new PFI hospitals underway, it has now admitted to a "reappraisal". In most cases the cut is likely to be a reduction in the size of projects rather than their abandonment.
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Closure plan could cost us the Games
Daily Telegraph | Peter Hamlyn
For the third time in a decade, the Government are due to decide the future of two London hospitals, St Bartholomew's and The Royal London. This latest rethink may cost millions of pounds, many lives and possibly lose us the right to stage the 2012 Olympics.
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
The exorbitant cost of PFI is now being cruelly exposed
The Guardian | Allyson Pollock
The huge deficits run up by NHS trusts are part of a wider market-induced healthcare crisis: we must have a full-scale review
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
MPs attack 'dark cloud' hanging over Bart's future
The Evening Standard | Rebecca Smith
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Friday, January 20, 2006
Barts Fears For Research Future If Services Move
The Times Higher Education Supplement | Anna Fazackerley
One of London's leading medical schools has warned that it faces potential ruin if the Government reneges on major hospital redevelopment plans.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Betrayal of Barts by 7/7 bombs hero
Evening Standard | Rebecca Smith, Health Correspondent
One of the hero doctors of the 7/7 bombings today called on Tony Blair not to betray the patients of east London by going back on promises to modernise their hospitals.
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