"We are asking you to learn from the mistakes of the past. We must reject the notion that private finance can be used to build public services in a way that can be to the long-term benefit of the public. We ask you to please drop any plans for new private finance in the NHS from the Autumn Budget and any future policy."
"Poor quality buildings with leaking roofs, inadequate layouts in clinical spaces, and spiralling debts that become impossible to tackle. In some cases the taxpayer is footing the bill for 10 times the cost of the original projects, leaving the NHS struggling to cover costs for staff and clinical services. This is unsustainable and we can't keep kicking the cost down the road."
Thirty-eight Labour MPs, mostly from the party left, wrote privately to Chancellor Rachel Reeves warning that proposals to use private finance alongside taxpayer money to build Neighbourhood Health Centres would breach the manifesto pledge that the NHS remain publicly owned and publicly funded. The MPs urged rejection of private finance and requested removal of any PFI-style plans from the Autumn Budget and future policy. Cat Eccles cited two decades in the NHS describing poor-quality PFI buildings, spiralling debts, and taxpayers paying multiples of original costs. A government spokesperson said funding will build on lessons learnt from past and current models.
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