Category: PPP and PFI

1. The system needs fixing if we're to find the financiers

   Posted on 2:55pm Thursday 6th Oct 2011

   Published in the Health Services Journal, 6 October, 2011

   By Steve Wright, James Barlow, Colin Gray

   The NHS’s flawed payments system must be mended and evolved into something more robust and attractive in order to secure the as-yet-undecided new financiers, warn James Barlow, Colin Gray and Steve Wright.

2. Hospital payment system is causing unhealthy figures

   Posted on 2:50pm Tuesday 27th Sep 2011

   Originally published in the Financial Times on 27 September 2011

   By James Barlow, Colin Gray and Steve Wright

   Is it fair for Andrew Lansley (“Lansley promises to help ease hospitals’ debts”, September 23) to blame the private finance initiative so roundly for the funding problems NHS hospitals in England currently face? We would suggest the payment system for English hospitals is actually a bigger problem than PFI, flawed though that programme is.