Response to the NHS 10 Year Health Plan: "Private investors stand ready to deliver on the Government's ambitions" (Copy)
Responding to the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, Lord (John) Hutton, the former health minister who now chairs the Association of Infrastructure Investors in Public Private Partnerships, (AIIP) said:
“With the NHS repair backlog now exceeding £14 billion, it is welcome that the plan commits to exploring new partnerships with the private sector to build new neigbourhood health centres. Private investors stand ready to deliver on the Government’s ambitions.
Programmes like NHS LIFT which built 350 health centres in some of the most deprived communities offered clear long term benefits to the public and value for money according to the NAO.
It would be welcome to see those partnership plans extended to acute care, given the delays in plans to build 40 new hospitals, which private investment could accelerate to ensure things are built on time or on budget, with the private sector taking on the risk for delivering. The NHS Confederation found that PFI projects offer better value for money than the traditionally procured New Hospitals Programme. New hospital PPPs could provide additional services, wards or new medical equipment.
There is a huge opportunity to cut the thousands of clinical service incidents each year caused by infrastructure failings and give the public the NHS it deserves.”
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The AIIP is the voice of Britain’s infrastructure investors in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).
The National Audit Office has consistently found that PPPs were more likely to be built "on time and on budget".
Frequently asked questions about PPPs: https://www.aiip.org.uk/faq