An acute trust is hoping to be among the first organisations to use a new form of private financing to help fund a replacement hospital.
Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust is considering whether it can generate part of the funding for a new facility in east Harlow through a new “regional health infrastructure company”.
Last year, the chancellor said the private finance initiative (PFI/PF2) would no longer be used for such projects.
RHICs have been proposed by Community Health Partnerships, a government subsidiary, as a way of raising private capital for NHS infrastructure projects in a new form of public-private partnership. HSJ has previously reported that CHP plans to establish six RHICs in England.
Full story in The HSJ, 11 March 2019
