It just may be that 22 hospitals really ARE on the brink of losing financial and clinical stability. But it probably isn't just 'caused' by PFI.

Last Thursday Andrew Lansley tried to highlight the cost of PFI to the NHS and did so by listing 22 trusts which he said were claiming that their clinical and financial stability was undermined by their PFI deal.

When a Secretary of State for Health says that 22 hospital trusts are in danger, it is something to which the people who live in those areas have to pay attention. He is warning that the NHS services they depend on may become clinical unstable.

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