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The Barts NHS Trust has revealed that it has amassed a stonking deficit – and local pro-NHS campaigners are blaming the costly PFI deal which financed the new Royal London Hospital.
The Trust seems to be resorting to desperate measures to up its income, with a shiny new Lloyds Pharmacy having opened a shop in the Royal London Hospital foyer (in space which used to be the GP out of hours centre) – opposite Costa Coffee (the cost of coffee can include increased risk of heart disease).
Campaigners have launched a new petition and are appealing for residents to sign it and circulate it. It states:
“We call on Barts Health NHS Trust and NHS England to make immediate, publicly transparent, plans to end the disastrous and unsustainable Barts Health PFI contracts now!”
The petition is on:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/pfi
For more information about why the deficit has occurred, go to: http://www.peoplevsbartspfi.wordpress.com
