NHS Trust wins fight to cancel PFI contract
A Defend the NHS march in 2015
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AN NHS trust won its High Court fight today to cancel a £321 million PFI contract for an unsafe mental health hospital.
Patients at Roseberry Park in Middlesbrough, which opened in 2010, had to be moved almost 20 miles away due to fears over serious defects in the hospital’s fire safety systems, as well as problem with its roof and plumbing.
Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald said the “almost cavalier attitude to proper construction standards” at the facility had “echoes” of last year’s Grenfell Tower fire disaster after he visited the £75m hospital in January.
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