PFI poses threat to health care.(private finance initiative)(Medicopolitical Digest)

The private finance initiative (PFI) "poses a major threat to the ability of the NHS to provide the sort of comprehensive care that the people of the United Kingdom expect and deserve."

This is the conclusion of Private Finance in Health Care: Why Not by the National Health Service Consultants' Association (NHSCA). The NHSCA has opposed the initiative since it was originally proposed because it believes that a tax funded service should not irrevocably tie up its finances in the private sector.

The report points out that PFI hospitals are far smaller than the old ones, creating additional demands for primary care services, and they are more expensive, leaving …