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Bart’s: a flagship hits the rocks of PFI

The biggest health trust in England - the PFI-indebted Barts - has been put into 'special measures' after inspectors found it was running dangerously short-staffed and overcrowded hospitals. What does this mean for the future of East London's hopsitals?

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Bart’s Health - the biggest health trust in England - has been placed in ‘special measures’, it was announced yesterday.

After a damning Care Quality Commission report highlighting short-staffing and bullying at its Whipps Cross Hospital site the giant Trust has been labelled as faiilng and handed over to - no doubt - yet more hordes of costly management consultants who know nothing and care less about the NHS, but merely seek ways of slashing spending to put the books in balance.