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    Ten private healthcare contracts in the UK totalling £2.5 billion were terminated early or failed due to the private companies being unable to fulfill their obligations. The contracts involved services such as GP out-of-hours care, medical centers, end of life care, hospital management, care homes, and emergency call services. Many of the companies walked away from or had to end their contracts early due to financial difficulties or concerns over standards of care.

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    10 NHS Contracts, worth £2.5bn, that were handed to private health but that ended in failure.

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    When Private Health Failed Our Patients

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    Tory Fibs
    Ten private healthcare contracts in the UK totalling £2.5 billion were terminated early or failed due to the private companies being unable to fulfill their obligations. The contracts involved services such as GP out-of-hours care, medical centers, end of life care, hospital management, care homes, and emergency call services. Many of the companies walked away from or had to end their contracts early due to financial difficulties or concerns over standards of care.

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    When Private Health Failed our Patients

    10 private health contracts totalling £2.5 billion of taxpayers’ money end in failure.

    • Serco walked away from a GP Out of Hours Services Contract in Cornwall (evidence)
    • In 2016, Virgin Care closed a popular medical centre in West Oxfordshire (evidence)
    • In 2016, A Cambridge £800m end of life contract, run by UnitingCare, collapsed after
    8 months when the consortium ran into difficulties (evidence)
    • In 2015, A £1bn NHS contract in Hinchingbroke collapsed after the private firm, Circle,
    failed to make it financially viable (evidence)
    • In 2014, Care UK ended its contract to run a GP Practice in Newcastle two years early
    endangering 7,000 patients with disrupted care (evidence)
    • In 2014, Serco ended its contract to run Braintree Hospital early because it wasn’t
    making enough money (evidence)
    • In 2014, Care UK agreed to end a contract to run two care homes in Norfolk after
    concerns were raised over standards (evidence)
    • In 2016, Interserve’s £300m contract to run estate services in Leicester NHS was
    scrapped 4 years early after serious concerns over standards (evidence)
    • In 2017, Primecare ended its NHS111 contract two years early after a catalogue of
    failings were reported (evidence)
    • In 2017, A £200m NHS contract with Carillion, in Nottingham, was cancelled after
    hygiene concerns (evidence)

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