[jambutty]

It is good to read about the maintenance charges straight from the horse’s mouth so to speak. Not that for one moment am I suggesting that you are a horse lettie! I was beginning to wonder if I saw and heard right on Dispatches. However much obliged for setting the record at the truth.

Throw in the horrendous telephone and TV charges and the entrepreneur has been given a license to print money at the expense of the most vulnerable in our society - the sick - not forgetting the rest of us. I believe that friends and relatives can now ring a patient in the hospital but the charges are out of this world.

It is a few years since I was a guest of the NHS but it wasn’t so clever then so I hate to think what it is like today.

Your experience lettie should have you leaning heavily in the direction of no PFI.

NHS trusts, although not perfect because of the baggage that they came with – multiple layers of non-medical bureaucracy – the NHS trusts at least didn’t line the pockets of entrepreneurs.