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Hospital in £135million of debt hands £600MILLION contract to Serco

A hospital trust which is £135million in debt has sparked fury by handing a whopping £600million contract to Serco.

Debt-ridden Barts Health NHS Trust is already in Financial Special Measures because of its alarming cash crisis.

Barts – which cares for 2.5million people in London – has the largest debt in the history of the NHS .

But it has triggered fresh concerns about its financial management by giving outsourcing giant Serco a 10-year contract to run its hospital facilities.

It is the biggest deal the company has won since 2014…read more

Mirror: 26 September 2016

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