Health Services: Essex
(asked on 19th January 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of Private Finance Initiative arrangements on the future of healthcare provision in (a) South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency and (b) mid and south Essex.
The Department is supporting National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority to develop the new Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs). The new NHC PPP model will build on lessons from the past including the National Audit Office’s 2025 report on private finance and other models currently in use, which is avaiable at the following link:
The new PPP model is about delivering the infrastructure to support the delivery of neighbourhood services, and we are not using the private sector to deliver the National Health Service clinical services that will be delivered from these centres.
The need for NHCs will be locally driven and will recognise what already exists and where additional provision or a new combination of services is needed. Funding of these NHCs under any new PPP model will need to demonstrate value for money and affordability.