This report is the result of an examination into the franchising of
Hinchingbrooke and the financial sustainability of Peterborough and
Stamford. It concludes that a lack of strategic oversight resulted in
separate decisions being taken to build a new PFI hospital at
Peterborough and to award a franchise to a private company to run a
nearby NHS hospital. It argues that no consideration appears to have
been given to the impact these two decisions would have on the local
health economy and health expenditure.
