You may not mourn the loss of Carillion from the pantheon of major UK contractors. You may – now over 12 months since its implosion – consider that corporate ineptitude on such a scale deserved to meet with failure. Yes, 43,000 staff faced huge upheaval and 30,000 suppliers were out of pocket, but – the argument goes – in business only the fittest survive and the £5bn-turnover giant was anything but healthy when it went to the wall with just £30m cash in the bank.

But what is harder to dismiss are the aftershocks being felt by vital public services that once depended on Carillion. Two of the contractor’s most high-profile problem jobs in the UK – and which helped bring it down – were former PFI hospital jobs left in limbo the moment it was forced into liquidation. So what has happened on these sites in the intervening months and how are local communities coping without the new hospitals they were promised?

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