Government bails out Carillion's Liverpool hospital

By Jordan Marshall2018-09-26T16:14:00

The government has agreed to fund the completion of the Liverpool hospital left half finished by the collapse of Carillion.

Earlier this week the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust confirmed it would cancel the PFI deal, a move which the government has now formally backed.

The trust said: “The government has now backed the trust’s proposal to end the current PFI deal, and complete construction work within the public sector as quickly as possible, and open the hospital to patients in 2020.”

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