Private finance initiative (PFI) was considered for the schemes listed as follows but in each case did not produce a suitable value for money solution:
Capital value 1997 Rochdale NHS Trust1 24 Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust1 24 Berkshire and Battle NHS Foundation Trust1 84 Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust1 50 2000 Thames Gateway NHS Trust1 13 Southampton Community Health Services NHS Trust2 20 Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust3 11 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust3 14 2003 East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust 250 2004 Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 50 2006 Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust 167 2007 Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust4 400 Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust4 200 Whips Cross University Hospitals Hospital NHS Trust 328 South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 164 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 711 1 These schemes subsequently went ahead using public capital. 2 This was retendered as a PFI scheme and opened to patients in January 2007. 3 These schemes were incorporated into larger PFI schemes which subsequently went ahead. 4 These schemes were proposals developed after an initial £340 million scheme which went out to the Official Journal of the European Union in 2004 was reviewed.