privatisation

Interactive map: Who runs Bristol’s secondary schools?

If you’re worried about all of the city’s schools becoming academies, don’t be….

NHS in Bristol propose controversial rule change for contracts

Clinical Commissioning Group claims just a “minor change” despite protests

Help! Help! To Southmead Hospital (via Guernsey)

Bristol is home to one of the largest Private Finance Initiative hospitals in the country. But what is PFI? How does it work? And how can we find out more?

Healthcare at risk: the flight of junior doctors

Wider consequences about new contract reform outplay risks of strike says Bristol based junior doctor

Holding Green Capital accountants to account

In August 2014, it was announced that KPMG would be one of Bristol Green Capital's (BGC) private sponsors, alongside First Group. Details of what, exactly, this sponsorship entails are yet to be made public.

Subsidies on board

With private companies in charge of operating Bristol’s essential network of bus services, corporate welfare means taxpayers pay twice

Who owns Bristol?

What happens when public spaces become privately owned?

Award-winning Bristol novelist backs NHS children’s health services campaign

Award-winning Bristol novelist backs campaign to keep children’s health services within the NHS, as private firms Virgin Care and Sirona Care are announced as the short-listed candidates for interim...

Investigation: Bristol’s most vulnerable children face sell-off threat to services

In a surprising move North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) have announced that they are not bidding for the contract to continue providing their current Children’s...

MITIE fine?

In the first of a series, we take a look at some of the corporate movers and shakers headquartered in Bristol. Illustration: Kleiner Shames

Millions of pounds of Bristol NHS money paid to private company operating in city for ‘doing nothing’

Mike Campbell of Protect Our NHS reveals the deals that see a company in Bristol and a Bristol MP doing well out of NHS sell...