The original plans for this wing of the hospital – built ten years ago – had been for a bigger building than the one which was eventually built. It was built under the Private Finance Initiative favoured by the government of the time and as with most PFI schemes the design of the building was dull and unoriginal. Nor was it cheap, since PFI has proved to be a very expensive way of building second-rate public buildings. Some would consider PFI to be an economic crime, although nobody is to be held responsible for it. It is clear now that PFI was part of the same debt-crazed culture that gave us
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