PFI hospitals in the UK: Measuring the medical practitioners level of satisfaction

The clamour for the delivery of improved public services and infrastructure has led to an increase in public/private partnership as a means of meeting various governments' goals of providing quality public services to its ever-increasing population. The UK Government over the years has also embraced these emerging partnerships between the public and private sector as a means to provide public services. In recent years it has adopted the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as one of the major vehicle for delivering and improving various public services and facilities. One major sector in which the use of PFI has greatly been used in the effort to meeting increasing demand of quality public services is the health sector. The success of using private finance to replace or enhance buildings and equipments in the health sector lies not only in its achieving value for money to the Government but also in meeting end users' requirements. The aim of this study therefore, is to establish the level of satisfaction of medical personnel as end users in selected hospital schemes delivered using PFI procurement.