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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

NHS to take over state-of-the-art hospital from private health group in ‘windfall’

Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital
The private health operator took a 30-year-lease on two dilapidated empty Barts trust buildings in 2022 and spent £65m refurbishing them as a hospital. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

An NHS trust is taking over a state-of-the-art hospital from a leading private healthcare group after it failed to attract enough paying patients to use it.

Barts Health trust in London will turn Nuffield Health’s facility into a dedicated NHS breast cancer diagnosis and treatment centre when it gains control next month.

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