The move from PFI to PF2 is likely to make it more, rather than less, expensive to deliver new healthcare facilities in the future

What impact the introduction of ‘Private Finance 2’ (PF2) have on the cost of projects for the public authorities that use it? Mark Hellowell is the author of a new report which looks into how PF2 will affect the healthcare sector. He writes that, far from avoiding the ‘PFI mess’ ascribed to its predecessors, the government is taking a route that may lead to another.