Will North Bristol NHS Trust ask the PFI partner to provide services like cleaning, catering and maintenance?
The Trust will continue to provide its own cleaning and catering services. We will ask the successful PFI bidder to maintain the building that it builds but we will continue to maintain all our other NHS buildings using our own staff and skills. Because of the number of staff we expect to retire between now and 2013, we believe we will have an appropriate number of staff.