NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies
(asked on 1st June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are mechanisms in place to prevent the sale of wholly owned subsidiaries established by NHS Trusts to external private companies.
This question was answered on 7th June 2018
Legislation permitting foundation trusts to set up subsidiary companies has been in place since 2004 and specific restrictions on subsequent sale were not put in place at that time or subsequently. We would expect any proposals to make a sale to be reported to NHS Improvement who would be able to intervene if appropriate.