{"id":376106,"date":"2026-04-05T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/376106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:16:09","slug":"contract-signed-between-mitie-and-north-cumbria-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/376106\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract signed between Mitie and North Cumbria NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n North Cumbria Integrated Care<\/a> was granted a no fault termination of the Cumberland Infirmary PFI contract by the Government, with notice served on business partner Mitie in December.\n<\/p>\n

\n Like many hospitals, police stations and council buildings across the country, the Cumberland Infirmary was built on the PFI contract, in 2000.\n<\/p>\n

\n The partnerships between public bodies and private businesses were the Blair-Brown Government’s preferred method of building and maintaining infrastructure<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n \"TheCarlisle’s new-look Emergency Department, which contains the new Urgent Treatment Centre. (Image: NCIC)\n<\/p>\n

\n James Drury, Executive Director of Finance, Estates and Digital, confirmed to the board at their meeting on Wednesday March 25, that a new contract had been signed with Mitie to take affect from March 31, when NCIC assumes responsibility for the hospital estate.\n<\/p>\n

\n It means that Mitie will continue to provide the facilities management services it was delivering at the Cumberland Infirmary<\/a> under the PFI contract.\n<\/p>\n

\n NCIC’s Interim Chair, Teresa Griffiths CBE ARRC called it “A huge success.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr Drury explained that this involved finding a procurement framework to agree a specification to move from a PFI contract to a CCS (Crown Commercial Service) contract in just two and a half months.\n<\/p>\n

\n Ms Griffiths called the move: “mission impossible.”\n<\/p>\n

\n CCS contracts and other national procurement frameworks are favoured by NHS England as they allow trusts to place orders in a way that is compliant with legislation.\n<\/p>\n

\n Interim Chief Executive Officer Trudie Davies said: “It’s absolutely amazing and it secures a standard of care for our patients and staff that we can rely upon as we exit the PFI, which is significant so thank you James and Steve.”\n<\/p>\n

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\n Ms Griffiths said: “That is hugely assuring and reassuring, it really did feel like mission impossible, I don’t know how you’ve managed to do that and everything else. Again, huge thank you.”\n<\/p>\n

\n The new contract had to be negotiated at short notice during a particularly busy time for finance teams in NHS trusts, as the 2025\/26 financial year was coming to an end on March 31.\n<\/p>\n

\n Between January and March, NCIC also determined a go-live date for an Electronic Patient Record and awarded contracts for a Document Transmission Service and machine maintenance.\n<\/p>\n

\n The trust also purchased a state of the art \u00a33million robot for use in operating theatres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Cumbria Integrated Care was granted a no fault termination of the Cumberland Infirmary PFI contract by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-376106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}