Friday, August 15, 2014 Serco has announced its planned departure from the clinical healthcare market in the UK following multimillion pound losses on NHS contracts. In a stock market statement the outsourcing giant said: “During the period, the group continued to monitor performance in the UK clinical health operations against which an onerous contract provision was made in the prior year and where the group’s intention is to withdraw from the UK clinical health market.” “The group has revised upwards the estimate of the costs of running the contracts to term, resulting in an additional non-cash exceptional charge of £3.9m in the period (year ended 31 December 2013: £17.6m).” The company has already withdrawn from contracts to provide Cornwall’s out of hours services and clinical services to Braintree Community Hospital. A spokesman for Serco said today it had made “a number of announcements regarding our future presence in the clinical services market”. “We are committed to the successful completion of our contract to provide community healthcare services in Suffolk, which runs until late 2015,” he said. “We continue to engage in dialogue with Suffolk commissioners about their future commissioning intentions and will make a decision on whether to rebid in due course.” publicprocurementinsider/2014/08/15/serco-to-wave-goodbye-to-uk-clinical-services-market/
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:52:15 +0000
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