title: Pride in the job shines through at Cumnock.
abstract: The PFI model has undoubtedly had its critics since the first PFI-funded healthcare facilities began appearing in the UK in the early 1990s, but, supporters emphasise, without PFI funding many much-needed hospitals would never have been built, and they point to numerous examples today of good PFI hospitals delivering an excellent service to their local community. HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie visited one such facility--the East Ayrshire Community Hospital in southern Scotland--where he found two strong PFI advocates in the hospital's facilities manager, Scott Gibson, and John Little, national business and soft FM services development manager at the same company, BAM FM, which designed and built the hospital 10 years ago, and operates it under a 25-year concession.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D012606:Scotland; D013222:State Medicine