title: Future for hospital staff uncertain as private firm pulls plug on contract.
abstract: Nurses employed at the first NHS hospital to be taken over by a private company have been thrown into turmoil after the company decided to pull out of a ten-year contract after only two years.
authors.forename: Katie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Osborne
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000639:trends*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D017149:Private Sector / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends; D035501:Uncertainty; D006113:United Kingdom