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The headline points are true though.
The Naylor Review:
Proposes the selling of NHS property to the private sector.
Advises the mantra that the NHS is not in the business of property ownership.
Proposes selling at lower than market value to speed up sales.
Proposes that the government subsidise the disposals for speed of sale.
Suggests that the cost of estate management for the NHS is too high and that trusts should be tenants of specialist property management companies instead.
What it doesn't do:
State that ALL property has to be sold.
Explain how the flaming clitori it will be cheaper for a trust to rent property after a service charge and profit margin has been applied by the management company.
The official line is that NHS Property Services was only formed as a Ltd company due to a technical accounting oversight and not for ulterior motives (privatisation). My firm was hired to consult on the setting up of the IT aspect of NHSPS and this was certainly what I heard from the director level meetings I attended.
In practice, I have been away from NHSPS for three years so a lot could have changed. The last thing I saw them doing was selling off the clearly surplus property such as Dulwich Hospital, the Temperance Hospital and various brown field sites to developers. Nobody was talking about active facilities at the time. Indeed, most of the talk was around economies of scale through the streamlining of local estates teams.