Wednesday 27th August, 2014

Troubled outsourcing giant, Serco has announced its planned departure from the clinical healthcare market in the UK following heavy losses on NHS contracts.

The company has already withdrawn from contracts to provide Cornwall’s out of hours services and clinical services to Braintree Community Hospital.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 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.”