Public and private sector partnership key to efficiency: British Minister

A BRITISH government initiative to develop private-public sector partnerships (PPP) is being sold as key to making Malaysia’s public services such as hospitals and schools more efficient and responsive to their users. It could also cut costs by up to a fifth. 

The PPP, which has been in use in Britain over the past 11 years for some 600 projects worth £35.5bil from public schools and hospitals to prisons and water treatment plants, could be applied locally to end the culture of “building first class facilities but providing only third class maintenance.”