FINANCE: Barts Health Trust is £10.5m behind on its £43.4m savings plan at month nine.

The £1.1bn-turnover trust was £2.4m behind on its target for the month of £6.5m, board papers report.

The report said: “The trust has engaged consultancy support to provide the clinical academic groups and corporate areas with extra resource and advice in developing next year’s programme in detail and outline plans for the subsequent two years.”