Birmingham Women's relies on non-recurrent 'efficiencies'

The trust’s target for the year was £3.4m.

It is forecasting a £300,000 shortfall. In addition, to the end of February the trust achieved £2.8m, 32 per cent of which was described as “non-recurrent”.

Further, most of the recurrent savings come from “income generation” rather than “cost savings”. Only a third of the latter category came from recurrent savings.

The cumulative position for the trust at the end of February was a surplus of £160,000 against a planned £44,000 surplus.

The year to date position included £200,000 of contingency funding.