FINANCE: Ealing Hospital is in arbitration with a Westminster clinical commissioning group, board papers reveal.

The board papers for central London CCG said: “The Ealing Hospital and North West London Hospitals contracts are still subject to arbitration. Once contracts are still subject to arbitration.

“Once agreed, it is possible that an element of transitional funding will be required to support the trusts and the eight CCGs in north west London may be required to support this. An indicative figure of £6m for Ealing has been approved but the NWLH position is not known.”