FINANCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust has recorded an “extreme” risk that it will be unable to agree its cost improvement plan for the current financial year.

The trust, which is seeking a partner organisation after admitting it will not be able to reach foundation trust status on its own, now has four red rated, or “extreme”, risks.

The others are: that reductions in its mortality rate will not be sustained; that services are financially unsustainable; and that it will be unable to secure planned “non recurrent” income.

Two risks were reported to have fallen in September – these were the risk that patients would be cared for in an estate “not of optimal standard”, and the risk of poor maintenance of trust plant equipment.

Source

Board papers

Source date

September 2012ge

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