George Eliot sets toughest CIP in West Midlands

NHS West Midlands board papers show that the trust’s 10.2 per cent cost improvement programme for 2011-12 is at least 40 per cent higher than any other other trust in the SHA region. The trust, which has a £109m turnover, expects to end the year with a £1.2m surplus.

The second highest CIP target belongs to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust, at 7.2 per cent, which along with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust does not expect to make a surplus.

The lowest target, at 3.3 per cent, is found at Royal Wolverhampton Trust, which is predicting an £8.5m surplus.

The average CIP for trusts in the region is 4.4 per cent and the total predicted surplus across all trusts is £28.8m.