FINANCE: Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust is reporting a surplus of just over £1m for 2012-13 and is meeting the key Monitor financial requirements, the board heard.
But it spent much more than the previous year on patient placements in the private sector.
For 2013-14 it is planning to make a surplus of £1.7m. However, it was beyond its target for April with higher than planned agency expenditure in some areas.
May 2013
An ambulance trust has appointed a new chair, who a panel found had displayed “bullying behaviour” in a previous role as a police and crime commissioner.
Three former senior leaders of the trust where babies were murdered by Lucy Letby have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
Dozens of trusts have been hit with financial penalties after regulators questioned their claims to be compliant with maternity safety standards.
A long-serving community trust CEO has been appointed to lead the scandal-hit mental health provider in Greater Manchester.
Just one-fifth of staff at a trust engulfed in an abuse scandal expressed confidence in the executive team, according to the Care Quality Commission, which has downgraded the trust and its leadership team to ‘inadequate’.
The chief executive of a mental health trust at the centre of a high-profile care scandal has announced his resignation.
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