FINANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has been given a £6m bailout by the Department of Health.
The trust was given £6.2m by the DH in April, published departmental accounts reveal.
A spokeswoman for the the DH said: “Portsmouth were provided with a one-off cash injection to help improve its working capital cycle.”
DH information (attached)
August 2013
Full maternity services will not return to an Oxfordshire hospital for the “foreseeable future” if proposals are given the green light by county health chiefs.
Trusts could be forced to wait until the first three months of 2020 to find out how much they are saving by taking part in a flagship government project.
Three clinical commissioning groups in the Thames Valley are planning to merge into a single organisation covering their integrated care system.
A deficit ridden acute trust has rejected a demand by NHS Improvement to deliver a £23m surplus in 2018-19, with local commissioners criticising the imposed target.
A heart patient is believed to have died after not receiving treatment quickly enough due to a troubled hospital’s cardiac unit being used “extensively” for extra bed capacity.
Three patients suffered severe harm because their chest x-rays were among tens of thousands of tests not reviewed properly at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust.
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