FINANCE: NHS Suffolk is £0.5m underspent on plan for the year to date and has £2.2m in unallocated contingency funds. It is aiming to make a £1.1m surplus.
One area of overspend is prison healthcare - where £100,000 of a £500,000 overspent is due to escort and bedwatch costs for one prisoner being treated at West Suffolk Hospital.
January
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. This week by HSJ commissioning correspondent Sharon Brennan.
The NHS has been warned of “crippling” finance charges from its PFI contracts over the next decade, when aggregate repayments on the deals will reach their peak.
NHS trusts recruited a higher percentage of healthcare assistants than nurses over a two year period, new research has revealed.
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