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
Five sustainability and transformation partnerships in the east of England have been asked to bail out a neighbour facing a major deficit.
A major teaching hospital has been issued with its second warning notice over the leadership and culture of its emergency department, despite inspectors upgrading the trust’s “inadequate” rating.
A teaching trust had to appeal to NHS Improvement for funding to ensure the safety of its “fragile” water system after two patients contracted legionella, HSJ can reveal.
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