FINANCE: United Lincolnshire Hospitals “significantly” missed a savings target last year, according to board minutes.
Minutes of the trust’s May board meeting discussed the 2010-11 financial plan. It said: “The cost improvement programme was significantly below plan, the outturn was £5.3m cash releasing out of £18.3m.”
The trust had an income and expenditure deficit of £14.2m for the year.
May 2011
FINANCE: A hospital trust has sold half of its beds to a Dutch company for half a million pounds and is leasing them back, HSJ has discovered.
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An East Midlands trust group has appointed a director of nursing as its first substantive CEO.
An acute trust CEO has announced he is stepping down from full-time work next year, after a 42-year stint in the NHS.
Leaders who take on difficult jobs in the health service should be “cherished” and not “pilloried” by regulators, says the chief executive of a trust which is on the cusp of moving out of special measures.
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