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.
An NHS trust with severe financial challenges has appointed a former British Airways boss as its chief financial officer.
A teaching hospital is considering closing its urology service to out of area referrals, as it struggles to deal with a backlog of cases.
A trust forecasting a £75m deficit this year has warned capital projects, including bolstering cybersecurity, could be delayed by a £5.1m shortfall in its fire safety funding.
A trust facing a deficit of £75.2m has appointed external consultants as it faces what its deputy chief executive called “one of the biggest financial challenges in the NHS”.
A trust in the East Midlands has become the latest to reveal it has hundreds of neurology patients overdue follow up appointments due to a lack of capacity.
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