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.
A hospital trust is facing a much larger deficit than planned, because £14m income due from NHS England will not be paid in this financial year.
The chief executive of one of England’s top mental health trusts is retiring this summer.
Children have been put at risk of harm in the emergency department at Pilgrim Hospital in Lincolnshire, the Care Quality Commission has found.
Unions at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust have passed a ‘no confidence vote’ in its senior management because of patient safety concerns.
A Lincolnshire trust is predicting it will spend £32m on agency staff by the end of the year due to a high vacancy rate and staff turnover.
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