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.
Private healthcare provider Cygnet has accused the Care Quality Commission of publishing an “inaccurate picture”, after its eighth site was rated “inadequate” in just over a year.
Plans to cut more than 500 beds from Derbyshire have been abandoned after NHS leaders admitted such measures were “no longer credible”.
Emergency services at one of Lincolnshire’s largest hospitals were rated “inadequate” because staff were too busy trying to make improvements on another site.
A rural trust is rowing back on hiring locum doctors with General Medical Council restrictions, after a non-executive director questioned the “high number” of such staff being employed.
The full extent of the increased pressure on a struggling city hospital after the downgrading of a neighbour’s emergency department has finally been revealed.
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