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.
System leaders have appointed a new interim chair for the troubled East of England Ambulance Service Trust.
Commissioners in the East Midlands are hiring deputy directors to support the clinical directors leading its primary care networks.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has appointed an interim chief executive after an unsuccessful national campaign for a permanent recruit.
A Lincolnshire trust which has been in special measures for more than two years is asking the public for their views on its reputation.
Children being cared for at a district general hospital’s emergency department are at risk of harm, the Care Quality Commission has found, shortly after raising similar concerns late last year.
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