FINANCE: New figures reveal the central London tertiary centre saw its specialist top-up funding from from NHS London fall to £9m in 2011-12.

NHS London handed out £40m to nine London specialist providers in 2011-12, compared to £50m in 2010-11.

The money is intended ot mitigate the losses the trusts faced from a loss of research and development funding.

 

2011-12 figures     
University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust   £9m
Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust      £6m
King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust£1m
Royal Brompton & Harefield Foundation Trust   £6.7m
Imperial College Healthcare Trust £6m
Barts Health Trust     £8.1m
St George’s Healthcare Trust     £1m
Royal Free Hampstead Foundation Trust    £1m
North West London Hospitals Trust£1m