FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust achieved 91 per cent of its £18.8m cost improvement plan savings in 2011-12.
Board papers for April reveal this was an improvement on the beginning of the year. In quarter one only 70 per cent of planned savings were achieved.
The £1.8m slippage was attributed to “later than expected commencement of some schemes with the largest shortfalls.”
April 2012
Nearly two thirds of the money raised from NHS land sales last year was diverted into day to day spending budgets, despite a government commitment for the proceeds to be reinvested into new estates’ projects.
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust is set to be placed into “special measures” by NHS Improvement, HSJ has learned.
A local fire service has stepped in to help a struggling hospital trust ferry patients home as part of its winter plans.
The medical director at University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has been appointed as the organisation’s new permanent chief executive, to take over from Dame Julie Moore.
One of the country’s largest trusts will received £162m of central loans to help support the balance sheet following its merger with its neighbour.
Dame Julie Moore has announced her retirement from the newly merged University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust.
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