FINANCE: Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust reported a deficit of £3.6m in the financial year to January, meaning that it is on course to meet the target £4.7m deficit agreed with regulator Monitor.

The trust, which is in significant breach of its terms of authorisation, has found savings worth £4.8m so far this year, broadly in line with target, and is set to find £6.5m by the end of 2010-11.

However, the trust’s integrated finance and performance report, submitted to the board in February, shows that the body is falling short on some key indicators.

There are persistent problems over diagnostic access, with 76 cases where the wait was more than six weeks, and 10 per cent of cases experiencing delays in the transfer of care – well over the 3.5 per cent target.

Although there were no MRSA cases in January, there have been four cases so far during 2010-11, meaning the trust has already hit its maximum for the year.

MRSA screening fell behind the target of 100 per cent of all patients, with latest figures showing a  rate of 97 per cent

Three cases of Clostridium Difficile brought the total for the year to 37, one case short of the year’s target of 38.

Source

Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust finance and performance report

Source date

February 2011

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