Friday 22 July 2016

NHS bosses launch 'reset' plan to tackle £2.45bn deficit

NHS bosses launch 'reset' plan to tackle £2.45bn deficit Five hospital trusts and 14 CCGs in England will go into financial special measures as campaigners voice fears for patient safety

NHS bosses have launched a plan to “reset” the health service’s broken finances that will see overspending hospitals taken into financial special measures, as part of a crackdown to tackle a £2.45bn deficit.

Five hospital trusts that are set to overshoot their budgets by a wide margin this year, and 14 GP-led local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that are facing acute financial problems, are the first NHS bodies to be forced into special measures. Their bosses have been given weeks to devise an action plan to reduce overspending or risk being replaced. Continue reading... The Guardian

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