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

See also:

• NHS action to strengthen trusts’ and CCGs’ financial and operational performance for 2016/17 NHS England
• Impact of the spending review on health and social care Commons Health Select Committee
• Transparency data: NHS trusts accounts data for 2015 to 2016 Department of Health
• Corporate report: NHS England: assessment of performance 2015 to 2016 Department of Health
• Corporate report: Department of Health annual report and accounts 2015 to 2016 Department of Health
• Corporate report: PHE annual report and accounts 2015 to 2016 Public Health England
• Reports on Department of Health, NHS England and NHS Foundation Trusts’ consolidated accounts 2015-16 National Audit Office
• NHS financial crisis: Target rules relaxed BBC News
• DH accounts reveal 'financial crisis engulfing NHS' GP Online
• Health Foundation responds to the Department of Health’s annual end of year accounts The Health Foundation
• The King's Fund response to the Department of Health's annual accounts The King's Fund