Northamptonshire's health commissioning groups facing 'significant financial challenges'

Northamptonshire's health commissioning groups facing 'significant financial challenges' Northamptonshire’s commissioner of health services only just managed to balance its books last year and used all of its contingency reserve to do so.

There was just a £40,000 surplus on the £941m of spending carried out by the county’s two clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), which say ‘they continue to face significant challenges on delivering their commissioning objectives in 2019/20’.

A huge £4m has to come out of the reserves of the larger Nene Commissioning Group to make the books balances and £561,000 has been taken from the Corby contingency reserve, which means the health commissioning groups will no longer have a financial buffer. Northamptonshire Telegraph