Scale of NHS deficits to be revealed
Posted: 09 Oct 2015, 08:12The scale of the growing financial problems in the NHS in England will become clearer later, when the latest accounts are published.
Regulators are expected to reveal a large deficit has already emerged among NHS trusts in the first three months of the 2015-16 financial year.
The figures will cover hospital, mental health, ambulance and some community services.
They account for about two-thirds of the NHS's £116bn budget.
Last year, NHS trusts overspent by £820m - with the NHS as a whole balancing the books only after a cash injection from the Treasury and by raiding the capital budget earmarked for buildings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34353408
Regulators are expected to reveal a large deficit has already emerged among NHS trusts in the first three months of the 2015-16 financial year.
The figures will cover hospital, mental health, ambulance and some community services.
They account for about two-thirds of the NHS's £116bn budget.
Last year, NHS trusts overspent by £820m - with the NHS as a whole balancing the books only after a cash injection from the Treasury and by raiding the capital budget earmarked for buildings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34353408