Scale of NHS deficits to be revealed

[annie]

The 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
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[wendy]

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