Hospital Finances Still in Intensive Care ; As a New Survey Reveals Nhs Trusts Are Still Struggling to Balance Their Books, Health Correspondent Emma Brady Looks at How Effective the Nhs Bank has Been in the Midlands

Birmingham Post › March 01, 2007

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There are just four weeks to the end of the financial year. It's not a time health bosses across the Midlands would have expected to still be discussing 'rescue loans' with struggling trusts.

Primary care trusts across the region saw their 2006/07 budgets top-sliced by about three per cent to fund a reserve, dubbed the NHS Bank, held by the strategic health authority NHS West Midlands.

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Hospital Finances Still in Intensive Care ; As a New Survey Reveals Nhs Trusts Are Still Struggling to Balance Their Books, Health Correspondent Emma Brady Looks at How Effective the Nhs Bank has Been in the Midlands

A total of pounds 187 million was creamed off with the intention of helping financially vulnerable trusts break even by March 31, with deposits ranging from pounds 4 million to pounds 37 million.

Government figures published ...

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