NHS Trusts: Finance

(asked on 14th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) NHS trusts and (b) NHS foundation trusts that will be in deficit at the end of the 2017-18 financial year; and whether he expects the NHS trust sector as a whole to be in deficit at the end of that year.


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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 19th December 2017

NHS Improvement publishes quarterly reports regarding the financial position of National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts. The latest figures on current and forecast deficits can be found in the NHS Improvement Quarter 2 performance report via the following link:

https://improvement.nhs.uk/uploads/documents/Performance_of_the_NHS_Provider_sector_month_ended_30_Sept_Final_17_Nov.pdf

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