Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 10
Eighth report: NHS capital expenditure and financial management
Published 8 Jul 2020
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
In 2018–19, 106 out of 227 trusts reported a deficit. The gap in financial performance between the best- and worst-performing trusts (i.e. with the largest surplus and the largest deficit) increased from £218 million in 2017–18 to £282 million in 2018–19. Over the last few years, the Department and NHSE&I have introduced several short-term support funds to help stabilise the finances of NHS bodies, but the extra money brought in has continued to drive volatility and variability.18 The Department acknowledged that it had focused on achieving balance as a whole and some techniques used in the past had perverse effects. NSE&I told us that it was on track to halve the number of trusts in deficit in 2019–20 compared to 2018–19.19
From: Public Accounts Committee, Eighth report: NHS capital expenditure and financial management (HC 344), 8 July 2020
Government response
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