🚨 ICYMI in yesterday's print Sunday Times - One of England's largest and high profile NHS trusts @GSTTnhs may need a bail out from @DHSCgovuk to cover day to day spending. It is part of a wider £4.5bn spending crisis sweeping the NHS 🧵 1/7
Hospitals across England have been told to cut costs and consider closing some services. At @GSTTnhs staffing costs needed to be cut by a third in the year ahead, equivalent to £55 million with another £39 million in savings needed from other areas 2/7
If @GSTTnhs can't get control of an underlying £84m deficit it may need a loan from the NHS to cover costs. Info sent to staff below: 3/7
But @GSTTnhs are not alone. Across the NHS trusts are cutting the amounts they will pay staff working extra shifts or agency and trusts face substantial deficits this year: 4/7
At @OUHospitals a message to staff from the CEO makes clear some of the cuts needed there to control a £53m deficit 5/7
"There are no easy answers here" says @sallygainsbury from @NuffieldTrust who warns this could all impact on the care for patients: 6/7
Why is the NHS in this situation? I'm told it's a combination of flat increases in spending coupled with consequences linked to collapsing social care & community services meaning patients are sicker and staing longer in hospitals. What's happening in your area? END 7/7
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