NHS financial crisis: 81 investigated organisations revealed
Names of health trusts obtained under Freedom of Information Act listed
Names of health trusts obtained under Freedom of Information Act listed
As concerns deepen over the financial crisis within the NHS, Accountancy Age
reveals the 81 Trusts and health authorities that were investigated by KPMG’s
turnaround teams in December.
The 81 organisations are a combination of primary care trusts, NHS trusts and
strategic health authorities.
PCTs are now at the centre of the NHS and control 80 per cent of the total
NHS budget. There are more than 300 PCTs covering all parts of England. They
have been in place since April 2002 and report directly to their local Strategic
Health Authority. As well as buying and monitoring services, they are positioned
to help local GP practices, NHS trusts and other parts of the NHS think more
innovatively about how they deliver better, more convenient care to their local
patient communities.
Hospitals in the NHS are managed by NHS trusts (sometimes called acute
trusts). These Trusts make sure the hospitals provide high quality health care,
and that they spend their money efficiently. Their wide-ranging services are
commissioned – or purchased – on behalf of patients by PCTs. Increasingly, NHS
Trusts are being commissioned by PCTs to provide services in the community
closer to where people live.
Strategic Health Authorities are responsible for managing and setting the
strategic direction of the NHS locally. They support PCTs and other NHS
organisations and make sure they are performing well.
Accountancy Age revealed yesterday that the number of NHS trusts examined by
KPMG for poor financial management had soared more than 50% above original
expectations.
A Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health showed that KPMG
investigated financial problems at 81 health bodies, which is nearly a fifth of
all NHS organisations, in just two weeks in December.
Turnaround teams from the firm had been widely reported to be investigating
the financial management at about 50 trusts, after health secretary Patricia
Hewitt revealed that NHS finances were approaching a £1bn deficit for 2005/06.
KPMG delved into the financial affairs of 81 NHS trusts, primary care trusts
and stategic health authorities over two weeks before Christmas by undertaking
‘baseline assessments’, led by partner Alistair Groom and DoH’s Richard Gleave.
Andrew Lansley, Conservative shadow health secretary, said: ‘The scale of the
problem is obviously larger than we were originally led to believe.’
Here is a full list of the trusts…
Strategic health authorities:
Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA
Essex SHA
North West London SHA
North Central London SHA
South East London SHA
South West London SHA
Surrey and Sussex SHA
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA
South Yorkshire SHA
South West Peninsula SHA
Birmingham and the Black Country SHA
West Midlands South SHA
Hampshire and IoW SHA
West Yorkshire SHA
County Durham and Tees Valley SHA
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA
Cheshire and Mersey SHA
Thames Valley SHA
Primary care trusts:
Cambridge City PCT
South Cambridgeshire PCT
Suffolk East (Ipswich and Suffolk Coastal PCTs)
Suffolk West PCT
Broadlands PCT
Southern Norfolk PCT
Hillingdon PCT
Hounslow PCT
Kensington and Chelsea PCT
Chelmsford PCT
Witham, Braintree and Halstead Care PCT
West Wiltshire PCT
South Wiltshire PCT
Kennet and North Wiltshire PCT
Cotswold and Vale PCT
North Sheffield PCT
South West Sheffield PCT
South East Sheffield PCT
West Sheffield PCT
Bedfordshire Heartlands PCT
Wandsworth PCT
New Forest PCT
East Hampshire and Fareham & Gosport PCTs
Blackwater Valley and Hart PCT
North Stoke PCT
Sedgefield PCT
Selby and York PCT
Cheshire West PCT
NHS trusts:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Trust
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust
Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust
Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust
The Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust
The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Brighton and Sussex Univ Hosps NHS Trust
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
West Middlesex University NHS Trust
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust
North-West London Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hosps NHS Trust
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust
University Hospitals of North Staffordshire NHS Trust
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust
East Cheshire NHS Trust
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust
Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust