NHS: Finance

(asked on 3rd December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of hospitals trusts in England had a budget deficit in each of the last four years.


Answered by
Dan Poulter Portrait
Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 10th December 2014

The proportion of National Health Service provider trusts in deficit for each of the last four years can be found in the table below:

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

Total Providers in Deficit

13

31

27

65

Total Providers in Surplus

237

223

225

184

Total Providers

250

254

251

249

Proportion of Providers in Deficit

5.2%

12.2%

10.8%

26.1%

Notes:

1. The number of providers includes NHS trusts and foundation trusts.

2. The numbers also reflect those NHS trusts that became foundations trusts during the year as separate organisations from the new foundation trust.

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