MALCOLM MOSS
MP
NORTH EAST
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
SHADOW
MINISTER FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
(Responsible for Tourism,
Licensing and Gambling)
June 12, 2006
Labour
NHS cuts threaten patient care says Malcolm Moss
MP
Financial deficits may force
reductions in frontline services
Malcolm Moss expressed concern at
new figures showing worsening NHS deficits
across the country. Inconsistent and
poorly-planned Government policies have forced
the NHS £1.3 billion into the red, with NHS
organisations now forced to respond to such
massive deficits by making widespread cutbacks
to frontline services.
Malcolm Moss said: “Although the
East Cambridgeshire and Fenland PCT has turned
in a very creditable surplus of nearly half a
million pounds at the financial year end, for
which Audrey Bradford and all her staff should
be strongly commended, there are massive
deficits in the Cambridge City PCT (-£13.6
million) and the South Cambridgeshire PCT (-£6.1
million). This does not auger well for the
imminent amalgamation of PCT’s to form the new
Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust, when it looks
as if yet again we in the fens will have our
surplus absorbed and be left short changed.
“If this wasn’t bad enough The
Queen Elizabeth NHS Trust in King’s Lynn which
serves a large part of my constituency has a
deficit of nearly £11 million. This has already
led to reductions in front line services and
representations to me from extremely worried
staff about proposed redundancies.”
Malcolm Moss continued,
“I very much value the hard work
of public sector workers within the NHS. But the
financial mismanagement by Ministers in
Whitehall is putting frontline services at risk.
Across the country, local hospitals are having
to make cuts because their budgets are in the
red. These figures will only serve to further
deepen the crisis of confidence in the
Government’s stewardship of the NHS.
“Patients, nurses and doctors
deserve far more from the Government than
botched reorganisations, inconsistent policies
and now cutbacks and closures. It is clear that
Labour can no longer claim to be the party of
the NHS.”
Notes to Editors
FINANCIAL
CRISIS
The Government
published new financial figures for the accounts
of NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts. The
figures reveal a gross deficit of £1.3 billion,
and a net deficit of £536 million. Only a £524
million under-spend on NHS training budgets by
Strategic Health Authorities prevented the net
deficit being much larger (Department of Health,
2005-06 Financial Position, 8 June 2006).
http://tinyurl.com/ojdhl
In recent
months, around 60 NHS Trusts have announced
almost 17,500 job losses from NHS Trusts – which
run England’s hospitals.
RE-ORGANISATION FATIGUE
The NHS has
seen ten significant reorganisations since
Labour came to power in 1997:
·
Abolition of GP fundholding and the replacement
of its functions by Primary Care Groups (1997).
·
abolition of the central NHS Executive and the
incorporation of its functions into the
Department of Health (2000).
·
Abolition of the eight regional offices of the
NHS Executive and their replacement by 28 new
Strategic Health Authorities (2002).
·
Abolition of Primary Care Groups and the
incorporation of their functions into 303
Primary Care Trusts (2002).
·
Abolition of Health Authorities and the
incorporation of their functions into Primary
Care Trusts (2002).
·
Creation of NHS Foundation Trusts (2003).
·
Rationalisation of Strategic Health Authorities
(2005).
·
Rationalisation of Primary Care Trusts (2006).
·
Rationalisation of NHS Ambulance Trusts (2006).
·
Development of practice-based commissioning
(ongoing).
LOCAL
FIGURES
NHS
Trusts
|
NHS
Trust |
Surplus or Deficit |
|
5 Boroughs
Partnership NHS Trust |
£342,000 |
|
Aintree
Hospitals NHS Trust |
£6,000 |
|
Airedale
NHS Trust |
£4,267,000 |
|
Ashford
and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£7,560,000 |
|
Avon
Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
-£947,000 |
|
Avon and
Wiltshire Mhp NHS Trust |
-£2,789,000 |
|
Barking,
Havering and Redbridge Hosp NHS Trust |
-£16,009,000 |
|
Barnet and
Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£8,994,000 |
|
Barnet,
Enfield and Haringey Mh NHS Trust |
£53,000 |
|
Barts and
The London NHS Trust |
£3,414,000 |
|
Bedford
Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£11,887,000 |
|
Bedfordshire and Luton Mh and Social
Care NHS Trust |
£1,250,000 |
|
Beds and
Herts Ambulance and Paramedic NHS Trust |
£147,000 |
|
Berkshire
Healthcare NHS Trust |
£5,102,000 |
|
Birmingham
and Solihull Mental Health NHStrust |
£0 |
|
Birmingham
Children's Hospital NHS Trust |
£1,618,000 |
|
Birmingham
Women's Health Care NHS Trust |
£50,000 |
|
Blackpool,
Fylde and Wyre Hosps NHS Trust |
£23,000 |
|
Bolton
Hospitals NHS Trust |
£3,278,000 |
|
Bolton,
Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS
Trust |
£271,000 |
|
Bradford
District Care NHS Trust |
£1,992,000 |
|
Brighton
and Sussex Univ Hosps NHS Trust |
-£11,290,000 |
|
Bromley
Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£15,765,000 |
|
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust |
£28,000 |
|
Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Trust |
-£461,000 |
|
Burton
Hospitals NHS Trust |
£100,000 |
|
Calderdale
and Huddersfield NHS Trust |
£166,000 |
|
Calderstones NHS Trust |
£83,000 |
|
Cambs &
Peterborough Mh Partnership NHS Trust |
£92,000 |
|
Camden and
Islington Mental Health Social Care NHS
Trust |
£2,449,000 |
|
Cent
Manchester/ Manchester Child NHS Trust |
£6,472,000 |
|
Central
and North West London Mh NHS Trust |
£1,258,000 |
|
Chelsea
and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust |
£2,204,000 |
|
Cheshire
and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust |
£38,000 |
|
Christie
Hospital NHS Trust |
£10,000 |
|
Clatterbridge Centre For Oncology NHS
Trust |
£170,000 |
|
Cornwall
Partnership NHS Trust |
£21,000 |
|
County
Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals
NHS Trust |
£114,000 |
|
County
Durham and Darlington Prior Srv NHS
Trust |
£259,000 |
|
Coventry
and Warwickshire Ambulance Service NHS
Trust |
£0 |
|
Cumbria
Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
£24,000 |
|
Dartford
and Gravesham NHS Trust |
-£3,470,000 |
|
Derbyshire
Mental Health Services NHS Trust |
£0 |
|
Devon
Partnership NHS Trust |
-£1,720,000 |
|
Doncaster
and South Humber Hlthcare NHS Trust |
£349,000 |
|
Dorset
Ambulance NHS Trust |
£250,000 |
|
Dorset
Health Care NHS Trust |
£1,453,000 |
|
Dudley
Group Of Hospitals NHS Trust |
£1,753,000 |
|
Ealing
Hospital NHS Trust |
£1,059,000 |
|
East and
North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
-£22,380,000 |
|
East
Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust |
£550,000 |
|
East
Cheshire NHS Trust |
£12,000 |
|
East Kent
Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£2,606,000 |
|
East Kent
NHS & Sc Partnership NHS Trust |
£400,000 |
|
East
Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust |
£153,000 |
|
East
London and The City Mh NHS Trust |
£3,553,000 |
|
East
Midlands Ambulance Servce NHS Trust |
£311,000 |
|
East
Somerset NHS Trust |
£2,000 |
|
East
Sussex County NHS Trust |
£1,330,000 |
|
East
Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£4,864,000 |
|
Epsom and
St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust |
£229,000 |
|
Essex
Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
£1,445,000 |
|
Essex
Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust |
-£1,439,000 |
|
George
Eliot Hospital NHS Trust |
-£7,294,000 |
|
Gloucestershire Ambulance Services NHS
Trust |
-£488,000 |
|
Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust |
-£1,319,000 |
|
Good Hope
Hospital NHS Trust |
-£5,972,000 |
|
Great
Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust |
£1,983,000 |
|
Greater
Manchester Ambulance NHS Trust |
£780,000 |
|
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£18,484,000 |
|
Hampshire
Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
£127,000 |
|
Hampshire
Partnership NHS Trust |
£9,000 |
|
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hosps NHS
Trust |
-£3,691,000 |
|
Hereford
and Worcester Ambulance NHS Trust |
£0 |
|
Hereford
Hospitals NHS Trust |
£0 |
|
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust |
£55,000 |
|
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust |
-£6,535,000 |
|
Hull and
East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust |
-£12,268,000 |
|
Humber
Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust |
£3,000 |
|
Ipswich
Hospital NHS Trust |
-£11,905,000 |
|
Isle Of
Wight Healthcare NHS Trust |
£9,000 |
|
James
Paget Healthcare NHS Trust |
£1,527,000 |
|
Kent
Ambulance NHS Trust |
£444,000 |
|
Kettering
General Hospital NHS Trust |
£40,000 |
|
King's
College Hospital NHS Trust |
£122,000 |
|
Kingston
Hospital NHS Trust |
£14,000 |
|
Lancashire
Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
£99,000 |
|
Lancashire
Care NHS Trust |
£20,000 |
|
Leeds
Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust |
£1,549,000 |
|
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
£309,000 |
|
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust |
£18,000 |
|
Lincolnshire Ambulance NHS Trust |
£3,000 |
|
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust |
£3,000 |
|
London
Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
£1,273,000 |
|
Luton and
Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust |
£396,000 |
|
Maidstone
and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust |
£113,000 |
|
Manchester
Health and Social Care NHS Trust |
£66,000 |
|
Mayday
Healthcare NHS Trust |
-£5,847,000 |
|
Medway NHS
Trust |
£210,000 |
|
Mersey
Care NHS Trust |
£12,000 |
|
Mersey
Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
£5,000 |
|
Mid Essex
Hospital Services NHS Trust |
£1,003,000 |
|
Mid
Staffordshire Gen Hospitals NHS Trust |
£478,000 |
|
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