Health trust finances: East

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NHS trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) in the East of England have combined debts of about £220m, a BBC News website investigation has found.

All 76 trusts in the region - in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire - were contacted in January and asked what their current financial status was.

The results are below, with explanations for how some trusts came to be in that position, or measures taken to tackle any problems. Minus figures show a deficit, figures without a minus sign indicate a trust which has a surplus or is breaking even.

Several trusts who revealed debts said they expected to break even by the end of the financial year in March.

EAST OF ENGLAND HEALTH TRUST FINANCES
HEALTH TRUST	SURPLUS/ DEBT (£)	IMPACT/ EXPLANATION
Basildon PCT	706,000
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	-10,750,000	Expects debt to be £11.6m by end of financial year
Bedford PCT	-189,000	Expects to have a surplus of more than £1m by end of financial year
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service NHS Trust	4,000
Bedfordshire and Luton Mental Health and Social Care Partnership NHS Trust	118,000
Bedfordshire Heartlands PCT	-17,870,000
Billericay, Brentwood and Wickford PCT	706,000
Broadland PCT	-5,000,000
Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Trust	-1,000,000
Cambridge City PCT and South Cambridgeshire PCT	-17,000,000	Two patient rehabilitation units and a ward at Fulbourn Hospital to close
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	0
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust	-874,000
Castle Point and Rochford PCT	1,600,000
Chelmsford PCT	-13,480,000
Chilton and South Buckinghamshire PCT	-3,300,000
Colchester PCT	-1,600,000
Dacorum PCT	-2,160,000
Daventry and South Northants PCT	-2,000,000
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	-16,450,000	Expects debt to reach £18.88m by end of financial year
East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust	277,000
East Cambridgeshire and Fenland PCT	-3,100,000
Epping Forest PCT	0	Expects to have a surplus of £2m by the end of the financial year
Essex Ambulance Service NHS Trust	1,000,000	Expects to have a surplus of £1.4m by end of financial year
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	600,000
Great Yarmouth Teaching PCT	-1,000,000
Greater Peterborough Primary Care Partnership	-2,900,000
Harlow PCT	-636,000
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust	-682,000
Hertsmere PCT	-3,760,000	Expects debt to fall to £2.54m by end of financial year
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust	0
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	-4,100,000	The debt is the deficit from 2004/2005 carried over
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust	-250,000
Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust	-1,000,000
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust	-413,000	Expects to break even by the end of the year
Luton PCT	-2,160,000	Expects deficit of more than £5m by end of financial year but hopes to break even during 2006
Maldon and South Chelmsford PCT	-3,290,000
Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust	1,000,000
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	-420,000	The trust has made £2.1m in savings
Milton Keynes PCT	0
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust	-2,100,000
Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust	0	Expecting to be £900,000 in credit by end of financial year
North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust	2,500,000
North Hertfordshire and Stevenage PCT	-1,840,000	Expects debt to reach £2.5m by end of financial year
North Norfolk PCT	-4,600,000
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	-1,500,000	Trust hopes to break even by the end of the financial year
Northampton PCT	-3,000,000
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust	-700,000
Northamptonshire Heartlands PCT	-2,000,000
Norwich PCT	0
Papworth Hospital	0
Peterborough and Stamford NHS Trust	-500,000
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	-2,800,000
Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Trust	-11,000,000
Royston, Buntingford and Bishop Stortford PCT	-2,060,000	Expects to cut debt to £1m by end of financial year
South East Hertfordshire PCT	-1,480,000	Expects to clear debt by end of financial year
South Essex Partnership NHS Trust	1,100,000
Southend Hospital NHS Trust	1,500,000
Southend-on-Sea PCT	2,600,000
Southern Norfolk PCT	-6,800,000
St Albans and Harpenden PCT	-2,320,000	Expects debt to reach £2.5m by end of financial year
Suffolk East PCT	-19,800,000	Announced the closure of two hospitals
Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust	-4,500,000
Suffolk West PCT	-4,800,000
Tendring PCT	1,400,000
Thurrock PCT	860,000
Two Shires Ambulance NHS Trust	0
Uttlesford PCT	-1,160,000
Vale of Aylesbury PCT	-4,000,000
Watford and Three Rivers PCT	-1,190,000	Expects to cut deficit to £600,000 by end of financial year
Waveney PCT	-1,200,000
Welwyn Hatfield PCT	-522,000
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	-16,300,000	Expects debt to reach £28.6m by end of financial year. Reducing bed capacity and use of agency staff and cutting number of management posts
West Norfolk PCT	-1,800,000
West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust	-12,800,000	£10.3m of this is historic debt carried over from previous years
Witham, Braintree and Halstead PCT	-6,800,000
Wycombe PCT	-2,440,000
TOTAL	-219,425,000