Part 4 Government bailouts

NHS trusts in financial crisis have received various types of financial support in the last decade. The Department of Health had provided £1.0bn cash injection to 21 trusts between 2006-07 and 2011-12. Only £160m had been repaid. It included a £253m cash injection in 2011-12 to 11 trusts, all but one in London and the southeast (Department of Health, 2012). South London Healthcare Trust received £356m and Barking, Havering and Redbridge £195m. Both trusts are expected to receive more funding under the PFI bailout scheme.

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