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NHS: North Cumbria

Answer

The latest year for which audited financial information is available is 2004–05. The financial position for National Health Service organisations in North Cumbria reported in the years 1997–98 to 2004–05 is provided in the following tables.Table 1 shows the reported year-end financial position of NHS Trusts in North Cumbria and North Cumbria Health Authority from 1997–98 to 2000–01.

Table 1
NHSOrganisation	1997–98 Surplus/(deficit) £000s	1998–99 Surplus/(deficit) £000s	1999–2000 Surplus/(deficit) £000s	2000–01 Surplus/(deficit)£000s
Carlisle Hospitals NHS Trust	38	25	22	9
West Cumbria Health Care NHS Trust	31	0	0	0
North Cumbria HA	0	1,140	(1,932)	849
Source: NHS Trust and HA Audited Summarisation Schedules 1997–98 to 2000–01

Primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) came into existence in 2002–03. In 2001–02 Carlisle Hospitals NHS Trust and West Cumbria Health Care NHS Trust merged to form North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.Table 2 shows the reported year-end financial position of North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, the PCTs in North Cumbria, North Cumbria Health Authority and Cumbria and Lancashire (SHA) for the years 2001–02 to 2004–05.

Table 2
NHS	Organisation	2001–02 Surplus/(deficit) £000s	2002–03 Surplus/(deficit) £000s	2003–04 Surplus/(deficit) £000s	2004–05 Surplus/(deficit) £000s
North Cumbria	6&1sup;	(1,803)	(4,133)&2sup;	13
Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Carlisle and District PCT	n/a	15	24	90
Eden Valley PCT	n/a	24	8	33
West Cumbria PCT	n/a	7	15	208
Cumbria and Lancashire SHA	n/a	41	10,584	15,800
North Cumbria HA	24	n/a	n/a	n/a
Source: NHS Trust, PCT, HA and SHA Audited Summarisation Schedules 2001–02 to 2004–05 Note to table:&1sup;   This was subsequently subject to a prior period accounting adjustment of (£1.361) million&2sup;   This was subsequently subject to a prior period accounting adjustment of (£0.489) million.

The cumulative breakeven position for North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is made up of the total of the year-end financial positions for the years from 2001–02 to 2004–05. That is the £5.917 million deficit shown year by year in the above two tables, plus the two prior year adjustments of £1.361 million deficit and £0.489 million deficit for 2001–02 and 2003–04 respectively.Thus the cumulative breakeven position for North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for the financial year 2004–05 is an overspend of £7.767 million. No other organisation in North Cumbria has an accumulated deficit.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2936; 677 c137-8WA

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Debts Cumbria Health authorities NHS Primary care trusts NHS trusts

Contains statistics

Yes

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