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25.04.2024 - 10:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Greater Manchester’s NHS is being plunged into ‘special measures’, according to a staff briefing, the Manchester Evening News can reveal.
Greater Manchester's health and care services, including the region's NHS, have already been forced to massively cut an overspend of £400m over the last year. Accounting consultants were brought in to carry out a ‘financial turnaround programme’ under intense scrutiny from national NHS bosses. However, the system remains in hundreds of millions of pounds of debt – with a deficit of £180m.
A staff briefing from NHS Greater Manchester, seen by the M.E.N. this morning (April 25), says that it has ‘not yet been able to demonstrate to NHS England (NHSE) that we, as a system, have made the progress required against our well-publicised performance, finance and quality issues’. The city-region’s NHS will now have to go under yet more scrutiny from its national governor, NHS England.
NHS Greater Manchester is being put on a ‘system improvement plan’, involving a set of ‘formalised agreed actions’ to be ‘delivered within a specific (yet to be determined) timeframe’.
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The M.E.N. understands from a number of sources that these measures are the equivalent of going into special measures for the region’s NHS system, and will likely be coming into force next month. The staff briefing reads: “NHS Greater Manchester (NHS GM) is still a relatively new organisation which continues to grow in maturity. Despite making good progress in embedding the operational plans which were designed in 2023 with the support of Carnall Farrar and Price Waterhouse Cooper; and despite the incredible hard work and effort that has
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