As the NHS starts its fourth year with effectively no real increase in funding and faced with undiminished urgency to generate more care to meet growing demands, it is of little surprise that our latest survey of finance directors reveals continuing pessimism about the financial position of health organisations and local health economies.
The 2013/14 financial year ended with around a quarter of trusts and foundation trusts in deficit and almost a tenth of commissioning groups also in deficit.
How is the NHS performing? July 2014 is the twelfth of The King's Fund's regular quarterly monitoring reports. Find out more about the work.
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