NHS spending ‘considerably exceeded budget in last year’

The NHS spent considerably more than its budget in 2016-17, despite the provision of bailout funding by the government.

This is according to a number of media reports, with Sky News indicating that NHS hospital and ambulance trusts in England recorded a total deficit of more than 700 million pounds for the financial year to April 2017.

Meanwhile, the Health Service Journal put the figure even higher at 770 million pounds, with 100 of England's 235 acute, mental health, community services and ambulance trusts ending the year in the red.

Sally Gainsbury, a senior policy analyst at the Nuffield Trust health thinktank, warned the Guardian that the true extent of the excess is likely to be even greater, as the 1.8 billion pound emergency bailout funding from the Treasury skews the analysis somewhat.

She added: "The underlying NHS overspend, whatever it turns out to be once NHS Improvement publish their figures, is more a measure of underfunding than of NHS profligacy."

The final data will not be officially published until after the general election, due to the political sensitivity of the figures.

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