NAO seeks savings to redistribute trust funds

Up to £400 million in government funding to NHS acute trusts could be reallocated from richer to poorer hospitals, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has found.
Up to £400 million in government funding to NHS acute trusts could be reallocated from richer to poorer hospitals, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has found.

Released this month, the report revealed that together England’s 227 acute trusts spend £220 million a year buying medical equipment - an average of £969,000 each. However, it said some of the trusts’...

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