The primary care trust deficits listed

Many NHS primary care trusts are in deep financial trouble. More than a third of trusts, which fund hospitals in England, are running deficits which have led to a cut back in surgerical operations and seen calls to close casualty departments - according to a joint study by the Guardian and think tank Civitas . The analysis, which used figures from the public board meetings of 100 trusts, shows that the overspend in the health service this year amounts to more than £130m. The largest shortfall was in Enfield primary health care trust, which has a budget of £450m, but is currently in the red to the tune of £17.5m. Bosses are proposing to replace Chase Farm Hospital's A&E department with a 12 hour consultant-led "urgent care centre", which will not take blue light ambulances. This is the list of the trusts with deficits. [ *The column of in-year figures shows how each PCT's spending stood in late 2009 - typically at November/December - as reported to the PCT's board meeting in January/early February 2010. ] Can you do anything with the data? Download the data • DATA: download the full datasheet World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter