Several trusts in the South West are being asked to restrict all non-essential spending due to their “challenging financial position”, HSJ reports.
The providers have been told to deliver “recurrent reductions in workforce cost pressures”, end almost all in- and outsourcing, and impose a hiring freeze for non-clinical posts.
Royal Devon University Healthcare, Torbay and South Devon, and University Hospitals Plymouth all expect to be in deficit this year.
Cornwall and Devon Integrated Care Board interim chief executive Mark Hackett has written to the chief executives of the three acute trusts in Devon, outlining a set of standardised spend controls.
Date: 4 June