Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust With 400 Dead Makes 886k in 2008

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Recap :  400 deaths beyond the expected at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust

The financial figures are clear from the accounts presented to Monitor the UK NHS Foundation Trust Watchdog.

From the £ 22 million income Mid Staffs NHS FT Trust,   that now has 400 or more dead patients on its hands to account for,    it made a combined surplus in 2008 of  £886,000 .

Maybe it will offer to pay some funeral expenses for those it helped toward death  by neglect ?

Or maybe the FT Trust will be looking for possible legal defense fees from it because there is a corporate manslaughter law in force now in the UK  ? 

Lets see the facts :

From the Annual Plan presented to Monitor by Mid Staffs NHS  Foundation Trust

1.2  Summary of financial performance

2007/2008 was a year of financial consolidation for the Trust, the Trust concluded the financial year in recurrent balance, repaid in full the previous Staffordshire & Shropshire Health Authority financial support and in cumulative surplus.

The Trust has completed two year end final accounts for 2007/2008, these being the 10 month period ending 31st January 2008 for the NHS Trust and the 2 month period ending 31st March 2008 for the Foundation Trust, both of which are still subject to final Account audit opinion.

In the final 10 months of NHS Trust status a surplus of £250,000 was achieved, whilst the Foundation Trust first two months delivered a £633,000  surplus. The combined £883,000 surplus was achieved after successfully closing the CBT Laundry & Line business, this highlighting a non recurrent contribution of £737,000, the balance related to non recurrent gains linked to additional elective activity.

The combined surplus will give the Trust financial flexibility to manage the hidden costs of the HCC investigation and provide resources for improved facilities. "

You may note the Mid Staffs Trust will be using its surplus in fact to pay the costs of those that investigated  it - The Health Care Commission. !

Its quite amazing that money that has been  saved from a  lack of care is to be passed onto those who investigated it  and who positively found there had been a lack of care .. Catch 22  ? ..

Nahh... NHS 44 ,

Joe stole the concept from the Governments and  NHS  in the UK . 

July 2003 is a long way of from Secretary of State John Reid MP's much vaunted phrase

"Trust Me I am a Patient "  

Trust ?   Try telling that to Staffordshire families . The promise of empowerment lies sadly in the grave .