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A health minister has condemned the "catastrophic" ?28m overspend at NHS Croydon but stopped short of calling for those responsible to be held to account.
Jane Ellison, Parliamentary under-secretary of state for health and MP for Battersea, accepted the need for further investigation into "indefensible" financial mismanagement that led to the primary care trust reporting a ?5.4m surplus in its 2010-11 account had actually spent ?22.4m more than budgeted.
The minister, speaking on Tuesday in a House of Commons debate secured by Croydon South MP Richard Ottaway, described it as "extraordinary" that neither the trust's internal audit or one conducted by Ernst & Young had uncovered "significant financial irregularities".
http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/...ondemns__catastrophic__NHS_Croydon_overspend/
Jane Ellison, Parliamentary under-secretary of state for health and MP for Battersea, accepted the need for further investigation into "indefensible" financial mismanagement that led to the primary care trust reporting a ?5.4m surplus in its 2010-11 account had actually spent ?22.4m more than budgeted.
The minister, speaking on Tuesday in a House of Commons debate secured by Croydon South MP Richard Ottaway, described it as "extraordinary" that neither the trust's internal audit or one conducted by Ernst & Young had uncovered "significant financial irregularities".
http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/...ondemns__catastrophic__NHS_Croydon_overspend/