LEICESTER CITY PRIMARY CARE TRUST - NHS

Paper YNHS Leicester City Board Meeting24 September 2009- to note the development work ongoing within the community services toensure that the report is timely & robust, and to ensure that all indicatorsare relevant to the community servicesPS/09/82 To Receive The Financial Report For Month 2Mrs Patsy Roseblade reported on the financial performance of Leicester CityCommunity Health Service (LCCHS) for the period ended 31 May 2009.LCCHS is reporting an under spend of £58k for the year to date ending May 2009,compared to an under spend of £13k for April 2009. This is a favourablemovement of £45k. The year end forecast position is break-even.The following allocations from NHS Leicester City for month 02 have been made:-o Tissue Viability Nurse £43ko Releasing Time To Care (non recurrent) £12kManaged Practices budgets have been reset and funding from the ‘Fit forPurpose’ monies has been allocated to the Quality Directorate for posts nowrecruited to.Accruals and prepayments have been included in month 02 reports for invoicesexpected but not yet received, utilities and other areas as agreed with managersand deemed appropriate by finance. A full list of accruals will be sent to all budgetholders for agreement.Children’s Community Health Services is reporting an under spend of £186k,compared to an under spend of £153k for month 01. Deferred income amounts to£163k and expenditure has been included in non pay for the whole amount inanticipation of plans being received. Plans for spending the deferred income aredue in by the end of July, once received budgets will be set accordingly. Thereare a number of staff vacancies being recruited to, some of which are currentlybeing filled by temporary staff, hence the under spend in this area of £186k.In Adults Services there is an under spend of £302k, compared to £146k formonth 01. This is a favourable movement of £156k.Support Services are reporting an over spend of £217k, compared to an overspend of £130k for month 01. This is due primarily to the Merlyn Vaz Health andSocial Care Centre. Whilst a value has been agreed with NHS LC, the budgetallocation was not completed for month 02, but may be finalised for month 03.Mrs Roseblade will clarify this at the next contracts meeting. Many of the healthcentre budgets were historically set on estimates, these budgets will be subject toa thorough review over the coming weeks.The Quality Directorate is reporting an under spend of £5k, compared to an overspend of £15k for month 01. This favourable variance of £20k is due to budgetsbeing transferred from the Fit for Purpose funding received in 2008/09.5