Our staff - Leicestershire and Rutland

1Reviewing ourperformanceAs a new organisation, we set ourselvesambitious goals for our first six months.What we set out to achieveWe had three organisational objectives:1. To achieve financial balance (reach break-even)2. To ensure that the organisation had the appropriatemanagement arrangements in place to deliver our main rolesand responsibilities (sometimes called "Fitness for Purpose")3. Achieve agreed progress in delivering the six key nationaltargets of:I. Reducing health inequalities by 10% by the year 2010,focusing on life expectancy at birth and smoking cessationII. Reducing the maximum wait between a doctor’s referraland appropriate treatment to 18 weeks by 2008This year >III. Reducing the wait for sexual health services to 48 hoursby 2008IV. Electronically administering 90% of hospital bookingsthrough the national Choose and Book systemV. Reducing the level of MRSA infectionsVI. A maximum waiting time of two months from urgentreferral to treatment for all cancers, with a maximumwaiting time of one month from diagnosis to treatment.How we performed1. Financial balanceWe are very pleased to beable to report that weunderspent by £136,000at the end of the financialyear 2006-2007Achieving financial balance was going to be one of the mostchallenging goals to reach. The two PCTs that were dissolvedon 30 September 2006 were required to report a breakevenposition, but the reality was that we inherited a forecastoverspend of £12million. Therefore, we are very pleased to beable to report that we underspent by £136,000 at the end of thefinancial year 2006-2007.8 Leicester City PCT Annual Report 2006 - 07