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NHS Grampian given £67m government loan to tackle its overspend

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NHS Grampian is being given a Scottish government loan of more than £67m to tackle its overspend.

It comes as a review, commissioned by ministers, is taking place on the financial position of the health board.

The review should be finalised by the end of next month and will identify areas in which additional savings can be delivered.

Health Secretary Neil Gray said the Scottish government was providing more than £14.2bn for NHS boards across Scotland in 2024-25 to support services, which he claimed was a real terms increase of almost 3%.

NHS Grampian’s chief executive Adam Coldwells warned last September that the health board needed to reduce spending to tackle an “extremely challenging” financial position.

The board said at the time it was facing tens of millions of pounds of ongoing financial pressures.

Then in November it declared a “critical incident” which saw some ambulance patients diverted to hospitals outside its area due to demand at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI). It was later stood down.


BBC News

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