NHS deficit last year twice as high as expected, say sources

NHS Improvement will publish the exact size of the deficit when it releases performance details this week.Hospitals in England ended last year with twice as big a deficit as expected, according to sources, in another illustration of the NHS’s fragile finances.NHS Improvement (NHSI), the health service’s financial regulator, will reveal the overspend when it releases full details on Thursday of how the NHS performed in 2017-18.