Friday 20 March 2026
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9219
Date Request Received: 11/02/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 16/02/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Impact of NHS financial requirements
Request Category: Campaigning organisation
| Question Number 1: Freedom of Information Act Request: Impact of NHS financial requirements SECTION ONE: financial breakeven requirements From 2025-26, NHS England’s financial framework requires NHS trusts to meet a statutory breakeven duty. Where possible, trusts must avoid in-year deficits and recover prior deficits. Request (section one): Please provide the trust’s in-year deficit or surplus for 2024–25, and its estimated in-year deficit or surplus for 2025–26, 2026–27 and 2027–28. (Where the trust plans to break even, please confirm this. Where a deficit or surplus is projected, please state the estimated value.) | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see exemption notice applied - The Trust is in the process of agreeing the detail within its 26/27 plan with commissioners and at this stage has not yet formally agreed to reduce or close any service provision. The Trust will though, in Quarter 1 of 26/26, be presenting its plan at a future Trust Board. Current financial info re position and plan is available in public board papers - https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/about-us/the-trust-board/board-papers/ | |
| Question Number 2: SECTION TWO: efficiency, productivity and cost-reduction requirements NHS England has set mandatory efficiency measures, including: reducing organisational cost base by at least 1%; delivering around 4% productivity improvement; reducing corporate service spending to pre-pandemic levels; and reducing reliance on temporary and agency staffing. Request (section two): a. Workforce reductions and permanently deleted posts Please provide the total number of job cuts, redundancies or post reductions that the trust has identified, planned or already implemented as a result of its breakeven duty and associated financial planning. If possible, please provide this information by financial year: 2025–26, 2026–27 and 2027–28. This should include job cuts or redundancies, and posts that have already been permanently deleted whether or not this resulted in redundancy. Where possible, and within statutory cost limits, please break this information down by staff group, for example: clinical staff, non-clinical staff, corporate / administrative staff Please express figures in full-time equivalent (FTE). Where only headcount figures are held, please provide these instead and indicate this. b. Method of workforce reduction and post deletion Where possible, please provide a breakdown of how the workforce reductions and permanent post deletions described in section 2a are being or will be achieved, for example through: compulsory redundancies, voluntary redundancies, non-renewal of fixed-term contracts, natural wastage, vacancy controls or recruitment freezes. Where data is held, please break this information down by staff group (clinical/non-clinical/corporate, or equivalent categories used by the trust) and by financial year (2025–26, 2026–27, 2027–28). | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see response in Q1 | |
| Question Number 3: SECTION THREE: planned service reductions Breakeven planning may involve changes to service delivery, including reductions, reconfiguration or cessation of services. Request (section three): Please outline any services, departments or functions that the trust has identified for reduction, reconfiguration or closure as part of its breakeven duty and medium-term financial plan, and indicate in which financial year(s) these changes are planned (2025–26, 2026–27 and/or 2027–28). | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see response in Q1 | |
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