{"id":50060,"date":"2014-11-11T14:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=db2842cc641c9028d3e354e44bd2192f"},"modified":"2014-11-11T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:16:20","slug":"news-story-monitor-to-investigate-finances-at-yeovil-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50060","title":{"rendered":"News story: Monitor to investigate finances at Yeovil Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The trust has been developing longer-term plans to improve how it works and to integrate care across South Somerset by working together with organisations including social services and GPs. However its short-term financial position has deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p>The health regulator wants to understand exactly why the trust is making bigger losses than planned and what can be done to help fix it. <\/p>\n<p>Monitor also wants to find out what could be done to secure the trust\u2019s short-term finances so it can best deliver its longer-term plans.  <\/p>\n<p>Paul Streat, Regional Director at Monitor, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The trust is developing plans to deliver better care for patients by integrating services across South Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our investigation will look at the trust\u2019s short-term finances and see how it can be improved to best support its long-term plans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No decision has been made by Monitor on whether action will be needed. Monitor will announce the outcome of its investigation once it is completed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns about short-term financial problems at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have led to Monitor opening an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}