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From 2006.

The health secretary has today ordered NHS trusts to ensure they reach a budget surplus of £250 million in two years time.
Patricia Hewitt said trusts, which recorded a deficit of £520 million in April, should be able to balance their books by next March and end up with extra cash a year later.
She denied such efforts would damage patient care, saying hospitals could introduce more efficient working methods, such as moving more of their surgery to during the day.
"The productivity pot of gold, I've always called it - that is the way the NHS will give people much better and faster care, also better value for money," she told Today.
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But the health secretary says she is not prepared to provide any more funds needed to support trusts while the accounting system changes, and will wait until the NHS is back in surplus before looking at the issue again.
Ms Hewitt said the RAB provided a "proper system of discipline" for trusts and said that it was not causing the overspending, but revealing it.

From 2008.

Of the 20 failing trusts, 16 of them ran up deficits in 2007/8, six of them have historical debts that they have failed to make sufficient progress in paying off, and three had poor management arrangements.

Out the 12 trusts that have been failing for three years, the Department of Health has also listed six of them as 'financially challenged' since 2005.

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Experts said these six could not work their way out of trouble without outside help and should be considered for take-over or merger, with parts of them possibly being closed down.

Not sure how Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust would be affected by the influx and not back in 2005.

From 2006

The BBC News website examines why this is happening at a time when the health service is getting record amounts of money?
Nearly a third of NHS organisations failed to balance their books in 2005-6, leaving the NHS with a deficit of £512m.

So chucking money at it didn't solve it,