A troubled Kent hospital trust is showing signs of financial progress after overspending by £45 million last year. East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust is working on reduce its hefty deficit, having been labelled one of the “most challenged” NHS bodies in the country. Last year the organisation’s financial woes boiled over with new chief finance officer Tim Glenn parachuted in from Royal Papworth Hospital Trust in Cambridgeshire to aid the trust, which runs hospitals in Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Margate. However new documents demonstrate tentative progress in the fi…
