A £4 million bail-out given to York’s troubled health authority has seen it turn an expected £8 million deficit into a £300,000 surplus.

Governors of North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust presented their end-of-year accounts at a meeting in Easingwold yesterday.

In April, The Press reported the PCT owed York Hospitals NHS Trust £6.2 million for care work, but was only able to raise £2.2 million towards the bill.

NHS Yorkshire and Humber, the body which acts as a link between the Government and NHS trusts, then stepped in handing over £4 million to plug the gap.

Adrian Snarr, interim director of finance at NHS North Yorkshire and York, said: “We have achieved all our key financial targets including managing within the revenue resource limit, cash limit and capital resource limit. Our year end accounts show that we ended the financial year with a small surplus of £300,000.

“This is an excellent achievement and is, in part, the result of hard work by colleagues both within the PCT and across the whole health economy of North Yorkshire and York.”