HEALTH cuts are looming after NHS trusts ran £512m into the red in the last 12 months.
The gloomy figure was revealed by health minister Patricia Hewitt in a Commons statement.
Her admission came just a month after the Examiner told how Huddersfield's two GP-led primary care trusts were £6m in debt.
Huddersfield Central has a £3.5m deficit and South Huddersfield £2.8m.
But the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS hospital Trust recorded a £200,000 surplus in 2005-06.
Elsewhere in Yorkshire there were mounting problems for other health trusts.
Hospitals in trouble included Scarborough, Hull and the Mid-Yorkshire Trust, which runs hospitals in Dewsbury, Wakefield and Pontefract. Their debts were £7.3m, £5.9m and £14m respectively.
Other trusts did manage to break even, including all those serving the Leeds area.
