Unexpected external costs are being blamed as Powys Teaching Health Board (PTHB) reveal they are £2.9 million adrift of where their budget should be at the end of October

The fear is that this overspend could balloon to £5 million and above by the end of next March.

At a board meeting on Wednesday, November 26, members were given an update on how the PTHB budget had performed so far and how it stood at the end of month seven of the 2025/2026 financial year.

Finance director Pete Hopgood said that PTHB is reporting a £19.458 deficit, which is £2.942 million more than the expected deficit of £16.517 million.

This is calculated on the £28.3 million planned deficit being divided by 12 and this sum then multiplied by seven.

Mr Hopgood explained that if the health board had been able to s

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