Havering and Barking & Dagenham

Now a local MP says and Barking Havering and Redbridge's NHS health trust could soon be the most in debt trust in the whole country.

The trust estimates that it’s around £40 million in the red.

James Brokenshire MP

And Conservative MP for Hornchurch, James Brokenshire predicts that by the end of the financial year that figure will have risen leaving the trust owing more than any other.

He blames the trust’s woes on the government’s private finance initiative (PFI) – that’s where government pays a private firm to build and manage schools and hospitals.

Havering's newest hospital, Queens, was built as a PFI project.

MPs from both Havering and Barking have told me that they regularly hear complaints about Queen's.

In December I reported that Barking MP Margaret Hodge said she was concerned that “the £300 million investment [is] not providing the standard of care my constituents deserve.”

Last year one woman had to give birth to her stillborn baby in a hospital toilet, because of a lack of qualified staff.

And former Chief executive Mark Rees recently resigned amid a hail of controversy about spending and services.

“I think the government does have real responsibility here… in terms of this financial deficit that’s [been] accrued.

The way in which the government sets targets [can] skew the priorities of health service managers taking their eye off the finances

The way that the NHS is structured in terms of these very big PFI contracts which were entered into without necessarily thinking through the long term implications of cost …

The costs of that PFI hospital will… over hang everything for years and years to come.”

He described the trust as being on a “national sick list in terms of its financial position”.

But the Department of Health hit back, saying in a recent report by the National Audit Office found that trusts with PFI projects are no more likely to have a deficit than those that don't.

In a statement they told me that "PFI is only ever used if it is affordable to the NHS, meets patient needs, and offers value for money…

Our targets have vastly improved patient experience of the NHS not damaged it. For example, Ten years ago it was common place for people to wait 18 months for an operation.

King George Hospital

Our 18 week waiting time target has ensured that the NHS is currently delivering the fastest access to care and waiting lists are at a record low, benefiting thousands of patients across the country every month."

So what's your experience with healthcare in Barking Havering and Redbridge? Do you have a story about Queens? Or perhaps you'd like to comment about the NHS trust's debts? Drop me an email at lebo.diseko@bbc.co.uk