 The target is 95%.As a result of this, the Trust was ultimately placed in Special Measures for Finance, with an increasing deficit significantly above that predicted at the start of the financial year.In September 2018 it was looking for a loan of £100 million from the Department of Health and Social Care which would attract an interest rate of 6% to support an expected in year deficit plan of £53, although in the first four months of 2018, it reported an average monthly deficit of £6 million.