There is no direct correlation between a national health service trust meeting its private finance initiative unitary charge and incurring a deficit. Unitary payments, paid for from an NHS trust's general revenue allocations, are just one component of an NHS trust's total expenditure.
Of the 179 primary care trusts and NHS trusts showing a deficit in the published audited accounts for 2006-07 national accounts, 17 have an operational private finance initiative project.