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abstract: Project 2000 has been grossly over funded due to a Department of Health error, nurse managers heard last week. John Birch, North Lincolnshire Health Authority Director of Quality Assurance told an RCN conference that the health department had got its Project 2000 funding formula 'very, very wrong' and had significantly overpaid districts to implement the education reforms. 'We were overpaid by £80,000 in the first year, by £500,000 last year and by a minimum of £.300,000 tills year,' he told the RCN NHS General Managers and Chief Nurses to Health Authorities Forum conference. Mr Birch said he was sure that the over funding was being repeated in other districts and added that although his region was checking how the over funding was being spent, he had used the windfall for related research projects.