WORKFORCE: The east London hospital has seen a falling off of the amount it spends on agency and bank nursing staff.
Against a target of 3.5 per cent, the trust saw a spend on 4.11 per cent in March.
This decreased to an average of 1.75 per cent over April and May.
June 2011
WORKFORCE: Barts and the London Trust approved £461,000 in payments to staff made compulsorily redundant in 2010-11, its annual accounts show.
The deputy chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust has been appointed as medical director of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System.
National regulators are “encouraging the wrong kind of behaviour” by prioritising financial performance over staff wellbeing, the chair of NHS Improvement has said.
London’s largest acute provider is to come out of quality special measures after four years in the regime.
Barts Health Trust is aiming for a deficit of just £1.9m after sustainability funding with a “highly demanding” budget plan for the year.
A major London trust reported workforce shortages in July because fewer locums wanted to work during the heatwave.
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