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.
Labour proposes amendments to Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch bill Shadow health secretary attacks Matt Hancock’s promotion of GP at Hand Jonathan Ashworth raises prospect of legally enforced staffing ratios Labour have threatened to table amendments to the government’s Healthcare Safety
More than half of the 29 proposed pathology networks comprising acute and specialist NHS trusts have yet to agree on a model to reconfigure their laboratory services, eight months after the initial deadline passed.
A major London trust reported workforce shortages in July because fewer locums wanted to work during the heatwave.
A large acute trust in London has missed its original financial target for last year by £60m, but has still been awarded most of its sustainability and transformation funding.
London hospital trusts have been forced to bring patient transport services in house or re-tender them as incumbent firms exit the market.
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