WORKFORCE: Barts and the London Trust approved £461,000 in payments to staff made compulsorily redundant in 2010-11, its annual accounts show.
Six staff received between £40,000 and £100,000 in “exit package costs”, while another 10 received £40,000 or less.
In 2009-10 the trust approved “exit package costs” of £150,000 to £200,000 for two separate compulsory redundancies.
Annual accounts (see attached, right)
July 2011
A consultant anaesthetist who claims his back was injured after he was knocked unconscious by a theatre light during an operation has lost his £1m High Court damages claim.
FINANCE: The east London acute trust made a total of £34.7m savings in 2010-11, £4.5m worse than plan.
STRUCTURE: The Co-operation and Competition Panel are inviting submissions from interested parties about the three-trust merger by June 15th.
A London hospital’s maternity service has improved enough to shed its “inadequate” rating, after serious concerns were raised about it at an inspection late last year.
A major London trust had to cancel hundreds of MRI scans after ageing equipment stopped working, causing it to miss its two-week diagnostic target for the first time in 14 months.
London’s largest acute provider is to come out of quality special measures after four years in the regime.
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