WORKFORCE: Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust has reported that 7.9 per cent of its pay bill was going on temporary staff in March, against a target of 5 per cent.
The trust’s sickness absence rates were above target for the year, with a rolling 12-month rate of 5.38 per cent at the end of 2011-12.
A national target of 3.39 per cent has been set for 2012-13, based on the best performing trusts in the country.
April 2012
A trust has called in a private provider to help address very long diagnostic waits, but admits they remain at a “standstill” without “further investment”.
NHS England has told integrated care boards they need to slow down elective referrals dramatically – nearly eliminating year-on-year growth – with high-profile waiting list targets under threat.
An acute trust and a mental health trust in the Midlands have announced they are to share a chair, which they say will create more opportunities for joined-up care.
A merger of three trusts in the West Midlands has been put on hold by NHS Improvement.
The chief executive of an inadequate rated trust has been appointed to lead a neighbouring trust going through a merger.
A merger between three West Midlands trusts to create one of the biggest community and mental health providers in the county has been delayed, HSJ can reveal.
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