Pay bill up at North Middlesex after A&E pressures

Board papers said: “The trust continues to report a significant variance against staffing budgets, which are cumulatively overspent by £380k at month two.

“This has been driven by the cost of additional unplanned and unfunded capacity opened to support current A&E and bed pressures. It is supplemented by the impact of significant overspends against medical staffing costs within the surgical specialties department.

“The volume and value of temporary staffing expenditure employed by the trust continues to remain a significant concern. In May this amounted to £1.1m in the month, this represented 11 per cent of the total trust pay bill.”