WORKFORCE: Pay costs were their “highest ever” at Royal Berkshire trust in March.
The trust spent over £16m on staff in month 12 of 2012-13. The rise in spending was “driven by agency” staff, board papers said.
Year to date spend on agency staff was 5.8 per cent of the total staff cost – higher than the trust’s target of 5.3 per cent and little better than the outturn rate of 2011-12. In February, the most recent available data, they were 6.9 per cent.
May 2013
The interim leader of a health economy hoping to secure “integrated care system” status has left her position earlier than planned, after the parties agreed they had reached a ”natural point” for “early conclusion of the contract”.
A region’s first specialist children’s hospital – combining physical and mental health services – may be opened in 2023 now the government has approved up to £100m for the long-planned project, the lead chief executive has told HSJ.
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed the trusts and partnerships which will receive capital funding worth around £900m for building developments.
A new chief executive for Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust has been appointed.
STRUCTURE: Four trusts in the south of England are in detailed discussions about merging their pathology services.
PERFORMANCE: Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust’s performance against the national waiting standard for accident and emergency worsened in February, with 92.1 per cent of patients being treated or discharged within four hours.
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