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
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
A hospital trust has been criticised for its “poor” and “defensive” investigations into three deaths, which a coroner has linked to care by a single surgeon.
More than £150m spent planning “new hospital” projects which are now in the long grass may need to be written off, according to estimates seen by HSJ.
A large hospital trust’s attempt to reduce its medical rates for extra shifts to bring them in line with other trusts in the region has sparked a row with the British Medical Association
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.
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