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 Department of Health and Social Care has told trusts to withhold their Brexit self-assessments from the press and public because publishing the details could “put public wellbeing at risk”, HSJ can reveal.
NHS trusts are not expecting disruption to services caused by EU staff leaving because of Brexit, according to analysis by HSJ .
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals Trust has been rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
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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