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
A trust has been taken out of financial special measures after over two years – because it has reduced its underlying deficit by £15m and is making progress on efficiency and productivity savings.
NHS providers must submit a business case to show setting up a wholly owned subsidiary company yields value beyond VAT savings, under new proposals from NHS Improvement.
A trust leader has announced his retirement after 21 years as an NHS provider chief executive.
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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