All Agency staff articles – Page 12
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HSJ Local
Rising demand leads to rising agency spend at George Eliot
WORKFORCE: High levels of demand has led to a rise in demand for agency staff at George Eliot Hospital Trust.
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HSJ Local
Medic invoice blamed for agency spend rise at Sussex FT
WORKFORCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust noted an increase in its agency pay bill for January, which it said was partly caused by a doctor’s invoice being “higher than estimated”.
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HSJ Local
Herts trust considers increasing use of bank staff
WORKFORCE: East and North Herts Trust is looking at changing the make up of its workforce to reduce the number of redundancies it may have to make when service changes are completed in 2014.
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HSJ Local
Agency costs hit west Suffolk surplus plan
FINANCE: Overspending on agency staff has led to West Suffolk Foundation Trust halving its predicted surplus for the year.
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NewsRevealed: all but six of London's non-FT hospital trusts unviable by 2014-15
Only six of London’s 18 non-foundation hospital trusts will be viable in their current form in 2014-15, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Medway FT deficit driven by staff pay costs
FINANCE: Medway Foundation Trust had a deficit of £2.3m at the end of the first six months of the financial year, £651,000 more than it had planned at this stage.
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HSJ Local
Use of agency increases in wake of Cornwall headcount reduction
WORKFORCE: Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, which is trying to cut 400 posts out of the workforce, has increased the number of agency staff it uses.
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HSJ Local
East Kent Hospitals plans £50m workforce saving
WORKFORCE: East Kent Hospitals plans to make savings from its workforce totalling £54m over the next three years.
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HSJ Local
Plan to reduce workforce by 125 at Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital FT plans to shed more than a hundred whole time equivalent posts over the next three years, while reducing agency use.
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HSJ Local
Sickness absence up 1.3 per cent on year at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
WORKFORCE: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has reported that its sickness absence rate, while down on last month, is 1.3 per cent higher than last year.
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NewsAgency workers to get improved employment deal
New rights for temporary and short term contract staff are due to come into force this weekend, helping to stamp out some of the exploitation agency staff face at work, the TUC has said.
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HSJ Local
Coventry and Warwickshire already £1.5m in the red
FINANCE: Trust board papers reveal a £1.5m deficit which includes a £0.6m overspend in non-elective activity.
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HSJ Local
£2.5m overspend expected on pay at Ipswich Hospital
FINANCE: Ipswich Hospital Trust overspent by nearly £1.7m on pay for the first three months of the financial year due to temporay staffing levels, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
Essex cluster brings in staff to tackle continuing healthcare backlog
WORKFORCE: The South Essex primary care trust cluster has brought in extra nursing and administrative resource to deal with a continuing healthcare (CHC) overspend.
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HSJ Local
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership overspending in 'some staff areas'
WORKFORCE: Staff in post at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust are 314 whole time equivalent below the funded level, but the organisation is still overspending on staff in some areas.
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HSJ Local
University Hospitals Leicester racks up £8.4m deficit
FINANCE: Trust board finance papers reveal that at the end of June the organisation had spiralled into a debt of £8.4m already this year, a position the finance director Andrew Seddon describes as “most disappointing”.
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HSJ Local
'Unsound' financial start to year for Sandwell and West Birmingham
FINANCE: Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust has run up a deficit of £204,000, which is £296,000 worse than the planned position.
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HSJ Local
Shrewsbury and Telford secures £6.5m of one-off funding
FINANCE: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust has secured £6.5m of transitional funding, helping it improve its predicted financial end of year out-turn for 2011-12 from a £10.56m deficit to a breakeven position.
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HSJ Local
Heatherwood FT sickness rate costs £720,000 in one month
WORKFORCE: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reported that it lost 3,321 working days in April to sickness, at a cost of £720,000.
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HSJ Local
Barts improves agency spend
WORKFORCE: The east London hospital has seen a falling off of the amount it spends on agency and bank nursing staff.