Freedom of Information Request: 0887 2020/21
I am submitting a request for information held by the trust under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please fill in the attached, the same questions are listed below for your reference.
This is request is for the following information based on the financial years 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.
- For each year, how many staff employed by your trust were overpaid in error?
- For each year, how much in total were staff overpaid?
- For each year, how much has been recouped? How much has been written off?
- How much was the largest overpayment for each year and what was it for?
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1st April 2018. Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust this response has been provided by hospital site (Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, and Heartlands, Good Hope & Solihull Hospitals [HGS])
| Organisational Code | Trust Name | Year | For each year, how many staff employed by your trust were overpaid in error? | For each year, how much in total were staff overpaid? | For each year, how much has been recouped? How much has been written off? | How much was the largest overpayment for each year and what was it for? | |||
| RRK | University Hospitals
Birmingham |
2017-2018 | 215 (QE only) | £396,656 (QE only) | Recouped: £330,942 (QE only) Write Off: £9,534 (QE only)
|
£28,412 (QE only) | |||
| RRK | University Hospitals Birmingham | 2018-2019 | 554 (QE & HGS) | £950,988 (QE & HGS) | Recouped: £918,763 (QE & HGS) Write Off: £10,420 (QE and HGS)
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£53,392 (QE & HGS) | |||
| RRK | University Hospitals Birmingham | 2019-2020 | 718 (QE & HGS) | £1,107,253 (QE & HGS) | Recouped: £989,928 (QE & HGS) Write Off: £44,104 (QE & HGS) | £52,068 (QE & HGS) | |||
| All overpayments related to ‘Late change in contractual hours’ | |||||||||
