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FOI 3491 Staff data, expenditure and time to recruit

  1. Please advise the size of the trust workforce in total for each of the following staff groups– please provide data in WTE (Whole Time Equivalent):
Data 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Healthcare assistants 1059.77 981.67 1090.06
Nurses Band 5 – 7 2605.83 2455.10 2482.56
Midwives 355.32 359.31 369.70
FY1 doctor 68.00 68.80 67.71
FY2 doctor 58.00 58.38 58.00
Staff Grade Practitioner 9.13 9.13 5.63
Associate Specialist Registrar 45.05 37.77 34.98
Specialist Registrar 25.88 15.36 5.40
Consultant (all specialties) 370.98 372.74 385.30

 

  1. Please advise the average time (in days), from permission to recruit to start date for the following substantive staff groups:
Data Days/ 2013-14
Nurses 98
Midwives 98
Consultant doctors (all specialties) 154
Mid-grade doctors medical 154
Mid-grade doctors surgical 154

 

  1. Please advise the numbers of current vacant substantive posts across the following:
Data WTE Vacancies
Nurses – bands 5-7 121
Midwives            29.86
Consultant doctors (all specialties) 28
Mid-grade doctors medical 20
Mid-grade doctors surgical 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Please advise the average sickness absence rates in percentages for the following substantive staff groups:
Data 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Nurses 4.23% 4.62% 4.60%
Medics 0.95% 0.98% 1.19%
Whole organisation average 4.10% 4.47% 4.28%

 

 

  1. Please advise the average total Bank and Agency spend for the following staff groups:
Heart of England Foundation Trust – January 2015
Agency and Band Expenditure
2011-12 to 2013-14
Data 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Healthcare assistants/care support workers – Agency £125,829 £160,597 £438,660
Healthcare assistants/care support workers – Bank £3,266,739 £3,324,963 £3,155,757
Nurses all grades – Agency – Qualified £1,853,335 £1,711,252 £4,037,447
Nurses all grades – Bank – Qualified £7,059,244 £8,082,020 £8,350,229
Mid-grade medics all specialties Agency £2,231,258 £1,765,148 £2,383,856
Mid-grade medics all specialties – Bank £1,161,383 £1,692,032 £1,692,861
Consultants all specialties – Agency £1,556,965 £1,283,613 £3,377,637
Consultants all specialties – Agency – Bank £1,863,878 £2,171,601 £2,255,891
Notes:
Agency Consultant includes Agency Dental Consultants
Bank Middle Grade include old grade locum specialist registrar, excludes F1, F2, SHO, HO
Nurse all grades figures excludes HCA’s (unqualified)

 

  1. If you source temporary staffing from external suppliers please advise how many suppliers you source the following staff groups from:
Data Suppliers
Nurses 42
Medics 19
Healthcare Asst./care support workers 42

 

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