George Howarth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by George Howarth on 2016-10-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much (a) Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust, (b) St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services NHS Trust, (c) Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (d) Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, (e) Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust and (f) Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spent on agency medical staff in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
Mr Philip Dunne
The Department does not collect data on which specific area of employment provider expenditure was incurred under. Data is however collected in totality for employees under temporary or agency contracts. The total temporary and agency staff expenditure incurred by the six providers for 2014-15 and 2015-16 is shown in the table below.
Provider body |
2014-15 £000 |
2015-16 £000 |
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen |
11,652 |
11,244 |
St Helens and Knowsley |
8,403 |
12,251 |
Aintree |
14,927 |
11,253 |
Wirral |
6,181 |
12,849 |
Southport and Ormskirk |
11,115 |
15.080 |
Warrington and Halton |
11,562 |
15,957 |
In addition to payments made for medical staff, the figures in the above table include the costs of temporary and agency workers engaged in other activities, such as employees contracted for provision of other administration and support services.