Speeches

Rushanara Ali – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rushanara Ali on 2015-02-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Barts’ Trust has paid for locum staff in each of the last five years.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The information is not available in the format requested. Total earnings for locum doctors, at Barts Health NHS Trust for the period April 2012 to October 2014 are shown in the following table.

April 2012 to October 2012

November 2012 to October 2013

November 2013 to October 2014

All locum doctors

£3,808,133

£4,810,950

£4,037,180

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS Staff Earnings Estimates.

Notes:

Data prior to April 2012, when the present merged Barts Health NHS Trust opened, are not available.

These figures represent payments made using the Electronic Staff Record system to National Health Service staff who are employed and directly paid by NHS organisations.