§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many agency staff of all grades NHS Professionals has employed to carry out its central functions and administration in each month; and at what cost; [124303]
(2) what the (a) start up and (b) quarterly costs of NHS Professionals have been since its inception; how many staff have been employed; and at what cost; [124304]
(3) which NHS trusts NHS Professionals has had contracts with in each month since its inception; when those contracts were entered into; when they ended; and what their value was; [124305]
(4) how many agency staff NHS Professionals has deployed in each month since its inception; what the cost was to NHS Professionals of deploying staff; and what the income received from NHS trusts was; [124306]
(5) how many and what grades of staff have been retained for agency work by NHS Professionals in each month since its inception. [124307]
§ Mr. HuttonThe information requested on the staffing of NHS Professionals is not collected centrally, but is available from individual NHS Professionals service providers.
NHS Professionals was allocated £7 million to support the start up of pilot sites. A further £24 million has been invested in 2002–03 to support roll out and we will continue to invest in NHS Professionals to ensure implementation. We have also earmarked up to £35 million to support the establishment of the NHS Professionals Special Health Authority by the end of this year, and continuing development in 2004–05. Thereafter, the special health authority should operate on a self-financing basis delivering more cost effective temporary staff to the national health service.
The NHS trusts which are using NHS Professionals are shown in the following list. Information on contracts and staffing is not available centrally.
NHS trusts which host NHS Professionals include the expenditure for deploying agency staff in their accounts and financial returns. The trusts are St. Mary's NHS Trust Paddington, Barking, Having and Redbridge NHS Trust, West Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, John Radcliffe NHS Trust, East and North Herts NHS Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust. NHS trusts which utilise the services of "NHS Professionals" are recharged for these services and will also include these payments in their own accounts and financial returns.
There are 50,000 staff registered with NHS Professionals. Information on grades of staff is not available.
420WNHS Trusts using NHS Professionals
- Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust
- Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust
- Bath and NE Somerset PCT, Bath
- Cherwell Vale PCT, Oxfordshire
- Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester
- City Hospital Sunderland NHS Trust
- Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Stourbridge
- East and North Herts NHS Trust, Stevenage
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Epping Forest PCT
- George Eliot NHS Trust, Nuneaton
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
- Harlow PCT
- Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust, Newport
- Lancashire Care NHS Trust, Preston
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Leicester
- Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Wakefield
- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol
- North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- North East Oxfordshire PCT
- North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- North Mersey Community NHS Trust
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, Oxford
- Oxford City PCT
- Oxford Learning Disability NHS Trust
- Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
- Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare NHS Trust
- Penine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Oldham
- Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow
- Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust
- Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
- Royston, Buntingford and Bishops Stortford PCT
- Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- South East Oxfordshire PCT
- South Leeds PCT
- South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, Middlesbrough
- South West Oxfordshire PCT
- South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust
- St. Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust
- St. Marys NHS Trust, London
- Stockport NHS Trust
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- University College London Hospitals NHS Trust
- University Hospital, Nottingham NHS Trust
- Uttlesford PCT, Essex
- Walsall PCT
- Walton Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust, Liverpool
- West Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust