Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 031 (a)
Financial Performance Report – January 2010
Paybill & Workforce
• Workforce numbers, excluding agency
staff are approximately 112 wtes below
plan for January. After adding agency
numbers, this becomes an adverse
position of 21 wtes. There has been a fall
of approximately 78 wtes in substantive
pay groups (i.e. excluding bank and
agency which can vary significantly
from one month to another). With the
exception of medical staff, this fall is
spread over all pay groups.
•Paybill (including agency staff) is
£336,000 above budgeted levels for the
month and £2,920,000 for the year to
date. Although this still remains an issue
in terms of managing expenditure, it
does represent a significant improvement
over performance in November and
December and reflects the fall in wte
numbers.
•In month expenditure on agency staff
was £616,000, an increase of over
£100,000 against expenditure in
December.
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6450
6400
6350
6300
6250
6200
6150
6100
6050
6000
22000
21500
21000
20500
20000
19500
19000
18500
Budgeted and Actual WTEs (Excluding Agency Staff)
Actual WTEs Budgeted WTEs
Budgeted and Actual Paybill
Agency Actual excl Agency Budgeted Paybill
Pay Variance by Pay Group
• The table below provides an analysis of all pay costs by major staff category by removing both bank and
agency costs and allocating these into the appropriate main pay group.
• The table demonstrates that the major areas of pay overspend continue to lie within medical staffing and
healthcare assistants and support staff, the latter group being broken down primarily into two sub groups:
healthcare assistants in clinical divisions and support staff (primarily domestics) within Facilities.
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