Funding for primary mental health teams 2020-2021
Dear West London NHS Trust,
Regarding integrated primary mental health teams in your Trust/ organisation:
1) What was the total funding spent on clinical staff in financial year 2020/2021
2) Please outline the categories of staff - such as doctors/ nurses/ social workers/psychologists - on whom the funding has been spent and state how much has been spent on each category.
3) If the above information is not available, then please supply audit reports of money spent so far by your NHS Trust/organisation on the Integrated primary mental health model.
Yours faithfully,
Paul Atkinson
Dear Mr Atkinson
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10/09/2022. We will aim to respond within 20 working days.
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Information Governance Officer
West London NHS Trust
Dear Mr Atkinson,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request (our ref 312). Please
find below our response:
Regarding integrated primary mental health teams in your Trust/
organisation:
1) What was the total funding spent on clinical staff in financial year
2020/2021
2) Please outline the categories of staff - such as doctors/ nurses/
social workers/psychologists - on whom the funding has been spent and
state how much has been spent on each category.
3) If the above information is not available, then please supply audit
reports of money spent so far by your NHS Trust/organisation on the
Integrated primary mental health model.
Response: For the above FOI request, the FY 2020/21 clinical staff costs
by staff groups are as follows:
FY 2021 Clinical staff
expenditure (£'000)
Staff Group Substantive Bank Agency Total
AHP & Support 11,280,590 325,027 1,000,840 12,606,458
Staff
Medical 25,922,363 1,490,501 4,469,534 31,882,398
Nursing 50,975,908 8,208,732 6,421,401 65,606,041
qualified
Nursing HCA 26,534,563 11,152,251 2,865,264 40,552,078
(unqualified
nurse
Pharmacy 1,993,860 210,111 423,769 2,627,740
Psychologist 19,890,799 160,016 1,234,624 21,285,440
Psychotherapist 2,406,975 241,490 0 2,648,465
Scientific & 1,762,065 4,132 0 1,766,197
Technical Staff
Total 140,767,123 21,792,260 16,415,433 178,974,816
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Information Governance Department
Trust Headquarters
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UB2 4SD
Or alternatively, you can email: [1][email address]
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right to appeal to the Information Commissioner using the following
contact details:
Information Commissioner's Office
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Telephone: 01625 545 700
Thank you.
Kind regards,
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Information Governance Officer
West London NHS Trust
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Amit Mukherjee left an annotation ()
The information returned is very unclear. It is not tabulated properly and the figures appear all mixed up together. Public authorities have a duty to present information in a legible way so that data can be interpreted and scrutinised.