Number of pay banding appeals

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Dear University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust,

I would like to make a Freedom of Information request.

Junior doctors receive a banding supplement to their base pay.

In the year 2015, in your trust how many pay banding appeals for junior doctors were there? How many were successful? And how many (total) junior doctors were involved?

Following each of these appeals, how many resulted in a change in working pattern or extra staff/doctors being hired?

Very roughly, how many junior doctor have you employed in 2015?

Yours faithfully,

J Sturgeon

FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

Our Reference: HM/FOI/27451

23 March 2016

Dear Sir/Madam

Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 21 March 2016 via email. Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed centrally by the Trust Administration Team, and I confirm that your request is now being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20 working-day deadline. I will, of course, keep you informed should this not prove possible for any reason. If we require any clarification on your request, we will contact you as soon as possible.

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Yours sincerely,

Hina Majeed
Trust Administrator

Hina Majeed
Trust Administrator
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Belgrave House
Leicester General Hospital
Leicester LE5 4QF

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FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

 

Our Reference: HM/FOI/27451

 

18 April 2016

 

Dear Sir/Madam

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, as received
on 21 March 2016 and acknowledged on 23 March 2016.   For information, the
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the largest and
busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country incorporating Leicester General
Hospital, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary.  The three
hospitals are staffed by almost 11,000 people serving around one million
people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to
three million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for the
specialist services we provide.  During 2014/15 Leicester’s Hospitals
treated 1,229,500 (3,368 patients per day) – 97 more each day than in
2013/14.

 

In your request, you asked for the following information, I can confirm
that the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds information
covered by your FOI request. The Trust’s response is provided below each
question of your request.

 

Junior doctors receive a banding supplement to their base pay.

 

In the year 2015, in your trust how many pay banding appeals for junior
doctors were there? How many were successful? And how many (total) junior
doctors were involved?

 

I am advised by colleagues in the Trust’s Human Resources Directorate that
the Trust did not have any banding appeals in 2015.

 

Following each of these appeals, how many resulted in a change in working
pattern or extra staff/doctors being hired?

 

N/A

 

Very roughly, how many junior doctor have you employed in 2015?

 

Approximately 950

 

I hope that this response is satisfactory and provides you with the
information requested (where available). If you require any further
assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.  If you are dissatisfied
with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and
Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom
of Information Act complaints procedure.

 

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so
subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2005.  Accordingly you must not re-use this information
without having the consent of the Trust.  Where the Trust is prepared to
provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you
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In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust
has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you
of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Hina Majeed

Trust Administrator

 

Hina Majeed

Trust Administrator

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Belgrave House

Leicester General Hospital

Leicester LE5 4QF

 

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