31 June 2014
Cliftonville
Northampton
Mr T Henry
NN1 5BD
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Dear Mr T Henry
Request under Freedom of Information Act 2000
Request Ref: NGFOI 14/15: 153
Response Letter
Thank you for your request for information received at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
(NGH) on 08.07.14.
I am pleased that we are now able to provide you with a response to your request as shown below.
You requested:
1. Total staff (Non-agency and agency) Whole Time Equivalents per Pathology Service - and
Section/Specialism if available, i.e. Blood Sciences: Haematology, Blood transfusion, Biochemistry;
Microbiology; Immunology - per month of 2014, up to and including the latest available data
(preferably
including
any
figures
covering
July
1st-7th
2014).
2. For the same months of the same period (including any incomplete calendar months), for each of
the same Pathology Services (and Sections/Specialisms if available): Total agency/locum WTEs
and actual OR estimated spend on agency/locum staff.
Response from Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGH):
1. Total staff (Non-agency and agency) Whole Time Equivalents per Pathology
Service - and Section/Specialism if available, i.e. Blood Sciences: Haematology,
Blood transfusion, Biochemistry; Microbiology; Immunology - per month of 2014, up
to and including the latest available data (preferably including any figures covering
July 1st-7th 2014).
Please find below a summary of Contracted Staff in Post (WTE) as at the last day of each
month in 2014 to date, plus as at 7 July 2014.
Contracted
FTE
31/01/2014 28/02/2014
31/03/2014 30/04/2014
31/05/2014 30/06/2014 07/07/2014
Pathology
Department
Total
171.47
167.87
169.87
170.33
171.33
171.05
171.01
Microbiology
36.26
36.26
36.26
36.72
35.72
36.85
35.85
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Histopathology
28.26
28.26
30.26
31.26
30.26
29.86
29.82
Haematology
23.68
23.68
23.68
22.68
22.68
22.68
22.68
Biochemistry
58.92
56.07
57.07
57.07
60.07
59.07
59.07
General
Pathology
12.59
12.59
12.59
12.59
12.59
12.59
12.59
Infection
Control
7.00
7.00
7.00
7.00
7.00
7.00
8.00
Blood
Transfusion
4.75
4.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
2. For the same months of the same period (including any incomplete calendar months), for
each of the same Pathology Services (and Sections/Specialisms if available): Total
agency/locum WTEs and actual OR estimated spend on agency/locum staff.
TO END OF JUNE
TOTAL WTE WORKED
Department
Jan-14
Feb-14
Mar-14 Apr-
May-
Jun-
14
14
14
MICROBIOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY
38.31
36.76
37.55
37.45 36.08 36.20
CELLULAR PATHOLOGY
31.74
30.86
31.40
33.40 31.55 33.04
BLOOD TRANSFUSION
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
HAEMATOLOGY
24.79
24.80
24.40
24.99 24.99 24.99
BIOCHEMISTRY
24.32
24.22
23.72
23.72 23.72 23.72
PRE-ANALYTICAL
38.53
35.67
33.34
33.35 34.19 35.58
ANTENATAL BID (BTS)
1.75
1.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
GENERAL PATHOLOGY
7.32
7.14
9.02
8.48
7.72
7.84
TOTAL AGENCY SPEND
CELLULAR PATHOLOGY
Jan-
Feb-
Mar-
Apr-
May-
Jun-
Total
14
14
14
14
14
14
NON NHS PROF & TECH STAFF
4,118
898
-
293
419
0
612
5,116
NON NHS A & C STAFF
1,929 1,263
1,161
3,445
537 8,335
TOTAL
6,047 2,161
-
293 3,864
537 8,947
3,956
We can confirm that we hold the information on the Total agency spend for all the other
Sections/Specialisms requested; however we are currently unable to provide this information
until we have finished our reporting on that month, which we estimate to be available on the
15th August 2014.
Once this information is available, we will respond to you accordingly.
We hope that you will find the information provided both informative and helpful. We also hope that
you will be satisfied with the manner in which we have dealt with your Freedom of Information
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request. If not, please do let me know or you may ask for an independent internal review under the
Freedom of Information complaints procedure at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. Internal
review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of this response.
Please see the attached leaflet.
If you remain dissatisfied after the internal review, you may make an approach to the Information
Commissioner as outlined in the attached leaflet.
This completes the Trust response to your request, but please note:
The information provided is the property of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
and subject to Copyright Protection, Intellectual Property and Database Rights. You are
free to use the information supplied for your own use, including non-commercial
research purposes. However, any other type of re-use including for example publishing
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Information Regulations 2005. This means that if you wish to re-use the information
provided for commercial purposes for any reason you must ask us for permission to do
so. Should we agree that you can use the information it will be subject to the issue of a
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If you have any questions about this process please contact:
Information Governance Manager
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Cliftonville, Northampton
NN1 5BD
Tel.(direct dial): 01604 523881
E-mail – xxx@xxx.xxx.xx
If t here is anything you need clarification on, please do not hesitate to contact me on the above
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You
rs sincerely
Angela Twiselton
Information Governance Assistant
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
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