Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultants have been employed by the Trust Special Administration (TSA) of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust since its inception; how many person-days they have worked; what (a) accommodation, (b) travel, (c) subsistence and (d) other expenses they have incurred; and what other costs to the TSA they have incurred.
The Department holds records of the total capital allocated to the respective recipient bodies as a result of the transfer of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust services but does not have details of the breakdown by individual hospital site.
The capital provided to date is as follows:
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | £12,109,000 |
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | £12,153,000 |
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | £4,000,000 |
Grand Total | £28,262,000 |
Revenue funding provided to date is set out in the following table:
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | £32,420,000 |
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | £5,480,000 |
Grand Total | £37,900,000 |
The amount of public dividend capital issued to the Trust by the Department is as follows:
2009/10 | £214,000 |
2010/11 | £0 |
2011/12 | £21,000,000 |
2012/13 | £21,385,000 |
2013/14 | £30,397,000 |
2014/15 | £64,425,000 |
The Department does not hold central records of non-tariff payments made by local commissioning bodies to NHS providers.
The work of the trust special administrators (TSAs) to secure safe and sustainable services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.
The first phase of trust special administration cost £9 million, including expenses and VAT. During this phase there was a team of up to 30 members of staff who carried out three core tasks - to help to run the Trust, to design the future of services provided at Stafford and Cannock hospitals, and to run a large public consultation involving thousands of responses and a series of public meetings.
The second phase cost £10.5 million, including expenses and VAT. We are informed by Monitor that this second phase included a team of up to 50 people, which was required to continue to help run the hospital and implement the TSA’s recommendations.
We are also informed by Monitor that trust special administration at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust amounted to the rounded figure of 10,900 person-days for teams working on both phases of the process.
In the table below, expenses incurred during the TSA process are split by the two phases of the TSA and totals are also provided. These expenses include:
(a) accommodation;
(b) travel (car, taxi and train);
(c) subsistence; and
(d) other expenses incurred; and what other costs to the TSA were incurred
Breakdown of expenses, these exclude VAT:
TSA1 | TSA2 | Total | |
Accommodation | £82,242.89 | £170,622.67 | £252,865.56 |
Travel | £144,122.38 | £226,600.29 | £370,722.67 |
Subsistence | £16,171.73 | £43,176.88 | £59,348.61 |
Other (incidentals such as printing, room hire and meeting refreshments) | £1,939.11 | £3052.73 | £4991.84 |
Total | £244,476.11 | £443,452.57 | £687,928.68 |