Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

(asked on 16th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total cost to the public purse was of the Trust Special Administration process at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 19th March 2015

Monitor issued a press release on 2 March issuing figures on costs incurred by Monitor for the trust special administrator’s (TSA) regime at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust (MSFT).

This press release outlines that the work of the TSAs to secure safe and sustainable services at MSFT cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.

This covers the work to find and implement a solution to the problems at MSFT (£17.35 million), plus the full cost of having the TSAs running the hospitals at the same time (£2.15 million).

All of the figures supplied by Monitor in their press release include VAT because they reflect the bills that Monitor and the trust have paid and will be declared as such in the accounts; however, the net cost of the process to the taxpayer would exclude VAT.

Monitor plans to publish a detailed breakdown of the costs of the TSA regime at MSFT, alongside a report setting out some of the lessons learned, in due course.

A copy of Monitor’s press release is attached.

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