Paramedics: Costs
(asked on 12th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the average cost to the NHS of employing a paramedic in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the mean annual cost of employing ambulance paramedics, for the 12 month period July to June each year, 2011 to 2016.
| Average cost of employment by year |
July 2011 to June 2012 | £44,850 |
July 2012 to June 2013 | £45,127 |
July 2013 to June 2014 | £44,827 |
July 2014 to June 2015 | £45,501 |
July 2015 to June 2016 | £45,743 |
Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS Staff Earnings Estimates for earnings and unvalidated electronic staff record data for on costs
Paramedics earn on average about 42% of basic pay in other earnings. These include premium pay rates for working unsocial hours, pay for working overtime and other additional hours, and geographic allowances for staff employed in and around London described as High Cost Area Supplements.
On costs include employers pension contributions and employers national insurance and have been estimated at 20.5% of mean earnings.