More hospital Buckinghamshire jobs face axe as redundancy bill grows (From Bucks Free Press)
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More hospital Buckinghamshire jobs face axe as redundancy bill grows
1:01pm Tuesday 27th July 2010 in
HOSPITAL redundancy costs rocketed from £46,000 to £637,000 last year – as bosses warned more job losses are on the way.
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages Wycombe, Amersham and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals, made the payouts in 2009/10.
The number of permanent employees fell from 4,010 in 2008/09 to 3,855 last year. But temporary workers rose from 80 to 313.
Bosses warned today that £18m to £20m now has to be slashed from its £307m income to slash costs by 10 per cent. The staff bill is about £180m.
They hope £15m can be removed by cutting down on temporary staff, equivalent to 375 workers.
Chief executive Anne Eden said: “However, in addition to this we need to make reductions in our own directly employed staff.”
She said: “We have put in place robust vacancy and recruitment and temporary staffing controls.
“But the fact is that we will be faced with some redundancies mainly in back office and administrative and clerical functions.”
Some staff would see their jobs change and she pledged to ‘take every practicable step to obviate the need for frontline redundancies as far as possible’.
But the trust was not saving enough cash in the first quarter of this year, from April to June, said Ms Eden.
The trust broke even last year by £146,000. But it is £990,000 in the red so far this year, with temporary staff causing the most problems.
This had led to NHS South Central, which oversees all trusts in the region, to intervene.
“They said it has not got enough traction,” she said of the savings plan. This had led to the appointment of a ‘turnaround director’.
Sending fewer patients to hospital is seen as a key way of driving down costs as care in the community is far cheaper.
Ms Eden was paid £155,000 to £160,000 it was revealed today.
The salary for 2009/10 was included in the trust's annual report for that year. Salaries were only provided in bands.
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Comments(14)
BigTommy
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1:21pm Tue 27 Jul 10
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How much was your bonus last year?
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Do you have trouble sleeping at night?
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miccles
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1:50pm Tue 27 Jul 10
???????
as you are the route of all this.
montero
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3:46pm Tue 27 Jul 10
miccles wrote:Absolutely right. How much are the buses between the two hospitals costing over the year? How much is the ambulance transport between the two hospitals costing?
So when are you going Ms bl**dy Eden???????????????? ??????? as you are the route of all this.
A town the size of Wycombe should have a fully operational hospital. Its appauling what this woman has done.
Of course care in the community is cheaper. Carers allowance (on full rate) equates to 30p per hour. Cut backs in services will mean that more and more people are cared for at home with no back up available whatsoever.
Now the respite services for children are being handed over to an outside agency - even those that need around the clock medical attention. Its mad and its immoral.
chesham20
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7:32pm Tue 27 Jul 10
Crazy_t
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8:06pm Tue 27 Jul 10
demoness
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9:17pm Tue 27 Jul 10
Crazy_t wrote:And how do you know that?
Funny how the loss of jobs was not mentioned in the staff newsletter and briefing by the chief exec. The hospital is going downhill and fast! Also the closing of maternity for 3 months is disgraceful!
yog
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12:16am Wed 28 Jul 10
Welwyn Dowd wrote:Right so the fact that the trust got so much in debt under Labour has nothing to do with it??????
The price of a Conservative government supported by LibDems. ButcherBaker is getting his way.
Crazy_t
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11:08am Wed 28 Jul 10
demoness wrote:How do u think?
Crazy_t wrote:And how do you know that?
Funny how the loss of jobs was not mentioned in the staff newsletter and briefing by the chief exec. The hospital is going downhill and fast! Also the closing of maternity for 3 months is disgraceful!
miccles
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11:19am Wed 28 Jul 10
Crazy_t wrote:Because Crazy_t probably works at the hospital, or something to do with it?
demoness wrote:How do u think?
Crazy_t wrote:And how do you know that?
Funny how the loss of jobs was not mentioned in the staff newsletter and briefing by the chief exec. The hospital is going downhill and fast! Also the closing of maternity for 3 months is disgraceful!
A VOTER
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11:22am Wed 28 Jul 10
First off, has no one noticed that permanent staff were reduced by 155 people, and to take up the slack, she has recruited 233 temporary workers...
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Then she announces that she needs to reduce expenditure to the tune of £15m by cutting down on temporary staff, equivalent to 375 workers. But she only has 233 temporary workers to start with. And... if the figure is £15m for 375 temps, that's £40k per temp...
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Do you think that the temps are overpaid????
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Maybe they should be keeping front line staff, and getting rid of middle & senior managers, plus Ms Eden should go now!
A VOTER
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11:34am Wed 28 Jul 10
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1. Ms Eden recruited an "additional" 233 temps, bringing the total to 313.
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2. She now has 313 temps, but needs to cut temp numbers by 375 workers
Watcher97
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8:24pm Wed 28 Jul 10
So there will be some clinical staff. How many wards are going to be closing and when will we be told. 1st it's maternity at High Wycombe for "3 Months" or realistically permanently. that'll save a few quid. Average 30 staff per ward, do the maths 10 wards times 30 staff = wycombe hospital, job done.
I believe as well as a turn around director there are 2 communications directors, not doing a very effective job at present, ditto a financial director, and the rest of them. how much could you save by getting rid of the whole bunch and letting volunteers do it. I expect there will be another round of "unexpected demand and unprecedented numbers trundelled out as an excuse for this appalling state of affairs.
In real life industry the hospital trust would have been wound up. declared insolvent or taken over by a more successful competitor. JR hospitals hello help us.
There was a great trumpeting of the trust taking over the running of the community side of things from the PCT. Will there now be cuts in this service too and if so, how will they stop people attending hospital if they are still open.
Perhaps the BFP should be asking these questions on our behalf. To help
1 How many wards are going to be closed and where?
2 If the provision of hospital beds is going to fall, where will these people go?
3.What is the cost of all these directors and in comparison to other similar hospitals are they value for money.
A VOTER
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9:06pm Wed 28 Jul 10
Are we talking to ourselves?
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1:13pm Tue 27 Jul 10