Agency cost reductions
improve our financial position and reach NHS targets and ceilings
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Foundation Trust, South West, Acute
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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Foundation Trust, South West, Acute
The trust and its finance team needed to manage agency costs, otherwise we would have found our financial improvement plan even more challenging than it already was. It also created increased operational pressure with significant disparity in staff pay. If we did not manage and reduce our agency spend, we would not have met the NHS England agency requirements, including the maximum £8.8million agency spend cap, which we were significantly exceeding at the time.
The tangible outputs that came from our innovation were:
Not clear what this covers. Can’t be in the ICU as that has been agency free since 2017.
The benefits to the organisation because of the innovation were:
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