FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/00894
- Request Date
- April 8, 2016
- Subject
- Waiting List Initiative Payments
- Description
This request concerns the payment of waiting list initiative payments by English acute trusts, Scottish and Welsh NHS boards and Northern Irish health and social care trusts.
Please provide:
- The total amount paid in waiting list initiative payments (and other higher rate additional payments for weekend and evening work) to consultants for the following financial years:
i. 2013-14
ii. 2014-15
iii 2015-16
The five highest totals of such payments paid to individual consultants, stating the name and job title of each consultant, and how many hours they worked, for the following financial years:
i. 2013-14
ii 2014-15
iii 2015-16
Names and job titles of consultant – we are exempting this information under Section 40(2) as this is personal information
3. The maximum hourly rate and the minimum hourly rate for such payments for each of following financial years:
i. 2013-14
ii 2014-15
ii 2015-16
4a.The number of individual consultants (headcount) who received such payments; and
4b. The total number of consultants (headcount) working in your trust at the end of each of the following financial years
i. 2013-14
ii 2014-15
iii 2015-16
5. The amount paid to private sector providers to carry out routine procedures and the number of procedures carried out for each of the following financial years:
i. 2013-14
ii 2014-15
iii 2015-16
- Response
- i. 2013-14 £1518036
1. ii 2014-15 £2059937
- iii. 2015-16 £2183577
2 i. 2013-14 £151584 £67726 £57220 £56284 £55684
2.ii.2014-15 £210522 £115029 £78000 £71564 £65358
2. iii 2015-16 £183204 £107938 £84093 £61371 £52062
3 i. 2013-14 N/A Some payments are linked to productivity not hourly rate
3 ii.2014-15 N/A Some payments are linked to productivity not hourly rate
3 iii2015-16 N/A Some payments are linked to productivity not hourly rate
4 i. 2013-14 Number of Consultants in receipt: 149 Number of Consults employed: 203
4 ii. 2014-15 Number of Consultants in receipt: 173 Number of Consults employed: 212
4 iii. 2015-16 Number of Consultants in receipt: 172 Number of Consults employed: 223
5 i. 2013-14 £189,990; no information recorded
5 ii. 2014-15 £2,549,905; 978 procedures
5 iii. 2015-16 £0