Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 038-2023
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below:
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following workforce information for your Trust for each of the following pay years: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23:
• The consultant workforce expressed in headcount average of the monthly totals during each year..
• The consultant workforce expressed in whole time or full time equivalent WTE/FTE., where WTE/FTE reflects all programmed activities undertaken by consultants, including additional programmed activities average of the monthly totals during each year.. By programmed activities, we mean the unit used by hospitals to plan consultant work.
o For avoidance of doubt, this is different to the FTE figure routinely published in the NHS Digital NHS Workforce Statistics https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics., where individual consultants contributing to that figure can only take up to a value of 1 FTE, even where they are working more than full-time.
• The total number of all programmed activities PAs. performed by consultants during each of the stated years.
• The total number of additional programmed activities APA’s. performed by consultants during each of the stated years. By additional programmed activities, we mean programmed activities that are additional to those in consultant main contracts i.e. those above programmed activities above 10 per week, in the case of a full-time consultant.. • Total number of programmed activities PAs. and/or hours of extra contractual work i.e. excluding APAs, e.g. waiting list initiative activity, additional sessions outside the job plan, etc. performed by consultants during each of the stated years. • The total number of programmed activities PAs. performed by consultants during a.. weekends, b.. weekday evenings, c.. weekday nights, and d.. weekday days during each of the stated years. o For avoidance of doubt, we mean: weekends: any time on a Saturday or a Sunday
weekday evenings: 7 pm to 11 pm Monday to Friday
weekday nights: 11 pm to 7 am Monday to Friday
weekday days: 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday • The number of consultant vacancies in the Trust expressed in whole time or full time equivalent WTE/FTE. at the beginning of each of the stated years.
Where it is not possible to provide this information going all the way back to December 2018, please provide the data as far back as is possible. Response to Q1. Data supplied 01/04 to 31/03 for each year additionally supplied the average FTE/WTE for Consultants using the same parametres..
18/19 Av Headcount 64.00 Average FTE 57.21
19/20 AV Headcount 67.00 Average FTE 60.15
20/21 Av Headcount 54.00 Average FTE 47.07
21/22 Av Headcount 61.50 Average FTE 53.39
22/23 Av Headcount 65.00 Average FTE 55.57
We have supplied the average Headcount by Year for question one and additionally the average FTE/WTE but this doesn’t reflect all programmed activities undertaken by consultants – please accept our apologies but Medical Staffing and Payroll do not have the ability to supply the additional information required.
FOI Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following workforce information for your Trust for each of the following pay years: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23:
• The consultant workforce expressed in headcount average of the monthly totals during each year..
• The consultant workforce expressed in whole time or full time equivalent WTE/FTE., where WTE/FTE reflects all programmed activities undertaken by consultants, including additional programmed activities average of the monthly totals during each year.. By programmed activities, we mean the unit used by hospitals to plan consultant work.
o For avoidance of doubt, this is different to the FTE figure routinely published in the NHS Digital NHS Workforce Statistics https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics., where individual consultants contributing to that figure can only take up to a value of 1 FTE, even where they are working more than full-time.
• The total number of all programmed activities PAs. performed by consultants during each of the stated years.
• The total number of additional programmed activities APA’s. performed by consultants during each of the stated years. By additional programmed activities, we mean programmed activities that are additional to those in consultant main contracts i.e. those above programmed activities above 10 per week, in the case of a full-time consultant..
• Total number of programmed activities PAs. and/or hours of extra contractual work i.e. excluding APAs, e.g. waiting list initiative activity, additional sessions outside the job plan, etc. performed by consultants during each of the stated years.
• The total number of programmed activities PAs. performed by consultants during a.. weekends, b.. weekday evenings, c.. weekday nights, and d.. weekday days during each of the stated years.
o For avoidance of doubt, we mean:
weekends: any time on a Saturday or a Sunday
weekday evenings: 7 pm to 11 pm Monday to Friday
weekday nights: 11 pm to 7 am Monday to Friday
weekday days: 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday
• The number of consultant vacancies in the Trust expressed in whole time or full time equivalent WTE/FTE. at the beginning of each of the stated years.