Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 2009 - Health Committee Contents

10.  FOUNDATION TRUSTS

10.1.5  Will Monitor list: (a) the management consultants employed by all Foundation Trusts, indicating the projects they are employed on, their duration, cost and purpose; and (b) the top ten daily rates paid by each Foundation Trust? (Q122)

Answer

  1.  In 2008-09, Monitor collected, as part of the submission of annual accounts from foundation trusts, the total amount spent by each trust on management consultants during the year. This information is contained in the NHS Foundation Trusts: Consolidated Accounts 2008-09, which was presented to Parliament pursuant to Schedule 8, paragraph 11(5)(a) of the National Health Service Act 2006. These were ordered to be printed by the House of Commons on 15 July 2009.

  2.  The NHS foundation trust sector spent £129 million on management consultants in 2008-09. This information has only been collected by Monitor for 2008-09, so it is not in a position to provide comparative data. This information, in aggregate, was published this summer by Monitor in the consolidated accounts of foundation trusts.

  3.  Monitor does not collect detailed information such as the names of external consultants, the projects they are employed on, their duration, cost and purpose, or the top ten daily rates paid in each case. This is more by way of performance management which is not Monitor's role or remit. It is the responsibility of each NHS foundation trust board to manage their trust in an effective, efficient and economic manner. The chief executive of each NHS foundation trust as the accounting officer is the person responsible for ensuring that this is the case.

  4.  See table 122 for a detailed breakdown of expenditure on management consultants by NHS foundation trust.

Table 122

EXPENDITURE ON MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS, 2008-09

	£ millions
	Consultancy costs
2gether NHS Foundation Trust	0.8
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.7
Basildon & Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1.8
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	1.1
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust	2.5
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.8
Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust	0.6
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust	2.4
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	2.0
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust	0.7
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	1.2
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.4
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1.9
Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.6
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.4
Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
East London NHS Foundation Trust	1.3
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1.2
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.4
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	12.2
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust	4.7
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	2.0
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	1.0
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.6
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	29.3
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust	0.6
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust	0.8
Luton and Dunstable Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1.9
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust	0.8
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Moorfield Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.9
Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
North East London NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust	3.4
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust	0.7
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust	0.8
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Poole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	2.3
Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	0.6
Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	0.9
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	0.4
Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust	0.6
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	3.3
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1.2
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	1.2
South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust	4.8
South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	0.9
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	0.4
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.4
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust	0.6
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust	0.5
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	6.5
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
The Royal Bournemouth And Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1.2
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust	1.2
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.4
University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust	1.1
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	3.6
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust	1.7
Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.2
Wirral University Teaching NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust	0.0
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0.1
York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	0.3
Total	129.2
Source:
Monitor (NHS foundation trusts' consolidated accounts)
Footnotes:
1.  The number of NHS foundation trusts as at 31 March 2009 was 115.
2.  A detailed breakdown of operating expenses other has only been collected by Monitor from 2008-09 so no comparative data can be provided.

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Prepared 20 January 2010