Agenda and supporting papers - Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

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Discretionary pay (Section E1 of Performance Dashboard)
5.2 Discretionary pay has reduced by £373k in Month 2 to £1.38m. This is principally due
to a large reduction in nursing bank and agency.
Training and Appraisals (Section E2 of Performance Dashboard)
5.3 The completion of mandatory essential skills training has remained static in Month 2
at 95%. Child protection has also remained static at 97%. Manual handling and basic
life support have both decreased slightly by 1% to 92% and 87% respectively.
Appraisal completion rates (for non-medical staff) have remained static in Month 2 at
82%.
Sickness Absence (Section E3 of Performance Dashboard)
5.4 Sickness absence has decreased in Month 2 from 4.34% to 3.63%, with the 12 month
average sickness absence rate also continuing to decrease to 4.44%.
In terms of sickness absence rates within staff groups, the staff groups with combined
short and long term absence of more than 4% are Estates (5.42%) and Additional
Clinical Services (6.13%).
More robust management of poor attendance is being implemented alongside a
range of prevention and wellbeing initiatives.
A number of interventions have been put in place to support the health and wellbeing
of staff and increase their resilience. The Occupational Health and Wellbeing
Department’s Employee Assistance Service provide counselling, mediation, mental
health advice and a range of education and training including:
• Preventing Stress
• Understanding Stress
• Promoting Positive Manager Behaviour (which is run for managers)
• Building Resilience (which is available for all staff, as well as a group intervention)
• Self-Care course (to help staff focus on their own individual health and wellbeing).
Alongside the implementation of a new Sickness Absence Policy, the contracts of
employment of 17 individuals having been terminated in the past 6 months, following
persistent absence associated with health issues.
6 Compliance with Monitor’s Requirements
Governance Risk Rating (Section F1 of Performance Dashboard)
Continued failure of the A&E 4 hour target and 62 day cancer standards in addition to
the failure of RTT admitted and incomplete pathways have resulted in a ‘Red’ rating
for May. We anticipate a final Q1 position of 4.0 (Red), with the same four standards
failing the quarter.
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