Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Whittingham Hospital.

  • Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry into Whittingham Hospital.
Date:
[1972]
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    of patients’ needs and in the adjusting of official allowances to accord with those needs. (iii) There is no apparent control over drafts for social security benefits addressed to individual patients. At present, such drafts, which are clearly recognisable as such, are received with the general post and distributed with patients’ other letters. Controls should at least ensure that remittances are delivered safely to patients. 2. Hospital shop The deficiencies referred to at paragraph g(ili) of the interim report have abated but have not disappeared. In the financial year ended 31 March, 1970, the total net deficiency was £700 15s. 8d. (a further £53 4s. 7d. to that already reported for the period to 29 December, 1969). In the period 1 April to 7 October, 1970, the total net deficiency was £104 10s. 11d. 3. Other aspects of the special audit Enquiries into other aspects of expenditure of the Committee, referred to in the concluding paragraph of the interim report, were subjected to a few preliminary enquiries only at audit and were handled in greater depth by the police. 4. Overtime During the course of the audit, very high levels of overtime among some sections of the staff were observed. The following is an extract from details prepared by the Committee’s officers for a period of 26 weeks up to 27 September, 1970 :— Average Average Number Total weekly Section of staff weekly overtime overtime paid paid per person staff 3 £ 3. da. Building and oo a ao 112 15,645 SF 0 Domestic i a an 90 9,160 3 18 O Catering ee i is ee 62 6,263 3 18 0 Pan... S ae <u oe a 3,503 9-3-0 Boiler House ... : eet au 7 2,074 ti 3. 0 Grounds and Can os a 26 3,349 419 0 Printers oi ae oy a 2 353 615 0 Transport i ee ae es 10 1,890 1 3-0 Telephonists ... re oe ee 4 546 5.5 «(0 Lipholsterers ... ae tie a 2 390 7 10-0 Security Officer ae i ate 1 2ol 8 18 O TOTALS ee aa a 323 £43,404 It appears that enquiries should be directed into the reasons for these levels of overtime and as to whether it is justified. The Committee should require that authority should be given to overtime at an appropriate senior level
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