The total cost spent on establishing and running the Pilot NHS Graduate Management Scheme for Communications is £1.2 million. This pilot scheme is just one stream of the larger graduate programme. The other established schemes are: General, Human Resources, Finance and Informatics.
There are 12 trainees on the Pilot NHS Graduate Management Scheme for Communications who are each paid a starting salary of £21,733. The total cost (wage and running costs) for each trainee is £100,000 for the two years of the scheme.
This is the same cost per trainee as for the other established graduate management schemes. The pilot communications scheme is the smallest of the schemes.
The pilot communications scheme runs for two years—October 2009 to September 2011, although it is funded over three financial years to cover this period (October 2009 to March 2010, April 2010 to March 2011, April 2011 to September 2011—see the following table for full details.)
The Department’s Communications Directorate and Directors of Communications for six strategic health authorities jointly fund this pilot scheme. The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement manages the scheme.
The breakdown of costs are:
Wage costs (including on costs such as national insurance and travel costs) Running costs Total October 2009-March 2010 168,000 182,000 350,000 April 2010-March 2011 343,000 257,000 600,000 April 2011-September 2011 168,000 82,000 250,000 Total 679,000 521,000 1,200,000