Trust spend over £25,000
The Prime Minister wrote to Secretaries of State on 31st May 2010 inviting them to improve the transparency of how public funds are used. This included a specific commitment to publish central government expenditure over £25,000. The commitment applies to all parts of central government, including NHS bodies.
Expenditure is deemed to encompass all individual invoices, grant payments, expense payments or other such transactions that are over £25,000. Expenditure on salaries and wages, and other pay items, is excluded from disclosure. Whilst the minimum requirement for 2010-11 is for central government entities to publish transactions over £25,000 each entity should, if possible, go beyond this £25,000 threshold and publish all items expenditure over £500.
In accordance with this commitment the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust now publishes on its website details of all expenditure payments for £25,000 or more. The information is available in CSV format and includes the following details:
Department family - for the Trust, this is the "Department of Health"
Entity - this is "Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust "
Date - this is the date when the transaction took place
Expense type - this is the general nature of the expenditure being recorded
Expense area - this is the part of the Trust that has spent the money
Supplier - this is the name of the supplier
Transaction number - this is a reference number for the individual transaction
Amount in sterling - the amount paid for each transaction, including any irrecoverable VAT
Supplier VAT registration number - this is the VAT registration number of the supplier (where recorded on the Trust's system)