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Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_6597

Internal Reference Number: FOI_6597

Date Request Received: 19/05/2022 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 20/06/2022 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Locum agency spend

Request Category: Private Individuals

 
Question Number 1:
Please could you confirm the names of the top 5 locum agencies you have the most spend with within AHP/HSS there at the trust from the calendar year of 2021?
 
Answer To Question 1:
The Trust holds information in Financial Years.

The vast majority of AHP/HSS agency staff come through the Trust's Direct Engagement arrangement with PlusUs. Other agency staff in 2021-22 were supplied through Globe Locums Ltd, Your World Nursing Limited and Evergood Associates Ltd.
 
Question Number 2:
Please could you state the utilisation rate for each agency that has been achieved? This should amount to the total value of AHP locum spend supplied by each agency during the 2021 calendar year as a percentage of total AHP locum spend in the same period.
 
Answer To Question 2:
The Trust does not hold this information.
 
Question Number 3:
Please can you breakdown the total spend on AHP/HSS agency staff during the calendar year of 2021?
 
Answer To Question 3:
In 2021-22 the spend was:

Allied Health Professionals - £430k
Other scientific, therapeutic and technical staff - £648k
 
Question Number 4:
Please can break down the total spend on AHP/HSS agency staffing during the calendar year 2021 for the specialisms below:

AHP spend broken into the following:
Sonographers
Radiographers
Radiotherapists
Clinical Physiologists
Physiotherapists
Occupational Therapists
Speech and Language Therapists
Audiologists
Dieticians
Podiatrists
Clinical Psychologists
Theatre Practitioners

HSS spend broken into the following:
Biomedical Scientists
Mortuary/Pathology Technicians
Pharmacy Services Staff
Othoptists & Optometrists
 
Answer To Question 4:
The information held by the Trust on the breakdown of AHP’s and Other Scientific and Therapeutic Staff for 2021-22 is as follows:

Radiographers £327k
Occupational Therapists £5k
Physiotherapists £2k
Pharmacist £82k
Laboratory Medicine £149k
Microbiology £52k
Histology £45k
Electrocardiology - Operational Department Practitioners £87k
Theatres - Operational Department Practitioners £318k
Dieticians £11k
 
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