Wednesday 03 July 2024
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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