Wednesday 03 July 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7923
Date Request Received: 07/05/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 15/05/2024 00:00:00
This response was sent via: By Email
Request Summary: Capital Staffing
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Under the freedom of Information act (2000) please provide me with the Information to the questions shown below : • Since December 2023, which Nurses Shifts has the Trust struggled to fill ? Please consider the following Specialities for this question : A&E Nurses, NICU,ICU, Midwives, Paediatric Nurses & General Nurses? | |
| Answer To Question 1: ED (A&E), ICU Paediatrics | |
| Question Number 2: • Do approved Framework agencies approve or confirm Shifts directly with the matron Nurses or any senior nurses directly in the wards with the agencies ( Within any of the wards)? If, yes which wards book Nurses directly with the agencies & please provide these Nurses Full names? | |
| Answer To Question 2: All requests come through our Temporary Staffing service, not directly through wards/matrons. | |
| Question Number 3: • When does Temporary Staffing get approval for “Escalated rates” for Ad-hoc Shifts ? Please provide time scale leading up to the Shift date | |
| Answer To Question 3: The escalation process is within 12hours and agreed at appropriate level | |
| Question Number 4: • When does Temporary Staffing get approval for “Escalated rates” for Long term Agency Nurse Bookings? Please provide time scale leading up to the booking? | |
| Answer To Question 4: At present we have no long lines agency bookings. | |
| Question Number 5: • Who in the trust has the authority to approve the use of Escalated rates or break glass rate for the Approval Framework agencies, Please provide Full Name & Email address ? | |
| Answer To Question 5: For nursing only: Chief Nursing Officer or Deputy, or Executive/duty manager on call out of hours/weekends | |
| Question Number 6: • Please provide names of those agencies that are “breaching NHSI Rates” by being allowed to book Nurses & Midwives not within the NHSI capped rates ? | |
| Answer To Question 6: Thornbury Nursing Agency and Nutrix | |
| Question Number 7: • If an Approved framework agency can demonstrate their ability to provide Nurses & meet all the requirement with the possibility of using the alternative route of escalated or Break Glass rates , would Temporary staffing add that agency to their Tier 1 Suppliers list? | |
| Answer To Question 7: This Trust completed a new procurement/tendering exercise that was implemented in February 2024 with compliance to cap rates no later than 1st June 2024 | |
| Question Number 8: • Who is the head of Procurement responsible for approving “Approved Framework agencies” to join their Tier 1 Suppliers list to provide Nurses & Midwifes ? Please provide Full name & contact address email? | |
| Answer To Question 8: Beth Bartholomew, Deputy Head of Sourcing, beth.bartholomew@nhs.net | |
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