Agency Nursing

The request was successful.

Dear University Hos​pitals of North Midlands NHS Trust,

Can you please provide me with the name, contact number & email
address of the person responsible for agreeing agency contracts for
your Trust?

Please list your current employment agencies that you are using, how
often you are currently using temporary agencies for nursing &
healthcare staff? Can you also provide a complete list of agencies on your suppliers list?

Along with the above information can you please provide details of
your current tender process, how often this is reviewed and the
trusts current/future plans for recruitment agencies?

Finally if you can also provide details of the names of the
decision makers who ultimately decide which agencies the Trust use?

Yours faithfully,

Anthony

Carlisle, Linda (RJE) UHNS,

Dear ,

 

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your email dated 1st September 2015
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000)
regarding information governance incidents.

 

Under section 8(1) of the FOI Act, requestors are required to provide a
full name in order to make a request valid. The Information Commissioner
states that a "title and/or first name with surname satisfies the
requirement for provision of a real name, as does the use by a female
applicant of her maiden name". Therefore, in order to proceed with your
request can you please supply us with a valid name. Once we have received
this we will continue to process your request. If we do not hear from you
within the next two weeks we will assume you no longer require this
information and will close your request.

 

Many thanks

Information Governance Team

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

 

 

 

Dear Carlisle, Linda (RJE) UHNS,

Thank you for your email, I did not realise that was a requirement however I can confirm my name as Anthony Pickerill. Hopefully, this satisfies your request.

Yours sincerely,

Anthony Pickerill

Dear Mr Pickerill ,

 

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your email dated 1^st September
2015 requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000)
regarding Agency Nursing.

 

The FOI Act sets out a twenty working day timescale for requests to be
completed by. We will always try to complete your request within this
timeframe. We will let you know whether the Trust holds the information
you have requested, and we will contact you as soon as possible if we are
delayed in our response for some reason. If we require further information
from you or we need you to further explain your request before we can
continue to process it we will also contact you. 

 

Yours,

 

Information Governance Team

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

 

 

 

Dear University Hos​pitals of North Midlands NHS Trust,

I am chasing up the request dated 30th August, 2015 and acknowledged on the 2nd September, 2015. I would be grateful if you could inform me as to the progress of the request and when it would be fulfilled.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Anthony P

Dear Anthony P,

Could you please supply us with your surname and the FOI reference number so that we can inform you of its progress.

Regards

IG Team
University Hospitals of North Midlands
NHS Trust

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Dear FOI,

I was not supplied a FOI number however I have attached the response I have received from yourselves.

"Dear Mr Pickerill ,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your email dated 1^st September
2015 requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act (2000)
regarding Agency Nursing.

The FOI Act sets out a twenty working day timescale for requests to be
completed by. We will always try to complete your request within this
timeframe. We will let you know whether the Trust holds the information
you have requested, and we will contact you as soon as possible if we are
delayed in our response for some reason. If we require further information
from you or we need you to further explain your request before we can
continue to process it we will also contact you.

Yours,

Information Governance Team

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust"

Yours sincerely,

Anthony Pickerill

Dear Mr Pickerill,

 

 

Thank you for your email received today concerning your  FOI request
(reference 392-15) regarding  information  regarding Agency Nursing.

 

We acknowledge that the  Trust has failed to respond to a request you made
within the necessary timeframe. Please accept our apologies. This has been
due to staffing issues and an unprecedented number of FOI requests,
particularly as from 1st November 2014 University Hospitals of North
Midlands NHS Trust manages two hospital sites – Royal Stoke University
Hospital, and County Hospital (Stafford).

 

In spite of taking action to address the staffing issues and putting in
place dedicated staff to deal with the task of updating our FOI records,
we are still in the process of catching up. Please be assured that we are
giving priority to those requests which are overdue.

 

Kind regards.

 

IG Team

University Hospitals of North Midlands

NHS Trust

 

 

 

Dear University Hos​pitals of North Midlands NHS Trust,

Thank you for the update. I appreciate that these matters can take their time and I appreciate that you will get back to me in due course.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Anthony Pickerill

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Dear Pickerill ,

 

Please find the response to your FOI request attached

 

Many thanks,

 

IG Team

University Hospitals of North Midlands

NHS Trust