Correct pay rates, care agency workers

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Dear Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),

On 4 March BSO wrote a letter to all care agencies in NI contracted by all Health Trusts in NI and wrote as follows:

"We would like to remind contracted suppliers of their obligations under the Framework and
the Agency Worker Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 to ensure that, in terms of the
payment of enhancements for unsocial hours, pay parity is applied to the hours 8.00pm-
6.00am for night shift workers as outlined in the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service
Handbook. We would like specifically to remind contracted suppliers of the following from the
Handbook:

Where a continuous night shift or evening shift on a weekday (other than a public holiday)
includes hours outside the period of 8pm to 6am, the enhancements should be applied to the
whole shift if more than half of the time falls between 8pm and 6am. "

1. Please outline clearly and concisely without ambiguity, which care agencies have started to charge/invoice your trust at the correct night rate between 6-8am weeknights, given that 3 months have now passed since the letter was received.

2. Please outline clearly which agencies have not started to invoice at the correct rate.

3. If agencies have not and your Trust is aware of the reason why, please outline the reason.

4. Please outline which agencies have submitted requests for backpay and if your Trust will oblige requests for backpay or not and if not , why not.

Yours faithfully,

Joan Corrigan

PublicLiaison-SM, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Ms Corrigan,

 

Please see attached acknowledgement of your FOI submission to Belfast
Health and Social Care Trust.

 

Kind regards

Hayley

 

Hayley Kerr

Public Liaison Officer, Public Liaison Service, Belfast Health and Social
Care Trust

Tel: 028 9504 9597

 

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PublicLiaison-SM, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Ms Corrigan,

 

Please find attached response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Kind regards,

Hayley

 

Hayley Kerr

Public Liaison Officer, Public Liaison Service, Belfast Health and Social
Care Trust

Tel: 028 9504 9597

 

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Dear PublicLiaison-SM,

I reject your response and feel it is disingenuous, based on other Trusts having answered the same questions without issue.

The reasons you outline and the cost you say it would take , are not logical, based on other Trusts having been able to get the information with relative ease.

Certain questions I asked would not require your staff to work longer than 15 minutes to obtain an answer.

Given that this is in the public interest and that it is public money, and must be accounted for, I request an Internal review.

Yours sincerely,

Joan Corrigan

Hanna, Arlene, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

Dear Ms Corrigan

I am acknowledging receipt of your email and will get back to you.

Many thanks
Arlene

Arlene Hanna
Communications & FOI Manager
Public Liaison Service, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Tel: 028 9504 6802

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Dear Hanna, Arlene,

On 22 June I requested an internal review
It is now 26 July over 1 month later.

I shall soon be asking NIPSO and ICo to get involved, but I will give your Trust 1 week to respond.

Please stop insulting people who are owed these answers.

Cordially
Joan Corrigan

Hanna, Arlene, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

Dear Joan

I'm sorry for the delay in providing a response to your request for an internal review of Trust response to your FOI. I'm exploring with our finance team how we may be able to provide the information you have requested, but am not yet in a position to provide a response in relation to this. Please bear with me, I will continue to progress this and endeavour to get a response to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

Kind regards
Arlene

Arlene Hanna
Communications & FOI Manager
Public Liaison Service, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Tel: 028 9504 6802

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Hanna, Arlene, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Joan

Please find attached further information which I hope is helpful.

Kind regards
Arlene

Arlene Hanna
Communications & FOI Manager
Public Liaison Service, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Tel: 028 9504 6802

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