Mandatory training costs

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Dear Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust,

Can you please provide information regarding the following questions:
1. Do you outsource any of the mandatory training for clinical staff? Such as Online training regarding Infection control, consent, safeguarding adults and children, radicalisation and Equality and diversity.

2. If you outsource the training material in any way, what is the annual cost for this? If you require a specific time frame for this, 2018/2019 costing period would be preferred.

3. If you do not outsource, can you estimate the cost to the trust to design, maintain, monitor and accredit this training with Skills for Health and any other accreditation such as CPD? If you require a specific time frame for this, 2018/2019 costing period would be preferred.

4. Do currently outsource for any other training, either classroom based or online, that is not classed as standard mandatory training? Such as mental health in the work place, physical restraint training or anything else along these lines.

5. If so, can you provide the estimated annual cost for this? If you require a specific time frame for this, 2018/2019 costing period would be preferred.

6. If no, but you offer this training in-house, can you also supply us with the annual cost for this, and frequency of training. If you require a specific time frame for this, 2018/2019 costing period would be preferred.

Yours faithfully,

Daniel Jones

Information Rights, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

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Debbie Thorley
Information Rights Manager

Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

DD: 01603 421283
[mobile number]
E: [email address] or [email address]

Kestrel House, Hellesdon Hospital, Drayton High Road, Norwich, NR6 5BE

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No. Question Answers
1 Do you outsource any of the Yes
mandatory training for clinical
staff? Such as Online training
regarding Infection control,
consent, safeguarding adults and
children, radicalisation and
Equality and diversity.
2 If you outsource the training 2018/19 = £100,000
material in any way, what is the
annual cost for this? If you
require a specific time frame for
this, 2018/2019 costing period
would be preferred.
3 If you do not outsource, can you The Trust does provide some
estimate the cost to the trust to mandatory in-house training,
design, maintain, monitor and however this is provided formally
accredit this training with Skills and informally and would be
for Health and any other difficult to provide exact costs as
accreditation such as CPD? If you the information is not collated
require a specific time frame for centrally or stored in a reportable
this, 2018/2019 costing period format.  Therefore we could not
would be preferred. provide this information without
undertaking a manual trawl of files
which would be a time consuming and
labour intensive process. This
would be over the 18 hours
appropriate time limit set under
Section 12 of the Freedom of
Information Act.

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4 Do currently outsource for any Yes
other training, either classroom
based or online, that is not
classed as standard mandatory
training? Such as mental health in
the work place, physical restraint
training or anything else along
these lines.
5 If so, can you provide the The Trust would be unable to
estimated annual cost for this? If provide costs in relation to this
you require a specific time frame as this is often obtained from
for this, 2018/2019 costing period grants/funding from HEE/NHSI/NHSE
would be preferred. and joint funding from STP
partners.  This is not information
  that is collated centrally or
stored in a reportable format, and
we therefore could not provide this
information without undertaking a
manual trawl of files which would
be a time consuming and labour
intensive process. This would be
over the 18 hours appropriate time
limit set under Section 12 of the
Freedom of Information Act.
6 If no, but you offer this training The Trust does provide some
in-house, can you also supply us in-house training, however this is
with the annual cost for this, and provided formally and informally
frequency of training. If you and would be difficult to provide
require a specific time frame for exact costs/frequency as the
this, 2018/2019 costing period information is not collated
would be preferred. centrally or stored in a reportable
format.  Therefore we could not
  provide this information without
undertaking a manual trawl of files
which would be a time consuming and
labour intensive process. This
would be over the 18 hours
appropriate time limit set under
Section 12 of the Freedom of
Information Act.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Sarah Shorten

Information Rights Officer

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

 

DD: 01603 421264

[mobile number]

E: [3][email address] or [email address]

 

Kestrel House, Hellesdon Hospital, Drayton High Road, Norwich NR6 5BE

 

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