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Dear North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust,

In relation to your supply of medical (doctor) temporary workers, please could you provide the answers to the following questions?

1) Which locum/staffing agencies have you engaged to be part of your medical (doctors) agency cascade? Please provide the names of the agencies split into the relevant tiers. If you do not use a tier system, please explain how vacancies are cascaded with agencies.

2) Please provide a breakdown of the proportion of medical (doctor) locum hours booked through each of these tiers for the last three years. If this is not available, please provide a breakdown of the proportion of medical (doctor) locum spend incurred through each of these tiers for the last three years. If only recent years are available, please provide what you have.

3) What is the protocol for releasing medical (doctor) vacancies to each of your tiers?

4) When are the current arrangements relating to your agency cascade in place until?

Yours faithfully,

James King

FOI (NWBH),

Dear Mr King,

 

Thank you for your recent request which has been received and a response
is being co-ordinated.  The Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows 20
working days for the Trust to respond and the deadline for your request is
19 April 2021.

 

In certain cases, the Act allows for an extension to this deadline.  We
will notify you as soon as possible if there is a need to extend the time
limit.

 

The Trust has a statutory duty to provide advice and assistance to
applicants.  If you have any questions now or during the processing of
your request, please contact us quoting the reference number in the
subject line of this email.

 

Many thanks

 

Information Governance Team

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

[1][email address]     01925 664465

 

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FOI (NWBH),

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Dear James,

Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please find attached the Trust’s response.

We would be grateful if you would provide feedback about your experience contacting the Trust and ask that you complete our short service satisfaction questionnaire, which is available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X2QB9XV.

Thank you.

Information Governance Team
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
[email address] 01925 664465

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Dear FOI (NWBH),

Thank you for providing the number of hours by each year. Please could you provide this data split into hours/spend per agency? If only more recent data is available, please provide what you have.

Yours sincerely,

James King

FOI (NWBH),

Dear James,

I acknowledge receipt of your email below which contains a new additional question to your original Freedom of Information request. We will treat this question as a new request and the deadline for your request is 19 May 2021.

In certain cases, the Act allows for an extension to this deadline. We will notify you as soon as possible if there is a need to extend the time limit.

The Trust has a statutory duty to provide advice and assistance to applicants. If you have any questions now or during the processing of your request, please contact us quoting the reference number in the subject line of this email.

Thank you

Information Governance Team
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
[email address] 01925 664465

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FOI (NWBH),

1 Attachment

Dear James,

Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please find attached the Trust’s response.

We would be grateful if you would provide feedback about your experience contacting the Trust and ask that you complete our short service satisfaction questionnaire, which is available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X2QB9XV.

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will cease to exist from 1 June 2021 as it is being acquired by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and this email account will be closed down. From 1 June, our new email address will be [email address]. Please note that the response to your request or any correspondence regarding your request may come from this new email address.

Thank you.

Information Governance Team
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
[email address] 01925 664465

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