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FOI 863

Dear Helen Whitfield,

Thank you for your request for information.

Your request was received on the 20 October 2017 and is currently being reviewed under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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FOI863

Hi Helen,

Following on from the initial response I sent to you yesterday, please now
see below the response in full:

  Nov - Mar 16/17 Apr - Oct 17/18
Q1: CLINICAL                    462,799                673,067
Q2: NON CLINICAL                 1,200,608                379,317
TOTAL £1,663,406 £1,052,384

Agencies that have supplied to us are as follows. We do not have a master
vendor arrangement, however we do have a preferred supplier list and
suppliers are used via an NHSI approved framework agreement.

Clinical
Connaught Resourcing Ltd
Evergood Associate Ltd
Hayes Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Non Clinical
Hayes Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Adecco UK Ltd
Axon Resourcing Ltd
Badenoch and Clark Ltd
Blue Arrow Ltd
Brook Street (UK) Ltd
Driver Hire Nationwide
Drugline Lancashire Ltd
Evergood Associate Ltd
Forrest Recruitment Ltd
Manpower UK Ltd
Meridian Business Support
Sellick Partnership
Venn Group Ltd

In regards to your third question, we do not have a bank administration
team but we do have bank workers.

I hope this is of assistance.

Kind regards

Christina

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