Agency Nurse Expenditure

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Dear King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,

Would it be possible to answer the following questions

1) What has been the agency cost of band 5 staff nurses from January 2021 till December 2021 broken down into the following categories

a) Total agency cost of band 5 staff nurses across the trust

b) Total agency cost of band 5 nurses in A&E

c) Total agency cost of band 5 nurses in theatres

d) Total agency cost of band 5 nurses in critical care

2) What has been the bank cost of band 5 staff nurses from January 2021 till December 2021

3) Which agency(s) is used to provide the staff nurses

4) The number of permanent staff nurses at the trust during December 2021

5) What was the nurse vacancy rate during December 2021

6) What was the total number of newly qualified nurses who started working at the trust between September and December 2021

Yours faithfully,

Anita Begum

FOI (KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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FOI (KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Ms Begum

 

Further to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the
Act) received Monday 21 February 2022, I am writing to confirm the
information that the Trust does and does not hold. 

 

The text of your request is repeated below in bold, followed by the
Trust’s response.

 

Request and Response

Would it be possible to answer the following questions:

 

1) What has been the agency cost of band 5 staff nurses from January 2021
till December 2021 broken down into the following categories.

 

a)      Total agency cost of band 5 staff nurses across the trust.
£6,411,567

 

b)      Total agency cost of band 5 nurses in A&E. £958,401

 

c)       Total agency cost of band 5 nurses in theatres. £511,157

 

d)      Total agency cost of band 5 nurses in critical care. £278,822

 

2) What has been the bank cost of band 5 staff nurses from January 2021
till December 2021. £18,940,697

 

3) Which agency(s) is used to provide the staff nurses?

 

Affinity
Healthcare
Solutions
Athona
recruitment
Capital
Staffing
Services
Care
Providers
(AD)
Limited
Cromwell
Medical
Staffing
Daytime
Healthcare
Firstpoint
Healthcare
Globe
Locums
Greenstaff
Hays
Healthcare
HCL Nursing
HG Health
ID Medical
Impact
Healthcare
Immediate
Medical
Solutions
Medilink
MedicsPro
MSI
Recruitment
Nationwide
Nursing
Nutrix Ltd
Positive
Healthcare
Pulse
Nursing &
Care
TFS
Healthcare
Total
Assist
Recruitment
Trust Nurse
Urgent
Nursing
Your Nurse
Your World
Recruitment

 

4) The number of permanent staff nurses at the trust during December 2021.
3111

          

5) What was the nurse vacancy rate during December 2021. 12.55%

              

6) What was the total number of newly qualified nurses who started working
at the trust between September and December 2021. 162

 

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Freedom of Information Officer

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020 3299 9000

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