Agency Nursing Expenditure

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Dear Barts Health NHS Trust,

Would it be possible to answer the following questions:

1) What has been the agency cost of staff nurses from January 2017 till September 2017

2) What has been the bank cost of staff nurses from January 2017 till September 2017

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

4) The number of permanent staff nurses at the trust during September 2017

5) What was the nurse vacancy rate during September 2017

6) What was the total number of newly qualified nurses who started working at the trust during September 2017

Yours faithfully,

Anita Begum

Dear Clair

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Dear FOI,

Is it possible to receive a reply as the request is past it's date

Yours sincerely,

Anita Begum

Dear Anita

 

Your Request for Information [FOI-798-17]

 

Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you.

 

Thank you for your request for information and the available information
is attached below.

 

1)      What has been the agency cost of staff nurses from January 2017
till September 2017

 

Invoiced Agency Costs RN Band 5 and above by Month

2017-01 2017-02 2017-03 2017-04 2017-05 2017-06 2017-07 2017-08 2017-09 2017-10
£2,510,270 £2,281,766 £2,385,794 £1,687,957 £1,407,895 £1,400,920 £1,335,112 £1,197,571 £1,060,840 £837,091

 

2)      What has been the bank cost of staff nurses from January 2017 till
September 2017

 

Bank
Pay
RN
Band
5 and
Above
by
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct
Bank
Pay £2,518,563 £2,450,885 £2,849,336 £2,846,625 £2,827,796 £2,878,467 £2,989,374 £2,940,234 £2,845,092 £3,066,283

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

 

Agency
Allied Healthcare
Athona Nursing
Bleep 360
Care Providers
CRG (Geneva)
Cromwell Medical
Day Webster
Delta
Eleventh Hour
Firstpoint
Firstpoint Healthcare
Frontline Staffing
Globe Locums
Hallam Medical
HCL Nursing
Imperial Staffing
Just OH
Just Recruit
MedicsPro
MedSol
MSI Recruitment
Nursing 2000
Pulse Nursing
Redspot Care
Sensible Staffing
Staffing Proessionals
TFS Healthcare
Thornbury
Your World Nursing

 

 4) The number of permanent staff nurses at the trust during September
2017

 

Headcount of permanent and staff over the entire 2016/17 financial
year
Staff Group Headcount of permanent
Nursing and Midwifery Registered 4872

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) What was the nurse vacancy rate during September 2017

 

Our response: This  information is available on our annual equality
report: [1]https://bartshealth.nhs.uk/equality-dive...

As this information is already published by the Trust, in accordance with
Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act we will not be providing the
data to you.

 

 6) What was the total number of newly qualified nurses who started
working at the trust during September 2017

 

Our response: information is not yet available

 

  

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Barts Health NHS Trust,

Lower Ground Floor,

9 Prescot St,

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E1 8PR

 

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Yours faithfully,

 

Samir Kamil

Freedom of Information (FOI) Lead

Barts Health NHS Trust
9 Prescot Street
London E1 8PR

Website: [6]www.bartshealth.nhs.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear FOI,

Thank you for the comprehensive reply.

Yours sincerely,

Anita Begum