Agency nursing expenditure

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Dear University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust,

Would it be possible to answer the following questions:

1) What has been the agency cost of staff nurses from January 2016 till September 2016

2) What has been the bank cost of staff nurses from January 2016 till September 2016

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

4) Number of agency nurses used in each of the hospitals during September 2016

5) The number of permanent staff nurses in each hospital during 2016

6) What was the nurse vacancy rate during September 2016

Yours faithfully,

Anita Begum

FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

Our Reference: KR/FOI/30560

7 November 2016

Ms Anita Begum
[mailto:[FOI #369024 email]]

Dear Ms Begum

Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information, as received by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 3 November 2016. Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed centrally by the Trust Administration Team.

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20 working-day deadline. I will, of course, keep you informed should this not prove possible for any reason. If we require any clarification on your request, we will contact you as soon as possible.

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Yours sincerely,

Kate Rayns
Trust Administrator
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Tel: 0116 258 8907 Email: [email address]

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Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

 

Our Reference: KR/FOI/30560

 

1 December 2016

 

Anita Begum

[1][email address]

 

 

Dear Ms Begum

 

Request for Information

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, as received
on 3 November 2016 and acknowledged on 7 November 2016.   For information,
the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the largest and
busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country incorporating Leicester General
Hospital, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary.  Our three
hospitals have around 14,000 staff serving around one million people
across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to three
million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for the specialist
services we provide.  During 2015-16 we treated 1,577,200 patients (that’s
4,321 patients per day) – 347,700 more than in 2014-15.

 

Following consultation with colleagues from the Human Resources, Finance
and Corporate Nursing Directorates, I confirm that the University
Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI
request.   In your Freedom of Information Act request, you asked for the
following information and the Trust’s response is provided below following
your request:-  

 

1) What has been the agency cost of staff nurses from January 2016 till
September 2016

This information is provided on page 1 of the attached spread sheet.

 

2) What has been the bank cost of staff nurses from January 2016 till
September 2016
This information is provided on page 1 of the attached spread sheet.

 

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

This information is provided in the following table:-

 

Medbank Healthcare
Medecho (Medpure)
NL Group
Plan B
Pulse
Remedy Medical
TTM NURSING
247 Nursing
4Social Work Ltd
Arcadia
Atlantis
Bleep360
Capital Care service (UK) Ltd
Concept Care
Coyle
Cromwell
Day Webster was Care Providers
DRC Locums
Falcon Recruitment and Training Ltd
Firstpoint
Fosse HealthCare
Genepool Medical
Hallam Medical (**ED/UCC only)
Hays Theatre
HCL (B2 & B5 only)
Health Professionals
ID Group Ltd
Imperial Medical Staffing
Interact
Maxxima
Mayday
Medacs
Medical Professional Personnel Ltd
(Nursing Personnel)
Medics Pro
Medilink
Mofor Care Solutions
MSI Recruitment
National Locums
Newlands Healthcare Ltd
Service Care Solutions
Swiis (UK) Ltd
Team24
The Flame Lily Healthcare Limited
TNA Medical Ltd
Total Assist
TXM Healthcare
WNA
Your World Nursing Ltd

 

4) Number of agency nurses used in each of the hospitals during September
2016
I am advised that the Trust does not collect this information by hospital
site.  However, the number of agency nurses used across all three sites
for September 2016 was 176wte.

 

5) The number of permanent staff nurses in each hospital during 2016
Please find below a table detailing the qualified nurse headcount and
whole time equivalent data as at 30 September 2016:-

 

Site Heads Wte
Glenfield 915 800.82
LGH 884 757.90
LRI 2067 1788.46
External sites 195 162.83
Total 4061 3510.01

 

 

6) What was the nurse vacancy rate during September 2016

This information is provided on page 2 of the attached spread sheet.

 

I hope that this response is satisfactory and provides you with the
information requested (where available). If you require any further
assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.  If you are dissatisfied
with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and
Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom
of Information Act complaints procedure.

 

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so
subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2005.  Accordingly you must not re-use this information
without having the consent of the Trust.  Where the Trust is prepared to
provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you
wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in
writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together
with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the
information is to be re-used.

 

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust
has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you
of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely,

(sent on behalf of Kate Rayns, Trust Administrator)

 

 

Helen Stokes

Senior Trust Administrator

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Tel: 0116 258 8590

 

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Dear FOI - Freedom of Information,

Thank you for your reply.

Yours sincerely,

Anita Begum