Agency Nursing Spend

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Dear Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust,

Between April 2023 and March 2024, please confirm:

1. How many shifts were sent out to agencies (per month) for Band 5 Registered Nurses and Band 2 staff?
2. How many shifts were sent out to agencies (per month) for Theatre Nurses?
3. How many of these shifts were filled (per month?. Please can this be broken down per agency?
4. (Where there is a Tiered structure of agency suppliers) Please can you confirm how many shifts per month were filled by each ‘Tier’ of supplier?
5. What was the trust spend on Agency Nursing (per month), for each agency supplier?
6. What was the average hourly charge rate for a Band 5 General Nurse (RGN) and a Theatre Nurse?
7. The total off-framework spend (per month)?

Yours faithfully,

James Dwyer

FOI, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges receipt of your request for information. Your request will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and we aim to send you our response within the next 20 working days.

Kind regards
FOI Team

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FOI, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Hi James,

We have reviewed your freedom of information request.

By answering and responding to all your questions would mean you could easily work out the hourly rate or how much agencies charge, therefore we would exempt this Freedom of information request due to this been commercially sensitive data.
Would you like to amend your request so we are able to provide you with some information?

If we do not hear anything back from you we presume you no longer need this information and your request will be closed.

Thank you

FOI Team

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