Agency Nursing Spend (inc off framework)

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Dear South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust,

1. What contractual relationships are in place for supplying agency nurses and who is responsible for managing them?

2. How many agencies are used to supply agency nurses?

3. Of these agencies, how many are off framework – please list them?

4. Over the past 6 months, how many shifts have been filled via an off framework agency?

5. Who is your highest paid agency nurse, what is their speciality and their hourly charge?

6. Please outline your spend per agency, broken down by grade and speciality of nurse over the past 6 months?

Yours faithfully,

Olivia Smithson

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Olivia Smithson

Dear South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust,

Please can I chase for an update?

Yours faithfully,

Olivia Smithson