Agency Recruitment

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Luton and Dunstable Hospital should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,

I would like to request the following information under the freedom of information act:

1. How many doctors have been booked outside of IR35 since April 2017?
2. What is your yearly trust spend on agency locum doctors via framework agencies, broken down into grade and specialty?
3. What is your yearly trust spend on agency locum doctors via OFF-framework agencies, broken down into grade and specialty?
4. What is your average total charge rate for a locum consultant doctor?
5. Who is the highest paid locum Consultant, what is the hourly rate and in what specialty do they practice?
6. Please can you outline your spend per agency, broken down by grade and specialty of doctor over the past 12 months?

I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Mountain

FOILeads (RC9) Luton & Dunstable Hospital FT,

Dear Steve

Thank you for your request for information which will be processed under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will aim to provide you with the requested information within the legal deadline.

The request is subject to any exemption which the Trust is entitled to apply, some of which are absolute and some of which only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs that in disclosing the information.

Once the information has been identified the Trust may also ask that a fee be paid for processing and delivering the information to you. Details of any fee to be charged will be notified to you as soon as possible.

Any future correspondence you may have in relation to this matter should be marked private & confidential and sent to the Freedom of Information Lead. Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Lewsey Road, Luton, Beds, LU4 0DZ or emailed to the address above.

Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Team.

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Dear FOILeads (RC9) Luton & Dunstable Hospital FT,

I am yet to receive answers to my questions within the time frame set by the FOI act, please advise?

Yours sincerely,

Steve Mountain

FOILeads (RC9) Luton & Dunstable Hospital FT,

Dear Steve

Please accept the Trusts apologies for the delay in our response, die to unforeseen circumstances.
we are awaiting Executive approval and hope to get this back to you in due course. Hopefully within the next few days.

Kind Regards
Freedom Of Information Team

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Dear FOILeads (RC9) Luton & Dunstable Hospital FT,

I've still not heard back from you, please advise?

Yours sincerely,

Steve Mountain

FOILeads (RC9) Luton & Dunstable Hospital FT,

Hi Steve

The Trust is very sorry for the Delay, please accept our apologies we are still awaiting executive approval which I have just chased and hope to get the response to you by the end of this week.

Thank you for your patience.

Kind Regards
Freedom Of Information Team

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