Dear Steve,

Reference number: 5117

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), received on 13/09/2018. Your enquiry has been logged and forwarded to the appropriate department for action. Please note that the Act allows 20 full working days to provide a response although we will endeavour to do so before then. The deadline is calculated to be 11/10/2018.

If you have any queries regarding your request, please do not hesitate to contact me on this email address.

Kind regards,
Amy

Amy Witham
Information Governance Administrative Assistant
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Based at: Ipswich Hospital
Email: [email address]

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From 1^st July 2018, Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals merged to become
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. Therefore, unless
otherwise specified, responses are on behalf of East Suffolk and North
Essex NHS Foundation Trust:

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding information held by the East
Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust:

Your enquiry has been dealt with in accordance with the Trust’s Freedom of
Information Act 2000 Policy and Procedures.

We are pleased to enclose part of the information you requested:

1.         Do you use agencies for national and international permanent
doctor and/or nursing recruitment? If so, do you employ nurses from the
Philippines?

No for doctors

Yes for nursing, and we do employ nurses from the Philippines

2.         How many doctors have been booked outside of IR35 since April
2017?

1 has been sourced outside of IR35

3.         What is your yearly trust spend on agency locum doctors via
framework agencies, broken down into grade and specialty?

£10,017,938 - Colchester

£4,956,793 – Ipswich

Colchester

CONSULTANT 4,573,319
A&E 759,859
ACUTE
PAEDIATRICS 37,648
BREAST SURGERY 4,260
CANCER
PERFORMANCE &
MDT 10,534
CARE OF THE
ELDERLY 221,300
COMMUNITY
PAEDIATRICS 3,040
EMERGENCY
MEDICINE 614,304
ENDOCRINOLOGY 0
ENT 0
GASTROENTEROLOGY 384,947
GYNAECOLOGY 126,730
HAEMATOLOGY 211,102
ICENI CENTRE 27,091
MATERNITY 71,363
NEPHROLOGY 0
NEUROLOGY 146,325
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 71,424
NON DIVISIONAL -63,128
PATHOLOGY 461,521
RADIOLOGY 221,436
RHEUMATOLOGY 144,642
THEATRES &
ANAESTHETICS 488,449
THORACIC
MEDICINE 273,454
UROLOGY 357,018
JUNIOR MEDICAL 5,444,619
A&E 1,398,664
ACUTE
PAEDIATRICS 26,367
CARDIOLOGY 97,433
CARE OF THE
ELDERLY 487,587
EMERGENCY
MEDICINE 362,883
ENDOCRINOLOGY 79,474
ENT -6,166
GASTROENTEROLOGY 33,976
GENERAL MEDICINE 0
GENERAL SURGERY 314,278
GYNAECOLOGY 193,869
HAEMATOLOGY 23,121
ITU 862
MATERNITY 101,526
NEPHROLOGY 1,200
NON DIVISIONAL -35,502
ONCOLOGY 424,693
OPHTHALMOLOGY 326,502
PATHOLOGY 169
STROKE MEDICINE 32,462
THEATRES &
ANAESTHETICS 520,034
THORACIC
MEDICINE 48,559
TRAUMA &
ORTHOPAEDICS 419,745
UROLOGY 582,518
VASCULAR SURGERY 10,364
Grand Total 10,017,938

Ipswich Hospital – this data is not held centrally.

4.         What is your yearly trust spend on agency locum doctors via
Off-framework agencies, broken down into grade and specialty?

Neither Ipswich nor Colchester Hospital used off-framework agencies in
2017 – 2018

5.         What is your average total charge rate for a locum consultant
doctor?

£111.92 per hour

6.         Who is the highest paid locum Consultant, what is the hourly
rate and in what specialty do they practice?

Please see exemption 

7.         Please can you outline your spend per agency, broken down by
grade and specialty of doctor over the past 12 months?

Directly linked to question 3.

If you have any queries about the enclosed information please contact us.

We confirm that we hold the information requested. However, we regret to
inform you that part of the information requested will not be released to
you. 

Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 there are certain
circumstances when Trust information will not be disclosed.

For question 6, this information is exempt under Section 40(2): Personal
Data. 

Due to the low numbers, we are unable to release the information requested
as it could potentially identify an individual. Release of such
information would potentially breach confidentiality therefore cannot be
disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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We hope that you find the information provided useful and we apologise for
not being able to assist with part of your enquiry.

Regards,

Amy Witham

Information Governance Administrative Assistant

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Based at: Ipswich Hospital

Email: [2][email address]

Telephone: 01473 702878 ext 1878

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