Agency Spend
Dear West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust,
1.What is the total Trust spend purely with framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors in the past 12 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
2.What is the total Trust spend purely with off-framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors in the past 12 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
3. What is the total Trust spend purely with agencies for the recruitment of permanent & fixed term doctors? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
4. Does your organization use a Direct Engagement scheme? If so, who provides it and when does their contract expire?
5. What percentage of bookings are made outside of the Direct Engagement model (non-DE)?
6. Which medical services do you outsource to external companies & which companies do you outsource to?
7. How many doctors have been booked outside of IR35 in previous 12 months?
8 . In which specialty is your highest paid Locum Consultant Doctor and what is their hourly rate?
Yours faithfully,
steven cook
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Dear Steven Cook
I am writing to confirm that the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has now
completed its search for the information which you requested on 1^st
November 2021
Please find our response to your request.
1.What is the total Trust spend purely with framework agencies for the
recruitment of locum doctors in the past 12 months? Please also provide a
break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency
by company name. Please see attached.
2.What is the total Trust spend purely with off-framework agencies for the
recruitment of locum doctors in the past 12 months? Please also provide a
break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency
by company name. N/A
3. What is the total Trust spend purely with agencies for the recruitment
of permanent & fixed term doctors? Please also provide a break-down of
spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company
name. We haven't recruited fixed term or permanent doctors via agencies in
the last 12 months.
4. Does your organization use a Direct Engagement scheme? No If so, who
provides it and when does their contract expire? N/A
5. What percentage of bookings are made outside of the Direct Engagement
model (non-DE)? N/A
6. Which medical services do you outsource to external companies & which
companies do you outsource to? N/A
7. How many doctors have been booked outside of IR35 in previous 12
months? N/A
8 . In which specialty is your highest paid Locum Consultant Doctor and
what is their hourly rate? £114.99 (inc NI, Agency fee etc) Community
Paediatrics Consultant
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