Agency Spend

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Dear Humber NHS Foundation Trust,

Please can you provide me with further information on the supply of
agency Staff to your trust/authority. Please could you advise on
the agency/locum spend for the following categories during the
following time periods:

Categories:
All Allied Health Professions (AHP)
All Health Science Services (HSS)
Radiography / Medical Imaging
Physiotherapy
Pathology
Pharmacy
Mortuary
Nursing
Medical Locums (Doctors)

Time periods:
2006 (1st Jan-31st Dec)
2007 (1st Jan-31st Dec)
2008 (1st Jan-31st Dec)
2009 (1st Jan-31st Dec)
2010 (Q1 – 1st Jan – 31st March)
2010 (Q2 – 1st April – 30th June)
2010 (Q3 – 1st July – 30th September)
2010 (Q4 – 1st October – 31st December)
2011 (Q1 – 1st Jan – 31st March)
2011 (Q2 – 1st April – 30th June)
2011 (Q3 – 1st July – 30th September)

Please outline details of any current framework or preferred
supplier list in place for the supply of agency/locum staff within
the above categories to your trust/authority along with details on
any renewal dates or plans to re-procure the agreements.

Thank you for your attention.

Yours faithfully,

Rob Charlton

Harmer, Graham,

I am out of the office, potentially for the whole of week commencing 19
December 2011. I will be incontact with base, but may not be able to
respond to emails. Please contact Vickie Shaw on 01482 389384 in the first
instatnce.

HUMBER - Freedom of Information,

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Dear Mr Charlton

 

I am writing to confirm that the Humber NHS Foundation Trust has now
completed its search for the information which you requested on 19
December 2011.

 

You asked for

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|1.       Please can you provide me with further information on the supply of agency Staff to your |
|trust/authority. Please could you advise on the agency/locum spend for the following categories during |
|the following time periods: |
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|     Categories: |
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|     All Allied Health Professions (AHP) |
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|     All Health Science Services (HSS) |
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|     Radiography / Medical Imaging |
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|     Physiotherapy |
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|     Pathology |
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|     Pharmacy |
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|     Mortuary |
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|     Nursing |
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|     Medical Locums (Doctors)   |
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|     Time periods: |
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|     2006 (1st Jan-31st Dec) |
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|     2007 (1st Jan-31st Dec) |
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|     2008 (1st Jan-31st Dec) |
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|     2009 (1st Jan-31st Dec) |
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|     2010 (Q1 – 1st Jan – 31st March) |
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|     2010 (Q2 – 1st April – 30th June) |
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|     2010 (Q3 – 1st July – 30th September) |
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|     2010 (Q4 – 1st October – 31st December) |
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|     2011 (Q1 – 1st Jan – 31st March) |
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|     2011 (Q2 – 1st April – 30th June) |
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|     2011 (Q3 – 1st July – 30th September) |
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|Please see the table below on how much has been spent on agency/locum staff |
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|  2006 2007 2008 2009 Q1 2010 Q2 2010 Q3 2010 Q4 2010 Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011|
|AGENCY |
|ADMIN AND |
|CLERICAL 105,627 254,211 301,526 306,219 49,564 30,184 43,443 93,573 127,764 61,352 129,179|
|AGENCY |
|AMBULANCE |
|STAFF               453|
|AGENCY |
|CONSULTANTS 219,965 157,341 281,939 627,588 77,780 134,357 134,146 125,826 153,676 305,810 394,837|
|AGENCY |
|NURSING 386 -386             37,723|
|AGENCY |
|NURSING : |
|GRADE A 232,997 262,090 113,736 94,918 37,453 21,642 25,855 28,104 42,578 29,331 55,453|
|AGENCY |
|NURSING : |
|GRADE D 1,915 985 2,687             |
|AGENCY |
|NURSING : |
|GRADE E 8,686 20,880 14,989 868             |
|AGENCY |
|OTHER   44,332 227,894 243,875 59,596 20,532 32,542 4,624 6,502 2,350 2,527|
|AGENCY |
|OTHER |
|MEDICAL             20,419 80,593|
|AGENCY PAMS 157 -157 40 0         98,649 46,591|
|AGENCY PROF |
|AND TECH 131,293 162,577 310,326 389,619 151,832 58,297 78,644 93,796 142,962 53,596 67,677|
|AGENCY |
|SHO'S AND |
|HO'S   22,485 7,329             |
|AGENCY |
|SHO'S AND |
|HO'S DENTAL   421             |
|OTHER |
|AGENCY |
|STAFF 108,299 35,216             143 1,229 2,086|
|Grand Total 809,325 959,573 1,260,887 1,663,088 376,225 265,013 314,631 345,923 473,625 572,737 817,119|
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|2.       Please outline details of any current framework or preferred supplier list in place for the |
|supply of agency/locum staff within the above categories to your trust/authority along with details on |
|any renewal dates or plans to re-procure the agreements. |
|The Trust use the GPC framework agreements [1]http://www.buyingsolutions.gov.uk/framew... |
| for Temporary/Permanent Staff in both clinical and non clinical areas |
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|Following the transforming community services programme and the subsequent transfer of East Riding PCT |
|provider services into the Trust in April of this year we now use the Master Vendor agreement put in |
|place by the [2]http://www.yhcpc.nhs.uk/  for Temporary Allied Health Professionals (AHP). This was |
|made available by the YHCPC following a further competition against the GPC framework agreement in |
|September 2009. |
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