AHP Agency Staff

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Dear Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board,

I would like to request that you provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

Question 1
Please can you confirm what your total spend on Allied Health Professional (AHP) agency staff was during the financial year 2014-15?
Can you please break this financial information down by AHP specialism:
• Arts Therapists,
• Chiropodist/Podiatrist,
• Dietician,
• Occupational Therapist,
• Physiotherapist,
• Prosthetist / Orthotist,
• Imaging Professionals,
• Speech / Language Professionals.

Question 2
Please can you confirm the names of the organisation/s you procure temporary Allied Health Professionals (AHP) from?

To provide additional clarity on my request, ‘temporary Allied Health Professionals’ is to mean all persons who are AHPs and are not on permanent contracts of employment with the Board, but are supplied via employment agencies.

Yours faithfully,

Helen Jones

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Dear Ms Jones

 

Thank you for your request.

 

Q1. Please can you confirm what your total spend on Allied Health
Professional (AHP) agency staff was during the financial year 2014-15?  

 

Can you please break this financial information down by AHP specialism:

 

     • Arts Therapists,

     • Chiropodist/Podiatrist,

     • Dietician,

     • Occupational Therapist,

     • Physiotherapist,

     • Prosthetist / Orthotist,

     • Imaging Professionals,

     • Speech / Language Professionals.

 

 A1.  £ 287,121

 

·         Imaging Professionals  £278,449

·         Cardiology PTB              £    8,672

 

Q2. Please can you confirm the names of the organisation/s you procure
temporary Allied Health Professionals (AHP) from?

 

A2   Please see a list of suppliers below:

 

·         Interact medical

·         Jennie Reeves

·         Maxxima Ltd

·         Piers Meadow recruitment Ltd

·         Reed specialist

·         Recruitment Ltd

·         Sanctuary personnel Ltd

·         Sonographers medical Ltd

·         The Placement group

·         Your world recruitment Ltd

 

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Kind regards,

 

Ann

 

Ann Catherine Wilson L.L.B                    

Freedom of Information Officer

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