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Annual spend with Agency on Non Clinical/Non Medical temporary staffing for the previous 12 months

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Dear NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership,

Could you possibly provide information on your agency spend on Non Clinical/Non Medical temporary staffing from January 2020 - January 2021 by answering the following questions:

1. Your spend on non-clinical temporary agency staff in the last 12 months.
2. Which agencies you used for non- clinical temporary agency staff in the last 12 months?
3. Does your Trust have a non-clinical bank?
4. Do you recruit via framework providers, Master Vendor or a Vendor Neutral Managed Solution?

Yours faithfully,

Lianne Garnett

Tim Knifton (NWSSP - Information Governance), NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Dear Ms Garnett,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.

Please treat this as our acknowledgement of your request and the reference allocated to it as above. I will share your questions with the responsible department and will respond back to you once I have any information to share.

Regards,
 
Tim Knifton, MSc Gwybodeg Iechyd/Health Informatics
Rheolwr Rheoli Gwybodaeth/Information Governance Manager
Partneriaeth Cydwasanaethau GIG Cymru/NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership   
e-bost/ email: [email address]
Rhyngrwyd • Internet: www.nwssp.wales.nhs.uk
Twitter: @nwssp

Dw i ddim yn deall Cymraeg.  Fodd bynnag mae PCGC yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn y Gymraeg neu Saesneg.

I’m not able to understand Welsh.  However NWSSP welcomes correspondence in Welsh or English.

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Tim Knifton (NWSSP - Information Governance), NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Dear Ms Garnett

 

Thank you for your request received on the 11^th February 2021 into NHS
Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) regarding Annual spend with
Agency on Non-Clinical/Non-Medical temporary staffing for the previous 12
months. 

 

Further to my acknowledgement, I now have a response to the information
you requested. The questions and the subsequent answer are displayed below
for ease of reference.

 

You asked:

 

1. Your spend on non-clinical temporary agency staff in the last 12  
months.
 
For the period 1st Feb 2020 - 31st Jan
2021

Total Agency spend £1,326,574.68
 
2. Which agencies you used for non- clinical temporary agency staff in the
last 12 months?
 
Acorn
Driver Hire Nationwide  
Hays Accountancy Personnel  
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd  
Lorien Resourcing Ltd  
Manpower  
Michael Page International  
MPS Healthcare Limited  
Randstad Solutions Ltd  
Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd  
Sellick Partnership Recruitment Specialists  
Venn Group Ltd  
 
3. Does your Trust have a non-clinical bank?  
 
NWSSP does have a bank for non-clinical staff.  
 
4. Do you recruit via framework providers, Master Vendor or a Vendor
Neutral Managed Solution?
 
The NWSSP recruits Agency Staff via Framework Providers.  

 

In our duty to advise and assist all applicants under the guidelines of
the Freedom of Information Act (2000) we have facilitated your request and
have followed our processes to ensure that you have been provided with a
response.

 

Should you be dissatisfied with the process followed then you have the
right to request that we conduct an internal review. If you would like us
to conduct such a review, please contact us within two months of the date
of this letter to my email address below: 

 

FOI- Internal Review Request

[1][email address]

 

If you are still dissatisfied following the Internal Review, you have the
right under Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to appeal
against the decision by contacting the Information Commissioner:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office,

2nd Floor, Churchill House,

17 Churchill Way, CF10 2HH

Email: [2][email address]

Website: [3]www.ico.org.uk

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Tim Knifton, MSc Gwybodeg Iechyd/Health Informatics

Rheolwr Rheoli Gwybodaeth/Information Governance Manager

Partneriaeth Cydwasanaethau GIG Cymru/NHS Wales Shared Services
Partnership   

e-bost/ email: [4][email address]

Rhyngrwyd • Internet: [5]www.nwssp.wales.nhs.uk

Twitter: [6]@nwssp

 

Dw i ddim yn deall Cymraeg.  Fodd bynnag mae PCGC yn croesawu gohebiaeth
yn y Gymraeg neu Saesneg.

I’m not able to understand Welsh.  However NWSSP welcomes correspondence
in Welsh or English.

 

'Mae'r e-bost hwn ac unrhyw ffeiliau sy'n cyd-fynd gyda’r e-bost hwn, ddim
ond ar gyfer defnydd priodol y derbynnydd/ion, a gall gynnwys gwybodaeth
sy'n freintiedig, yn gyfrinachol neu eithriedig rhag cael ei ddatgelu. Os
nad yw'r darllenydd yn dderbynnydd a fwriadwyd i dderbyn yr e-bost,
gwaherddir unrhyw ddatgeliad, dosbarthiad neu unrhyw gamau eraill y
cymerwyd neu sydd heb gael eu cymryd gan ddibynnu arno, a gallai fod yn
anghyfreithlon. Os ydych wedi derbyn yr e-bost hwn trwy gamgymeriad,
dilewch o'ch system ac yn rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith. Bydd y sawl
sy’n datgelu unrhyw wybodaeth heb awdurdod i ddatgelu’r wybodaeth a
gynhwysir yn yr e-bost yn cael eu gwahardd yn llym.’

 

‘This e-mail and any files that accompany it are intended only for the
appropriate use of the addressee/s, and may contain information that is
privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure. If the reader is not
an intended recipient, any disclosure, distribution or any action taken or
omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.
If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your
system and notify the sender immediately. Any unauthorised disclosure of
the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited, as is use
or application of its contents other than for its intended purpose.’

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