Bank / Locum rate for junior doctors
Dear Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust,
Please clearly and carefully inform me of your bank (internal bank) and locum (external agency) rates for junior doctors across the following groups and working times:
F1 - Day & out of hours
F2 - Day & out of hours
Core trainee - Day & out of hours
Specialist trainee (registrar) - Day & out of hours
Please detail clearly where applicable if out of hours rates are different what times and days are counted as 'out of hours'. If these rates are different per department (medicine, surgery, emergency care) please detail this clearly. If these rates are different for high-demand areas (usually A&E) please also detail where this differs. If these rates are escalated on routine occasion (more than once per quarter) please detail what the rates are usually escalated to and who this decision needs to be made by.
Regarding any possible refusals of this request. I suspect that simply contacting your rota co-ordinators for the relevant departments would find you all of the information I have asked for in the space of less than an hour. Thus I do not expect this request to exceed the cost limit £450. This information is not sensitive nor is the request vexatious.
Yours faithfully,
Thomas Burton
Dear Thomas,
Re: FOI request ref: F23/0274
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Freedom of Information Office
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+ Trust Headquarters, Health and Wellbeing Centre, Sandwell General
+ Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich B71 4HJ
Dear Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Bank / Locum rate for junior doctors'.
This response has not taken longer than the 20 days allocated. Please can you reply to this FOI request urgently or I shall have to refer this the ICO office.
Regards,
Thomas Burton
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/b...
Yours faithfully,
Thomas Burton
Dear Thomas,
Re: FOI request ref: F23/0274
Thank you for your freedom of information request.
Please see attached.
I hope that the information provided in this email answers your query. However, if you are dissatisfied with the response please contact the Trust in the first instance with the details of your complaint so the Trust can conduct an internal review. Please address such requests to [Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust request email] or in writing to Kam Dhami, Director of Governance, Trust Headquarters, Sandwell Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich, B71 4HJ. Alternatively, if you remain unhappy with the outcome you can appeal directly to the Information Commissioner at the following address: www.ico.gov.uk
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Office
[Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust request email]
Trust Headquarters, Health and Wellbeing Centre, Sandwell General Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich B71 4HJ
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