FOI REQUEST Agency Nursing

The request was partially successful.

Dear University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust,

Can you please provide me with the name, contact number & email address of the person responsible for agreeing temporary nursing agency contracts for your Trust?
Please list your current employment agencies that you are using, how often you are currently using temporary agencies for nursing staff.
Along with the above information can you please provide details on how often this is reviewed and the trusts current/future plans for recruitment agencies?
Finally if you can also provide details of the names of the decision makers who ultimately decide which agencies the Trust use?

Yours faithfully,

Joseph

FOI, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Our reference: FOI 1410 2021/22

Dear Joseph,

Thank you for your request for information. The Trust's response is provided in the attached document.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1st April 2018.

UHB is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We employ 20,000 staff and have an annual turnover of nearly £1.5 billion.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to request a review of our decision, you should email [email address] or write to the Information Governance Lead, Corporate Affairs, 3rd Floor, Nuffield House, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, B15 2GW

If you are not content with the outcome of your review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by our Trust. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office Wycliffe House Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF Telephone: 08456 30 60 60 or 01625 54 57 45 or www.ico.org.uk

Kind regards,

FOI Officer

Information Governance Team
University Hospitals Birmingham
Email: [email address]

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Dear FOI,

Please note my request has not been actioned.

Kindly can you also provide me with a list of non-framework agencies used between November 2020- present.

Yours sincerely,

Joseph

FOI, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Joseph,

Thank you for your email, please find attached our response to your request, reference: 1410 2021/22, sent 6th May 2021.

We will process your request for information regarding non-framework agencies for nursing as received today.

The reference for this request will be 1497 2021/22.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind Regards,

FOI Officer

Information Governance Team
University Hospitals Birmingham
Email: [email address]

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