Healthcare Agency Hours and Spend By Discipline (Temporary Workers) FY 2018/2019

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Rhiannon Andrews

Dear Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust,

Please provide the total agency spend of your Trust, for the last financial year, and the total hours supplied by temporary agency staff to your Trust, for the following staffing categories:

Staffing Provision Total Hours FY (2018/19) Total Yearly Spend (2018/19)
General Nursing
Theatres (Nursing)
Healthcare Assistants
RMNs (where Applicable)
Doctors (All Specialisms)
AHP/HSS
Non-Medical Non-Clinical
Emergency Nurse Practitioner/
Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Please can you ensure that responses are replied to in line with the governance of freedom of information requests.

Yours faithfully,

Rhiannon Andrews

MEHT FOI (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

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Dear Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust,

Please respond to my above FOI request that was sent to you on 7th August 2019.

Yours faithfully,

Rhiannon Andrews

MEHT FOI (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

Dear Rhiannon

I have chased this for you.

Unfortunately I have not had a response from the appropriate department.

As soon as this is received I will forward this to you.

Please accept my apologies for the delay.

Kind regards
Rebecca Pascoe | Public Information Manager | Corporate
Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group
South Wing – Level 3 – Room R42 – B346
Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 7ET
Tel: 01245 514288 ext 4536
[email address]

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Dear MEHT FOI (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital,

Thank you for chasing however we still are yet to receive the requested information.

Can I please request that you chase the department again and provide an update as soon as possible?

Yours sincerely,

Rhiannon Andrews

MEHT FOI (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

Dear Ms Andrews

I apologise for the continued delay in responding to your FOI request. I have again made contact with the relevant staff and asked them to respond to me.

I will contact you again in the near future.

Many thanks

Karen
Karen Struthers |Executive Assistant to Trust Secretary & Director of Strategy | Corporate
Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group
Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 7ET
Tel: 01245 514442
[email address]
Working Hours: Mon- Thurs 0730 to 1600 / Fri 0730 - 1300

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Dear MEHT FOI (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital,

Thank you for the update.

Yours sincerely,

Rhiannon Andrews

MEHT FOI (RQ8) Mid Essex Hospital, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

Good morning / afternoon

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.

Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay you have incurred in receiving this response.

Please find our response attached / beneath.

Costs only supplied - to provide hours would provide an unfair commercial prejudice - section 43.

Please provide the total agency spend of your Trust, for the last financial year, and the total hours supplied by temporary agency staff to your Trust, for the following staffing categories:

Staffing Provision Total Hours FY (2018/19) Total Yearly Spend (2018/19)
General Nursing All registered nurse including Theatre , ENP`S & ANPs in Chemo only) £10,675,353
Theatres (Nursing) £635,607
Healthcare Assistants £5,013
RMNs (where Applicable)
Doctors (All Specialisms) £11,107,159
AHP/HSS £1,443,380
Non-Medical Non-Clinical £1,482,368
Emergency Nurse Practitioner/ £94,443
Advanced Nurse Practitioner £123,188

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If you have any other queries please do not hesitate to contact me again.
Kind regards
Rebecca Pascoe | Public Information Manager | Corporate
Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group
South Wing – Level 3 – Room R42 – B346
Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 7ET
Tel: 01245 524900 ext 4536
[email address]

Information in this message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies; please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Content of emails received by this Trust will be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure, confidentiality of this e-mail and your reply cannot be guaranteed. Thank you for your co-operation.