Medical Agency Cascade
Dear Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust,
In relation to your supply of medical (doctor) temporary workers, please could you provide the answers to the following questions?
1) Which locum/staffing agencies have you engaged to be part of your medical (doctors) agency cascade? Please provide the names of the agencies split into the relevant tiers. If you do not use a tier system, please explain how vacancies are cascaded with agencies.
2) Please provide a breakdown of the proportion of medical (doctor) locum hours booked through each of these tiers for the last three years. If this is not available, please provide a breakdown of the proportion of medical (doctor) locum spend incurred through each of these tiers for the last three years. If only recent years are available, please provide what you have.
3) What is the protocol for releasing medical (doctor) vacancies to each of your tiers?
4) When are the current arrangements relating to your agency cascade in place until?
Yours faithfully,
James King
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On behalf of the Information Governance Department
Email: [1][email address]
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