Medical Agency Cascade
Dear Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation 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
Dear James King
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FOI Department
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
Part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
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Dear James King
Please see attached our response to your FOI request.
Regards
FOI Department
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals
Dear FOI,
Thank you for providing the number of hours by each year. Please could you provide this data split into hours/spend per agency? If only more recent data is available, please provide what you have.
Yours sincerely,
James King
Dear James King
We will ask our HR department if this is possible and get back to you as soon as possible.
Regards
FOI Department
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital
Dear James King
Please see the attached document in relation to your further request.
Kind regards
FOI Department
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
Part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
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