Medical Agency Cascade
Dear West Suffolk 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
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Dear James King
I am writing to confirm that the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has now
completed its search for the information which you requested on 18^th
March 2021.
Please find our response to your request.
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.
Agencies:
Medacs Healthcare Ltd
Interact Medical Ltd
Total Assist recruitment
Ltd
Pro Medical Personnel
Accident and Emergancy Ltd
ED Staffing
NC Healthcare
ID Medical
Athona
Pertemps
DRC Locums Ltd
Unite Medical
Holt Doctors
Remedy Locums
Provide Medical
RM Medics
N/A We don’t have a tiered system, all shifts are released to the above
agencies at the same time.
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.
N/A This Trust does not use a tiered system.
3)What is the protocol for releasing medical (doctor) vacancies to each of
your tiers?
All shifts are offered to in house bank first then will be released to
agency.
4) When are the current arrangements relating to your agency cascade in
place until?
This Trust uses agencies approved by the East Of England Collaborative
Procurement Hub Framework only, and will send details of medical staffing
shifts to those agencies approved by them.
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Dear FOI,
Thank you for informing me that you do not use a Tier system.
Please provide a breakdown of medical (doctor) locum hours booked, broken down by each of the locum agencies you have used. We would like this data split into each of the last three years. If this is not available, please provide a breakdown of spending by agency instead. If only more recent data is available, please provide what you have.
Yours sincerely,
James King
Dear James King,
I’m sorry we do not hold hours in the ledger. We take a monetary value per GL Code and apply an hourly rate to calculate a Whole Time Equivalent.
Kind Regards
Jenny
FOI Team
Cedar House
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Hardwick Lane|Bury St Edmunds|SUFFOLK|IP33 2QZ
Requests received after 3pm will be logged the following working day
Dear FOI,
Thank you for your reply, in regards to the previous question could you provide the data for the Whole Time Equivalent for each agency.
Yours sincerely,
James King
Dear James King,
Please see our response below to your email dated 1^st May 2021.
Thank you for your reply, in regards to the previous question could you
provide the data for the Whole Time Equivalent for each agency.
We can give you the spend by Agency over the last 3 Financial Years – but
we do not hold any hours in the ledger.
Row Labels Apr18-Mar19 Apr19-Mar20 Apr20 - Mar21 Grand Total
A & E AGENCY 228,238.77 126,354.30 -34,560.00 320,033.07
ATHONA LTD 161,548.70 21,172.80 190,377.00 373,098.50
BACKLOGS LTD 0.00 -84.00 -84.00
DOCTORS ON CALL 2,371.09 2,371.09
DRC LOCUMS LTD 10,109.00 10,109.00
EAST SUFFOLK & NORTH
ESSEX NHS FT 5,799.54 5,799.54
FIRST MEDICAL STAFFING
SOLUTIONS 3,360.00 3,360.00
HCL HEALTHCARE -156.00 -156.00
HELAPET LTD 21.40 21.40
HOLT DOCTORS 29,808.00 9,190.18 -6,465.21 32,532.97
INTERACT MEDICAL 173,731.86 233,492.99 144,600.00 551,824.85
LOCUM PEOPLE LTD 351,071.74 274,820.02 91,057.20 716,948.96
LOCUM VISION 22,248.00 22,248.00
MEDACS HEALTHCARE PLC -651.65 9,274.04 14,555.84 23,178.23
NATIONAL LOCUMS 13,841.41 23,787.00 37,628.41
NC HEALTHCARE LTD 118,147.98 259,507.35 161,098.78 538,754.11
PERTEMPS RECRUITMENT
PARTNERSHIP LTD 529,014.30 192,819.84 82,132.86 803,967.00
PROMED LTD 19,932.00 -10,032.00 9,900.00
PROMEDICAL PERSONNEL
LTD 83,312.52 218,670.00 529,330.24 831,312.76
REMEDIUM PARTNERS LTD 19,452.04 19,452.04
RIG HEALTHCARE -61.78 -61.78
RM MEDICS LTD 169,424.68 9,490.80 53,938.51 232,853.99
RPO MEDICAL LTD 16,770.60 16,770.60
SURGI-CALL LOCUMS LTD 68,202.00 -1,296.00 66,906.00
THE ID GROUP LTD
(MEDICAL) 295,715.65 309,105.62 552,657.81 1,157,479.08
TOTAL ASSIST
RECRUITMENT LTD 373,893.17 108,131.22 50,556.30 532,580.69
UNITE MEDICAL LTD 122,380.80 104,407.20 226,788.00
YOUR WORLD HEALTHCARE 23,797.26 23,797.26
Kind regards
FOI Team
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Hardwick Lane|Bury St Edmunds|SUFFOLK|IP33 2QZ
Dear FOI,
thank you for your reply, do you have this data in the format of a spreadsheet for easier reading?
Yours sincerely,
James King
Dear James King,
Please find attached the requested spreadsheet.
Kind regards
FOI Team
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Hardwick Lane|Bury St Edmunds|SUFFOLK|IP33 2QZ
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