Mental Health Agency Staff - 2018

Dear Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust,

Please can you confirm how many temporary Mental Health staff of the below specialisms, you had working on an agency/locum basis between the dates of 12th March – 16th March 2018.
Can you please break this information down into the following types:

• Mental Health Nurse
• Psychologist
• Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
• Psychotherapist
• Counsellor
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

To provide additional clarity on my request, ‘temporary Mental Health staff’ is to mean all persons who are mental health staff and are not on permanent contracts of employment with the trust, but are supplied via employment agencies.

Yours faithfully,

Benjamin Stone

ENQUIRIES, Tewv (TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

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OLIVER, Donna (TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Benjamin

Further to your FOI dated 23 April 2018 I am writing to inform you that we only have information on mental health nurses which is 45.

Kind regards

Donna

Donna Oliver
Deputy Trust Secretary (Corporate)
West Park Hospital
Darlington
[email address]
01325 552188

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Benjamin Stone

Dear Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Mental Health Agency Staff - 2018'.

It seems confusing that the trust are not aware how many of the following staff were working on an agency basis between 12th March – 16th March 2018: Psychologist, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Psychotherapist, Counsellor, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.

Yet the amount of Mental Health Nurses is a known figure of 45.

Can this please be checked again?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...

Yours faithfully,

Benjamin Stone

OLIVER, Donna (TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Benjamin

I have checked the response that I received from the medical staffing department, which stated that we only have information on MH nurses.

I have emailed again this afternoon to ask for clarification on whether indeed that information may be held elsewhere in the Trust, other than medical staffing

The lady is on leave until Tuesday so I will get back to you middle of next week.

If we have the information elsewhere, I will endeavour to find it.

With kind regards

Donna

Donna Oliver
Deputy Trust Secretary (Corporate)
West Park Hospital
Darlington
[email address]
01325 552188

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OLIVER, Donna (TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Benjamin

On further checking with Medical Staffing (HR) and the finance team I can confirm that we do not hold the information to this level.

We do not therefore hold information on the numbers of agency based staff in the groups that you mentioned: Psychologist, Psychological wellbeing practitioner, psychotherapist counsellor and cognitive behaviour therapist.

With kind regards

Donna

Donna Oliver
Deputy Trust Secretary (Corporate)
West Park Hospital
Darlington
[email address]
01325 552188

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