Mental Health Agency Staff

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Dear Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust,

Please can you confirm how many temporary Mental Health staff of the below specialisms, you have working on an agency basis at the time of this request (10th June 2015).
Can you please break this information down by specialism:
• Mental Health Nurse
• Learning Disabilities Nurse
• Psychologists
• Psychological wellbeing practitioner
• Psychotherapist
• Counsellor
• High Intensity 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,

David Rogers

FOIA (RTH) OUH,

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FOIA (RTH) OUH,

Dear Mr Rogers,

I am writing to respond to your request sent 10th June. OUH can confirm that it holds the data that you requested.

We did not employ any agency staff in the below categories on the date you requested.

Please note that on 1 November 2011 the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust (ORH) merged with the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (NOC) to form the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH). Our response reflects these changes. Therefore, we consider that Oxford University Hospitals Trust has released to you all of the information that it holds in relation to your request.

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Information Governance Team
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