Mental Health Agency Staff

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Dear London North West Healthcare NHS Trust,

1) Please can you confirm what your total spend on temporary Mental Health staff was during the financial year 2014-15 for the below specialisms?
Can you please break this financial information down by:
• Mental Health Nurse
• Learning Disabilities Nurse
• Psychologists
• Psychological wellbeing practitioner
• Psychotherapist
• Counsellor
• High Intensity Therapist

2) Please can you confirm the names of the organisation/s you procure temporary Mental Health staff from?
Please also confirm the end date of any over-arching contractual arrangements that are in place with any of these organisations.

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,

Helen Jones

FOI (LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Dear Ms Jones,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request which was received on the 11th June 2015 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

You should expect a response by the 9th July and your reference number is 350-15

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, I will let you know.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me and remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Yours faithfully,

Interim FOI Officer
London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]

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Ross Sheryn (LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST), London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Helen Jones

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on the 11th June 2015.

Your ref 350-15

You asked:-

1) Please can you confirm what your total spend on temporary Mental Health staff was during the financial year 2014-15 for the below specialisms?
Can you please break this financial information down by:
• Mental Health Nurse
• Learning Disabilities Nurse
• Psychologists
• Psychological wellbeing practitioner
• Psychotherapist
• Counsellor
• High Intensity Therapist

2) Please can you confirm the names of the organisation/s you procure temporary Mental Health staff from?
Please also confirm the end date of any over-arching contractual arrangements that are in place with any of these organisations.

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.

Our response:-

1) Please can you confirm what your total spend on temporary Mental Health staff was during the financial year 2014-15 for the below specialisms?
Can you please break this financial information down by:
• Mental Health Nurse
• Learning Disabilities Nurse
• Psychologists
• Psychological wellbeing practitioner
• Psychotherapist
• Counsellor
• High Intensity Therapist

The Trust cannot identify specific costs relating to mental health cover, although the Trust employs nurses, they are accounted for in the same way as general ward nurses are accounted for. This information cannot therefore be isolated for this response. London North West Healthcare NHS Trust therefore does not hold the information sought. The information falls within section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act, 'information not held'.

2) Please can you confirm the names of the organisation/s you procure temporary Mental Health staff from?
Please also confirm the end date of any over-arching contractual arrangements that are in place with any of these organisations.

* NHS bank staff are used when available. The NHS London Procurement Partnership agencies only are used as the alternative. The current
contract renewal is for 3 years to 2017

If you wish to re-use the information that we provide and you do not specify this in your initial application for information then you must make a further request for its re-use as per the Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 www.opsi.gov.uk. This will not affect your initial information request.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision, you should write to Information Governance Manager, London North West Healthcare Trust, Watford Road, Harrow, HA1 3UJ or Email:- [email address]

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the Chief Executive. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

Interim Freedom of Information Officer
London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]

Incorporating the Community Services of Brent, Ealing and Harrow

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