Off-Framework Usage in the Past 12 Months’
Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
Please provide me with the below details;
1. A list of the OFF-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 12 months’
2. The average length of time a long-term agency placement is left vacant before being filled by the agencies who are ON framework in the past 12 months’
3. How many long-term bookings and individual shifts have been placed through OFF-framework agencies in the past 12 months’ (Please separate individual shifts and long-term placements)
4. Average cost per hour for Band 5, 6 and 7 agency workers paid to OFF-framework agencies in the past 12 months’
5. Who in the trust has authority to approve the use of off-framework agencies (name and job title)
6. If authority to use off-framework agencies in the trust lies with a specific department i.e., temporary staffing/staffing solutions/agency bookings/NHSP or equivalents, then who in the trust has the authority to override such decision made by that department (name and job title)
Thank you,
Yours faithfully,
Sebastian Bastable-Aradia
Dear Sebastian
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Amy
Amy Cooper
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
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From: Sebastian Bastable-Aradia
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Subject: Freedom of Information request - Off-Framework Usage in the Past
12 Months’
Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
Please provide me with the below details;
1. A list of the OFF-framework agencies used by the trust in the past
12 months’
2. The average length of time a long-term agency placement is left
vacant before being filled by the agencies who are ON framework in the
past 12 months’
3. How many long-term bookings and individual shifts have been placed
through OFF-framework agencies in the past 12 months’ (Please separate
individual shifts and long-term placements)
4. Average cost per hour for Band 5, 6 and 7 agency workers paid to
OFF-framework agencies in the past 12 months’
5. Who in the trust has authority to approve the use of off-framework
agencies (name and job title)
6. If authority to use off-framework agencies in the trust lies with
a specific department i.e., temporary staffing/staffing solutions/agency
bookings/NHSP or equivalents, then who in the trust has the authority to
override such decision made by that department (name and job title)
Thank you,
Yours faithfully,
Sebastian Bastable-Aradia
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Dear Sebastian
Please find enclosed herewith our response to your request for
information, made under the Freedom of Information Act.
Kind regards
Amy
Amy Cooper
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
"This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
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