Use of Agency Physiotherapy Professionals

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Dear Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust,

Please can I request the following information regarding the use of agency physiotherapy professionals:

1. all agencies currently supplying Physiotherapists (Band 5); Physiotherapist Specialists (Band 6); and Advanced Physiotherapists (Band 7) (referred to from now as "Physiotherapy professionals”) to Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust

2. the total number of Physiotherapy professionals currently working on an agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust

3. the number and grade of Physiotherapy professionals currently working on an agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust by supplier

4. the number and grade of Physiotherapy professionals currently working on an agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust by department

5. the pay and agency charge rate of each Physiotherapy professional currently working on an agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust by department

6. the total fiscal spend for Physiotherapy professional recruitment through agencies for 2010-2011

7. the fiscal budget for Physiotherapy professional recruitment through agencies for 2011-2012

8. the total fiscal spend on agency Physiotherapy professionals by department for the last 12 months

9. the total fiscal spend on agency Physiotherapy professionals by agency for the last 12 months

Yours faithfully,

Gemma Thorpe

Anderson, Amy, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

I am on annual leave and will be returning to the office on Monday, 3rd
October 2011. Please forward any emails sent to
[Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust request email], or anything else you need help with in my
absence, to my colleague Gordon Harrison: [email address].
Gordon can also be reached on 020 3317 3089.

Kind regards,

Amy Anderson
Communications Department
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

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Charlton, Byron, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Ms Thorpe,

 

Thank you for your email dated 28^th September 2011.

 

We are responding to your request for information in line with the Freedom
of Information Act (2000).  We will endeavour to provide you with the
information you require within 20 working days if we have it and are able
to provide you with it.

 

If your enquiry is unclear to us, we will contact you to clarify which
information you require.  If costs will be incurred by the Trust for
providing you with the information (postage, packing etc) or if it will
take staff in the Trust more than 18 hours to carry out the work required
to respond to your request we may need to charge you a fee.  We will
inform you of this fee in writing.

 

If we find that according to the Act, the information you would like is
exempt from being made available, we will, where possible, inform you of
our reasons for this decision.

 

If you have any further enquires regarding your request please email
[1]foi@[email address] quoting the above reference number.

 

 

 

 

After you have received your response from the Trust and you are not happy
with the way in which we have dealt with your enquiry, please contact me
and I will start the process for an internal review into your request for
information.

 

Yours sincerely,

Byron Charlton

 

 

 

   
     
Telephone +44 203 317 3115 Byron Lloyd Charlton

Fax +44 203 317 2730 Interim Information Governance
Manager
e-mail [email address]
Camden & Islington NHS Foundation
Website [2]www.candi.nhs.uk Trust     

1st Floor, North Wing

St Pancras Hospital,

4 St Pancras Way, London, NW1 0PE

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Charlton, Byron, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Ms Thorpe,

 

Following your request for information that we received on 27^th September
2011, and in line with the Freedom of Information Act (2000), the Trust
has carefully looked into matter but concluded that we are unable to
provide you with access to the recorded information

 

You requested the following information:

 

Please can I request the following information regarding the use of agency
physiotherapy professionals:

    

1. all agencies currently supplying Physiotherapists (Band 5);
Physiotherapist Specialists (Band 6); and Advanced Physiotherapists(Band
7) (referred to from now as "Physiotherapy professionals”) to Camden &
Islington NHS Foundation Trust

    

2. the total number of Physiotherapy professionals currently working on an
agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust

    

3. the number and grade of Physiotherapy professionals currently working
on an agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust by
supplier

    

4. the number and grade of Physiotherapy professionals currently working
on an agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust by
department

    

5. the pay and agency charge rate of each Physiotherapy professional
currently working on an agency basis with Camden & Islington NHS
Foundation Trust by department

    

6. the total fiscal spend for Physiotherapy professional recruitment
through agencies for 2010-2011

    

7. the fiscal budget for Physiotherapy professional recruitment through
agencies for 2011-2012

    

8. the total fiscal spend on agency Physiotherapy professionals by
department for the last 12 months

    

9. the total fiscal spend on agency Physiotherapy professionals by agency
for the last 12 months

 

The Trust response is as follows:

 

The Trust looked into your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and can confirm that we do not hold the information
as requested.

 

The reason for this is that this Trust does not employ physiotherapists at
all.

 

We understand that this is disappointing news for you, however if you wish
to discuss this matter further please email me on [1][email address].

 

After you have received your response from the Trust, and you are not
happy with the way in which we have dealt with your enquiry, please write
me and I will start the process for an internal review with regard to your
request for information.

 

 

 

   
     
Telephone +44 203 317 3115 Byron Lloyd Charlton

Fax +44 203 317 2730 Interim Information Governance
Manager
e-mail [email address]
Camden & Islington NHS Foundation
Website [2]www.candi.nhs.uk Trust     

1st Floor, North Wing

St Pancras Hospital,

4 St Pancras Way, London, NW1 0PE

[3]candi.gif

 

 

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