Agency Use 2022 - 2023

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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,

For the use of agencies, please can you confirm if the Department of Health and Social Care works under, Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160 and the new CCS Non-Clinical Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277.

Please can you confirm the list of agencies that have supplied to the trust under the framework through the dates of January 2022 – December 2022.

For the same 12-month period, please can you provide the list of agencies that have supplied to you staff outside of the framework CCS Framework RM6160 .

Please outline your spending per agency, broken down by grade and speciality of roles or lots department for the above time period.

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

Please can you confirm on what occasions you would look to go outside of the framework for roles as below;

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

Please can you confirm the highest agency hourly charge rate and their speciality staffing, for;

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

What contractual relationships are in place for supplying Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160 and the new CCS Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277.

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

And who is responsible for managing them?

Please can you please provide me with the name, contact number & email address of the person responsible for agreeing on staffing contracts for your organisation

Please can you provide details of the names of the decision-makers who ultimately decide which agencies your organisation uses for non-clinical staff for CCS Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277 and the previous Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160.

Yours faithfully,

Alice Jenks

Department of Health and Social Care

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Dear Ms Jenks,

Please find attached the Department of Health and Social Care's response
to your recent FOI request (our ref: FOI-1458560).

Yours sincerely, 

Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care

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