Internal Reference Number: FOI_7456
Date Request Received: 29/09/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 24/10/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Off-Framework Usage in the Past 12 Months’
Request Category: Private Individuals
Question Number 1: A list of the OFF-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 12 months’ | |
Answer To Question 1: Thornbury, Nutrix, CBS Butler. | |
Question Number 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’ | |
Answer To Question 2: 13 Days | |
Question Number 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) | |
Answer To Question 3: 2 long term | |
Question Number 4: Average cost per hour for Band 5, 6 and 7 agency workers paid to OFF-framework agencies in the past 12 months’ | |
Answer To Question 4: Average cost over the last 6 months: Band 5 £70.70 Band 6 £64.09 | |
Question Number 5: Who in the trust has authority to approve the use of off-framework agencies (name and job title) | |
Answer To Question 5: Sharon Holt, Head of Resourcing and Peter Collins, Chief Medical Officer. | |
Question Number 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) | |
Answer To Question 6: Not applicable | |
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