Agency & Bank Spend since 2019/20

Reference: 23-24510

Date response sent: 18/03/2024

Details of enquiry

i. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency doctors in each of the last 5 financial years (including 2023/24 so far)

ii. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency nurses in in each of the last 5 financial years (including 2023/24 so far)

iii. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency nurse shift in 2023/24

iv. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency doctor’s shift in 2023/24

Response sent

It is important for your contextual understanding of our response below that you understand that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is not a hospital.

We are a small, specialist mental health Trust, with a focus on training and education , which includes a post graduate programme for trainee doctors who provide staffing for one Child Psychiatry OOH rota (staffed by Specialist Trainees (STs) at nearby Acute Trusts within NCL).  We do not have any other staff working shifts or rota, – all other staff work to a 5 day week FTE equivalent basis.

We also provide a range of outpatient, and mainly psychological, services, via day clinics,  though we do not provide acute nor inpatient patient services, and do not have detention facilities, nor an A&E department.

Please note that with the exception of one OOH specialist trainee doctors rota, (as explained above), our staff do not work shifts or rotas, and our other services are provided Monday to Friday during daytime working hours.

 

 

Question No	Financial Year	2019/20 £	2020/21 £	2021/22 £	2022/23 £	2023/24 to Feb ‘24 £
i	Total Spend on Bank+Agency Doctors	173,057	245,267	240,448	453,870	299,479
ii	Total Spend on Bank+Agency Nurses	333,504	73,496	Nil	Nil	440,926
Iii	Most Expensive Nurse Shift Daytime work					Daytime work £400
iv	Most Expensive Doctors Shift On-Call Shift					On call for 24 hours £3,484.80