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Agency Nurse ON framework Shifts – last 90 days

Reference: 24-25223

Date response sent: 04/09/2024

Details of enquiry

Please could you answer the below questions in relation to Nursing on-framework supply;

 

  1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  2. In the last 90 days which wards, or departments were these ON framework requests for?
  3. Please can you confirm how many nursing shifts have been filled by ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  4. How many long term lines of work or block bookings are currently being supplied by ON framework agencies?
  5. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies year to date?
  6. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to OFF framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  7. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and HCA’s from ON framework agencies?
  8. Who at Temporary Staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide their email address and contact number?
  9. What is the generic Nurse bank email address for staff bank?
  10. How many shifts were cascaded to Thornbury Nursing within the last 90 days?

Response sent

Please could you answer the below questions in relation to Nursing on-framework supply;

 

  1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?

Please note that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist mental health Trust, and not a hospital. We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies on a day clinic basis.

We do not employ RCNs HCA’s, RMN or Specialist RNs. We only occasionally use the services of agency nurses (RGN’s) to cover for substantive vacancies (we only employ around 30 nurses in total at any given point).

Use of off-framework agency nurses is nil and this has been the case for some years.

We do not operate a shift system, and our agency nurses work days only on an hourly rate basis.

We have 3 agency nurses, and each works the same set of hours each week, and they are paid weekly for:

Nurse A: 30 hrs/week

Nurse B: 15 hrs/week

Nurse C: 37 hrs/week

2. In the last 90 days which wards, or departments were these ON framework requests for?

Gender Identity Clinic and SCCT

3. Please can you confirm how many nursing shifts have been filled by ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?

See response to Q1 above

4. How many long term lines of work or block bookings are currently being supplied by ON framework agencies?

Three

5. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies year to date?

PERTEMPS MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS LTD, YTD= Apr24-Jul24, £87k

6. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to OFF framework agencies within the last 90 days?

None

7. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and HCA’s from ON framework agencies?

£45/hour

8. Who at Temporary Staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide their email address and contact number?

We do not have a temporary staffing department. The HR department, HR@tavi-port.nhs.uk

9. What is the generic Nurse bank email address for staff bank?

We do not have a separate nurse bank. The HR department, HR@tavi-port.nhs.uk

10. How many shifts were cascaded to Thornbury Nursing within the last 90 days?

None

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