Agency Nurses Spend In Last Available Month

Reference: 23-24449

Date response sent: 16/02/2024

Details of enquiry

For the most recent month available please provide your usage in terms of financial spend of agency staff for the job types below. Where the information is available, indicate the percentages ‘on-framework’ and ‘off-framework’.

The job types are:

1. Nursing
2. HCAs
3. Pharmacists
4. Pharmacy Technicians

Response sent

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health Trust, and not a hospital, and we only employ a small number of around 30 nurses at any given point.

We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological, services.  We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities,  and do not have an A&E department.

1. Temp Agency Nursing spend, 100% on framework £14,250 for the month of December 2023
2. Temp Agency HCAs – no spend
3. Temp Agency Pharmacists: Not applicable, as the Trust does not have a pharmacy
4. Temp Agency Pharmacy Technicians: Not applicable, as the Trust does not have a pharmacy