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Agency Nurses Spend & Utilisation

Reference: 23-24404

Date response sent: 09/01/2024

Details of enquiry

  1. From  1st November 2023 until 31st  December 2023 how many shifts has your Trust or Health Board utilised Thornbury Nursing services  for?
  2. Within this same time frame (1stNovember 2023 until 31st December 2023) please list all wards or departments that utilised this agency and display the number of shifts in each.
  3. Within this same time frame (1stNovember 2023 until 31st December 2023) please list all other off contract agencies utilised by the Trust or Health Board for nursing and break down a list of each ward or department and total number of shifts for each off contract agency.
  4. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period (01/11/2023- 31/12/2023)
  5. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period (01/11/2023- 31/12/2023)
  6. Please list any suppliers with a critical day rate charge (Band 5 or 6) ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £60 per hour that have been utilised in this time period
  7. Please list any suppliers with a critical night rate charge (Band 5 or 6) ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £70 per hour that have been utilised in this time period

Response sent

Please kindly 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 have not hired many agency nurses (RGN’s) for at least the last few of years, and then only whilst we have a permanent vacancy. (please note that we only employ around 30 nurses at any given point).

Our off-framework spend on Agency nurses is Nil and has been nil for the past few years.

  1. From  1st November 2023 until 31st  December 2023 how many shifts has your Trust or Health Board utilised Thornbury Nursing services  for?

None

  1. Within this same time frame (1stNovember 2023 until 31st December 2023) please list all wards or departments that utilised this agency and display the number of shifts in each.

See above response.

  1. Within this same time frame (1stNovember 2023 until 31st December 2023) please list all other off contract agencies utilised by the Trust or Health Board for nursing and break down a list of each ward or department and total number of shifts for each off contract agency.

None

  1. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period (01/11/2023- 31/12/2023)

None

  1. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period (01/11/2023- 31/12/2023)

None

  1. Please list any suppliers with a critical day rate charge (Band 5 or 6) ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £60 per hour that have been utilised in this time period

Not applicable.  We do not provide acute services, nor any surgical operations.

  1. Please list any suppliers with a critical night rate charge (Band 5 or 6) ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £70 per hour that have been utilised in this time period

See response to Q6 above.

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