Agency Spend & Engagement
Reference: 23-24478
Date response sent: 15/02/2024
Details of enquiry
Please provide me with the following information in relation to temporary agency staffing.
- Neutral Vend (NV) or Master Vend (MV) Agency Supplier:
i. Medical
Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier?
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier
iii. Nursing
Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier
- Direct Engagement (DE):
i. Medical
Name of the DE provider
Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
% of DE currently achieved
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
Name of the DE provider
Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
% of DE currently achieved
iii. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
Name of the DE provider
Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
% of DE currently achieved
- Financial Year 2022/2023 (or most recent if available) – spend figures on temporary agency staffing – (worker pay & agency commission only):
i. Medical
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
iii. Nursing
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
- Financial Year 2022/2023 – number of hours worked by temporary agency workers:
i. Medical
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
iii. Nursing
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
- Does the Trust or Health Board currently operate a Non-Medical Non-Clinical Staff Bank?
If yes, what is the name of the provider?
Expiry Date of the contract with the provider
- Does the Trust or Health Board utilise an Insourcing Contracting provider in place?
If yes, what is the name of the provider?
expiry Date of the contract with the provider
- Contact responsible for temporary agency staffing at the Trust or Health Board:
i. Workforce Lead
Name
Job Title
ii. Procurement Lead
Name
Job Title
iii. Finance Lead
Name
Job Title
Response sent
Explanatory Notes:
A * The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health Trust, and not a hospital. We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological, services. We do not provide acute, nor inpatient patient services, and do not have an A&E department.
B * The level of temporary spend shown for non clinical financial year 2022/23 is not typical nor expected to be sustained/repeated in 2023/24 nor in future years. The 2022/23 temporary workforce spend was significantly inflated by specific programmes and actions by the Trust, related to a Strategic Review Programme (now concluded), and the announced closure of one of our gender services which saw big increases in temporary staff hirings whilst permanent recruitment was frozen.
C * The Trust expects that current financial year 2023/24 will see a significant reduction in its temporary workforce spend across the board.
D ** The Trust only employs a small number of around 30 nurses at any given point, and have not had the need to hire agency or bank nurses for over three years
Response to Questions
- Neutral Vend (NV) or Master Vend (MV) Agency Supplier:
The Trust does not engage any Neutral Vend or Master Vend Agency Supplier
- Direct Engagement (DE):
i. Medical
Pulse Healthcare Ltd
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
None engaged
iii. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
Name of the DE provider
- Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Hunter Healthcare Resourcing Ltd
- Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
- This varies by individual temporary worker and are not overarching contracts
- Financial Year 2022/2023 (or most recent if available) – spend figures on temporary agency staffing – (worker pay & agency commission only):
a. Medical
71,336.74
b. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
None engaged
c. Nursing
None engaged
* Please see explanatory note D above
d. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
* £ 3,272,210.26
* Please see explanatory notes B and C above.
- Financial Year 2022/2023 – number of hours worked by temporary agency workers:
a. Medical
We do not hold our data in this way, as our temporary junior doctors work to a day rate, an hourly rate or to a set start/end date.
b. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
Not applicable – see responses above
c. Nursing
Not applicable
d. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
We do not hold our data in this way, as our temporary agency staff work to a day rate, an hourly rate or to a set start/end date.
- Does the Trust or Health Board currently operate a Non-Medical Non-Clinical Staff Bank?
Yes
If yes, what is the name of the provider?
Not applicable. This is managed in-house
Expiry Date of the contract with the provider
Not applicable, see above response
- Does the Trust or Health Board utilise an Insourcing Contracting provider in place?
No
- Contact responsible for temporary agency staffing at the Trust or Health Board:
a. Workforce Lead
b. Procurement Lead
c. Finance Lead