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Agency Spend Locum Doctors Aug-Oct 2024

Reference: 24-25372

Date response sent: 27/11/2024

Details of enquiry

  1. In the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors
    1. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
  2. Spend per grade
  3. Spend per specialty
  • Spend per agency name
  1. In the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors
    1. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
  2. Spend per grade
  3. Spend per specialty
  • Spend per agency name
  1.  In the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors
    1. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
  2. Spend per grade
  3. Spend per specialty
  • Spend per internal or associated external provider
  1. Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024

Response sent

You might find it helpful to note that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is not a hospital, it is a small specialist mental health Trust, which does not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and does not have an A&E department.

We provide certain local acute hospitals’ mental health services with shift cover by our own resident doctors (previously known as junior doctors).

  1. In the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors

£4,000

  1. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
  1. Spend per grade

£4,000

  1. Spend per specialty

£4,000

  • Spend per agency name

Pulse Healthcare Ltd – £4,000

  1.  In the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors

Nil – We do not use off-framework agencies

  1.  In the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors

Nil – we do not have locum doctors on our bank

  1. Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st August 2024 to 31st October 2024

Nil.  Please see both our explanatory notes, above Q1, and also below.

We would occasionally hire locum doctors from an agency, when there is a gap in shift cover which we are committed to fill at local acute Trusts but cannot otherwise do, for which we are reimbursed in full by the relevant local acute Trust.

As the net hire costs for these shifts are nil to our Trust, due to full reimbursement, as explained above, we do not have a set budget to spend on locum doctors.

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