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Agency Spend Locum Doctors Nov’24-Jan’25

Reference: 24-25509

Date response sent: 19/02/2025

Details of enquiry

In the period 1st  November 2024 to 31st  January 2025 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors

  1. In the period 1st  November 2024 to 31st  January 2025 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors

a. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:

i. Spend per grade

ii. Spend per specialty

iii. Spend per agency name

2.  In the period 1st  November 2024 to 31st  January 2025 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors

3.  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

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

5. Please confirm the name of the framework used for the supply of locum doctors in your trust.

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

  1. In the period 1st  November 2024 to 31st  January 2025 please provide a breakdown of Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors

£0

a. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:

i. Spend per grade

£0

ii. Spend per specialty

£0

iii. Spend per agency name

£0

  1.  In the period 1st  November 2024 to 31st  January 2025 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.

  1. Please confirm the name of the framework used for the supply of locum doctors in your trust.

RM6281

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