Agency Spend, most recent month available

Reference: 24-25062

Date response sent: 13/05/2024

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.

The job types are:

1. Nursing
2. HCAs
3. Pharmacy: Pharmacists and Pharmacy  Technicians
4. Therapies: Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists

Where the information is available, indicate the percentages ‘on-framework’ and ‘off-framework’.

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 hire agency nurses (RGN’s) whilst we have a permanent vacancy. (please note that we only employ around 30 nurses at any given point).

We do not have a pharmacy and do not employ therapists.

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

1. Nursing:RGNs

100% on framework, spend for March 2024 was £20,512.50

2. HCAs-

Not applicable we do not employ temp HCAs

3. Pharmacy:

None

4. Therapists:

None

(Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists)