Agency Spend: Nurses, Doctors in April 2025

Reference: 25-26111

Date response sent: 25/06/2025

Details of enquiry

Please can you provide me with the Agency Spend, split between the 3 individual staff groups below :

1. Agency Registered Nurses (all specialities e.g. adult nursing, children’s nursing, community, mental health, midwives, etc) – April 2025
2. Agency Health Care Support Workers – April 2025
3. Agency Doctors – April 2025

Response sent

The Trust’s spend on agency nurses and agency doctors in April 2025 was nil.

The Trust does not employ Health Care Support Workers – so that spend was nil too..

You may be interested to note that the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist NHS mental health trust with a focus on training and education, as well as providing a range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults. We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies. We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and do not have an A&E department.