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On/Off Framework Nursing Agencies

Reference: 23-24549

Date response sent: 03/04/2024

Details of enquiry

  1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  2. In the last 90 days which wards, or departments were these ON framework requests for?
  3. Please can you confirm how many nursing shifts have been filled by ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  4. How many long term lines of work or block bookings are currently being supplied by ON framework agencies?
  5. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies year to date?
  6. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to OFF framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  7. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and RGN’s from ON framework agencies?
  8. Who at Temporary Staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide their email address and contact number?
  9. What is the generic Nurse bank email address for staff bank?
  10. How many shifts were cascaded to Thornbury Nursing within the last 90 days?

Response sent

  1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  2. In the last 90 days which wards, or departments were these ON framework requests for?
  3. Please can you confirm how many nursing shifts have been filled by ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  4. How many long term lines of work or block bookings are currently being supplied by ON framework agencies?
  5. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies year to date?
  6. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to OFF framework agencies within the last 90 days?
  7. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and RGN’s from ON framework agencies?
  8. Who at Temporary Staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide their email address and contact number?
  9. What is the generic Nurse bank email address for staff bank?
  10. How many shifts were cascaded to Thornbury Nursing within the last 90 days?

Response sent

  1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?

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 do not employ RCNs HCA’s, RMN or Specialist RNs. We have not hired many agency nurses (RGN’s) for at least the last few of years, and then only whilst we have a permanent vacancy. (please note that we only employ around 30 nurses at any given point).

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

We do not operate a shift system, and our agency nurses work days only on an hourly rate basis.

We have 3 agency nurses, and each works the same set of hours each week, and they are paid weekly for:

Nurse A:  30 hrs/week

Nurse B:  15 hrs/week

Nurse C:  37 hrs/week

  1. In the last 90 days which wards, or departments were these ON framework requests for?

Gender Identity Clinic

  1. Please can you confirm how many nursing shifts have been filled by ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?

We do not work shifts – see our response to Q1

  1. How many long term lines of work or block bookings are currently being supplied by ON framework agencies?

Three

  1. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies year to date?

RM6160 and £136,768 (April to December 2023)

  1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to OFF framework agencies within the last 90 days?

None

  1. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and RGN’s from ON framework agencies?

£45/hour

  1. Who at Temporary Staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide their email address and contact number?

We do not have a temporary staffing department. The HR department, HR@tavi-port.nhs.uk

  1. What is the generic Nurse bank email address for staff bank?

We do not have a separate nurse bank. The HR department, HR@tavi-port.nhs.uk

  1. How many shifts were cascaded to Thornbury Nursing within the last 90 days?

None.

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