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Procurement and Agency Nurses

Reference: 24-25272

Date response sent: 10/10/2024

Details of enquiry

  1. Can you confirm your head of procurement name, phone number and email address?
  2. How many agency nursing shifts have your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for between 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024?
  3. Please provide a breakdown of the amount of shifts per ward or department where Thornbury Nursing Services were used between 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024?
  4. Please name any other OFF CONTRACT SUPPLIERS who have been utilised by the Trust between 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024 above the NHS Improvement + 50% caps and how many shifts each of these agencies have filled.
  5. If for any reason you are unable to supply data up until 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024 please provide from 1st March until 1st
  6. Can you confirm your head of procurement name, phone number and email address?
  7. Can you confirm medical director name, phone number and email address for Psychiatry?

Response sent

It might be helpful to you to read the following explanation about how our Trust operates, in order to understand to have a contextual understanding of our responses.

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 daytime only outpatient clinic basis.  We do not have wards and do not operate a shift work system as we are only open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

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.

 

  1. Can you confirm your head of procurement name, phone number and email address?

The Procurement Manager, procurement@tavi-port.nhs.uk Tel: 020 7435 7111

  1. How many agency nursing shifts have your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for between 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024?

None.

  1. Please provide a breakdown of the amount of shifts per ward or department where Thornbury Nursing Services were used between 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024?

We do not have wards and do not operate a shift working system.

We have not engaged the services of Thornbury Nursing Services.

  1. Please name any other OFF CONTRACT SUPPLIERS who have been utilised by the Trust between 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024 above the NHS Improvement + 50% caps and how many shifts each of these agencies have filled.

Nil

  1. If for any reason you are unable to supply data up until 1st June 2024 and 1st August 2024 please provide from 1st March until 1st

Not applicable

  1. Can you confirm your head of procurement name, phone number and email address?

This is the same as Question 1 – see our response to Question 1

  1. Can you confirm medical director name, phone number and email address for Psychiatry?

We do not have a department called Psychiatry, as  we provide a full range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.  Please see our website for more information about the services we provide:  Services – Tavistock and Portman

Our Chief Medical Officer is Chris Abbott, CAbbott@Tavi-Port.nhs.uk , Tel: 020 7435 7111

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