RM6281 Workforce Alliance Framework Enquiry

Reference: 24-25163

Date response sent: 26/07/2024

Details of enquiry

1. Is the Trust a participant in the new RM6281 Workforce Alliance framework?
2. What are the timeline and process for the RM6281 framework to become operational?
3. Who is the designated staff responsible for selecting and contracting suppliers for clinical temporary staff, including their email addresses and office phone numbers

Response sent

1. Is the Trust a participant in the new RM6281 Workforce Alliance framework?

The Trust does have access to the RM6281 workforce Alliance Framework

2. What are the timeline and process for the RM6281 framework to become operational?

Please refer to the publicly available Crown Commercial Services Explanations National Framework for the Provision of Clinical and Healthcare Staffing – CCS (crowncommercial.gov.uk)

3. Who is the designated staff responsible for selecting and contracting suppliers for clinical temporary staff, including their email addresses and office phone numbers

This very much depends on the agency worker role, as this is not a centralised activity and departments are free to engage temp staff once internal authorisation has been granted and provided that the agency is on a suitable framework.

Please 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.  We do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and do not have an  A&E department.