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DATE: 16/12/2021
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 271-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
1. What is the total Trust spend purely with framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors and therapists in the past 12 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name. Commercially sensitive.
2. What is the total Trust spend purely with off-framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors and therapists in the past 12 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
3. What is the total Trust spend purely with agencies for the recruitment of permanent & fixed term doctors and therapists in the past 6 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name. Commercially sensitive. 4. Does your organization use a Direct Engagement scheme? If so, who provides it and when does their contract expire? Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT use TempRE. Not currently aware of a contract expiry date. 5. What percentage of bookings are made outside of the Direct Engagement model non-DE.? Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT do not take bookings outside of ADE.
6. Which medical services do you outsource to external companies & which companies do you outsource to? Psychiatry and Physical Health. Outsource to NHS JOBS and also TempRE.
7. How many doctors have been booked outside of IR35 in previous 12months? None.
8. In which specialty is your highest paid Locum Consultant Doctor and what is their hourly rate? General Adult Psychiatry £146.06 per hour
9. How many individual locums do you have working with each specific agency? Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS FT have eight Doctors:
• Global Medics – x2 Doctors
• ID Medical – x1
• CAMHS Professional – x1
• Medecho – x1
• Pulse – x1
• National Locums – x1
• Athona – x1
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– Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
Sent: 18 November 2021 16:39
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Agency Spend
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-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
1.What is the total Trust spend purely with framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors and therapists in the past 12 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
2.What is the total Trust spend purely with off-framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors and therapists in the past 12 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
3. What is the total Trust spend purely with agencies for the recruitment of permanent & fixed term doctors and therapists in the past 6 months? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
4. Does your organization use a Direct Engagement scheme? If so, who provides it and when does their contract expire?
5. What percentage of bookings are made outside of the Direct Engagement model non-DE.?
6. Which medical services do you outsource to external companies & which companies do you outsource to?
7. How many doctors have been booked outside of IR35 in previous 12 months ?
8 . In which specialty is your highest paid Locum Consultant Doctor and what is their hourly rate ?
9. How many individual locums do you have working with each specific agency ? please provide each recruitment agency by company name and how many
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