- FoI Number
- 2022-717
- Subject
- Staff Spend
- Date Received
- 07/02/2023
- Request and Response
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Please can you provide the following information solely for Agency Locum Doctors, recruited at NHS Shetland Health Board, between 05/04/21 – to present date?
1. What is the total Trust spend purely with off-framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors between 05/04/21 to present date? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name
Please see published information (Temporary Worker and Bank Expenditure) on our Internet page below.
NHS Shetland: Procurement Information (scot.nhs.uk)
2. What is the total Trust spend purely with framework agencies for the recruitment of locum doctors between 05/04/21 to present date? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
See Q1
3. How many bookings were made last year and what percentage of bookings were made outside of Direct Engagement (Non-DE)? – Please provide a breakdown of long term bookings, and ad hoc shifts booked in.
Worker Profession
Booking Reason
Number of Jobs
Number of Shifts
AHP & HSS
Additional Session
1
5
AHP & HSS
Capacity and Demand
1
49
AHP & HSS
Covid-19 (pressures)
15
990
AHP & HSS
Leave
4
75
AHP & HSS
Maternity / Paternity Leave
1
68
AHP & HSS
Other
5
118
AHP & HSS
Secondment
1
37
AHP & HSS
Vacancy
8
324
Medical & Dental
Annual Leave
1
15
Medical & Dental
Leave
1
2
Medical & Dental
On-call cover
3
117
Medical & Dental
Other
6
73
Medical & Dental
Vacancy
3
110
Grand Total
50
1,983
Nursing – 61 (100% bookings made were Non-DE) – Most bookings were over 1 month
HSS – 1 (5.5%) – 1 locum booked to cover 3 months
AHP – 1 (6.6%) – 1 locum booked to cover 3 day clinic
Note: Outside of TempRE system does not record number of shifts. The above numbers is the number of bookings made.
4. How many doctors have been booked outside of IR35 in previous 12 months?
None booked outside IR35 or ‘employed for tax purposes’.
5. What is the total Trust spend purely with agencies for the recruitment of permanent & fixed term doctors? Please also provide a break-down of spend per grade, speciality and by each recruitment agency by company name.
ZERO
6. All the supplier names who supplied temporary staff to yourselves as well as spend per agency in the dates between 05 April 2021 and 31 December 2022
See Q1
7. In which specialty is your highest paid Locum Consultant Doctor and what is their hourly rate?
Psychiatry, £115 per hour
8. Between 2018 to 2022, how much was spent on temporary staffing in each year. Please provide a breakdown between spend on agency locum staff, and bank staff, for each year.
See Q1
9. Which medical services do you outsource to external companies & which companies do you outsource to?
ZERO
