FoI Number
2023-018
Subject
Agency Junior Doctors
Date Received
13/04/2023
Request and Response

I am looking for information regarding junior doctors. As such, can I request the following information, broken down, by the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23:

1.    What was your total spend with recruitment agencies on F1 Doctors?

Nil

2. What was your total spend with recruitment agencies on F2 Doctors?

FY 19/20     £43,389.18

FY 22/23     £9,653.14

3. How many F1 Doctors provided by agencies, and what was the average hourly charge rate to the Health Board?

Nil

How many F2 Doctors provided by agencies, and what was the average hourly charge rate to the Health Board?

2022/23 – 1 - £61.53 per hour

2021/22 – 0

2020/21 – 0

2019/20 – 3 - £63.08 per hour

4. What was the average tenure of an F1 Doctor provided by an agency?

N/A

5. What was the average tenure of an F2 Doctor provided by an agency?

2022/23 – 4 weeks

2021/22 – 0

2020/21 – 0

2019/20 – 5 weeks

6. How many unfilled F1 and F2 Doctor posts?

Nil

7. How many F1 Doctors was the trust short of post allocation from HEE/local deanery?

Nil