Locum Psychiatrists - FOI Response Register

Responses do not include NHS bank workers.

1. For each of the last five full financial years, please provide the total spend on locum psychiatrists of all grades by your health board, listed by financial year

Consultant level only:

2. Please supply the names of the organisations which have supplied locum psychiatrists of all grades to your health board in each of the last five full financial years, listed by year

Direct Engagement refers to workers engaged through the framework Workforce Management Solution, TempRE

3. For each organisation, please state if those arrangements were through the National Procurement Framework or if the arrangement was off-framework, and state for each organisation the mechanism for payment, i.e. are they paid per hour or per shift, and then:

Island Medics – Off Framework – Per Hour

Direct Engagement – N/A – Per Hour

Pulse Healthcare – On Framework – Per Hour

4.  If you hired locum psychiatrists on a shift basis, please state how many shifts were filled by locum psychiatrists per year for each of those financial years, or:

5. If you hired locum psychiatrists on a per hour basis, please state how many hours were worked by locum psychiatrists per year for each of those financial years, or:

6. If you hired locum psychiatrists using a different methodology, please state what that methodology is and how many relevant units under that methodology were worked by locum psychiatrists per year for each of those financial years

N/A

7. Again for each of the last five financial years, please provide the spending on locum psychiatrists incurred with each of the organisations supplying them, listed by provider and by year for each provider