Agency Mental Health Nurses - FOI Response Register

1. For the first 6 months of 2024/25, please provide the total spend on agency mental health nurses of all grades by your health board. https://www.nhsshetland.scot/us/procurement-information

Community Psychiatric Nursing - £225,232.

2. Please supply the names of the organisations which have supplied agency mental health nurses of all grades to your health board in the first 6 months of 2024/25.

National Locums and TXM Healthcare

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: Through national framework agencies.  Rates varied from £42.67 to £48.91 day rate with different weekend worked rates

3. Again for the first 6 months of 2024/25, please provide the spending on agency mental health nurses incurred with each of the organisations supplying them, listed by provider and by year for each provider.

National Locums - £171,368

TMX Healthcare - £53,864