Agency Nurses - FOI Response Register

1. For the first 6 months of 2024/25, please provide the total spend on agency nurses of all grades by your health board.

https://www.nhsshetland.scot/us/procurement-information

Community Psychiatric Nurses - £225,232

Registered Nursing - £175,368

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

National Locums, Direct Medics, ID Medical, Head Resourcing, TXM Healthcare

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:

All are national framework agencies, day rates ranged from £31.01 - £47.50 with higher weekend rates

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

 As per Q1