Agency Learning Disability Nurses Spend - FOI Response Register

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

The information requested relates to a single individual in all the years. As such and in accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(b) as read with s 38 (2A) as the information constitutes personal data and disclosure would breach the confidentiality of the data subjects.

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

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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:

Off contract

Paid by weekly time sheet, invoiced from agency

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

N/A

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

N/A

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

Hired for fixed term to cover vacancy.

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

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