Freedom of Information Department s1

NHS Lanarkshire, Headquarters, Kirklands, Fallside Road, Bothwell G71 8BB.

Date 7 January 2016 Reference FOI/LCB Enquiries to Linda Brownlie Telephone 01698 858110

Dear Ms Taylor

Further to your enquiry of 4 December 2015 under the Freedom of Information Act, please find our response below. In your request you asked twelve questions in relation to temporary staffing. These are detailed below together with our response.

1. Do you have a master vendor (MV) arrangement in place for the supply of medical locums? If so please state the name of the provider used (Medacs, Holt, A&E Agency etc.)

From 1 June 2010 NHS Lanarkshire has complied with the national contract agreements in place. National Procurement contracts are administered by NHS Scotland Procurement. Accordingly, in terms of Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 I must advise that the information sought in this regard is not held.

NHS Scotland is subject to the Freedom of Information legislation in its own right and you may wish to contact them direct for further information. Contact details are available via their website at:

http://www.nhsscotlandprocurement.scot.nhs.uk/

Framework agencies are as follows –

 Accident and Emergency Limited  Athona Limited  Direct Medic  First Medical Staffing Solutions  HCL Doctors  Medacs Healthcare  Medecho  MP Locums  Reed Specialist Recruitment  Templar’s Medical Agency

2. Please state the utilisation rate that has been achieved through the master vendor in the last 12 months. This is the total value of locum spend supplied by the master vendor itself in the last 12 months as a percentage of total locum spend in the same period.

The state utilization rate achieved in the last 12 months is 58%.

3. Does the trust use a direct engagement model to engage locum staff? If so please state the name of the company used (Liaison PwC, 247 Time, Brookson, HB Retinue, Medacs etc.)?

NHS Lanarkshire does not use a direct engagement model to engage locum staff.

4. Do you run a weekly payroll for medical bank?

NHS Lanarkshire does not run a weekly payroll for medical bank.

5. Does the trust use rostering software (Allocate, Smart etc.)? If so please state the name of the company used, and the total amount that the trust has spent on rostering in 2014/15.

Company is allocate software PLC Application is Health Roster BankStaff Contacts – Michelle Bell and Kay Sandilands

Annual contract with Allocate is currently circa £15k for the bank software and support

Please provide all subsequent information split by the following staffing categories. Please include all spend outside of the specified categories as “other”. - Nursing & HCA’s - Medical & Dental – AHP’s - Other

Continued 6. Pease state the trusts expenditure on agency staff in 2014/15 split by the above staff categories.

Staffing Category Agency staff spend 2014/2015 £ Nursing and HCAs 904,975 Medical and dental (locums) 6,400,970 AHPs 67,130 Other 633,560

7. Please state the total spent on internal bank staff in 2014/15, split by the above staff categories. This is the total paid to workers completing shifts via the trust bank, excluding any costs to 3rd parties. Please do not include any spend on outsourced bank staff.

Staffing Category Bank staff spend 2014/2015 £ Nursing and HCAs 14,629,429 AHPs 306,362 Other 1,401,406

8. Please state the total number of staff signed up to the trust’s internal bank, split by the above categories.

Staffing Category Headcount as at October 2015 Nursing and midwifery 3,302 AHPs 51 Other 300

9. Of the above figure, please state the total number of staff signed up to the bank who also work as substantive staff at the trust. I.e. Staff that hold substantive contracts but have also completed shifts via the internal bank.

Staffing Category Headcount as at October 2015 Nursing and midwifery 2,439 AHPs 22 Other 198

Continued 10. Does the trust outsource the supply of any bank staff to third parties such as NHS Professionals, Bank Partners, etc.? If so please specify the name of the company used and the staffing categories supplied by the 3rd party.

11. Does the trust use any third party tech solutions to manage internal bank staff (de Poel, HB Retinue, Liaison, Holt, 247 Time etc.)? If so please specify the name of the company used and the staffing categories managed through the tech solution.

NHS Lanarkshire does not use a third party tech solution to manage internal bank staff.

12. Do you use any suppliers or systems to manage the release of vacancies to agencies and bank workers? If so please state the name of the company used and the staffing categories managed. If you use different suppliers/systems for different staffing categories, please specify.

I hope this is to your satisfaction. If you have any further queries on this please do not hesitate to contact me.

If you are not satisfied with this response to your original request we can advise you that you do have a right to a review under section 20 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act. For this review you should write to Irene Barkby, Director of Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs, NHS Lanarkshire, Kirklands, Fallside Road, Bothwell G71 8BB or by email to [email protected] within 40 working days of 7 January 2016.

If, following the outcome of a request for review, you are still dissatisfied I can advise you that you have the right to make application for a decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner under Section 47(1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. The Commissioner can be contacted at Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9DS or by telephone on 01334 464610, by fax on 01334 464611, and by E-mail at [email protected]

Yours sincerely

Continued Linda Brownlie Freedom of Information Officer NHS Lanarkshire

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