Nursing and Agency Usage

Unless otherwise stated, all questions relate to Nursing usage only.

1. Please provide name and contact details (email address and telephone number where possible) of the following (broken down per site):

• Temporary Staffing Manager or Staff Bank Manager Head of Temporary Resourcing and Medical Rota Coordination Service – temps@nhs.net
• Lead Cancer Nurse and/or; All agency bookings are managed via HR. The Trust do not allow any agencies to communicate directly with any departments, all contact is via the Trust Temporary Resourcing Service who are contactable via the above email.
• Cancer Manager As above.

2. How much nursing agency usage from January 2025 to December 2025 has the Trust used? This is a request for Nursing only. I request for this information to be broken down into the following:

• unit/site and ward/department Under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act, this request has been exempt on the grounds that the information is already publicly available on the Trust’s website. Please see ‘Bank and agency spend/data’ under the ‘What we spend and how we spend it’ section of the Publication Scheme here: Access to information
• grade/title (i.e. Band 5/6/7 Nurse etc.) As above.
• amount of hours and/or full time equivalent (FTE) broken down per month during the requested time period above As above.
• total cost of agency usage (in £) per month during the requested time period above As above.
• what agencies were used, along with total amount in £ per agency on a monthly basis during the requested time period above As above.
• of these agencies, who were classified as ‘off framework’ and ‘on framework’ 0 off framework

3. How does the Trust source any Nurse agency requirements? I request your answer include any frameworks that you use along with the number of SLAs you have in place with providers. Workforce Alliance RM6281 – 20 suppliers.

4. Based on your answer above, can you confirm the number of incidences whereby your agency need has been charged above NHSi cap, broken down per shift on a monthly basis i.e. April 2018 = 25 shifts and by what agency

January – 36
February – 27
March – 31
April – 25
May – 45
June – 33
July – 51
August – 36
September – 53
October – 64
November – 25
December – 32

5. Who is responsible for making the decision on which agency/recruitment business to use to fulfil your agency nursing requirements. Please include name and contact details (email and telephone number where possible). Temporary Resourcing Service – Medway.temps@nhs.net

What are the Trusts current full-time and part-time vacancies for:

• Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists -12
• Lead Cancer Nurse – 0
• Cancer Manager – 1
• Chemotherapy Nurses – We don’t have an existing filter that can generate a report for this question
• Radiology Nurses – 1
• Oncology Nurses – We don’t have an existing filter that can generate a report for this question
• General Nurses (all specialisms) – 73 (does not include midwives)