Agencies AHPs at Jersey General Hospital (FOI)Agencies AHPs at Jersey General Hospital (FOI)
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03 January 2025.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please advise what agreements are in place for the supply of agency allied health professionals at Jersey General Hospital? Please supply a full list of agencies used with hours supplied over the last 12 months.
Response
The table in the attached document details the agencies which have supplied Allied Health Professional staff to Health and Community Services across the 12-month period from 04 December 2023 to 03 December 2024, and the hours booked to each supplier.
Attachment - Allied Health Professional hours booked.pdf
Agency use is determined by organisational need and availability of relevant professional staff to meet the particular requirement.
Information on Health and Community Services’ agency staff recruitment arrangements and processes have been supplied in response to previous Freedom of Information requests published to www.gov.je in 2024, as linked below:
17 January 2024:
Master vendor model for medical staff (FOI)
01 February 2024:
Health and Community Services temporary staff data (FOI)
12 April 2024:
Recruitment of agency hospital staff (FOI)
10 July 2024:
Temporary Staffing Workforce Systems (FOI)
As information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
Article Applied
Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.
(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.
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