Recruitment of agency hospital staff (FOI)

​​​Request

1. How many hours were worked by temporary staff within Allied Health Professionals (AHP) and Health Science Services (HSS) between Jan 2024 and December 2024

2. Can you provide a breakdown of the hours worked by temporary staff within each of the

divisions/departments under AHP/HSS?

3. Do you have a Master Vendor or Neutral Vendor to source AHP/HSS agency staff? If so, who is that contract with and when does it end?

4. Who, within the Trust, is responsible for managing that contract and what is their job title?

5. Which agency is the largest supplier of AHP/HSS agency staff to the Trust?

6. Do you currently use an Insourcing provider for any of your AHP / HSS services and if so for what services and who oversees this contract

Response

1

The requested information has recently been published on www.gov.je in a Freedom of Information response:

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=8085

As the information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

2

Hours worked by Allied Health Professionals and Health Science Services staff engaged on a temporary basis are detailed in the attached table, broken down by working area:

Table.pdf

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Details of hours booked to each agency staff supplier are included in the Freedom of Information response referenced and linked above, and information on agency staff recruitment arrangements and processes have been supplied in response to previous Freedom of Information requests published to www.g​ov.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.