Non Emergency Patient Transfers Services - May 2017
Lothian NHS Board
Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3EG
Telephone: 0131 536 9000
Non Emergency Patient Transfers Services - May 2017
Adrian Jackson
Date:11/05/2017
Your Ref:
Our Ref:1598
Enquiries to:Richard Mutch
Extension:35676
Direct Line:0131 465 5687
Non Emergency Patient Transfers Services - May 2017
Dear Mr Jackson
Freedom Of Information –recruitment agencies
I write in response to your request for information in relation to recruitment agencies used by NHS Lothian.
I have been provided with information to help answer your request by the Staff Bank and Finance Department of NHS Lothian.
Question:
- How many recruitment agencies did the Health Board utilise in the provision of Locum Medical Doctors during the financial year of 16/17?
Answer:
Within NHS Lothian Locums are first sourced from our own pool of locums on our staff bank. Where there is a requirement to approach locum agencies we then attempt to source staff from the 10 agencies contracted under NHS Scotland Procurements NP500 framework. In addition the Staff Bank has sourced from 6 non framework agencies in the year 2016/17.
Question:
- Can you provide me with a monthly breakdown on thespend that was attributed to each of these recruitment agencies?
Answer:
Medical & Dental Agency - 16/17 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / Total£'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000 / £'000
Contract Agency -
Athona / (1) / (4) / 0 / 0 / 0 / 28 / 16 / 61 / 30 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 130
Direct Medics / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 9 / 18 / 12 / 23 / 6 / 10 / 79
First Medical / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 90 / 46 / 77 / 72 / 40 / 83 / 57 / 464
Medacs Envoy / 312 / 348 / 435 / 409 / 380 / 121 / 6 / 4 / (10) / (25) / (123) / (56) / 1,803
Medacs Healthcare / (9) / (21) / (2) / (4) / 0 / 256 / 217 / 272 / 406 / 285 / 288 / 346 / 2,033
Medecho / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 4 / 9 / 12 / (2) / 11 / 3 / 12 / 50
MP Locums / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 24 / 24 / 18 / 25 / 38 / 21 / 53 / 203
Reed Global / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 2 / 4 / 23 / 25 / 28 / 31 / 112
Templars Medical Agency / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 21 / 21 / 9 / 0 / 51
Off Contract Agency -
Doctors on Call / 46 / 57 / 55 / 31 / 37 / 19 / 18 / 36 / 5 / 16 / 8 / 10 / 338
DRC Locums / 16 / 14 / 16 / 13 / 17 / 9 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 84
General Medical Group / 20 / 25 / 26 / 8 / 9 / 9 / 14 / 43 / 43 / 31 / 48 / 75 / 353
Global Medics / 11 / 11 / 11 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / (5) / (3) / 26
Interact Medical / 5 / 4 / 15 / 12 / 1 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / (2) / (4) / 33
Rig Locums / 23 / 44 / (3) / 5 / 0 / 0 / 3 / 5 / 0 / 0 / (9) / (4) / 63
The Pathology Group / 14 / 14 / 9 / 7 / 8 / 19 / 34 / 32 / 26 / 15 / 43 / 61 / 282
Total / 436 / 493 / 563 / 482 / 452 / 581 / 399 / 582 / 651 / 480 / 398 / 587 / 6,105
Notes -
Data extracted from 16/17 Staff Bank Recharge Database
The above figures Include paid invoices and accrued expenditure, the reversal of the accruals sometimes is more than the actual cost and therefore creates negatives in the month
Medical Agency recharges include a 5% Internal NHS Lothian Administration fee
Medacs
Medacs Envoy - NHS Lothian used Medacs Envoy for a pilot period, during this period they sourced locums from the contract agencies. We are unable to split by agency as invoices are consolidated.
Medacs Healthcare - We engaged directly with Medacs Healthcare outwith the pilot period mentioned above
Question:
- Medacs ran a 6 month pilot of a master vend solution in 2016, please can you provide me with information on why this did not progress past a pilot stage?
Answer:
MEDACS provided a managed service as opposed to a master vend solution in 2016. It was agreed from the outset that this was a six month pilot with specific objectives set for that time frame in relation to providing best value for NHS Lothian in the sourcing of Medical Locums.
I hope this information helps with your request
If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner within 6 months of receipt of our review response. You can do this by using the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office online appeals service at If you remain dissatisfied with the Commissioner’s response you then have the option to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of law.
If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to the FOI Reviewer at the address at the head of this letter. The review will be undertaken by a Reviewer who was not involved in the original decision-making process.
FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian’s Freedom of Information website at:
Yours sincerely
Professor alex Mcmahon
Executive Director, Nursing,
Midwifery and AHPs
Cc: Chief Executive