Recruitment of agency hospital staff (FOI)Recruitment of agency hospital staff (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
12 April 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
Please confirm if the Trust have a Managed Service (MSP) or MV or an external Bank supplier for the recruitment of agency staff?
B
If yes, who is that contract with and when does it end?
C
If yes, how did the Trust review whether the supplier followed ethical business practices, what ethical insights did they gather?
D
What steps do the Trust take to ensure suppliers are paying their fair share of taxes and acting with integrity.
E
Who is responsible within the Trust, for ensuring that suppliers follow ethical business practices?
Response
A
Details of agency staff provision within Health and Community Services have been provided in recent Freedom of Information responses published to www.gov.je in 2024:
Health and Community Services temporary staff data (FOI)
Master vendor model for medical staff (FOI)
As the information requested for the model used in the different staff groups is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
B
Holt Medical Limited are contracted to provide Locum medical staff to HCS till 2025. The contract has an option to extend until 2027.
C
Providers must be on a recognised framework.
D
Holt use a Jersey payroll bureau to ensure that tax is deducted at source.
E
Responsibility for agency workers in the various staff groups is detailed in the Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in January 2024 (linked above), As this 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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