How many nursing shifts (for nurses of any grade) have you needed to cover with agency staff from 31st March 2014, to 31st March 2015?
| 2014/2015 | Apr-14 | May-14 | Jun-14 | Jul-14 | Aug-14 | Sep-14 | Oct-14 | Nov-14 | Dec-14 | Jan-15 | Feb-15 | Mar-15 | Total |
| Agency | 1,514 | 1,117 | 1,046 | 1,294 | 1,366 | 1,334 | 1,566 | 1,327 | 1,705 | 2,103 | 2,006 | 1,829 | 16,201 |
How much did you spend in total on agency staff between 31st March 2014 and 31st March 2015? £13.104m
| 5. Did you use Medacs Healthcare plc to provide temporary nursing cover from 31st March 2014 to 31st March 2015, and if so how much did you pay them in total? | £675,992 |
| 6. Did you use Mayday Healthcare plc to provide temporary nursing cover from 31st March 2014 to 31st March 2015, and if so how much did you pay them in total? | £430,472 |
| 7. Did you use Imperial Medical Staffing to provide temporary nursing cover from 31st March 2014 to 31st March 2015, and if so how much did you pay them in total? | £97,821 |
| 8. Did you use Thornbury Nursing Services to provide temporary nursing cover from 31st March 2014 to 31st March 2015, and if so how much did you pay them in total? | £772,794 |
Are there any duties that an agency nurse would not be allowed to carry out that a staff nurse of the same rank would be?
This information relates to external agency nurses and not nurses employed through the Trust Nurse Bank.
Agency nurses would not be able to undertake the following duties
- Administration of medication via the Trust E.P System but can administer from a paper drug chart.
- Undertake the lead or second checker for the administration of blood products as they would not have undertaken Trust competency
- Administration of Intravenous Medication.
- To take charge of the ward we always use agency nurses as the second nurse
- Undertake nurse led discharge
