Supplementary written evidence submitted by NHS Professionals (RTR0151)
Rt Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP Health and Social Care Committee House of Commons London SW1A 0AA | |
Dear Jeremy,
Thank you for request, the data we manage on behalf of the NHS provides a unique perspective of flexible worker usage. We typically collect data from the point where roster shifts cannot be filled by the substantive workforce and have limited sight of substantive workforce statistics. Therefore, rather than duplicate substantive data which will come directly from your request to Amanda Pritchard, we have elected to focus our response to your request on our own data.
NHSP manage the staff banks of 51 Trusts in England. Including the 10 Ambulance Trusts this means we have a market share of 23.2%. The data included here also reflects demand for on-going pandemic- related activities on the specified date.
Although we do offer temporary staffing services for Doctors, our footprint in this market is considerably smaller than it is for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health professionals. As a result, the data below focuses on Nursing and Midwifery Only.
Staff Undertaking Bank Shifts
Our data for 20th May 2021 reveals the following:
Total Flexible Worker Hours Requested | 149,367 |
Total Hours: Filled | 123,416 |
Total Hours Unfilled | 25,951 |
Total Hours Filled: Bank Staff | 96,442 |
Total Hours Filled: Agency Staff | 26,974 |
Total Hours Filled (due to a staffing vacancy) | 69,300 |
Total Hours Filled (due to Long-Term Sickness) | 19,335 |
Total # of Workers Deployed | 14,197 |
Total # of Agency Workers Deployed | 2,895 |
Total # of Bank Workers Deployed | 11,296 |
We have included data for hours filled as well as people as this also provides some interesting insights. It tells us:
- We were able to fill 82.6% of requested hours. This means that 17.4% of all requested hours went unfilled.
- 78.1% of the hours filled were filled by bank staff, 21.8% agency
- 56.1% of all hours filled were covering a vacancy. 15.7% of hours filled were covering long- term sickness.
With respect to temporary staff deployed on that date:
- In total we oversaw the deployment of 14,197 bank and agency staff.
- Of the flexible workers deployed on that date, 79.6% were bank and 20.4% agency.
Please do let me know if you need any further clarification on the above
Yours sincerely,
Nicola McQueen CEO
NHS Professionals
May 2022