Freedom of information requests

International Recruitment

Questions

1. Please confirm the legal name of your organisation
2. Are you a foundation trust?
3. Are you a teaching hospital / teaching trust?
4. What is your NHS geographical location (for example London, East, South West etc.)
5. What is your current number of nursing staff?
6. What is your current vacancy (FTE) for qualified nursing?
7. What is your current vacancy (FTE) for unqualified nursing (eg. Care support worker)
8. What was your total framework agency spend on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
9. What was your total framework agency usage (hours) on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
10. What was your total framework agency spend on unqualified nursing for the last financial year?
11. What was your total framework agency usage (hours) on unqualified nursing for the last financial year? 
12. What was your total non-framework agency spend on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
13. What was your total non-framework agency usage (hours) on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
14. What was your total non-framework agency spend on unqualified nursing for the last financial year?
15. What was your total non-framework agency usage (hours) on unqualified nursing for the last financial year?
16. Who supplies your bank staff? (In house or NHSP, Locums Nest etc.)
17. In the last financial year did you recruit overseas nursing staff?
18. For overseas nursing staff do you do your own recruitment or use an agent?
19. How many nursing posts did you fill with overseas recruits in the last financial year?
20. Moving forward will your overseas recruitment be managed by the trust or via theICS

     

Response

1. University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Midlands
5. The Nursing & Midwifery budget includes registered nurses/ midwives / operating department practitioners and nursing associates as is for  6521 wte
6. Vacancy position for registered nurses/ midwives/ operating department practitioners / registered nursing associated = 1022 wte
7.  The term health care support worker is used to describe unregistered health care support workers who work with registered nurses/ midwives / operating department practitioners and nursing associates
8. £18.800k
9. 330,000
10. £1k
11. 30
12. 0
13. 0
14. 0
15. 0
16. Operated by the trust
17. Yes
18. Agency 
19. 21/22 is the last total financial year 95 International Nurses – programme still running 22/23
20. ICS Collaborative approach in place from UK arrival ( pastoral / educational delivery and OSCE prep – aligned relocation offer for Nursing across NHS ICS providers .