12IB – Duty to ensure appropriate staffing: agency workers

The second quarterly agency return has identified agency usage in NHS Golden Jubilee for staff costing over 150%. This continues to be within Medicine and Healthcare Sciences (perfusion).

For Healthcare science (perfusion), this remains low volume and incurred additional travel and subsistence expenses due to the highly specialised nature of these roles and lack of availability of local agency staff to fill operational gaps.

Medical Locums have been essential to ensure optimal clinical activity, but in low volume.

Each profession has a process in place to ensure governance around use of agency, and to support efficient reporting.

Health and Care (Staffing)(Scotland) Act 2019 Annual Board Report

Introduction
Local Reporting
Current position against the required duties
12IA – Duty to ensure appropriate staffing
12IB – Duty to ensure appropriate staffing: agency workers
12IC – Duty to have real-time staffing assessment in place
12ID – Duty to have risk escalation processes in place
12IE – Duty to have arrangements to address severe and recurrent risks
12IF – Seek clinical advice on staffing
12IH – Duty to ensure adequate time given to clinical leaders
12II – Duty to ensure appropriate staffing: training of staff
12IJ – Duty to follow common staffing method
12IM – Reporting on staffing
Appendix 1: NHS Golden Jubilee reported level of assurance with each duty