All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. How many of your Fixed Term Consultants are NOT on the specialist register (for fixed term consultants hired in year 2024, 1 January to 20 Nov inclusive.
2. For UK doctors hired in the Fixed Term Consultant roles identified in Q1 (1 Jan-20 Nov 2024 not on the specialist register), what was the highest level of postgraduate training completed by the doctors at point of hire as a Fixed Term Consultant at your trust. Please list Doctor 1 = ST/CT level, Doctor 2 = ST/CT level etc. If you cannot list the individual doctors by training level completed – please state why, for example some reasons why may be “our hiring system only documents ST3+ and/or we have never validated or reviewed their formal specialist training documents because we rely on the agency for that so do not hold any of these documents, only the CV.
Note: FYI: ICO has already reviewed and over-ruled the use of Section 40(2) as an exemption for this data request in prior FOI because the data is not personalized.
3. For overseas doctors recruited to the Fixed Term Consultant job role 1 Jan to 20 Nov 2024 who have no formal specialist training posts completed in UK please state the highest level of postgraduate training completed overseas and separately the number of postgraduate experience overseas. Please include the name of the formal training post overseas (for example in UK it is CT/ST1-8, what is the name of their formal specialist training posts in their home country). If the overseas doctor has completed formal specialist training posts in UK, please state the highest level attained at point of hire in the Fixed Term Consultant role.
Please explain how the overseas experience or training was validated to ensure it meets the standards of UK formal training posts for specialist training in UK. Who did the validation of the overseas specialist training and experience, the trust or the agency?
4. For the Fixed Term Consultants hired 1 Jan to 20 Nov 2024 inclusive, and who are NOT on the specialist register, please provide the time length of their Fixed Term contract, in months and days. If their contract was renewed, please list all contracts separately for 1 Jan-20 Nov 2024.
5. Was an agency involved in the Fixed Term Consultant placement in the jobs 1 Jan to 20 Nov 2024? If yes, did the trust rely on the agency to validate all postgraduate training and experience documents, and does the trust hold these documents on file or are they only held by the agency?
6. For prior FOI/GS/ID 9201 the trust stated that there were 11 Fixed Term Consultants hired in 2023.
What were the Fixed Term Contract lengths of these 11 Fixed Term Consultant doctors in months and days. If their contract was renewed multiple times in 2023, please list all contracts time lengths separately. If accessing 11 doctors information takes longer than 18 hours please explain why, in that it should take not more than 20 minutes per doctor to pull their hiring documents and information from the computer for contract length (3.6 hours) unless data management system is poor at the trust.