Ms Jessica Lorimer
/ KingstonHospital
Chief Executive’s
Esher Wing, Level 4
Galsworthy Road
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey KT2 7QB
Tel: 020 8934 2728
Fax: 020 8934 2772
Dear Ms Lorrimer
Re: Request under Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you once again for your request under the Freedom of Information Act. For ease of reference I am including your original questions:
Please could I get an Organisational Structure Chart for your
Information Management and Technology Department, including the
names of managers responsible for the different teams included in
IM&T (eg. Data Management, Service Desk Management etc.)
Please could I also have the details of the amount of money spent
on recruitment during 2011/ 2012 within the Information Management
and Technology Department? I’m particularly interested in how
much money was spent on contractors - external consultants on an
hourly/ daily rate.
Unfortunately we are not able to provide data on hourly/daily rates as this is not entered onto out finance system. To obtain this information would require an audit of all invoices (c46,000) to extract the information assuming it was recorded there in the first place. This would take far longer than the 18 hours Appropriate Limit in the Act and therefore under Section 12 we are not obliged to provide this. However, we do have the following information about the about spent on Bank (our own internal temp agency) and Agency staff:
Financial Year 2011-12Sum of Amount
Account / Cost Centre Desc / Description / Total
P2900 / IM&T - INFRASTRUCTURE / A&C BANK STAFF / £63,855.33
IM&T - MANAGEMENT / A&C BANK STAFF / £2,356.75
IM&T - PROJECTS / A&C BANK STAFF / £12,626.24
P2900 Total (Bank) / £78,838.32
P2998 / I.T. PROJECTS PROGRAMME / NON NHS CLERICAL - PAY / -£4,949.50
IM&T - INFRASTRUCTURE / NON NHS CLERICAL - PAY / £746.00
IM&T - IT MAINT INFRASTRUCTURE / NON NHS CLERICAL - PAY / £0.00
IM&T - PROJECTS / NON NHS CLERICAL - PAY / £58,944.61
P2998 Total (Agency) / £54,741.11
Grand Total / £133,579.43
Please note that the information provided isthe property of Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and subject to IntellectualProperty and Database Rights.Any commercial application or use of this informationmaybe subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. This means that if you wish to re-use the information provided for commercial purposes for any reason you must ask usfor permission to do so. Should we agree that you can use the information it will be subject to the issue of a licence which may or may not involve a fee. If you have any questions about this process please contact me.
I hope the information providedmeets your needs. If you are not satisfied with the Trust’s response, the Trust does operate a Complaints Procedure for FOI requests. If you wish to complain about the way in which your request has been handled, then please write to the Chief Executive, Kate Grimes, at the address above. I enclosea copy of our Complaints Leaflet for your information. If you are then still not satisfied, you have the right under Section 50 of FOI to apply to the Information Commissioner (please see for a decision on whether your application has been dealt with in accordance with the Act.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Janice Sorrell McLeod
Information Governance Manager
Freedom of Information Lead
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