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Staffing

Lived Experience, Co‑Production and Peer Support Leadership Roles

Dear FOI Team,

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

1. Counties Covered
Please list the counties or geographical areas your Trust provides services to.

2. Senior Lived Experience Leadership Roles
Please list any senior roles within your Trust that have overall responsibility for lived experience functions.

This may include leadership of:
• Peer Support services
• Co production / Involvement
• Recovery College
• Lived Experience workforce or Expert by Experience programmes

For each role, please provide:
• Job title
• Agenda for Change band (or equivalent)
• Directorate or service area

3. Specific Leadership Roles

For the following roles, please confirm whether they exist in your Trust. If they do, please provide the job title and AfC band:

• Manager for Co production
• Manager for Involvement
• Recovery College Manager
• Peer Support Manager
• Senior Lived Experience Lead / Expert by Experience Lead

If your Trust uses different job titles but the roles are equivalent, please list the closest match.

4. Role Structure
If any of these functions are combined into a single role, please specify how they are structured.

I am not requesting any personal information about post holders — only job titles, bands, and structural information.
Thank you for your assistance. I look forward to your response within the statutory timeframe.

Kind regards,

Digital/IT Contact Points and Roles

IT, Staffing

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I would be grateful if you could provide the following information:

1. Contact details for relevant departments within the Trust, particularly those relating to Digital, IT, Clinical Informatics, or Innovation (e.g. shared or generic email inboxes and main telephone numbers).

2. Any role-based or shared contact details (e.g. group email addresses) used for senior leadership functions within these areas (for example, CIO office, CCIO function, Digital Directorate, or equivalent), where such contact points exist.

3. A list of senior roles within the Trust responsible for Digital and Clinical Informatics functions, including job titles only (for example: CIO, CCIO, CNIO, Director of Digital, Head of IT), without personal names.

Where available, any published organisational charts or structural information relating to these teams.

Please note that I am not requesting personal data relating to identifiable individuals (such as direct email addresses or phone numbers for named staff), and I am content for any such information to be withheld under Section 40 where applicable.

If this request exceeds the appropriate cost limit, I would be grateful if you could advise how it may be refined.

I look forward to your response within the statutory timeframe of 20 working days.

Kind regards,

Impact of April 2025 Visa Salary Threshold Changes on Lower-Paid Staff

HR, Staffing

Freedom of Information request – impact of April 2025 visa salary threshold changes on Band 3 and lower-paid staff

Dear Freedom of Information Team,

Please treat this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I am requesting information relating to the impact of the April 2025 visa salary threshold changes on lower-paid NHS staff, particularly Band 3 and below roles.

For the purposes of this request, please provide information covering the period: 9 April 2025 to 31 March 2026

If it is easier for the Trust to provide information for a slightly different date range already used in internal reporting, please do so and indicate the period covered.

1) Employees requiring visas in Band 3 and below Please provide the number of employees at Band 3 and below who, during the period above, required a visa in order to work for the Trust. Please break this down by: pay band job title / role visa type, where recorded (for example: Skilled Worker visa, Graduate visa, Dependant visa, Health and Care Worker visa, or other) If visa type is not centrally recorded, please state this.

2) Staff whose employment ended or changed where visa status was a contributing factor Please provide the number of employees whose employment ended or whose role changed during the period above where visa status, visa expiry, or visa-renewal ineligibility was a contributing factor. Please include the following categories, if held: formal dismissals non-renewal of fixed-term contracts resignations linked to visa-related issues staff who left employment before visa expiry due to anticipated ineligibility redeployments or transfers to different roles due to visa/salary issues cases where sponsorship was not offered or not renewed Please break this down by: pay band job title / role reason category

3) Staff in roles below the relevant visa salary threshold Please provide the number of employees who, at any point during the period above: required visa sponsorship (or would require sponsorship upon expiry of their current visa in order to remain employed), and were employed in roles whose salary was below the relevant visa salary threshold applicable to them at that time. Please break this down by: pay band job title / role If the Trust does not hold this as a single dataset, please provide any equivalent recorded information, internal reports, or assessments used to identify staff potentially affected.

4) Sponsorship decisions and Certificates of Sponsorship Please provide the following information for the period above: a) The number of Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) issued by the Trust, broken down by: pay band job title / role b) The number of cases where sponsorship was: not offered not renewed withdrawn determined not to be viable where the salary for the role did not meet the applicable visa salary threshold. Please break this down by: pay band job title / role

5) Policies, guidance, and mitigation measures Please provide copies of any policies, guidance, internal instructions, or briefing documents issued during the period above relating to: employees unable to meet visa salary thresholds handling visa expiry where sponsorship or renewal may not be possible any mitigation measures intended to retain affected staff This may include, but is not limited to: HR guidance manager guidance workforce planning instructions redeployment guidance salary/uplift or role-change mitigation discussions

6) Internal assessments, risk reviews, or communications Please provide copies of any recorded information created or held during the period above relating to the impact of the April 2025 visa salary threshold changes on staffing. This may include: internal impact assessments workforce risk reviews HR reports board, committee, or senior management papers internal emails or briefing notes communications with NHS England, DHSC, UKVI, or the Home Office To help keep this request within cost limits, if necessary this part may be interpreted as limited to: documents or correspondence containing the terms “visa threshold”, “salary threshold”, “Skilled Worker”, “Band 3”, “Health Care Assistant”, “Nursing Assistant”, “sponsorship”, or “right to work” between: HR Recruitment Workforce / People Directorate Executive / senior leadership teams

7) Recording systems Please state whether the Trust has a specific policy, procedure, or system for recording and monitoring employee visa status, visa expiry dates, and sponsorship status. If so, please provide: the name of the policy/procedure/system a copy of the relevant policy, or a summary of the process if a full document cannot be provided Clarification / format

If any part of this request is considered too broad or likely to exceed the appropriate cost limit, please treat this email as a request for advice and assistance under section 16 of the Act, and advise how it may be refined so as to remain answerable.

If any requested information is not held in the exact format requested, please provide any equivalent recorded information that would assist in understanding the scale of the issue. I would prefer to receive the response in electronic format.

Yours faithfully

Management of Patient Group Directions (PGDs)

Pharmacy, Staffing

Dear Freedom of Information Officer,

I am writing to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, relating to the management of Patient Group Directions (PGDs) within your organisation.

1. Does your organisation currently use Patient Group Directions (PGDs) to authorise the supply or administration of medicines by registered healthcare professionals?

2. Indicate in the table below approximately how many active, approved PGDs your organisation currently holds?
Number Range Indicate with a cross
<20 20-50 50-100 100-300 >300

3. If known, how many registered healthcare professionals are currently authorised to work under one or more PGDs within your organisation? Please indicate if this information is not held centrally.

4. What system or process does your organisation currently use to manage PGD governance?
a. Paper-based documentation and manual registers
b. Generic document management software (e.g. SharePoint, shared network drives)
c. A dedicated PGD management software system — if so, please name the system
d. Other — please describe

5. Please provide the name, job title, and email address of the individual responsible for PGD governance within your organisation. If this is not held centrally, please indicate who would be the most appropriate contact.

6. In the last 12 months, have any PGDs within your organisation expired without a completed review and reauthorisation in place? If so, approximately how many?

I understand that you are required to respond within 20 working days in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours faithfully,

IT Infrastructure, Digital Maturity and Technology Contracts

Corporate Governance, Finance, IT, Procurement, Staffing

Dear Freedom of Information Team,

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 as part of my data collection efforts for personal educational studies. Please treat this as a formal request for recorded information held by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS FT

I am requesting information relating to your organisation’s IT infrastructure, digital maturity, staffing, contracts and technology spend. To assist in processing this request efficiently, I have structured it into clearly numbered sections below.

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SECTION 1 — IT BUDGET AND SPEND
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1.1 What is your organisation’s total annual IT / digital technology budget for the current financial year (or most recently completed financial year)? Please break this down into:
(a) Capital expenditure (CapEx)
(b) Operational expenditure (OpEx)

1.2 What proportion of your total organisational budget does IT / digital technology represent (as a percentage)?

1.3 Is there a separate cyber security budget? If so, what is its value?

1.4 Please provide the name(s) of any Commissioning Support Units
(CSUs) or managed service partners that manage IT expenditure on your behalf, if applicable.

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SECTION 2 — IT STAFFING
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2.1 How many whole-time equivalent (WTE) staff are directly employed in IT, digital or technology roles within your organisation?

2.2 Please provide a breakdown of IT staff by job role or band (e.g.
Agenda for Change band or equivalent). Specific names are not required.

2.3 Does your organisation have the following named roles in post?
(Please answer Yes / No / Vacant for each):
(a) Chief Information Officer (CIO) or equivalent
(b) Chief Digital Officer (CDO) or equivalent
(c) Chief Technology Officer (CTO) or equivalent
(d) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or equivalent
(e) IT Director / Head of IT
(f) Digital Transformation Lead or equivalent

2.4 How many IT staff are employed via third-party contractors or agency arrangements? What is the approximate annual spend on these arrangements?

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SECTION 3 — SERVER AND COMPUTE INFRASTRUCTURE ──────────────────────────────────────

3.1 Does your organisation operate on-premise server infrastructure? If yes:
(a) What is the approximate number of physical servers in operation?
(b) What server vendors / manufacturers does your organisation use (e.g. Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco UCS)?
(c) What is the approximate age profile of your server estate (e.g. percentage under 3 years, 3–5 years, over 5 years old)?

3.2 Does your organisation use virtualisation technologies? If yes, which platform(s) (e.g. VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix)?

3.3 Does your organisation use hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)?
If yes, which vendor(s)?

3.4 Does your organisation use cloud computing services (not including office 365)? If yes:
(a) Which cloud provider(s) do you use (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, other)?
(b) Approximately what proportion of your workloads are cloud-hosted vs on-premise?
(c) What is the approximate annual cloud spend?

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SECTION 4 — STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE
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4.1 What storage platform(s) does your organisation use (e.g. NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM)?

4.2 What is the approximate total usable storage capacity across your estate (in TB or PB)?

4.3 What is the approximate age of your primary storage estate?

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SECTION 5 — BACKUP, DISASTER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY ──────────────────────────────────────

5.1 What backup software solution(s) does your organisation currently use (e.g. Veeam, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Rubrik, Zerto)?

5.2 What is your backup target infrastructure (e.g. on-premise disk, tape, cloud)?

5.3 Does your organisation have a documented Disaster Recovery (DR) plan? When was it last tested?

5.4 What is the current Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for your critical clinical systems?

5.5 Does your organisation use an offsite or cloud-based backup solution? If yes, which provider?

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SECTION 6 — NETWORKING AND END-USER COMPUTING ──────────────────────────────────────

6.1 Who provides your Wide Area Network (WAN) and/or internet connectivity services?

6.2 What network equipment vendors does your organisation use (e.g.
Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Palo Alto)?

6.3 What is the approximate number of end-user devices (laptops, desktops, tablets) in your organisation?

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SECTION 7 — SOFTWARE, LICENSING AND KEY CLINICAL SYSTEMS ──────────────────────────────────────

7.1 What is your current Electronic Patient Record (EPR) / Electronic Health Record (EHR) system? Please provide the vendor name and product.

7.2 What Patient Administration System (PAS) does your organisation use?

7.3 Does your organisation use a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) / radiology imaging system? If yes, which vendor and product?

7.4 Does your organisation have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (or
equivalent) in place? When is this due for renewal?

7.5 What is the approximate annual spend on software licences across the organisation?

7.6 Please list any other significant enterprise IT contracts (by contract type / system category — e.g. HR, finance, workforce
management) with approximate annual values where held.

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SECTION 8 — WARRANTIES, CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT ──────────────────────────────────────

8.1 For your primary server, storage and network infrastructure, are vendor warranties and/or third-party maintenance contracts in place?
Please provide:
(a) The type of coverage (vendor warranty, third-party maintenance, or both)
(b) The name of the maintenance provider(s), if applicable
(c) Approximate contract expiry dates where held

8.2 What procurement frameworks does your organisation use for IT hardware and services (e.g. Crown Commercial Service, NHS Shared Business Services, G-Cloud, Tech Products 4)?

8.3 Are any significant IT contracts due for renewal within the next
24 months? Please provide contract category (not necessarily full commercial detail).

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SECTION 9 — DIGITAL MATURITY AND STRATEGY ──────────────────────────────────────

9.1 Has your organisation completed a Digital Maturity Assessment
(DMA) or equivalent framework in the last two years? If so:
(a) Which assessment framework was used (e.g. NHS England DMA, HIMSS EMRAM, Other)?
(b) What overall maturity score or rating was achieved?

9.2 Does your organisation have a current Digital / IT Strategy? If so, what is the publication or approval date?

9.3 Has your organisation achieved or is actively working towards any recognised digital accreditations (e.g. HIMSS Level, NHS Digital aspirant status, Cyber Essentials Plus)?

9.4 What are the top three stated digital priorities for your organisation in the current or next financial year?

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FORMAT AND CLARIFICATION
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I would be grateful to receive the response in electronic format (e.g.
Microsoft Word, PDF or Excel as appropriate). Where information is readily available in an existing published document, a reference or a link to that document would be acceptable.

If you need any clarification about the scope of this request, or if you believe that any element of it would exceed the appropriate limit under Section 12 of the Act, please contact me before the 20-working-day deadline so that I may prioritise or narrow the questions accordingly.

If any information requested is considered exempt, please specify the relevant exemption for each withheld item and confirm whether the public interest test has been considered.

Yours faithfully,

Net Zero Staff and Consultant Spending

ESR/Workforce, Estates, Finance, Staffing

Dear Sir or Madam,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following recorded information.

From the financial year 2024/25, 2023/24, and 2022/23 figures:

1. Climate-related posts

a) The number of posts (headcount, and FTE where recorded) employed by the council with job titles that include any of the following terms:

Climate; Net Zero; Sustainability; Carbon; Emissions; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Climate Action; Climate Policy; Climate Programme; Climate Project; Climate Data; Climate Reporting; Climate Adaptation; Climate Resilience; Energy and Climate; Sustainable Procurement; Green Finance; Green.

2. Cost of those posts

The total employment cost for the posts identified in Question 1, including salary and employer on-costs (e.g. pension and National Insurance), as recorded by the council.

3. External consultants

The total amount paid during the same financial year to external consultants, companies, or contractors where the expenditure is recorded under any cost centre, project code, budget line, or purchase description that includes one or more of the following terms:

This should include, but not be limited to, expenditure coded to professional services, consultancy, advisory services, or specialist support.

If the council does not record expenditure in this way, please provide the closest equivalent recorded information held (for example, totals by relevant cost centre or project).

If any information requested is not held, please state this clearly. If figures are held only in aggregated form, please provide the aggregated figures. Estimates derived from recorded financial information are acceptable.

If complying with this request would exceed the cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act, please provide advice and assistance under Section 16 as to how the request may be refined.

Please provide the information requested above in the following table format, where held:
Financial Year
Job Title
Staff Costs including on-costs (£)
Headcount
Consultant Spend

Yours faithfully,

Staffing Ratios, Abbey Ward, Wotton Lawn Hospital

Safety and Security, Staffing

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to submit a Freedom of Information request in relation to Abbey Ward, Wotton Lawn Hospital.

Accordingly, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information for Abbey Ward for the period 1 April 2025 to 24 April 2025:

• Planned staffing levels per shift (day and night)
• Actual staffing levels per shift (day and night)
• Nurse-to-patient ratios per shift
• Breakdown of staff by role (Registered Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, bank staff, and agency staff)
• Any recorded staffing shortfalls, red or amber staffing escalations, or capacity concerns
• Any documented mitigation measures implemented when staffing levels fell below the planned establishment.

This request does not seek any personal or identifiable staff information.

If any part of this request requires clarification, please contact me before refusal or redaction so that it may be refined if necessary.

I understand that a response is required within 20 working days under the Act and would be grateful if the information could be provided electronically.

Kind regards,

Nurses on Long-Term Sick Leave

Nursing & Agency Nursing, Staffing

Dear FOI officer,

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the number of registered nurses on long-term sick leave.

Please provide the following information, using the most recent data available, as well as the same information for the equivalent, or nearest, date in 2021 and 2016.

1. ‎ The total number (head count) of all registered nurses employed by the trust or health board at Agenda for Change Band 5 and above. [E.g. 02/02/2026 – 1,506; 02/02/2021 – 1,321; 02/02/2016 – 1,234]

2. Of these registered nurses (Band 5 and above), how many are/were absent from work on long-term sick leave, which is defined as sickness absence lasting more than 28 consecutive calendar days. [E.g. 02/02/2026 – 30; 02/02/2021 – 12; 02/02/2016 – 25]
If possible, please confirm the date at which each dataset was accurate.

Please return this information within the 20-working day deadline provided under statute – by my reckoning this is Friday 13 March.

Please let me know if you have any questions in order to process this request.

Staffing Information

ESR/Workforce, Staffing

Dear Sir/Madam,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would be grateful if you could confirm the following:

1. The name of the department within the organisation that is responsible for providing Information to the organisation, e.g. Information Team, Business Intelligence etc.
2. Confirmation as to whether the above team also has responsibility for monitoring and reporting corporate performance or whether this is undertaken by a separate team?
3. The budgeted WTE of the department in Question 1.
4. The budgeted WTE of the corporate performance department in Question 2 (if it sits separately to the team in Question 1).
5. The total budgeted WTE for the Trust.
6. Please provide a structure chart for the department in Question 1, showing post titles and banding.

I would be grateful if you could provide the information above in email format to this email address.

Please contact me if you need me to clarify my request, again via this email address.

Night-time In-Patient Care Implemented 24/25

Health, Staffing

Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,

This request seeks information on practical service improvements in night-time inpatient care implemented during 2024/25, to support shared learning and benchmarking across NHS Trusts. The focus is on sleep, noise, and night-time disruption aligned with issues highlighted in the Care Quality Commission Adult Inpatient Survey.

Please answer for adult inpatient services

Night-time care and sleep
1. Night-time improvement initiatives
Please describe any Trust-wide or ward-level initiatives in place during 2024/2025 aimed at improving patients’ experience at night (e.g. reducing noise, improving sleep, reducing night-time disruption).

2. Policies or protocols
Does the Trust have any formal policy, protocol or guidance relating to:
o noise reduction at night,
o minimising non-urgent interventions overnight,
o minimising non-urgent ward moves during night hours?
If yes, please provide the title(s) and date(s).

3. Ward moves at night
During 2024/25, did the Trust take any specific actions to reduce non-urgent patient transfers or bed moves overnight (for example after 11pm)?
If yes, please describe the actions taken.

4. Staff training and awareness
Has the Trust delivered any training, briefings or awareness campaigns during 2024/25 relating to night-time care, sleep, noise reduction?
If yes, please describe.

5. Measuring impact
Please indicate which of the following are used to assess night-time care experience:
o National Inpatient Survey sleep/noise questions
o real-time patient feedback
o complaints or PALS themes
o local audits or ward observations
(Please specify all that apply.)

Yours faithfully,

Open Vacancies FOIs

Staffing

Dear all, I am writing to request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Q1. please can you let me know how many WTE within your trust in your team deal with FOI requests? for example – 1 WTE Band 4/5 Freedom of Information Officer.

Q2. What is their Band?

Q3. Do they work remotely from home or Hybrid role?

Q4. Any open vacancies/post within your Governance Team?

I look forward to hear from you within the 20 day statuary working days.

Warm Regards

Sonographers

Contracts, Staffing

To whom it may concern,

For the 6-month period ending 1st January 2026, can you please provide:

1. Total Framework Agency Spend for Sonographers.
2. Total Off Framework Agency Spend Sonographers.
3. Total hours filled by Framework Agencies for Sonographers and a breakdown of hours filled.
4. Total hours filled by Off Framework Agencies for Sonographers and a breakdown of hours filled.
5. A list of all Framework Agencies utilised by the Trust for Sonographers.
6. A list of all Off Framework Agencies utilised by the Trust for Sonographers and total number of shifts for each Off Framework agency.
7. The highest Framework Agency Charge Rate within your Trust for Sonographers
8. The highest Off Framework Agency Charge Rate within your Trust for Sonographers.
9. A list of any agency (Framework and Off Framework) that have ongoing block booking arrangements for Sonographers within your Trust within the identified time frame (01.06.2025 – 01.01.2026)

MPAC Trainees

Staff Training, Staffing

I would like to please make a freedom of information request dated 20/01/2026 regarding the following:

1. Do you have any current MPAC trainees?
a. If yes, how many MPAC trainees do you have?

2. Are you employing any Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians (MPACs)?
a. If yes, how many Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians (MPACs) are you employing?

3. Do your employed MPACs take on Responsible Clinician (RC) roles?
a. If yes, in what setting do they take on these roles? For example, are they acting as RC on an individual level for individual service users, or at a team level for a ward?

4. Do your employed MPACs have any clear supervisory roles for resident doctors?

5. Do your employed MPACs take on the nominated deputy role for completing 5(2)?

6. Do your employed MPACs take part on the on call rota?

7. Do you have a clear policy to determine allocation of psychiatrists or MPACs as the RC?

8. In cases where the MPAC is acting as the RC but not a qualified prescriber, what mechanism do you have in place to ensure a suitably qualified AC is in charge of prescriptions?

Parkinsons Specialists

Staffing

Hi I’m writing from Parkinson’s UK to ask for data relating to Parkinson’s specialists who work in your Trust, at your different sites. Ahead of the publication of the government’s 10 year workforce plan we are trying to understand the number of consultants and specialist nurses who provide care and treatment to people with Parkinson’s in your Trust at your different sites. Please could you therefore provide me with details of the number of: Specialist nurses you have working wholly or mostly with people with Parkinson’s at your Trust? Neurologists who have a specialist interest or declared knowledge of Parkinson’s at your Trust? Geriatricians who have a specialist interest or declared knowledge of Parkinson’s at your Trust? Thanks very much

Migrant Workers / Staff

Staffing

Dear FOI Team

Please could you provide the following information being requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

1) How many migrant workers are currently employed in your trust at each Agenda for Change band?
Band 2:
Band 3:
Band 4:
Band 5:
Band 6:
Band 7+:

2 ) Please provide the number of migrant staff currently employed on the following visa types:

Skilled Worker visas:
Health and Care Worker visas:
Training visas (e.g., Medical Training Initiative):
Graduate visas:
Dependent visas:
Other ( please

3) In the next 12 months how many Migrant Worker visa’s will come up for renewal within the trust?

Skilled Worker visas:
Health and Care Worker visas:
Training visas (e.g., Medical Training Initiative):
Graduate visas:
Dependent visas:
Other ( please

4) Of those visa’s coming up for renewal, how many will not meet the new pay thresholds?

Band 2:
Band 3:
Band 4:
Band 5:
Band 6:
Band 7+:

5) Has your trust implemented any solutions to help migrant staff meet the July 2025 immigration thresholds? ()

Yes, already implemented
Planned, but not yet in place
No plans currently

6) If yes/planned, what solutions has your trust introduced? (tick all that apply) ()

Pay adjustments/uplifts
Re-banding or job description review
Offering more contracted hours/overtime
Accelerated progression (e.g., Band 5 to Band 6)
Providing immigration/visa advice or legal support
HR or pastoral support services
Covering costs of 5-year visa renewals
Other (please specify):

7) Has your trust costed out the option of funding 5-year visa renewals for affected staff?

Yes, already costed
Currently under consideration
No, not considered

8) If costed, what is the estimated financial impact for your trust?

9) Do you have any staff that you are unable to support to meet the threshold, if yes how many?
Yes
No

International Training Fellows

GHNHSFT - Redirect, HR, Staff Training, Staffing

Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,

I wish to make a freedom of information request. Please can you tell me the following:

– The number of International Training Fellows accepted by your trust for the years 2023, 2024, 2025 (if possible, broken down by country of the training org from which they have come).
– The names of all overseas organisations from which your Trust accepts ITFs.
– The total salary of ITFs working and receiving training in your Trust for the years 2023, 2024, 2025.
– The number of ITFs who arrived in 2023 who have a) left the Trust, b) remain employed by the Trust.

Yours faithfully,

Agency Spend Non Medical / Non Clinical

ESR/Workforce, Staffing

Good morning,

Under the FOI Act please can you provide me with the answers to the below:

From January 2025 to 31st December 2025 please provide a breakdown month by month of total trust spend for framework agency staff within NON medical NON clinical, please break it down by:

• Total spend
• Spend per area EG –

Admin and Clerical: Includes roles like receptionists, medical secretaries, ward clerks, administrators, and HR staff.
Estates and Facilities: Encompasses porters, cleaners, caterers, maintenance workers, security staff, and drivers.
Scientific, Therapeutic, and Technical Staff: A diverse group including various professions that do not fall under the direct ‘medical’ or ‘nursing’ umbrella.
Corporate Services: Includes areas such as IT, finance, legal, and clinical coding.

• Spend per agency

EG- Total £10,000
Facilities £5,000 Admin £5,000
Agency x £5,000 facilities £5,000 Admin

From January 2025 to 31st December 2025 please provide a breakdown month by month of total trust spend for off-framework agency staff within NON medical NON clinical, please break it down by:

• Total spend
• Spend per area EG –

• Spend per agency

EG – Total £10,000
Facilities £5,000 Admin £5,000
Agency x £5,000 facilities £5,000 Admin

From January 2025 to 31st December 2025, please confirm which framework was used for the recruitment of agency staff within NON Medical NON clinical

Please confirm whether the trust utilises a 3rd party vendor or tech system for the hiring of the NON Medical NON Clinical agency staff. If so, please confirm the name of the vendor / tech provider:

Thanks in advance

Advanced Practitioners

ESR/Workforce, Staffing, What Do They Know

Dear NHS Trust/ Board,

Please could you provide us with the following information relating to advanced practitioners:

1.
Please provide the total number of advanced practitioners employed in your Trust/Board for each of the years 2021 to 2025. If possible, please break this information down by department or specialty.

2.
a)Please could you provide the salary range for advanced practitioners employed in your Trust/Board for each of the years 2021 to 2025.

b) Please could you provide the total salary expenditure for advanced practitioners employed in your Trust/Board for each of the years 2021 to 2025.

3.
Please could you provide the total number of hours worked by advanced practitioners employed in your Trust/Board for each of the years 2021 to 2025.

4.
a) Please could you provide us with any existing documentation which describes the job duties and responsibilities of advanced practitioners within your Trust/Board.

b) If not covered in existing documentation, please confirm whether in your Trust/Board advanced practitioners ever

i) make referrals to other specialties
ii) hold crash / emergency bleeps

5.
Within your Trust/Board, please could you tell us

a) if advanced practitioners are ever deployed on medical rotas

b) if advanced practitioners are permitted to cover doctor rota gaps

c) what grade of doctors advanced practitioners are permitted to cover for

d) if merged/tiered/general rotas with mixed staffing groups are used and if so, which types and grades of clinicians appear on these rotas.

6.
a) Please provide us with a copy of bank shift rotas currently used for all medical and non-medical roles within your Trust/Board

b) Please provide us with the current hourly rate-range paid to advanced practitioners working bank shifts in your Trust/Board, broken down by years of service if applicable.

Yours faithfully,

Leadership

Staffing

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 002-2026 Thank you for your recent Freedom of...

Migrant Workers

Staffing

Dear FOI Team

Please could you provide the following information being requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

1) How many migrant workers are currently employed in your trust at each Agenda for Change band? Band 2: Band 3: Band 4: Band 5: Band 6: Band 7+

2 ) Please provide the number of migrant staff currently employed on the following visa types: Skilled Worker visas: Health and Care Worker visas: Training visas (e.g., Medical Training Initiative): Graduate visas: Dependent visas: Other

3) In the next 12 months how many Migrant Worker visa’s will come up for renewal within the trust? Skilled Worker visas: Health and Care Worker visas: Training visas (e.g., Medical Training Initiative): Graduate visas: Dependent visas: Other

4) Of those visa’s coming up for renewal, how many will not meet the new pay thresholds? Band 2: Band 3: Band 4: Band 5: Band 6: Band 7+

5) Has your trust implemented any solutions to help migrant staff meet the July 2025 immigration thresholds? () Yes, already implemented Planned, but not yet in place No plans currently

6) If yes/planned, what solutions has your trust introduced? (tick all that apply) () Pay adjustments/uplifts Re-banding or job description review Offering more contracted hours/overtime Accelerated progression (e.g., Band 5 to Band 6) Providing immigration/visa advice or legal support HR or pastoral support services Covering costs of 5-year visa renewals Other (please specify):

7) Has your trust costed out the option of funding 5-year visa renewals for affected staff? Yes, already costed Currently under consideration No, not considered

8) If costed, what is the estimated financial impact for your trust?

9) Do you have any staff that you are unable to support to meet the threshold, if yes how many? Yes No

Paternity Leave Policies and Data

Copy of Trust Policy, Staffing

Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,

I would please like to know:

1) Your parental leave policies, including paternity leave and pay and maternity leave and pay. If you have different policies for medical and non-medical staff, please include all different policies.

2) In the last three years for which you have data, how many staff members were eligible for paternity leave?

3) In the last three years for which you have data, how many staff members took paternity leave, and for how many weeks on average?

4) In the last three years for which you have data, what was the average salary for staff who were eligible for paternity leave? (If it is not possible to provide this, please provide the average salary for all the trust’s staff instead)

For queries 2 – 4, please provide separate data for medical and non-medical staff, but if this is not possible, please provide combined data for both instead.
If you are unable to answer all of these questions, please prioritise answering them in order.

Agency and Bank Staffing for Internal and External Communications

Communications, ESR/Workforce, Staffing

Dear Freedom of Information Officer,

Request for Information: I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding temporary worker usage for communications roles.

Definition of Scope: For the purposes of this request, “communications” refers to any function or team managed, hosted, or funded through the Trust’s structures (including work performed for Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), regional partnerships, or shared service models) that encompasses:

Internal or external communications functions;

Media relations or the Press Office;

Social media management and digital content;

Marketing and brand management (where these sit within the communications structure).

Definition of Personnel: For the purposes of this request, the term “agency” refers to all temporary or non-permanent staff, including those engaged via an external recruitment agency, a Managed Service Provider (MSP), or the Trust’s internal “Staff Bank” where such an arrangement exists.

Timing and Cooperation: To ensure the data provided is accurate and aligned with your internal reporting cycles, I am happy to allow the necessary time for your teams to complete the December 2025 (Month 9) month-end close before running these reports. I recognise that the holiday period may impact administrative capacity and I seek a collaborative approach to ensure the provision of a complete and reconciled dataset.

Please provide the following data:

1. 2025/26 Actuals and Outturn Forecast

1a. Provide the total number of days a temporary worker was employed via an agency or bank for the communications roles defined above from 1 April 2025 to the end of the December 2025 (Month 9) reporting period. (If data is only held in hours, please provide the total hours and specify the standard working day length).

1b. Provide the current projected year-end outturn for the total number of agency/bank days for these roles for the full 2025/26 financial year (ending 31 March 2026).

1c. Provide a breakdown of these days by Agenda for Change (AfC) Band or job title.

2. 2026/27 Planned Requirements

2a. Provide the total number of days currently budgeted or forecasted for agency-provided or bank communications staff for the 2026/27 financial year.

2b. Funding and Management Qualifier: This request explicitly includes all agency and bank requirements managed or funded through the Trust, regardless of whether the end-user is the Trust itself, an ICB, or a regional partnership.

2c. Financial Qualifier: Note that I am requesting the currently held financial forecasts and draft budget allocations for 2026/27 as they exist at the time of this request. If these forecasts do not yet segment requirements by specific band, please provide the overall forecasted budget for temporary staffing within the communications function.

Public Interest and Statutory Compliance: This information is requested to ensure transparency regarding the use of public funds and the efficiency of NHS staffing structures. There is a clear and compelling public interest in disclosure regarding how authorities manage workforce budgets and their reliance on non-permanent staffing models.

Requirement for Third-Party Data: If this information is held on your behalf by a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or Master Vendor, note that under Section 3(2)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this information is deemed to be held by the public authority. I respectfully request you immediately retrieve this data from your provider to fulfill this request without delay.

Format of Response: Provide this data in a machine-readable format (Excel or CSV). Please include separate columns for: “Band/Role Title,” “Actual Days (YTD),” “Forecasted Outturn (25/26),” and “Planned Requirement (26/27).”

To ensure full compliance and avoid data processing delays, provide the requested information in a machine-readable Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) or CSV format, specifically organized into separate columns for Role Title, Actual Days (YTD), Forecasted Outturn (25/26), and Planned Requirement (26/27).

Cost of Compliance If you estimate the cost of compliance will exceed the statutory limit, please prioritize the data for Section 1 (2025/26). Under Section 16, please advise how I might refine the remainder of the request to bring it within the limit.

Yours faithfully,

Peer Support Workers

MH Services, Staffing

Dear FOI Officer, Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,

I am writing to request information regarding Peer Support Workers (PSWs) and other lived-experience roles within your trust. For clarity, “peer support workers” refers to staff employed in roles where lived experience of mental health challenges is essential to their work.

I would be grateful if you could provide the following information as of 1st November 2025:

1. Workforce numbers:

a. Total number of Peer Support Workers employed in the trust and number of volunteer PSWs (if applicable).
b. Total number of other roles where lived experience is an essential requirement (e.g., peer trainers, peer educators).
c. Percentage of PSW workforce who are on a fixed-term contract.

2. Role banding / grading:
a. Number of PSWs at each NHS band (e.g., Band 2, 3, 4, etc.).
b. Number and names of other lived-experience roles at each band.

3. Training and development:

a. Are PSWs trained internally by the trust, externally by a third party, or both?
b. Do PSWs receive training prior to starting their role, on-the-job, or a combination of both?
c. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities available for PSWs.
d. Career progression routes for PSWs (brief description or number progressing to other roles in the last 12 months).

4. Absence and wellbeing:

a. Average sickness absence for PSWs over the past 18 months (days lost per FTE).
b. If available, the percentage of sickness absence related to mental health.

5. Directorate allocation:

a. Number of PSWs employed in each directorate/service area (please name each directorate area within your response).
b. Where peer support sits within the organisation structure (e.g., Patient Participation and Involvement, Nursing, Recovery Services, or other)-please describe.

6. Workforce composition:

a. Percentage of the trust’s total workforce in lived-experience or peer support roles.
b. Number and percentage of roles with essential lived experience within the job description/person specification relative to total trust workforce.
c. Ethnic diversity of PSWs (percentage of PSW’s who identify as BAME).

7. Workforce trends:

a. Has the number of PSW or lived-experience roles increased, decreased, or stayed the same over the past 18 months?
b. Any anticipated change in the number of PSW roles over the next 18 months (optional/if available).

If the information is not held centrally, please provide it in the form that is available.

Thank you for your assistance.

Sick Leave Data

ESR/Workforce, Staffing

Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,

I would please like to know, in each of the last three years for which you have data:

1) The number of staff employed by the trust

2) The total number of days of sick leave taken by staff who took paternity leave in the preceding 12 months

3) The total number of days of sick leave taken by all staff across the trust

If you are unable to provide all this data, please provide it for only the most recent full year for which you have data.

Yours faithfully,

Sick Days / Paternity Leave

ESR/Workforce, Staffing

in each of the last three years for which you have data:

1) The number of staff employed by the trust

2) The total number of days of sick leave taken by staff who took paternity leave in the preceding 12 months

3) The total number of days of sick leave taken by all staff across the trust

Health and Care Worker Visa

ESR/Workforce, HR, Staffing

To whom it may concern,

Can you let me know how many of your current staff work in your Trust on a Health and Care Worker Visa?

How many medical staff in total work in your Trust?

Thank you,

Long Term Sickness 2019 to 2024

Health, HR, Staffing

I would like to make a Freedom of Information Act request for the following information

– How many members of staff employed by your organisation have been on long-term sickness absence in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024?
and
– At what grades and functions?
and
– How many of these members of staff did not return permanently to work by year?
and
– How many members of staff employed by your organisation who were no longer able to fulfil their current role has your organisation supported to find alternative roles find alternative roles in other parts of the NHS in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

If possible I would welcome this in a CSV file or similar.

If any of the above needs clarification I would be more than happy to provide clarification.

Bank Payroll Service Fees

Nursing & Agency Nursing, Staffing

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide for your Bank workforce for FY 2024/25 (or the most recent 12 months):

1. Do you outsource payroll for Bank workers? If yes, name of provider.

2. Your fee model for Bank payroll (e.g., per payslip, per hours processed, per timesheet, % of gross pay).

3. The fee level actually paid (e.g., £ per payslip / £ per hour / £ per timesheet / %).

4. Average number of Bank payslips per pay period and pay frequency (weekly/monthly).

5. Any additional charges (off-cycle payments, corrections, pension retros, RTI re-submissions).

6. If Bank payroll is delivered in-house, please confirm your internal cost per payslip (or best estimate) for Bank staff.

Please provide any available contract end dates.

Many thanks for your assistance to this matter.

Temporary Staff Spend – Locum Doctors

Staffing

In the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name
 
In the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name
 
In the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per internal or associated external provider
Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025
Please confirm the name of the framework used for the supply of locum doctors in your trust.

Sickness Absence – 2024

ESR/Workforce, Health, HR, Staffing

I would like to make a Freedom of Information Act request for the following information

Please provide:
– What is the distribution of sickness absence days amongst your organisation’s workforce by percentile?
– A breakdown of sickness absence in your organisation in 2024 by grade and function
– Details of what measures, interventions and support has your organisation provided to reduce sickness absence.
– A copy of your HR policies relating to sickness absence

If possible I would welcome this in a CSV file or similar (except for the policies which I would welcome in PDF or word ideally)

If any of the above needs clarification I would be more than happy to provide clarification.

Services Users Currently Open to the Crisis Team

Health, MH Services, Staffing

1. The number of service users currently open to the Gloucester Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) as of 29.10.25.

2. Of these, how many have a care plan attached to their electronic patient record.

3. If available, please also provide the percentage this represents. I am not requesting any personal or identifiable data.

4. Also, please can you provide the total number of inpatient beds available for mental health patients across Gloucestershire from 01/01/25 to 30/01/25.

Sexual Misconduct

HR, Staffing

1. Can you provide a breakdown of sexual offences which have been reported in your trust for the last three financial years (2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25)

2. Can this be broken down by whether the person making the accusation is a member of staff, a patient, or a member of the public.

3. How many staff members at your trust have been disciplined over the last three financial years (2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25) in relation to a sexual offence?

4. How many staff members at your trust have been dismissed over the last three financial years (2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25) in relation to a sexual offence?

Employee Ages

ESR/Workforce, Staffing

I’m looking to find out how many people your trust employs in all capacities who are aged over 70, over 80 and over 90 years old. Please can I have the figures for each of these age bands?

And can you please tell me how many people the trust employs overall? (Of all ages and in all capacities).

Multi-Professional Approved / Responsible Clinicians

Staffing

Dear FOI team, I hope this message finds you well.

I believe this information is essential for public interest, transparency and to better understand the role of multi-professional approved and responsible clinicians within the healthcare system.

Please provide the information in one of the following digital formats PDF, Excel, or Word documents.

Please could you provide the following information:

1. The total number of multi-professional approved clinicians (as approved under the mental health act) employed by the trust currently

2. A breakdown of this number by base profession (psychologist, nurse, occupational therapist or social worker)

3. The number of these working as responsible clinicians

4. A breakdown of which teams these staff are working in based on the following:

a. inpatient vs outpatient setting
b. Specialty (old age, general adult, child and adolescent, intellectual disability, forensic or other)
c. For inpatient settings whether male ward, female ward or mixed ward

5. The total number of trainee multi-professional approved clinicians currently in training in the trust

6. The mean pro-rata salary of multi-professional approved clinicians and multi-professional responsible clinicians currently employed by the trust (as two values if these are different.)

7. Are multi-professional approved/responsible clinicians currently allowed to cover gaps in service left by doctor approved/responsible clinicians?

8. Do multi-professional approved/responsible clinicians contribute to on call rotas?

a. If yes are these on rotas shared with doctor approved/responsible clinicians
b. If yes is this in hours, out of hours, or both

I understand that the Act requires a response within 20 working days. If, for any reason, my request cannot be fulfilled within this timeframe, please let me know the expected timeframe for a response and the reasons for any delays. Please also provide confirmation of receipt of this request. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Your cooperation in providing the requested information will be greatly appreciated. Yours sincerely, Dr Harry Waterman

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Organisation, Staffing

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.

1. The number of staff employed by your Trust whose primary role relates to Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) as of September 2025.

2. The total salary cost for these staff in the most recent financial year.

3. The total spend by your Trust on EDI-related training, workshops, events or external consultancy in each of the past three financial years.

4. Copies of any mandatory EDI training materials currently in use for staff.

If it is not possible to provide this information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.

If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

AHP / HSS Agency Staffing

Nursing & Agency Nursing, Staffing

Good afternoon

Please can you provide the below information:

From 1st July 2025 to 30th September please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum AHP/HSS staffing.

Please provide a further breakdown for locum AHP/HSS staffing by:
• Spend per band
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name

In the period 1st July 2025 to 30th September please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locum AHP/HSS staffing.

Please provide a further breakdown for locum AHP/HSS staffing by:
• Spend per band
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name

In the period 1st July 2025 to 30th September please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum AHP/HSS staffing

Please provide a further breakdown for locum AHP/HSS staffing by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per internal or associated external provider

Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum AHP/HSS staffing for the period 1st July 2025 to 30th September

Please confirm the framework you utilise for AHP/HSS agency staff.

Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians

Staffing

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding employment and related details of multi-professional approved clinicians and multi-professional responsible clinicians within your trust. I believe this information is essential for public interest, transparency and to better understand the role of multi-professional approved and responsible clinicians within the healthcare system. Please provide the information in one of the following digital formats PDF, Excel, or Word documents.

Please could you provide the following information:
1. The total number of multi-professional approved clinicians (as approved under the mental health act) employed by the trust currently
a. A breakdown of this number by base profession (psychologist, nurse, occupational therapist or social worker)
b. The number of these working as responsible clinicians
c. A breakdown of which teams these staff are working in based on the following
i. inpatient vs outpatient setting
ii. Specialty (old age, general adult, child and adolescent, intellectual disability, forensic or other)
iii. For inpatient settings whether male ward, female ward or mixed ward
2. The total number of trainee multi-professional approved clinicians currently in training in the trust
3. The mean pro-rata salary of multi-professional approved clinicians and multi-professional responsible clinicians currently employed by the trust (as two values if these are different.)
4. Are multi-professional approved/responsible clinicians currently allowed to cover gaps in service left by doctor approved/responsible clinicians
5. Do multi-professional approved/responsible clinicians contribute to on call rotas
a. If yes are these on rotas shared with doctor approved/responsible clinicians
b. If yes is this in hours, out of hours, or both

Key People in the Innovation Team

Staffing

I am keen to understand the key people in the Innovation Teams please. I have added a SS to make this as easy as possible.

Can you advise who are the Key People employed for these roles: Name: E-mail: Phone: Full Address: Alternative Role Names:

If they have alternative titles for the below roles please advise

Director of Innovation
Head of Business Change and Innovation
Senior Innovation Manager
Research & Innovation Manager
Innovation Project Manager
Innovation Facilitator
Directorate Research & Innovation Lead
Directorate Research & Innovation Coordinator

Assaults on NHS Staff – 2022/23/24

Safety and Security, Staffing

I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please can you provide me with the number of reported assaults upon NHS staff at your trust in 2022, 2023 and 2024 (or the latest three years where data is available).

Staff Levels

Staff Contact Details, Staffing

Dear Sir/Madam
I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.
In this request, I would like the statistical information provided for the most recent point in time for which data is held – that may be September 2025, or it may be an earlier month – and then corresponding information provided as of 12 months earlier than the most recent month.
So for example, if the most recent available data is for July 2025, then I would like the figures for July 2025, and then separately the corresponding figures as of July 2024. If the most recent available data is current, then I would like the figures for September 2025, and then separately the corresponding figures as of September 2024.
1. Please list the different categories of mental health staff, community health staff and learning disability staff at the Trust (e.g. mental health nurses, community health nurses, psychiatrists etc)
2. Please state the FTE number of staff in each category (as listed in response to question 1) as per the Trust’s full staff establishment (i.e. the total FTE number of positions in each category if there were zero vacancies)
3. Please state the FTE number of staff in each category (as listed in response to question 1) that are currently working for the Trust on any basis (i.e. including all forms of direct and indirect arrangement in each category, in FTE terms)
4. Please state the FTE number of staff in each category (as listed in response to question 1) that are currently directly employed by the Trust (i.e. how many of the Trust’s own staff are currently employed in each category, in FTE terms, therefore excluding agency, bank and locum staff)
5. Please state the FTE number of staff in each category (as listed in response to question 1) that are currently working for the Trust under arrangements other than direct employment by the Trust (i.e. how many agency, bank, locum etc staff are currently employed in each category, in FTE terms)
To give an example of how to interpret questions 1-5: let’s say the Trust has a total of 12 FTE psychiatrist posts in its full establishment, of which it has filled 11.5 FTE posts. Of these 11.5 FTE posts, 7 FTE are directly employed by the trust, 1.5 FTE are bank and 3 FTE are locum. In this scenario, when it comes to the staff category of psychiatrists, the Trust’s response to question 2 would be 12 FTE, question 3 would be 11.5 FTE, question 4 would be 7 FTE, and question 5 would be 4.5 FTE.
6. Please list the different subcategories of mental health nursing staff at the Trust (e.g. CAMHS nurse, community mental health nurse)
7. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 6) as per the Trust’s full staff establishment (i.e. the total FTE number of positions in each subcategory if there were zero vacancies)
8. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 6) that are currently working for the Trust on any basis (i.e. including all forms of direct and indirect arrangement in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
9. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 6) that are currently directly employed by the Trust (i.e. how many of the Trust’s own staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms, therefore excluding agency, bank and locum staff)
10. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 6) that are currently working for the Trust under arrangements other than direct employment by the Trust (i.e. how many agency, bank, locum etc staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
11. Please list the different subcategories of psychiatrists at the Trust (e.g. general psychiatrist, old age psychiatrist, intellectual disability psychiatrist)
12. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 11) as per the Trust’s full staff establishment (i.e. the total FTE number of positions in each subcategory if there were zero vacancies)
13. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 11) that are currently working for the Trust on any basis (i.e. including all forms of direct and indirect arrangement in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
14. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 11) that are currently directly employed by the Trust (i.e. how many of the Trust’s own staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms, therefore excluding agency, bank and locum staff)
15. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 11) that are currently working for the Trust under arrangements other than direct employment by the Trust (i.e. how many agency, bank, locum etc staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
16. Please list the different subcategories of psychologists and psychotherapists at the Trust (e.g. counselling psychologist, child and adolescent psychotherapist, health psychologist)
17. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 16) as per the Trust’s full staff establishment (i.e. the total FTE number of positions in each subcategory if there were zero vacancies)
18. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 16) that are currently working for the Trust on any basis (i.e. including all forms of direct and indirect arrangement in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
19. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 16) that are currently directly employed by the Trust (i.e. how many of the Trust’s own staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms, therefore excluding agency, bank and locum staff)
20. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 16) that are currently working for the Trust under arrangements other than direct employment by the Trust (i.e. how many agency, bank, locum etc staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
21. Please list the different subcategories of therapists at the Trust whose roles relate to mental health and/or learning disabilities (e.g. speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, music therapist), excluding those therapists already covered in questions 16-20
22. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 21) as per the Trust’s full staff establishment (i.e. the total FTE number of positions in each subcategory if there were zero vacancies)
23. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 21) that are currently working for the Trust on any basis (i.e. including all forms of direct and indirect arrangement in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
24. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 21) that are currently directly employed by the Trust (i.e. how many of the Trust’s own staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms, therefore excluding agency, bank and locum staff)
25. Please state the FTE number of staff in each subcategory (as listed in response to question 21) that are currently working for the Trust under arrangements other than direct employment by the Trust (i.e. how many agency, bank, locum etc staff are currently employed in each subcategory, in FTE terms)
This request should not be combined with any other request for section 12 purposes. If any individual question would exceed the section 12 cost limit, please mark that question as “information not held” and respond to the remainder of the request (NB: this is not the same as asking the Trust to “run the clock” up to the section 12 cost limit).

Temporary Staff Spend 2024/2025

Staffing

Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding Temporary Staff Spend and Waiting List Initiatives and Overtime Spend. Please can you complete the below questions:

1. Does the organisation use a third party to manage/ track WLI spend?
a. If no, does your organisation use another method to manage/ track WLI spend?

2. How much did the organisation spend on agency (non-contract) staff and internal bank staff for the financial year 24/25 (April 2024 – March 2025)? Please fill in the spend in the table below for each staffing group and total.

3. How much did the organisation spend on Waiting List Initiative (WLI) and Overtime payments to staff (WLI payments refers to any sessional payments made for additional time worked under a system called the Waiting List Initiative, used by trusts to reduce waiting lists and meet government targets. Overtime payments are defined as any payment for additional time beyond the standard FTE for the grade). Please fill in the spend and number of sessions/hours in the below table for each staffing group and total.

Q1. Temporary Staff Spend Q2. Waiting List Initiative & Overtime Spend
Staffing Groups Agency Spend (£) Bank Spend (£) WLI Payments to staff (£) WLI Sessions (No.) Overtime Payments to Staff (£) Overtime Hours (No.)
Total
Medical and Dental
Nursing and Healthcare Assistants
Administration and Estates
Healthcare Science
Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical Staff (STT) inclusive of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)

Ambulance staff

Thanks,

Temporary Staff Management 2024/25

Staffing

I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act regarding Temporary Staff Management. Please can you complete the below questions.
Sourced Staffing Arrangements
1a. Do you have a master vendor (MV) or neutral vendor (NV) arrangement in place for sourcing agency staff? If so, please state which arrangement is in place
1b. What is the name of the MV/NV provider(s) and what staffing groups do they source? e.g. medical, nursing etc.
1c. As part of the arrangement, is any NV technology provided by the supplier to help manage the procurement of agency staff?
1d. Please provide the contract start and end date for the supplier (dd/mm/yy)
Direct Engagement
2a. Does the organisation use a third party to provide a Direct Engagement/Outsourced Employment Solution*?
2b. What is the name of the Direct Engagement (DE)/Outsourced Employment supplier**
2c. Under the DE/Outsourced Employment arrangement, which staffing groups are managed? For example; Medical, Admin, Scientific staff. Please list all applicable
2d. Please provide the contract start and end date for the DE supplier (dd/mm/yy)
2e. How much did the organisation pay the supplier in 24/25 (April 2024 to March 2025) for the provision of the direct engagement service?
2f. What type of Direct Engagement contract is in place between the trust and the worker? E.g. Fixed term, casual, zero hours etc.
2g. Are workers issued a P45 at the end of their assignment?
2h. Does your DE provider process DE payroll?
2i. If not, who is responsible for processing DE payroll?
2j. Who is responsible for inputting timesheet data into your DE solution?
2k. Who is responsible for inputting workers’ bank details into the DE solution?
Bank Management

3a. Please name the technology provider used to manage the supply of your bank staff, inclusive of any outsourced or managed arrangements *** If more than one supplier is used, please name all suppliers

3b. Please name the staffing group each provider is used for e.g. medical, nursing, AHPs, admin and clerical
3c. Please provide the contract start and end date for each bank supplier (dd/mm/yy)

3d. How much did the organisation pay the supplier(s) in 24/25 for the provision of the bank service?

Violence and Aggression Towards NHS Staff

Staffing

Dear Freedom of Information Officer, Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I hereby request the information set out from your Trust. I am conducting research into the prevalence of violence and aggression (V&A) towards all levels of NHS staff and researching the increase since the COVID-19 pandemic. Please provide the information for the time periods specified unless otherwise stated. Definition / scope: For clarity, by “violence and aggression” I mean incidents reported as directed against staff (including physical assault, verbal threats/abuse, threatening behaviour, sexual assault, hate incidents, antisocial behaviour, security etc.). Please include incidents occurring across all NHS-funded services delivered by the Trust (acute, ambulance, mental health, community, etc.). If any item cannot be provided for legal, commercial, or personal data reasons, please state the exemption relied upon. Information requested (please number responses to match) 1 – Incident / risk management system a. Which integrated incident/risk management system does the Trust currently use (e.g. Datix, Ulysses, Radar, InPhase, other)? Please give the product name and vendor. b. If more than one system is used by different services (e.g. mental health vs acute), list each system and which services use it. 2 – Violence prevention lead / security manager a. Who is the Trust’s designated Violence Prevention Lead and/or Security Manager? Please supply name and job title. b. If the Trust does not have a designated single lead, please state the department or team responsible. 3 – Contact email a. Please provide the official work email address for the person named in (2) or the generic team email for the role (e.g. security@trust.nhs.uk). b. If personal data prevents disclosure of an individual’s email address, please provide an appropriate alternative contact (team mailbox is preferable). 4 – Reporting categories a. Within your incident reporting system, what exact subcategories are used under the main “violence and aggression” (V&A) category? Please give the verbatim list of subcategory labels used (for example: “Verbal abuse”, “Physical assault”, “Threatening behaviour”, “Sexual assault”, “Hate incident”, etc.). b. If categories changed during the period below, provide the date(s) of change and both old and new category lists. 5 – Total incidents — quarterly counts For the following periods, provide the total number of reported V&A incidents against staff for each quarter (broken down by quarter). Use financial-quarter ordering where Q1 = Apr–Jun, Q2 = Jul–Sep, Q3 = Oct–Dec, Q4 = Jan–Mar. Periods required: Financial year 2020/21 (Apr 1, 2020 – Mar 31, 2021) — give counts for each quarter. Financial year 2021/22 (Apr 1, 2021 – Mar 31, 2022) — give counts for each quarter. Financial year 2022/23 (Apr 1, 2022 – Mar 31, 2023) — give counts for each quarter. Financial year 2023/24 (Apr 1, 2023 – Mar 31, 2024) — give counts for each quarter. Financial year 2024/25 (Apr 1, 2024 – Mar 31, 2025) — give counts for each quarter. Quarter 1 2025/26 (Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025) — give count for this quarter. Possible suggested Table for (5) 2020/21 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2021/22 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2022/23 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2023/24 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2024/25 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2026-26 Q1 6 – Incident breakdown by subcategory — quarterly For the same periods as (5), provide the number of incidents by each subcategory listed in item (5) for each quarter (i.e., a table showing, for each quarter, counts for “Verbal abuse”, “Physical assault”, etc.). If exact subcategories differ between services, provide a crosswalk or note. I have included a sample table below, if additional columns are necessary, please include them: Subcategory 1 Subcategory 2 Subcategory 3 Subcategory 4 Subcategory 5 Subcategory 6 EG Physical Eg Verbal Eg Threatening EG Sexual Eg Hate EG Antisocial 2021/22 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2022/23 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2023/24 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2024/25 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2026-26 Q1 7 – Staffing numbers (total) a. What is the total current number of staff employed by the Trust? Please state whether this is headcount or Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) and give the date the figure applies to (e.g. headcount / FTE as at 31 March 2025 or as at date of FOI response). 8 – Operational / clinical staff numbers a. Of the total in (7), how many are clinical or front-line operational staff? Please define the metric used (headcount or FTE) and the date. 9 – Board minutes a. Please provide a copy of the most recent publicly available board meeting minutes (or relevant pages) in which violence, aggression, staff security incidents, or staff safety pertaining to violence and aggression were discussed. If these minutes are published online, please provide the link and the meeting date. Data format & delivery Please use the tables provided unless they are incompatible, in which case Preferred format: machine-readable (CSV or Excel). I am happy to receive multi-media response to account for the questions and then the data tables, Administrative / additional points If any element of this request is refused or withheld, please cite the specific FOIA exemption or data-protection reason and provide any available public-interest test explanation. I would be grateful for a response within 20 working days as required by the Act. If you need to clarify any part of this request or if any item is unclear, please contact me at the email address below. Thank you for your assistance. Please note I have sent this email from a personal email account from where I am doing this research in addition to my role with the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives as National Ambulance Violence Prevention Lead. Yours faithfully, Adam Hopper National Ambulance Violence Prevention & Reduction Operational Lead Association of Ambulance Chief Executives adam.a.hopper@outlook.com

Education and Training Tariff – Post Graduate Doctors

Staffing

Dear FOI Officer, Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request information regarding the NHS Trust’s use of the Education and Training Tariff, specifically for postgraduate doctors in training, and request the annual self-assessments. Please could you provide the following: Annual Education and Training Self-Assessments A copy of the NHS Trust’s annual education and training self-assessment report. Can you please provide the latest report submitted. The reports are mandatory according to the NHS Education Funding Agreement Schedule 3 Total amount of Education and Training Tariff funding received by the Trust for postgraduate medical education over the financial year relating to the last Education and Training Self-Assessment report. Breakdown of Education and Training Tariff for Postgraduate Doctors A detailed and itemised breakdown of how the Education and Training Tariff allocated for postgraduate doctors in training has been spent over the same financial period relating to the latest Annual Education and Training self-assessment submitted. Specifically, I would like to know a breakdown of all expenditures covered by this tariff including but not limited to: Teaching staff salaries (including number of staff employed) Administrative staff salaries (including number of staff employed) Any contribution of tariff towards Consultants programmed activities (PAs) to educational roles Facilities provided specifically for medical education and training (e.g. libraries, study areas) Pastoral support and well-being services for trainees Any contributions towards trainee study leave, clinical exams, and related support activities. 4. Does the trust have any mechanisms in place to review if the Education and Training Tariff is providing appropriate educational value to Postgraduate Doctors and what are those mechanisms? I would appreciate it if the information could be provided in a digital format (e.g., PDF or spreadsheet). If data are unavailable or if certain details cannot be disclosed, please provide as much relevant information as possible and explain any exclusions under the Act. Thank you for your attention to this request. Please let me know if you require further clarification. I look forward to your response within the statutory 20 working day period.

Information – Senior Strategic Lead for AHP

Staffing

Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I would be grateful if you could provide the following information.

I am seeking information from your most senior strategic lead for allied health professions to answer the following 10 questions.

1 What is the job title of the strategic lead/ most senior Allied Health Professional (AHP) in your Trust?
• Chief AHP
• Director of AHPs
• Other (please specify)

2 Is there someone employed in this post currently?
Yes
No
If not, why not?

3 How many hours a week are dedicated specifically to this role?
• Full time (1.0wte)
• Part time (please specify wte hours)
• Job share (please specify)
Do they have other portfolios / operational leadership responsibilities in addition to the strategic leadership of the AHPs in the Trust? For example: quality and safety, patient experience, complaints, workforce, professional development, social work etc
If so, what?

4 What Agenda for Change band is the most senior strategic (Chief) AHP role?
• 7
• 8A
• 8B
• 8C
• 8D
• 9
• Very senior manager pay scale
• Other (please specify)

5 If someone is currently in post, are they a HCPC registered Allied Health Professional?
Yes
No

If yes, which allied health profession (please specify):
Art therapist
Dietitian
Drama therapist
Music therapist
Occupational therapist
Operating department practitioner
Orthoptist
Osteopath
Paramedic
Physiotherapist
Podiatrist
Prosthetists and orthotist
Radiographer Diagnostic
Therapeutic
Speech and language therapist

6 If they are not a registered AHP, what is their professional background? (Please specify)

7 Who does the most senior strategic (Chief) AHP report to? (please specify)

8 Is the most senior strategic (Chief) AHP an executive member of the Trust Board, are they able to vote as a full board member?
Yes
No

9 Is the most senior strategic (Chief) AHP a member of any sub committees of the Trust Board, for example quality and safety, workforce, performance? (Please specify)

10 Does the most senior strategic (Chief) AHP deputise for an exec member of the board?

Wearing/Use of Fragranced Products

HR, Misc, Staffing

Does the Trust have a staff policy in respect of the wearing/use of fragranced products? Please provide a copy of your staff policy concerning the wearing/use of fragranced products (including use of fragranced laundry products). Where terms such as ‘overwhelming’, ‘overpowering’ or ‘discreet’ are used in respect of fragrance, how are these terms defined and who decides if the level of scent contravenes the guidance: the wearer, the Trust or the patient? How is the policy brought to the attention of staff? Is the policy in respect of the wearing of fragranced products enforced? How is it enforced? What training is given to staff to make them aware that the use of fragranced products can be an accessibility barrier for patients? Please provide details. If any such material is third party copyrighted, please provide a synopsis. Please provide copies of any correspondence, memos or minutes of meetings pertaining to discussion of the use of/ wearing of fragranced products by staff, including use of fragranced laundry products to wash clothing worn at work.

Salary Sacrifice Benefit

HR, Staffing

1. Does your organisation offer salary sacrifice benefits* to staff? If yes, please state the name of the supplier, contract start and end dates.
*salary sacrifice benefit refers to an arrangement where employees agree to give up a portion of their pre-tax salary in exchange for non-cash benefits (e.g childcare, cycle to work schemes) a. Supplier Name b. Contract start date (dd/mm/yy) c. Contract end date (dd/mm/yy)

2. Does your organisation have an external Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)*?
* employee assistance programme refers to an employee-paid confidential service that offers employees support and advice on issues affecting their wellbeing and performance, both personal and work related.
a. If yes, who is the provider?

ICT Staff Information

Staffing

I am contacting the Trust on behalf of the Government Property Agency, an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office.

Please could you provide me with the names and contact details of the senior ICT managers for the NHS Trust?

271-2024

Organisation, Staffing

1. Between January 2020 – December 2024 has your trust contracted with any of the following organisations:
Litmus UK
Medacs Healthcare
Global Medics

2. If yes, for each organisation:
a) What was the total spend per year?
b) What were the pay rates for staff provided by these agencies per year (please provide a range)?
c)How many individual shifts have been filled by doctors from those agencies

313-2024

Public, Staffing

In the period 1st October 2024 to 31st December 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum AHP/HSS staffing.

Please provide a further breakdown for locum AHP/HSS staffing by:
• Spend per band
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name

In the period 1st October 2024 to 31st December 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locum AHP/HSS staffing.

Please provide a further breakdown for locum AHP/HSS staffing by:
• Spend per band
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name

In the period 1st October 2024 to 31st December 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum AHP/HSS staffing

Please provide a further breakdown for locum AHP/HSS staffing by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per internal or associated external provider

Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum AHP/HSS staffing for the period 1st October 2024 to 31st December 2024

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