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Freedom of Information request 024-2023

Response published: 3 April 2024

FOI Request

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information regarding temporary labour usage in your organisation, including contractors, temporary workers, and freelancers. Please can you provide me with the following information for the most recent complete fiscal year: Total number of temporary workers engaged by your organisation, broken down by department or function, if possible. Total annual expenditure on temporary workers, including a breakdown of costs by department or function, if possible. Total number of agency suppliers Preferred Suppliers/non-Preferred Suppliers. in your organisation’s labour supply chain Details of any existing Managed Service Programme or Provider MSP. and/or Vendor Management System VMS. used to manage temporary workers: Name of the MSP and VMS. Date the contract was awarded. Date of contract expiration. Name of the government procurement framework through which the MSP and VMS were procured. Details of any upcoming retendering or renewal processes related to your MSP and VMS contracts: Anticipated date for the retendering or renewal process to commence. Name and contact information of the person responsible for overseeing the retendering or renewal process. Please can you provide the information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet. If it is not possible to provide the 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 can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 024
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
Please can you provide me with the following information for the most recent complete fiscal year:
– Total number of temporary workers engaged by your organisation, broken down by department or
function, if possible.
1050 bank workers across multiple departments
A&E Liaison Team Gloucestershire
Abbey View Ward – Tewks Hosp
Abbey Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
ABG ASW Service County. – Non-Rostered
ADHD – Non-Rostered
Admin – Ambrose House – Non-Rostered
Admin – Charlton Lane
Admin – Colliers Court – Non-Rostered
Admin – Entry Level – Non-Rostered
Admin – MH Admin Chelt, Tewks & N.Cots – Non-Rostered
Admin – Pullman Place – Non-Rostered
Admin – Weavers Croft – Non-Rostered
Admin – Wotton Lawn
Admin – Wotton Lawn – Reception
AMHP Hub
AOT – West
AOT Stroud & Cotswolds – Non-Rostered
Apprenticeship and Widening Access Team – Non-Rostered
ASC Assessment Adults Team – Non-Rostered
Bed Management & Inpatient SC
Behaviour Support and Training Team – Non-Rostered
CAMHS – Admin – Non-Rostered
CAMHS SC & Autism Assmnt Team – Non-Rostered
Cardiac Rehabilitation Service – Non-Rostered
Cashes Green – Stroud Hospital
Cheltenham Community Nursing
Chestnut Ward – Charlton Lane Hospital
CLDT Forest – Non-Rostered
CLDT Gloucester – Non-Rostered
CLDT North – Non-Rostered
Clinical Systems – Non-Rostered
Coln Ward – Cirencester Hospital
Comm MH Transformation Mgmt – Non-Rostered
Communication – Non-Rostered
Community Physio – Non-Rostered
Community SALT – Non-Rostered
Complex Care at Home Chelt – Non-Rostered
Complex Emotional Needs – Non-Rostered
Contact Centre
Cotswold View Ward – North Cots Hospital
Cotswolds Community – Occupational Therapy
Cotswolds Community – Physiotherapy
Cotswolds Community Nursing
Covid Medicine Delivery Unit
Covid Medicine Delivery Unit – Non-Rostered
Covid Response – School Aged Imms
Covid Response – Virus Testing
Criminal Justice Liaison
Crisis – Chelt & Tewks
Crisis – Cots & Vale
Crisis – West Glos
CYPS – Children’s Community Nursing
CYPS – Children’s Complex Care
CYPS – Core Level 3 – Non-Rostered
CYPS – Family Therapy – Non-Rostered
CYPS – Health Visiting – Non-Rostered
CYPS – Infant MH – Non-Rostered
CYPS – MH Support Team – Non-Rostered
CYPS – Parenting Programme – Non-Rostered
CYPS PH Children’s OT – Non-Rostered
CYPS/PH – School Nursing – Non-Rostered
CYPS/PH- Children’s Physio – Non-Rostered
Dean Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Dental – Out of Hours
Dental Specialist Service
Diabetic Specialist Nurses – Non-Rostered
Early Intervention Team GRiP – Non-Rostered
Eating Disorders – Community Team – Non-Rostered
Eating Disorders – Home Treatment Team – Non-Rostered
ECT – Wotton Lawn Hospital
ENDNS
Endoscopy – Cirencester Hospital
Estates – On Call Rota
Estates & Facilities Prof Svcs – Non-Rostered
Facilities – Charlton Lane Hospital
Facilities – Cheltenham Locality
Facilities – Gloucester Reception
Facilities – Gloucester Reception – Non-Rostered
Facilities – Berkeley House Housekeepers
Facilities – Cinderford H&C.
Facilities – Forest Wide Porters
Facilities – Gloucester Locality
Facilities – Lydney Housekeeping
Facilities – North Cotswolds H&C.
Facilities – South Cotswolds H&C.
Facilities – South Cotswolds Porters
Facilities – Stroud & Vale Porters
Facilities – Stroud & Vale Supervisors
Facilities – Stroud Locality Housekeepers
Facilities – Support Services – Rikenel
Facilities – Tewkesbury & Forest Supervisors
Facilities – Tewkesbury H&C.
Facilities – Vale Locality Housekeepers
Facilities – Wotton Lawn
Finance – Non-Rostered
Forest Community – Occupational Therapy
Forest Community – Physiotherapy
Forest Community Nursing
Forest Ward – Dilke Hospital
GHT Emergency Planning Support
Gloucester Community Nursing
Greyfriars PICU – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Heart Failure – Non-Rostered
Homeless Healthcare Team – Non-Rostered
Homeward Assessment Team
HR – Management – Non-Rostered
HR – Workforce – Non-Rostered
ICS Regional Mental Health Hub – Non-Rostered
ICT – Home First Reablement
ICT Cotswold Admin – Non-Rostered
Immunisation Team
IMT – Non-Rostered
Inpatient ESD – Vale Hospital
IV Therapy Services
Jubilee Ward – Stroud Hospital
Kingsholm Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Later Life – Gloucester – Non-Rostered
Later Life – South – Non-Rostered
Later Life North – Non-Rostered
LD Berkeley House
LD Berkeley House – Non-Rostered
LD Intensive Health Outreach Team
LD Intensive Support Service
Learning & Development – Non-Rostered
Legal Fees – Non-Rostered
Library – Non-Rostered
Long Term Conditions Mgnt – Non-Rostered
Lydney Ward – Lydney Hospital
Maple Ward
Medical – Education – Non-Rostered
Medical – Management – Non-Rostered
Medical Secretaries – Chelt & N Cots – Non-Rostered
Medical Secretaries – Gloucester, FoD & Entry – NonRostered
Medical Secretaries – Stroud & S Cots – Non-Rostered
MH Act Administration – Non-Rostered
MHICT – IAPT Cotswold & Vale – Non-Rostered
MHICT – Nurses Chelt & Tewks – Non-Rostered
MHICT – Nurses Glos & FoD – Non-Rostered
MHICT – Nurses Stroud & Cots – Non-Rostered
MHSOP Care Home Support – Non-Rostered
MHSOP Education Nurses – Non-Rostered
MIiU – Cirencester Hospital
MIiU – Forest Hospitals
MIiU – North Cots Hospital
MIiU – Stroud Hospital
MIIU – Telephone Triage
MIiU – Tewkesbury Hospital
MIiU – Vale
Montpellier Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
MSK Physio
MSK Specialist Therapies
MSKAPS
Mulberry Ward – Charlton Lane Hospital
North/South Comm Dementia Nurs – Non-Rostered
Occupational Health – Non-Rostered
Occupational Therapy – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Oliver McGowan National Project – Non-Rostered
OPD – Cirencester Hospital
OPD – Forest Hospitals
OPD – Stroud Hospital
OPD – Tewks, North Cots & George Moore
Operational Management – Non-Rostered
OT Practice Development – Non-Rostered
Outreach Vaccinations Team
Patient Safety Team
Patient Safety Team – Non-rostered
Peak View Ward – Vale Hospital
Perinatal MH Team – Non-Rostered
Peripatetic Team – Charlton Lane Hospital
Physical Health Checks
Physical Health Checks – Non-Rostered
Physio Team – Charlton Lane Hospital
Physio Team – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Podiatry
Post Covid Syndrome Team – Non-Rostered
Preston Ward – Stroud Hospital Formerly Jubilee.
Priory Ward – Wotton Lawn
Psychology Training – Non-Rostered
Quality Management – Non-Rostered
Rapid Response
Records Management – Non-Rostered
Recovery – Cirencester – Non-Rostered
Recovery – Gloucester – Non-Rostered
Recovery – South Stroud – Non-Rostered
Recovery Colleges – Non-Rostered
Recovery Tewkesbury – Non-Rostered
Rehab Inpatients – Honeybourne
Rehab Inpatients – Laurel House
Safeguarding – Non-Rostered
Self – Management – Non-Rostered
Sexual Health – Integrated Sexual Health
Sexual Health – Medical Sexual Health
Sexual Health – SARC
Social Inclusion – Non-Rostered
South CLDT – Non-Rostered
South CPI – Non-Rostered
SPCA
Staff bank Training
Strategy & Partnership – Non-Rostered
Stroud & Vale Community Nursing
Stroud & Vale Community OT – Non-Rostered
Surgical – Stroud Hospital
Technical IT Team – Non-Rostered
Temp Staffing – Holding Rota
Temporary Staffing Team
Theatre – Tewkesbury
Therapies – Cirencester Hospital
Therapies – Dilke Hospital
Therapies – Gloucester Community – Non-Rostered
Therapies – Lydney Hospital
Therapies – North Cotswolds Hospital
Therapies – Stroud Hospital
Therapies – Tewkesbury Hospital
Therapies – Vale Hospital
Tissue Viability Nurses – Non-Rostered
Training – Non-Rostered
Urgent Care Call Handlers
Urgent Care Clinical Management
West Memory Assessment Service – Non-Rostered
Wheelchair Assess Service – Non-Rostered
Willow Ward – Charlton Lane Hospital
Windrush Ward – Cirencester Hospital
1285 agency across multiple departments
A&E Liaison Team Gloucestershire
Abbey View Ward – Tewks Hosp
Abbey Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Cashes Green – Stroud Hospital
Chestnut Ward – Charlton Lane Hospital
Coln Ward – Cirencester Hospital
Cotswold View Ward – North Cots Hospital
Crisis – Cots & Vale
Crisis – West Glos
Dean Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
ECT – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Facilities – South Cotswolds H&C.
Forest Ward – Dilke Hospital
Greyfriars PICU – Wotton Lawn Hospital
ID Medical – WL
ID Medical Agency Available
Jubilee Ward – Stroud Hospital
Kingsholm Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
LD Berkeley House
Lydney Ward – Lydney Hospital
Medacs Agency – Wotton Lawn
MHICT – Nurses Glos & FoD – Non-Rostered
MIiU – Cirencester Hospital
MIiU – Forest Hospitals
MIiU – North Cots Hospital
MIiU – Stroud Hospital
MIIU – Telephone Triage
MIiU – Tewkesbury Hospital
MIiU – Vale
Montpellier Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Mulberry Ward – Charlton Lane Hospital
Peak View Ward – Vale Hospital
Peripatetic Team – Charlton Lane Hospital
Peripatetic Team – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Preston Ward – Stroud Hospital Formerly Jubilee.
Priory Ward – Wotton Lawn
Recovery – Gloucester – Non-Rostered
Rehab Inpatients – Honeybourne
Rehab Inpatients – Laurel House
Surgical – Stroud Hospital
Temp Staffing – Holding Rota
Thames Ward – Cirencester Hospital
Theatre – Tewkesbury
Therapies – North Cotswolds Hospital
Willow Ward – Charlton Lane Hospital
Windrush Ward – Cirencester Hospital
– Total annual expenditure on temporary workers, including a breakdown of costs by department.
For 2022/23
Agency £9,609,147
Bank £14,859,775
Cannot be broken down to department
– Total number of agency suppliers Preferred Suppliers/non-Preferred Suppliers. in your organisation’s
labour supply chain
30 many under ID Medical umbrella.

– Details of any existing Managed Service Programme or Provider MSP. and/or Vendor Management
System VMS. used to manage temporary workers:

· Name of the MSP and VMS. MSP – ID Medical
· Date the contract was awarded. – Sep 2023
· Date of contract expiration. – Sep 2024 option to extend to Sep 2026.
· Name of the government procurement framework through which the MSP and VMS were
procured. Crown

Details of any upcoming retendering or renewal processes related to your MSP and VMS contracts:

· Anticipated date for the retendering or renewal process to commence. June 2024
· Name and contact information of the person responsible for overseeing the retendering or
renewal process.
Under section 40 personal information exemption. there is no obligation to disclose staff personal
details.