Freedom of Information Request – Ref: 180-2024
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
I am interested to understand how you ensure more efficient financial and HR performance management of your Trust. Could you let me know if you use any particular software to support the financial and HR activities/tasks in the table below.
Our response:
| Category | Activities | Tasks | What software/tools do you use to support this task? | How much did you spend in FY 23/24 on this software/tool? | If not currently using software/tools, do you plan to adopt specific software/tools to support these activities in FY 25/26? |
| Finance performance and management | Enterprise planning and budgeting | Budgeting and financial planning | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No |
| Workforce planning | None | N/A | No | ||
| Strategic modelling | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No | ||
| Account reconciliation | Reconciliation compliance and transaction matching | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No | |
| Financial Consolidation and Close | Financial consolidation | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No | |
| Close process and management | Excel and Centros (ledger system) | Part of whole Microsoft / Centros package | No | ||
| Custom calculations | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No | ||
| Reporting | Management reporting and dashboards | Tableau | £61,200 | No | |
| Financial reporting | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No | ||
| Profitability and Cost management | Profitability and Cost management | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No | |
| Tax reporting | Tax reporting | Excel and Making Tax Digital Module in Centros | Part of whole Microsoft / Centros package | MDT module in Centros | |
| Enterprise Data Management | Enterprise Data Management | Excel | Part of whole Microsoft package | No | |
| HR | Workforce planning | Workforce planning | Nil | Nil | TBC |
| Rostering | Rostering | Allocate/RLDatix | CiC | ||
| Recruitment | Recruitment | Trac | CiC | ||
| Expenses | Expenses | Easy | Free |
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.