Freedom of Information Request – Ref: 208-2024
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
– Please provide the names of framework agencies you have used to fill your permanent roles between April 2024 and October 2024.
Our response:
ID medical, managed agency service provider
You asked:
– Please provide the names of NON framework agencies you have you used to fill roles between April 2024 and October 2024.
Our response:
Thornbury Nursing Services
You asked:
– For each agency, can you specify the types of roles (e.g., nursing, doctors, AHP positions) they were contracted to recruit?
Our response:
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC) do not utilise agencies for any recruitment into GHC, only as temporary agency workers for ad hoc shifts
You asked:
– Please provide a breakdown of the number of positions filled through each agency by job role and department.
Our response:
Not applicable
You asked:
– What is the expenditure on international agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 for Doctors?
– What is the expenditure on international agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 for Nurses?
– What is the expenditure on NON-International agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 for Doctors?
– What is the expenditure on NON-International agency recruitment projects for permanent positions between April 2024 and October 2024 for Nurses?
– What criteria does the Trust use to decide to engage an external agency for permanent recruitment?
Our response:
GHC unable to provide responses to these questions as we do not utilise agencies for any recruitment into GHC, only as temporary agency workers for ad hoc shifts
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.