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Freedom of Information request 269-2023

Response published: 8 November 2023

FOI Request

I’d like to request information for this financial year 2023/24. for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. I’m requesting this information under the Freedom of Information Act because I couldn’t find it in your relevant Integrated Care Board’s ICB. published papers. We had sent FOI requests to the relevant ICBs but were told we would need to send FOI requests to NHS trusts. My request is as follows: Firstly, please could you tell me the NHS agency/locum spending cap/ceiling agreed at the start of this financial year. Secondly, please could you send me the following data from the financial plans submitted at the start of the year, giving the planned positions for each month from M1 to M12: 1. Trust financial position revenue expenditure. a. Planned surplus/deficit b. Planned expenditure 2. Workforce expenditure a. Planned agency/locum spend b. Planned bank spend c. Planned total staff expenditure 3. Efficiency savings a. Planned efficiency savings Finally, please could you send me the following data for each month of this financial year to date: 1. Trust financial position a. Actual surplus/deficit, and forecast outturn for M12 b. Actual expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12 2. Workforce expenditure a. Actual agency/locum spend, and forecast outturn for M12 b. Actual bank spend, and forecast outturn for M12 c. Actual spend relating to industrial action, and forecast outturn for M12 d. Actual total staff expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12 3. Efficiency savings a. Achieved efficiency savings, and forecast outturn for M12 4. Prescribing costs a. Actual spend relating to prescribing, and forecast outturn for M12 I would appreciate it if you could return the data in a computer-readable format such as CSV or XLSX. 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.

FOI Response

I’d like to request information for this financial year 2023/24. for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
I’m requesting this information under the Freedom of Information Act because I couldn’t find it in your relevant Integrated Care Board’s ICB. published papers.
We had sent FOI requests to the relevant ICBs but were told we would need to send FOI requests to NHS trusts.
My request is as follows:
Firstly, please could you tell me the NHS agency/locum spending cap/ceiling agreed at the start of this financial year.
Secondly, please could you send me the following data from the financial plans submitted at the start of the year, giving the planned positions for each month from M1 to M12:
1. Trust financial position revenue expenditure.
a. Planned surplus/deficit
b. Planned expenditure
2. Workforce expenditure
a. Planned agency/locum spend
b. Planned bank spend
c. Planned total staff expenditure
3. Efficiency savings
a. Planned efficiency savings
Finally, please could you send me the following data for each month of this financial year to date:
1. Trust financial position
a. Actual surplus/deficit, and forecast outturn for M12
b. Actual expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12
2. Workforce expenditure
a. Actual agency/locum spend, and forecast outturn for M12
b. Actual bank spend, and forecast outturn for M12
c. Actual spend relating to industrial action, and forecast outturn for M12
d. Actual total staff expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12
3. Efficiency savings
a. Achieved efficiency savings, and forecast outturn for M12
4. Prescribing costs
a. Actual spend relating to prescribing, and forecast outturn for M12
I would appreciate it if you could return the data in a computer-readable format such as CSV or XLSX.
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.