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Freedom of Information request 400-2022

Response published: 1 January 2024

FOI Request

Please can you answer the following 3 questions: 1. From September 2022 to November 2022, please list the wards/departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies in your Adult Nursing, Mental Health, Community Hospitals? 2. Please provide a list of off-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 6 months. 3. Please provide a breakdown of the number of shifts covered by each off-framework agency and their average hourly charge rate for the following disciplines: Registered General Nurses Adult & Paediatric., Registered Mental Health Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 400-2022

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.

1. From September 2022 to November 2022, please list the wards/departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies in your Adult Nursing, Mental Health, Community Hospitals?

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
Forest Ward – Dilke Hospital
Greyfriars PICU – Wotton Lawn Hospital
Jubilee Ward – Stroud Hospital
Kingsholm Ward – Wotton Lawn Hospital
LD Berkeley House
Lydney Ward – Lydney Hospital
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
Priory Ward – Wotton Lawn
Rehab Inpatients – Honeybourne
Rehab Inpatients – Laurel House
Surgical – Stroud Hospital
Theatre – Tewkesbury
Willow Ward – Charlton Lane Hospital
Windrush Ward – Cirencester Hospital

2. Please provide a list of off-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 6 months.
Medgen and TNS

3. Please provide a breakdown of the number of shifts covered by each off-framework agency and their average hourly charge rate for the following disciplines:

– Registered General Nurses Adult & Paediatric. 221
– Registered Mental Health Nurses and Healthcare Assistants 133 + 743

TNS Nurse average £74.60
Medgen Nurse average £59.20
TNS HCA average £46.98
Medgen HCA average £40.32