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Freedom of Information request Agency Nursing Shifts

Response published: 16 May 2025

FOI Request

• Can you confirm your head of procurement name, phone number and email address? • How many agency nursing shifts have your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for between 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025? • Please provide a breakdown of the amount of shifts per ward or department where Thornbury Nursing Services were used between 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025? • Please name any other OFF CONTRACT SUPPLIERS who have been utilised by the Trust between 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025 above the NHS Improvement + 50% caps and how many shifts each of these agencies have filled. • If for any reason you are unable to supply data up until 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025 please provide from 1st December 2024 and 1st Feb 2025? • Can you confirm your head of procurement name, phone number and email address? • Can you confirm medical director name, phone number and email address for Psychiatry?

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 028-2025

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

You asked:

1. How many agency nursing shifts have your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for between 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025?

Our response:

42

You asked:

2. Please provide a breakdown of the amount of shifts per ward or department where Thornbury Nursing Services were used between 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025?

Our response:

FOI 028-2025

You asked:

3. Please name any other OFF CONTRACT SUPPLIERS who have been utilised by the Trust between 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025 above the NHS Improvement + 50% caps and how many shifts each of these agencies have filled.

Our response:

Nil

You asked:

4. If for any reason you are unable to supply data up until 1st Jan 2025 and 1st March 2025 please provide from 1st December 2024 and 1st Feb 2025?

Our response:

Not applicable

You asked:

5. Can you confirm your head of procurement name, phone number and email address?

Our response:

Contact details of Procurement Shared Services:

Telephone: 0300 422 2666

Email address: ghn-tr.procurement1@nhs.net

Having carried out a public interest test, we apply the exemption, S(2) 36 – prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs.

You asked:

6. Can you confirm medical director name, phone number and email address for Psychiatry?

Our response:

Kerry Jones

0300 421 8100

Having carried out a public interest test, we apply the exemption, S(2) 36 – prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs.

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.