Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 365-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. In the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors
Our response:
£521,785.90
You asked:
2. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
a. Spend per grade
Our response:
Consultant = £378,834.41
Specialty Doctor = £142,951.49
You asked:
b. Spend per specialty
Our response:
CYPS/CAMHS = £152,356.73
Wards & Crisis = £248,957.66
Recovery – £82,432.97
LD = £8,322.13
ED – £29,716.41
You asked:
c. Spend per agency name
Our response:
CAMHS – £60,050.81
Global Medics – £58,641.41
Key health – £97,250.88
National Locums – £22,356.14
Provide Medical – £159,995.81
Pulse – £99,739.29
United Medics – £23,791.56
You asked:
3. In the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
a. Spend per grade
b. Spend per specialty
c. Spend per agency name
Our response:
The Trust does not use off framework agencies
You asked:
4. In the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors
Our response:
£369,000
You asked:
5. Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
a. Spend per grade
b. Spend per specialty
c. Spend per internal or associated external provider
Our response:
a. Spend by grade:
Consultants (including Directors of Public Health): 88
Career/staff grades: 278
Trainee grades: 4
b. Spend per speciality:
Account Code Description 1st November-2024-31st January 2025
Bank General Med Practitioner 152
Bank Dental Practitioner 0
Bank Public Health Dental 3
Bank Consultant Gen Psychiatry 84
Bank Spec Dr Gen Int Med 30
Bank Spec Dr Gen Psychiatry 89
Bank GPwSI Heart Failure 7
Bank Core Trainee Gen Psych 4
c. Spend per internal or associated external provider:
Internal £369,000
You asked:
6. Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025
Our response:
The Trust holds pay budget for substantive posts and not for agency or bank shifts.
You asked:
7. Please confirm the name of the framework used for the supply of locum doctors in your trust.
Our response:
HealthTrust Europe
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.