Dear Freedom of Information Team,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 request: Early Intervention in Psychosis medical workforce and caseload
I am undertaking a benchmarking exercise concerning Early Intervention in Psychosis services and would be grateful if you could provide the following recorded information held by the Trust. Please provide the information as at 30 September 2026, or the nearest available reporting date where information for that date is not held and use the attached spreadsheet for your response.
Please provide a separate response for each Early Intervention in Psychosis service or locality team operated by the Trust. Where the Trust operates several locality teams, please also provide a Trust-wide total.
1. Service structure
For each Early Intervention in Psychosis service or locality team, please provide:
• a. The name of the service or locality team.
• b. The geographical area covered.
• c. The population covered by the service, if held.
• d. Whether the service includes provision for people with an At-Risk Mental State, also referred to as ARMS or a clinical high-risk mental state.
2. Medical workforce (excluding ARMS Service where applicable/able)
For each service, please provide the amount of medical time allocated specifically to the First Episode Psychosis element of the service, excluding all ARMS activity.
Please provide the same breakdown by:
• a. Medical grade or role.
• b. Funded WTE.
• c. WTE in post.
• d. Programmed activities or sessions per week, where held.
• e. Substantive, temporary and vacant WTE.
Where medical staff work across both First Episode Psychosis and ARMS and the Trust does not hold a formal WTE split, please provide:
• a. The recorded allocation of programmed activities or sessions between the two pathways; or
• b. The percentage allocation used for workforce, job-planning, budgetary or operational purposes.
If no formal allocation is recorded, please state that the information is not held rather than estimating the split.
3. Caseload
For each Early Intervention in Psychosis service or locality team, please provide the number of people on the active caseload at the same snapshot date, broken down as follows:
• a. Total active EIS caseload
Please also provide the Trust-wide total where more than one EIS locality team is operated.
5. Definitions and date
Please state:
• a. The snapshot or reporting date used.
• b. The Trust’s definition of an active EIS caseload.
• c. Whether the workforce figures represent funded establishment, staff in post or both.
• d. Whether any medical workforce is shared with another mental health service and, if so, the proportion allocated to EIS.
Preferred format
I would be grateful if the information could be provided electronically in Excel (using the attached template), with one tab for each EIS service or locality team and separate columns for each medical grade, workforce measure and caseload category.
Scope clarification: I am seeking service-level aggregate workforce and caseload information only. I am not requesting patient-level information or personal information relating to individual members of staff.
If information for 30 September 2026 is not held, please provide information for the nearest available date and identify that date.
If any part of this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit, please provide advice and assistance under section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 on how the request could be refined. Please prioritise questions 2, 3 and 4 if the full request cannot be answered within the cost limit.
Yours faithfully,
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 326-2026
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
Please provide a separate response for each Early Intervention in Psychosis service or locality team operated by the Trust. Where the Trust operates several locality teams, please also provide a Trust-wide total.
1. Service structure
For each Early Intervention in Psychosis service or locality team, please provide:
• a. The name of the service or locality team.
• b. The geographical area covered.
• c. The population covered by the service, if held.
• d. Whether the service includes provision for people with an At-Risk Mental State, also referred to as ARMS or a clinical high-risk mental state.
2. Medical workforce (excluding ARMS Service where applicable/able)
For each service, please provide the amount of medical time allocated specifically to the First Episode Psychosis element of the service, excluding all ARMS activity.
Please provide the same breakdown by:
a. Medical grade or role.
b. Funded WTE.
c. WTE in post.
d. Programmed activities or sessions per week, where held.
e. Substantive, temporary and vacant WTE.
Where medical staff work across both First Episode Psychosis and ARMS and the Trust does not hold a formal WTE split, please provide:
a. The recorded allocation of programmed activities or sessions between the two pathways; or
b. The percentage allocation used for workforce, job-planning, budgetary or operational purposes.
If no formal allocation is recorded, please state that the information is not held rather than estimating the split.
3. Caseload
For each Early Intervention in Psychosis service or locality team, please provide the number of people on the active caseload at the same snapshot date, broken down as follows:
- Total active EIS caseload
Please also provide the Trust-wide total where more than one EIS locality team is operated.
4. Definitions and date
Please state:
• a. The snapshot or reporting date used.
• b. The Trust’s definition of an active EIS caseload.
• c. Whether the workforce figures represent funded establishment, staff in post or both.
• d. Whether any medical workforce is shared with another mental health service and, if so, the proportion allocated to EIS.
Our response:
EISBenchmarkingSpreadsheet-Oct26 AT working with medics
Please note:
Medical Staff – no vacancies
Resident Doctors – vary according to placement and nature of placement so cannot say if they work in areas other than EIS.
CAMHS Consultant – ad hoc so not listed by team
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.
