Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 134-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
Please can you provide the below information:
1. In the period 1st April 2025 to 30th June 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
- Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
- Spend per band
- Spend per specialty
- Spend per agency name
2. In the period 1st April 2025 to 30th June 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
- Total trust spend with off framework agencies for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
- Spend per band
- Spend per specialty
- Spend per agency name
3. In the period 1st April 2025 to 30th June 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
- Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
- Spend per band
- Spend per specialty
- Spend per agency name
Our response to questions 1 to 3:
We cannot break our supplier spend by staff type, band or speciality and expenditure is based on invoice date rather than shift booked date.
| 1st April 2025 to 30th June 2025 £ |
|||
| Thornbury Nursing Sevices | Off Framework | 43,442.26 | |
| Medacs Healthcare Services PLC | On Framework | 57,506.80 | |
| ID Medical Group Ltd | On Framework | 1,032,132.80 | |
| 1,133,081.86 | |||
| Mostly nursing | Off Framework | 43,442.26 | |
| On Framework | 1,089,639.60 | ||
| 1,133,081.86 | Based on invoice date | ||
| Registered nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff | Agency | 258,339.57 | |
| Registered nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff | Bank | 1,841,255.24 | |
| 2,099,594.81 | Includes accruals |
You asked:
4. Please confirm the total number of nursing shifts booked during this period for all agency nursing only, no bank staff nursing to be included (1st April 2025 to 30th June 2025)
Our response:
| Agency | 1002 |
| Off Framework | 60 |
| Grand Total | 1062 |
You asked:
5. Please confirm the total number of nursing shifts booked above NHSE capped rates during this period for all agency nursing only, no bank staff nursing to be included (1st April 2025 to 30th June 2025)
Our response:
74
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
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