Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 170-2026
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Trust status
a) Please state your Trusts’ full name (i.e. no acronyms)
Our response:
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
You asked:
b) Please state whether you are an:
• Acute Foundation Trust
• Acute Non-Foundation Trust
• Mental Health Foundation Trust
• Mental Health Non-Foundation Trust
• Community Foundation Trust
• Community Non-Foundation Trust
• Integrated Acute & Community Trust
• Specialist Trust
• Care Trust
Our response:
Mental Health and Community Foundation Trust.
You asked:
2. Accessibility of Performance Data
a) Does the Trust make individual PID-level staff appraisal and mandatory training compliance data directly accessible to staff via local intranet or accessible platforms (such as Microsoft SharePoint, local intranet dashboards, PowerBI hubs, Tableau hubs, or shared drives)? (yes/no)
Our response:
Yes, Tableau.
You asked:
If yes, please provide:
b) The month and year the appraisal and training report(s) were implemented on the accessible platform in the format of mmm-yyyy.
Our response:
March 2023.
You asked:
c) The generic name of the platform you use (such as Microsoft SharePoint, local intranet, PowerBI hubs, Tableau hubs, or shared drives)
Our response:
Tableau.
You asked:
3. Access Permissions & Restriction Protocols
If the reports/dashboards identified in Question 1 exist, please confirm how access to this person-identifiable compliance data is governed:
a) Is the information visible to all corporate network users uniformly (yes/no)?
Our response:
Yes.
You asked:
b) Is the information visible to all network users uniformly (i.e. all staff, irrespective of role) (yes/no)?
Our response:
Yes
You asked:
c) Is access restricted based on specific user profile permissions? (yes/no)
o If restricted, please state the criteria used (e.g., restricted by individual Username, restricted exclusively to users with Line Manager/ Supervisor status, or restricted by Departmental/Directorate boundaries).
Our response:
Not applicable
You asked:
d) Other – If ‘other’, please provide a brief description of how this is governed.
Our response:
Not applicable.
You asked:
4. Recorded KPI Impact Data
If the reports/dashboards identified in Question 1 exist, to understand the operational impact of making these reports available, please provide the Trust’s monthly KPI compliance rates to two decimal places (0.00%) for
a) staff appraisals
Our response:
86.2%.
You asked:
b) mandatory training (either ‘core’ training or all training required – whichever is easier to supply)
Our response:
96.3%.
You asked:
• The end-of-financial-year compliance (%) figures for the March before the platform’s implementation.
Our response:
85%.
You asked:
• The end-of-financial-year compliance (%) figures for the subsequent three Marches after platform implementation (if implementation is less than three complete financial years, please provide the end of financial year March figures up to March 2026).
Our response:
Appraisals – March 2023 = 85% March 2024 = 87% March 2025 = 88% March 2026 = 89%
Mandatory Training – March 2023 = 93.65% March 2024 = 94.4% March 2025 = 95% March 2026 = 96%
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.