Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 296-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. In the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum 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:
a. Spend per grade:
| £k | |
| GP | 81 |
| Consultant | 108 |
| Speciality Dr | 60 |
| Total | 249 |
| N.B. Figures above do not include accounting adjustment (accruals etc). | |
b. Spend per specialty – We do not hold the information in a way that can be split by speciality
c. Spend per agency name – ID Medical Group Limited
You asked:
2. In the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors
Our response:
£00.00
You asked:
3. In the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors
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 per grade:
| ID Medical | Internal Bank | Total | |
| £k | £k | £k | |
| GP | 0 | 678 | 678 |
| Consultant | 101 | 170 | 271 |
| Specialty Dr | 87 | 53 | 140 |
| Dental Practitioner | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 188 | 908 | 1096 |
b. Spend per specialty – We do not hold the information in a way that can be split by speciality
c. Spend per internal or associated external provider – both Internal and ID Medical Group Limited
You asked:
4. Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st August 2025 to 31st October 2025
Our response:
None, budgets are not held at Bank or Agency level but a substantive posts.
You asked:
5. Please confirm the name of the framework used for the supply of locum doctors in your trust.
Our response:
Workforce Alliance.
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.

