Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 370-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Does your Trust have a formal policy on medicines waste reduction?
Our response:
No
You asked:
2. Have any sustainability or environmental impact assessments been conducted regarding your Trust’s pharmaceutical waste
Our response:
No
You asked:
3. Do you currently employ any staff specifically to support medicines waste?
Our response:
No
You asked:
4. How often does your organisation report on the management of waste (including cost) at Board level?Annually/Quarterly/Monthly/Never/Other (please state)
Our response:
Never
You asked:
5. For each of the hospitals in your Trust, what is the value of medication you have had to waste in the last 2 financial years? This the value of medication that was the property of the hospital at the point it was wasted, i.e. the cost of medication that expired before int could be used.
Our response:
The Trust does not hold the information requested
You asked:
6. For each hospital in your Trust, what has been your total drug spend over the past two financial years?
Our response:
| 2023/24 | 2024/25 | |
| (10 months) | ||
| Tewkesbury | 100,880 | 86,944 |
| Cirencester | 153,780 | 114,164 |
| Forest of Dean (was Dilke and Lydney) | 117,952 | 49,261 |
| Stroud | 118,277 | 91,274 |
| North Cots | 63,712 | 65,261 |
| Vale | 45,936 | 40,149 |
| 600,537 | 447,053 |
You asked:
7. For the last two financial years combined what is the drug that you have wasted the most of, and what was the total cost?
Our response:
The Trust does not hold the information requested
You asked:
8. Have any sustainability or environmental impact assessments been conducted regarding your Trust’s pharmaceutical waste
Our response:
No
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.