FOI/2025/26/331

Your request:

 

In the period 1st October 2025 to 31st December 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

 

In the period 1st October 2025 to 31st December 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

 

In the period 1st October 2025 to 31st December 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

 

 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 October 2025 to 31st December 2025)

 

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 October 2025 to 31st December 2025)

 

Please confirm the framework you utilise for nursing agency staff.

 

 

Our response:

 

Please see below spend data for overall Nursing from 1^st October to 31^st December 2025.

 

0 Off Framework Agency Spend

 

Framework Agency Spend

Band            Spend

Band 7          £4,162

 

Bank Spend

Band           Spend

Band 2         £122k

Band 3         £482k

Band 5         £542k

Band 6         £340k

Band 7         £512k

Band 8a        £14k

 

Between this time there were 16 Agency Nursing shifts and 0 were over the cap rates.