FOI/25/151

Request

1. Please provide the total agency workforce spend for the specified period, broken down into the following categories for the period of 1^st of January 2024 –  31^st of June 2024.

Medical Staff

Nursing Staff

Allied Health Professionals (AHP)

 

If the answers could be given in the following format, it’d be greatly appreciated.

Total agency spend for January 2024 – June 2024

Medical -  500k

Nursing -  2.7m

AHP -  £600k

 

2. Please provide the total agency workforce spend for the period of 1^st of January 2023 –  31^st of December 2023 broken down into the following categories:

Medical Staff

Nursing Staff

AHP Staff

Please can it be represented in the following format:

Total agency spend for January 2023 – December 2023

Medical -  1.3m

Nursing -  7m

AHP -  1.6m

 

3. I would also like to request spend per agency, broken down by category (Medical, Nursing and AHP) if possible as above for the period of 1^st of January 2024 until 31^st of June 2024

Please format this however you wish. – Commercially sensitive – Section 43 applied, see below:

 

Section 43 – Commercial Interest

 

Section 43(2) exempts information whose disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person (an individual, a company, the public authority itself or any other legal entity). Disclosure of the requested information could prejudice pending or future negotiations the CLCH may be subject to.

 

This is a qualified exemption under the FOIA, which means that consideration must also be given to whether in all the circumstances of the case the public interest favouring disclosure is greater than the public interest in maintaining the exemption. The public interest means what is in the best interests of the public not what is of interest to the public.

 

Factors in favour of discloser:  

 

Disclosing information relating to the value of the rent charged would benefit the public interest by encouraging transparency. 

Disclosing information relating to [spend per agency, broken down by category (Medical, Nursing and AHP) if possible as above for the period of 1^st of January 2024 until 31^st of June 2024] would promote accountability and transparency by showing how CLCH receive and spend public money. 

 

Factors in favour of non-disclosure: 

 

Disclosing the [spend per agency, broken down by category (Medical, Nursing and AHP) if possible as above for the period of 1^st of January 2024 until 31^st of June 2024] would undermine our competitive position in the marketplace. 

Disclosing the [spend per agency, broken down by category (Medical, Nursing and AHP) if possible as above for the period of 1^st of January 2024 until 31^st of June 2024] would compromise the commercial activities of CLCH, as it would compromise its ability to negotiate competitive future deals.

Disclosure of the [spend per agency, broken down by category (Medical, Nursing and AHP) if possible as above for the period of 1^st of January 2024 until 31^st of June 2024], is likely to lead to reputational and financial damage which would affect future investments and have a knock-on effect to the money raised for the health economy.

 

 

Having considered the above, we maintain that the factors in favour of upholding the exemption outweigh the factors in favour of disclosure. Therefore, the balance of the public interest test is greater in maintaining the exemption available under section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.