FOI/25/412

Request

Between 2015 and 2025

 

1. How many nurse shifts were filled by agency staff? = please specify by month, per agency and department (I.e. ward, theatre etc)

2. How many doctor shifts were filled by agency staff? = please specify by month, per agency and department (I.e. ward, theatre etc)

3. What was the total trust spend per a month for each agency supplier?

Response

We would only be able to provide from 28^th June 2021 as this is when Litmus took over the Temporary Staffing contract.

Between 2015 and 2025

1 and 2 How many nurse shifts were filled by agency staff? = please specify by month, per agency and department (I.e. ward, theatre etc)

Nursing & Midwifery Total Agency Shifts

 

Jun – Dec 2021 - 14,855

Jan – Dec 2022 - 27,379

Jan – Dec 2023 - 25,999

Jan – Dec 2024 - 13,982

Jan – Feb 2025 - 767

Medical & Dental Total Agency Shifts

 Jun – Dec 2021 - 502

Jan – Dec 2022 - 1,741

Jan – Dec 2023 - 1,850

Jan – Dec 2024 - 1,202

Jan – Feb 2025 - 66

 

3 What was the total trust spend per a month for each agency supplier?

 Section 43 Response

 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 [Question 3] would promote accountability and transparency by showing how CLCH receive and spend public money. 

Factors in favour of non-disclosure: 

• Disclosing the [Question 3] would undermine our competitive position in the marketplace. 
• Disclosing the [Question 3] would compromise the commercial activities of CLCH, as it would compromise its ability to negotiate competitive future deals.
• Disclosure of the [Question 3], 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.