Agency Spend 2023-24 On/Off Framework

Reference: 24-25134

Date response sent: 15/07/2024

Details of enquiry

Please provide:

a. the trust’s agency cap in 2023-24,

b. the trust’s agency cap for 2024-25

2. The proportion and value of total agency spend in 2023-24 that was

a. framework

b. and off framework

3a. The value of spending on medical agency staff in 2023-24, and

b. the trust’s total medical workforce spend in 2023-24.

4. In the years 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22 and 2020-21, off-framework expenditure broken down by

a. total for each year,

b. for all staff types (eg, registered nurses, locum doctors);

c. numbers of individual staff in each of these categories, and

d. the total spend for each category.

Please provide:

£3,077k

a. the trust’s agency cap in 2023-24,

£2,531k

b. the trust’s agency cap for 2024-25

£1,368

2. The proportion and value of total agency spend in 2023-24 that was

a. framework

100%

b. and off framework

Nil

3a. The value of spending on medical agency staff in 2023-24, and

£76k

b. the trust’s total medical workforce spend in 2023-24.

Total medical staff on payroll in 2023/24 was £5,831k

4. In the years 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22 and 2020-21, off-framework expenditure broken down by

a. total for each year,

b. for all staff types (eg, registered nurses, locum doctors);

c. numbers of individual staff in each of these categories, and

d. the total spend for each category.

We do not hold our data in this way, and are unable to confirm the Trust’s response to all parts of this question.

Off-framework expenditure in the past appears to have been zero, or otherwise very minimal, but this cannot be confirmed.