Agency Spend

1.    Spending on agency staff (excluding bank staff) in 2023-24, b) the trust’s agency cap in 2023-24, and c) the trust’s agency cap for 2024-25

a)    Total agency 2023/24: £8,161,319.97

b)    As per NHSe cap

c)    As per NHSe cap

2.    The proportion and value of total agency spend in 2023-24 that was a) framework and b) off framework

a)    100% on framework

b)    0% off framework

3.    a) The value of spending on medical agency staff in 2023-24, and b) the trust’s total medical workforce spend in 2023-24.

a)    £2,703,265.91

b)    £93,174,404.30

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.

No off framework spend in any of the years requested aside from 2021/23 – £1,040,18 – one individual in registered nursing