Recruitment expenditure and agency staffing for HCJ staff from 2021-2025

Request 735511813

Hello, 

My request is as follows: 

Health and Community Services (HCS) 

Subject: FOI Request – Recruitment Expenditure and Agency Staffing 

Please provide the following information for the Department of Health and Community Services (HCS) for each of the last four financial years (2021-22 to 2024-25): 

1. The total annual expenditure on recruitment, broken down by: 

• Agency staffing (including master-vendor and any other agency providers) 
• Advertising and marketing 
• Relocation packages or bonuses 
• External recruitment services or headhunting fees 
• Any other recruitment-related costs (please specify). 
  

2. The number of agency workers engaged in each of those years, broken down by role type (e.g. nurses, doctors, allied health, admin). 

3. Details of any master-vendor or framework agreements for recruitment or agency staffing, 

including: 

• Supplier name 
• Start and end dates of the contract 
• Total value of the contract (or approximate annual value). 
  

Thank you for your help and time, 

Kind Regards 

Response 

Much of the information requested has been provided in previous Freedom of Information responses, or published through other channels, such as the States Assembly website. Workforce and finance data for the whole Department are also published in the Health and Care Jersey (formerly Health and Community Services) Advisory Board papers on www.gov.je and are available from June 2023: 

Health and Care Jersey Services Board

Where information to address any part of this request is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied, and links are provided. 

Health and Care Jersey does not follow the fiscal year observed in the NHS. All data relate to calendar years. 

1 

Annual cost data for agency staff across clinical professions (including links to data already published) can be found in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in August 2025: 

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=8804

Details of monthly and annual agency staff spend are also included in the Finance Reports within the Health and Care Jersey Advisory Board papers: 

Health and Care Jersey Services Board​

Other recruitment-related expenditure is detailed below. From 2023, it isn’t possible to report the breakdown of costs for recruitment advertising or relocation from the financial records held without extensive data interrogation at transaction level, which would exceed the timescales prescribed in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore, Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Total annual expenditure for 2023 and 2024 is provided. 

​2

Details of agency staff engaged across clinical professions (including links to data already published and limitations of the records held) can be found in the August 2025 Freedom of Information response referenced and linked above. 

As noted in a Freedom of Information response of July 2024, Non-Medical / Non-Clinical agency staff are not managed through a central team, and as such, information on the number of workers engaged is not available to report from a central record. Identifying the data would require manual analysis of all team or department rosters across the Department and creation of new datasets. 

A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to create new datasets nor manipulate existing datasets in order to respond to Freedom of Information requests. Furthermore, the time necessary to identify and extract the data requested from the records that are available would exceed the timescales prescribed in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore, Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

3 

Information on Health and Care Jersey’s agency staff recruitment arrangements and processes have been supplied in response to a number of previous Freedom of Information requests, as linked in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in February 2025: 

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=8228

Details of the current contract end date for the Locum medical staff Master Vendor can be found in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in June 2025: 

gov.je/government/freedomofinformation/pages/foi.aspx?ReportID=8603

As noted in a Freedom of Information response of November 2024, as a self-governing jurisdiction, Jersey’s hospital facilities sit outside of the NHS, and Health and Care Jersey is not required to comply with NHS Frameworks or models for agency staff use. 

Articles applied 

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive 

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.  

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article. 

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or 

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them. 

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means 

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge. 

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.