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Dear FOI Team,

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please provide data for the period 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024, unless otherwise specified. Straight to Test (STT) Colonoscopy Does the Trust provide Straight to Test (STT) colonoscopy services for the suspected cancer referral pathway? If STT, are they spoken to first in a clinic appointment or are they sent straight to colonoscopy without discussion?

Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) Pathway Does the Trust have a specific iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) Faster Diagnostic Pathway (FDP)?

If not, please confirm which pathway IDA patients are referred to (e.g., Lower GI, Upper GI, Gastroenterology, or Colorectal). If yes, which speciality manages this? Number of referrals to the IDA pathway (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024)

Number of colorectal cancers diagnosed via the IDA pathway (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024). Number of IDA pathway patients seen by the Colorectal team (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024)

Number of IDA pathway patients seen by the Gastroenterology team (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024)

Do patients with IDA with positive FIT go to the IDA pathway or the lower GI pathway?

Lower GI Suspected Cancer Pathway Total number of Lower GI suspected cancer referrals (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024).

Number of cancers diagnosed on the Lower GI suspected cancer referral pathway, categorised by site-specific cancer, including (but not limited to): Colorectal Small bowel NTE (Neuroendocrine) Gastric Oesophageal

Any other relevant categories Colorectal Surgery Activity Total number of referrals to Colorectal Surgery (not including lower GI cancer referrals) (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2024).

Average waiting time for a Lower GI 2-week-wait (2WW) referral to first appointment.

Average waiting time for an urgent outpatient referral to Colorectal Surgery.

Average waiting time for a non-urgent outpatient referral to Colorectal Surgery. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

How many patients were diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) through the Lower GI Faster Diagnostic Pathway?

If any of the requested information is not held, please confirm this.

I would be grateful if the data could be provided in electronic format.

Thank you for your assistance. I look forward to your response within the statutory FOI timeframe.

Kind regards

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

I would be grateful if you could provide the number of pregnancies recorded for women whose address was GL12 8DB (HMP Eastwood Park) for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024.

I would be grateful if you could also provide the number of pregnancies resulting in spontaneous miscarriage recorded for women whose address was GL12 8DB (HMP Eastwood Park) for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024.

If possible, I would greatly appreciate it if this could be provided in a spreadsheet format.
If providing all this information is not possible under the appropriate time limit, before exercising Section 12 I would ask you to recognise Section 45 of the act also requires you to advise how they can bring the request within the acceptable limit, so as not to breach Section 16 (advice and assistance).
Ahead of time, I would like to make clear I consent to any refinements to this request so that some information may be provided.

On behalf of Merck, the healthcare company, we are currently conducting national research into access to MRI diagnostics for people with neurological conditions across NHS Trusts in England. The results will be used to identify best practice and key learnings to inform policy and planning.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following recorded information for your Trust. Where data is unavailable, please indicate that, and if only partial data is available, please provide what you can.

For your convenience, you can provide your answers in the tables below.

Requested information

Are your local GPs able to request neurology MRI scans at your Trust? Yes/No
Do admitted neurology patients have access to MRI 7 days a week? Yes/No
What % of neurology patients have their MRI test within 14 days from request from the most recent data available?
What % of neurology patients receive their MRI results within 14 days of the test from the most recent data available?
What % of neurology patients received a diagnosis within 6 weeks from the time the diagnostic test was sent from the most recent data available?
How many MRI scanners are there in your trust? For any of these scanners, please state the year of installation and the TESLA rating (1.5 TESLA, 3 TESLA, 7 TESLA). See table below
How many neuro-radiologists do you have in your trust?
Is there access to MRI and specialist neuroradiological opinion 24 hours a day? Yes/No
MRI scanners table
Scanner Year of installation Tesla rating
1
2
3
…
Example:
1 2017 1.5
2 2023 3

Notes
• If any of the questions is unclear, please not hesitate to get in touch
• If the Trust already publishes some or all of this information (e.g., in a disclosure log), a link or reference to the disclosure entry will suffice
• If the Trust does not hold this information in the requested level of detail, please provide any available version or summary, and indicate the level (e.g., Trust-wide totals of TESLA 1.5/3/7 scanners if you don’t have this detail per scanner)
• If some information is exempt under the Act, please specify the relevant exemption(s) and provide all non-exempt parts.

(20 October 2025)

I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information relating to surgical delays caused by equipment or instrument availability within your Trust.

This request aims to understand how logistical and operational factors — rather than clinical causes — may contribute to surgery scheduling challenges across the NHS.

Please provide data for 2024, and any available for 2025 to date for the following:

1️⃣ Surgical delays
• The number of operations delayed or cancelled where the recorded cause included:
o Missing or incomplete surgical instrument sets
o Late arrival of loan sets or consignment trays from suppliers
o Equipment or instrument sterilisation or cleaning faults
o Missing documentation, instructions for use (IFUs), or traceability records
If your Trust does not record these categories specifically, please provide the nearest equivalent data (e.g. “equipment failure,” “instrument availability,” or “theatre preparation delays”).

2️⃣ Delay duration
• Where available, please provide the average or total delay time (e.g. hours or days) attributed to these causes.

3️⃣ Reporting system
• If available, please confirm which system(s) your Trust uses to record and categorise surgical delays (e.g. Datix, ORMIS, Bluespier, or another).

4️⃣ Internal reports
• If available, please share any summaries, reports, or audits produced since 2023 that discuss equipment-related surgical delays, loan set management, or theatre efficiency
If it is not possible to provide all of this data within the cost or time limits set by Section 12 of the Act, please provide as much of the information as possible and advise how I may refine my request to bring it within scope.
If certain data is unavailable or not centrally recorded, please confirm this and provide any partial or relevant information held.

I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to also request the following information:

1. The number of patients referred to your Trust for Overactive Bladder (OAB) in each of the past five calendar years, from 2020 to 2025 (year to date). Please include both internal referrals within the Trust and external referrals from primary care or other organisations.

Please provide the information broken down by calendar year.

2. The number of patients treated for OAB using each of the following modalities in each calendar year from 2020 to 2025 (year to date):
a. Intradetrusor botulinum toxin (Botox) injections
b. Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) or tibial nerve stimulation (TNS)

Please provide this data broken down by year and treatment type.

If available, please also include whether any patients received both treatments concurrently or sequentially.

I was hoping you could answer the following queries in relation to provision of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).

1. Does the Trust provide TMS to patients in its own TMS clinics?

2. In the last 24 months, has the Trust funded TMS for any patients in external (private or neighbouring NHS) clinics?

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the Endoscopy Traceability software currently in use within the Trust.

Could you please provide the following details:

Software Name and Supplier
The name of the current Endoscopy Traceability software in use and the details of the supplier.

Duration of Use
How long has the Trust been using this Traceability software?

Contract Start Date
The start date of the current contract for the Endoscopy Traceability software.

Contract End Date
The end date of the current contract.

Current Annual Contract Value
The Annual value of the current contract.

Procurement Framework (if applicable)
If relevant, please provide details of the procurement framework used to award the contract.

Who is responsible for managing the Endoscopy Traceability software?
Which service does this software fall under.

What machines are currently being used by your Endoscopy department?

What EWD cabinets or sterilisers are being used in your Endoscopy service.

As part of a MSc Midwifery dissertation, I am investigating the number of Consultant Midwives/Consultant Midwifery Posts in the UK (including the Channel Islands and Isle of Man). While Consultant Midwives (CMs) will primarily be employed within maternity services, an increasing number of Ambulance and Community/Mental Health organisations are utilising the specialist skills of senior Midwifery clinicians so I hope this data will help us to understand the distribution and impact of CMs in all our health services.

I would therefore be grateful if you would be able to provide the following information:

– Number of Consultant Midwives (headcount AND Whole Time Equivalent (WTE)) currently employed
– Number of vacant Consultant Midwifery posts (WTE), if applicable
– Salary band paid/offered to Consultant Midwives (e.g. Band 8b or Band 8c), if applicable
– Number of Trainee/Assistant Consultant Midwives (headcount AND WTE) currently employed
– Number of vacant Trainee/Assistant Consultant Midwife posts (WTE), if applicable
– Salary band paid/offered to Trainee/Assistant Consultant Midwives, if applicable

I would like to request information regarding your obstetric unit, under the FOIA

-To which LMNS does your trust belong to?
-Is your trust a tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit?
-Does your trust do a routine late third trimester scan for every woman in pregnancy?

Regarding growth scans in the second or third trimester:

-To calculate HC do you use HC or BPD + OFD?
-To calculate AC do you use AC or TAPD + APD?
-To plot FL centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )
-To plot HC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )
-To plot AC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )

-What algorithm do you use to calculate Estimated Fetal Weight?
(Eg Hadlock (HC, AC, FL), Hadlock (BPD-HC-AC-FL), Hadlock (FL-AC), Warsof (BPD-AC), Persson (BPD-TAD-APAD-FL), Hansmann et al, Combs, Souka, INTERGROWTH-21ST or other)

-What centile reference chart do you use to plot the Estimated Fetal Weight?

-Does your trust use GAP-GROW?

-To measure Amniotic Fluid does your trust measure Deepest Vertical Pool or measure Amniotic Fluid Index?

-Which chart do you use to plot the amniotic fluid volume?

-When measuring Uterine Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?
-When measuring Umbilical Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?
-When measuring Middle Cerebral Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?
-When measuring Ductus Venosus Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?

Do you use the same charts for fetal biometry, Amniotic Fluid Index and Dopplers across all hospitals in your trust and all trusts in LMNS region?

Freedom of Information Request:

1. Number of post-partum referrals to the Gloucestershire Birth Anxiety and Trauma Service (or its previous incarnation as the Maternal Mental Health Service) broken down by referral source (self or professional) and by month since Jan 2021.
Why it is important: This data will be joined with information from a separate FOI to GHFT to help to give an indication of some of the wider impact and cost of the inadequate Gloucestershire Maternity Service.

2. Provide any analyses of the impact (specifically on increased demand and additional cost) on any and all services provided by Gloucestershire Health and Care Foundation Trust caused by Gloucestershire Maternity Service since Jan 2021.
Why it is important: This will help to understand some of the impact of the provision of inadequate maternity services in Gloucestershire.

3. Provide details of any discussions with the Glos ICB (or previously the CCG) or GHFT on additional demand and cost of delivery on any services provided by GHC, believed to be linked to the ‘inadequate’ CQC rating of Gloucestershire Maternity Service since Jan 2021.
Why it is important: This will help to understand the level of awareness within the ICB and GHFT of some of the impact of the provision of inadequate maternity services in Gloucestershire.

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please could you kindly complete the spreadsheet attached to provide information on the microbiology, virology and molecular tests carried out within the Pathology Laboratory at the Trust over the previous 2 calendar years (April 2023 – March 2025).

All questions relate to microbiology and virology molecular tests and traditional microbiology testing only, please do not include details for any other disciplines unless otherwise stated.

Please complete all questions where possible – if precise data is unavailable, please provide an estimate (stating that data is an estimate plus likely error margin expressed as a percentage).

If unable to complete all questions, please provide a partial response (just completing the data that you can).