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Hospital Admissions Related to Sunbed Injuries

I am submitting a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to obtain data regarding the number of hospital admissions related to sunbed injuries. Specifically, I request the following information in whichever format is easiest to provide: SNOMED, ICD-11, or free text.

1. Sunbed Admissions (SNOMED)
The number of hospital admissions for patients presenting with sunbed-related injuries, classified under:
• 403588002 – Addiction to sunbed use (disorder)
• 242537009 – Exposure to man-made ultraviolet light (event)
• 466293001 – Ultraviolet tanning device (physical object)
If possible, please also include:
• Age group (e.g.: under 18, 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74, 75-84, 85-94, 95-100, over 100)
• Gender of the patient
• Brief description of the reason for admission
• Treatment received for the injury
2. Sunbed Admissions (ICD-11)
The number of hospital admissions for patients presenting with sunbed injuries, categorised under:
• EJ41 – Burn from exposure to artificial source of ultraviolet radiation
o EJ41.0 – Burn from exposure to therapeutic ultraviolet radiation
o EJ41.Y – Other specified burn from exposure to artificial source of ultraviolet radiation
o EJ41.Z – Burn from exposure to artificial source of ultraviolet radiation, unspecified
If possible, please also include:
• Age group (as above)
• Gender of the patient
• Brief description of the reason for admission
• Treatment received for the injury
3. Sunbed Admissions (Free Text)
The number of hospital admissions for patients presenting with sunbed injuries, provided in free text format.
If possible, please also include:
• Age group (as above)
• Gender of the patient
• Brief description of the reason for admission
• Treatment received for the injury
Timeframe
For each month over the past five years (2019–2024), please provide the total number of individuals recorded.

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Mechanical Ventilation

I am writing to formally request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
regarding the use of mechanical ventilation within your hospital trust, specifically for patients
undergoing an MRI scan and those requiring in-hospital transportation while intubated.
Please provide responses to the following questions:

1. What is the current policy for mechanical ventilation of patients undergoing an MRI scan
within your NHS trust?
2. Which department has the primary responsibility for overseeing the mechanical
ventilation of patients in the MRI suite? Is it the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or the MRI
department?
3. Which mechanical ventilators are currently used when conducting MRI scans on patients
within your MRI department?
4. Please provide the make, model, and age of the current mechanical transport
ventilators used within your trust.
5. Could you list the specific MRI-compatible ventilators currently in use within your trust?
6. Please provide the contact details (name, job title, and email/telephone) of the lead
clinical person overseeing the use of mechanical transport ventilation within your trust.
7. Please provide the name and contact details of the technician responsible for
overseeing the usage and maintenance of these ventilators within your trust.

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Pressure Care Guidance and Incidents

I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request data on bed sore-related death reports and complaints made to this trust.

• Please provide any trust guidance on pressure care (for the care and prevention of pressure sores, pressure ulcers, or bed sores) issued to administrators and/or hospital staff in the past 24 months.
• For the following years, please provide the number of patients within the trust treated for bedsores (classified as ICD-10 code L-89), as filed in Datix, Ulysses or other relevant reporting systems:
o 2022
o 2023
o 2024

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Surveying and Geospatial Activities

I am writing to submit a formal request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I kindly request the following details:

1. What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?

2. Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment?

3. What are your organisation’s key strategic objectives for the next 12-24 months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?

4. Please detail any planned development of sites or assets

5. Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?

6. If so, please can you supply details of the contractual arrangements in place including date of award, details of any Framework used or link to the advertisement, contract value and duration

7. If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?

8. Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months

9. How do you engage with potential new suppliers—through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier days?

10. Please can you confirm the individual responsible for managing your surveying and geospatial contracts or wider development contracts and provide their contact details and role title?

11. Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through

12. Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?

13. Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?

14. When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?

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Hospital Asset Tracking Management Outside Hospitals

I am doing some research into hospital asset tracking management outside hospitals. Please could you advise re the following: · Do you have a formal digital system for tracking products sent to other hospitals? (E.g. loaning a hip to a private hospital then tracking its return/re order/billing and payment) · Which local hospitals private do you send products to? · How often do you send them? · Do you have a reliable mechanism for ensuring compliance, payment and expediting? · Do you have a formal returns process for items given to the public (e.g. crutches) I look forward to hearing from you. Florence

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NHS Audiology Services

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the below.

1. Please list all providers that currently provide NHS audiology services in your region.

2. Please provide a copy of the current and most up to date service specification as contained in the relevant contract particulars for adult hearing care.

3. Please provide the date the adult hearing care service last was commissioned.

4. If adult hearing care is part of a wider service specification i.e. ENT, then please provide a copy of the current and most up to date service specification as contained in the relevant contract particulars.

5. If adult hearing care is part of a wider service specification i.e. ENT, then please provide the date this service was last commissioned.

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Eating disorders

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) has your trust instructed someone to give a second opinion on a patient that is receiving treatment for an eating disorder?

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) has your trust refused to give a second opinion on a patient that is receiving treatment for an eating disorder?

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) where second opinions have happened, who did the trust instruct to give the second opinion?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) was the second opinion arranged by the clinical team or the patient/family?
Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) who paid for it?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) was it internal or external?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) what was the outcome?

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Personal Carers in Trust Sites

1. Does your hospital trust allow patients to have their Personal Assistant/paid carers assist them in hospital settings?
2. Does your trust have a protocol or policy in place regarding Personal Assistants/paid carers assisting with complex care needs in hospital settings? What is it?
3. Does this policy apply both to admissions as well appointments and treatments as a day patient?
4. How many times in the last 3 years has a patient had their care needs met by their usual PAs/paid carers whilst in hospital?

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List of all NHS hospital at home or virtual ward

Dear FOI team, My name is Jiakun Yu and I am a doctor working at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. I would like to make the following FOI request: 1. Could you provide a list of all NHS hospital at home or virtual ward available in your region as well as their email contact information please. Many thanks, Jiakun Yu

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Virtual beds

I’d like to request the following records under the FOI act.

Virtual wards

• The total number of virtual ward beds you had open as of 15 January 2025
• The total number of VW beds, broken down by the different specialties served by those virtual wards
• The beds occupancy rate as of 15 January 2025, broken down by specialty
Patient initiated follow-up

• A list of the specialities for which you offer patient initiated follow-up
• The proportion of outpatient attendances discharged to PIFU pathways, as of 15 January 2025 (or the most recent data point – please specify the date if different from 15/1/25).
• The names of each technology supplier and the product used by the trust to run its PIFU pathways

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FOI 369-2025

A list of your sites that are under PFI / PF2 / PPP contracts that are expiring in by the end of 2030.

– The name of the site, the value of the contract, along with the date of the expiry.
– The name of your Director of Estates & Head of Procurement.

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FOI 289-2024

1. The name of your soft facilities management service provider/providers (if this is managed in-house please say)
2. The date/dates that your contract/contracts with your soft FM provider ends
3. The name of your hard facilities management service provider/providers (if this is managed in-house please say)
4. The date/dates that your contract/contracts with your hard FM provider ends
5. The name of your waste management service provider/provider
6. The date/dates that your contract/contracts with waste management provider ends
7. The name of your security provider/providers
8. The annual sum spent on security each year from 2020/21 to 2024/25 (for 2024/25 if you don’t have the total that you will spend then please provide a figure to-date).

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FOI 364-2025

Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,

I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act to request information relating to Patient Transport Services in the NHS Trust. I have set out the information I require below:

– Please can you outline the procurement process for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– What is the criteria for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– Which organisation sets the criteria for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– Which organisation decides the successful bid for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– Is there any criteria for Patient Transport Service contracts attached to terms and conditions and pay of staff.

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FOI 360-2025

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding hospital admissions related to hiking injuries.

Please provide data for the past five calendar years (from 1 January [2020] to 31 January [2025]), broken down annually and 2025 so far, on the following:

Hospital Admissions

• The number of hospital admissions where the reason for admission was linked to hiking.
• If available, the number of admissions identified through:
Text-based documentation (i.e., where “hiking” or a related term was explicitly mentioned in records).
The ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics code XE5BS (Type of sport or exercise activity, hiking).
The age and gender of those admitted.
• A brief description of the incident or injury, if recorded.

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Rate of Sodium Nitrite Poisoning in your Hospital Trust

I’m writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about the rate of sodium nitrite poisoning in your hospital trust. Please note I am asking about sodium nitrite, not sodium nitrate. For the past five years, up to and including 6 February 2025, I’d like to know the following:

How many cases of sodium nitrite poisoning were there? Please break this down into cases of a) intentional poisoning (eg suicide) and b) unintentional poisoning. A. Of the cases of sodium nitrite poisoning, how many of them were administered Methylene Blue? How many deaths were there where sodium nitrite poisoning was listed as the, or a, cause of death? Please break this down into how many deaths were caused by a) intentional poisoning (eg suicide) and b) unintentional poisoning. A. Of the deaths caused by sodium nitrite poisoning, how many of them were administered Methylene Blue?

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FOI 343-2025

I am submitting this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and would appreciate your assistance in providing the following details regarding your NHS Trust’s expenditure on staff uniforms:

1. **Total uniform expenditure** for the last financial year (April 2022 – March 2023) and, if available, the current financial year to date (April 2023 – present).

2. **Breakdown of uniform items purchased**, including:
– Type of uniform items (e.g., tunics, trousers, scrubs, polo shirts, jackets, etc.).
– Number of each item purchased.
– Unit price of each item.

3. **Suppliers**: A list of uniform suppliers used by the Trust.

4. **Procurement Process**: Details of any existing contracts or agreements for uniform procurement, if applicable.

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