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Request 1
In the previous 36 months on how many occasions have you engaged the services of an Executive Search recruitment company?i.e. a recruitment service for senior staff on a retained fee basis.
Request 2
If the response to Request 1 is positive what fees, either in percentage or a pounds and pence figure, where paid by your organisation to the supplier.
Please provide the latest inclusive language guide document for staff and other documents used for internal diversity training
1. Please confirm has your Trust adopted the Just Learning Culture in handling of concerns following receipt of Dido Harding’s letter that was sent to all Chairs and Chief Executives of NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts dated 23 May 2019.
2. Does your MHPS Procedure set out an informal process to deal with concerns pertaining to conduct/ capability of medical and dental staff, if so please provide details.
3. Please provide details of what training and support is provided by your Trust to Case Investigators and Case Managers when dealing with MHPS cases.
4. Please can you confirm if your Trust has a Decision-Making Group and if so, please can you confirm who sits on this group/how this is constituted and its remit?
5. The number of cases of medical and dental staff that were handled and resolved via a Just Culture approach and informal process.
6. The number of cases of medical and dental staff that were subjected to a formal MHPS investigation.
7. The number of medical and dental staff that have been formally excluded under MHPS and the duration of the exclusion.
8. Where medical and dental staff have been formally excluded under MHPS please provide a breakdown of whether this was on grounds of a) a need to protect the interests of patients or other staff pending the outcome of a full investigation, and/or b) the presence of the practitioner in the workplace was likely to impede the gathering of evidence during the investigation?
9. How many medical and dental staff have been the subject of a formal process in relation to concerns over conduct and performance after they have made a protected disclosure (whistleblowing) following concerns over patient safety or other issues?
10. Please provide the number of medical and dental staff that were placed on restricted duties and the duration of these restrictions.
11. Please provide a breakdown of how many of these formal MHPS investigations were:
a. Resolved with no further action due to the concerns not being upheld
b. Resolved via an agreement to proceed through a disciplinary fast track process which avoided the need to proceed to a formal hearing
c. Proceeded to a formal hearing – conduct or capability (provide breakdown)
d. Other outcome – provide details
12. Of the cases that proceeded to a formal hearing please confirm how many of these resulted in:
a. No disciplinary sanction – because the allegation/ concerns were not upheld
b. No disciplinary sanction – but ended with a recommendation for additional training/remediation/support
c. A disciplinary sanction – please confirm the level of this sanction (e.g. written warning/final written warning/dismissal)
d. Number of medical staff who appealed the disciplinary sanction and the outcome
e. Other outcome – provide details
13. Please provide length of time from start to finish of each MHPS
How many days of sick leave, recorded as being due to “Anxiety/Stress/Depression/Other Psychiatric Illnesses”, in line with NHS recording of sickness absence, were taken by pharmacy staff in your trust in each of the following years:
2024/25
2023/24
2022/23
2021/22
2020/21
2019/20
2018/19
2017/18
I would like to know the difference in spending for Occupational Health (OH) and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP). As part of this I am trying to get clarification on what constitutes OH and EAP.
1) Could you please provide me with an understanding of how your Trust defines OH and EAP respectively? What elements/criteria do you measure to track the provision of each?
2.) Could you also please provide a breakdown of how much the trust spends on OH and EAP respectively from the total spending figures you have provided in your initial FOI response?