Sent: 25 May 2021 15:42
Subject: CAMHS waiting times data FOI
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I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information:
1. For the 2020-21 financial year please tell me the following information regarding waiting times for young people in all CAMHS that you run:
a. The total number of young people referred to your CAMHS
b. The average waiting time between referral and second contact in days.
c. The number of people waiting between 0 and 4 weeks
d. The number of people waiting between 4 and 6 weeks
e. The number of people waiting between 6 and 8 weeks
f. The number of people waiting between 8 and 10 weeks
g. The number of people waiting between 10 and 12 weeks
h. The number of people waiting over 12 weeks
i. The number of people where referral was closed before treatment
j. The number of people still waiting, no contact
k. The number of contacts before referral
2. Could you also give a quarterly breakdown of these figures in the 2020-21 financial year please?
3. Could you also give me the same information for the 2019-20 financial year:
a. In total
b. As a quarterly breakdown
NOTE: By second contact I mean either assessment or treatment, whichever came first.
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If you are encountering practical difficulties with complying with this request, please contact me as soon as possible in line with your section 16 duty to advise and assist requesters. so that we can discuss the matter and if necessary I can modify the request.
Please send me the data requested in the form of an Excel spreadsheet or as a csv file.
If it is necessary for any reason to redact any information, please redact the minimum necessary and send me the rest of the material, explaining the legal grounds for each redaction.
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Many thanks for your assistance.
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264-2022
I am requesting the following information regarding under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 FOIA..
Use of WhatsApp by or within the NHS Trust
Since January 2021, has the WhatsApp mobile application been used by the Trust, or any employee of The Trust permanent or agency. in the course of their work at The Trust, either with patients or between employee groups? If so, please also provide details of how often WhatsApp has been used The Trust and for what purpose.
238-2022
I am writing to obtain information, under the Freedom of Information Act, about your Trust’s funding of Complementary and Alternative Medicine CAM. services they provided.
To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting:
How much the Trust has spent on CAM services for the following financial years: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22. This includes salaries for those employed to carry out these services, costs of medicine, equipment and any additional costs involved.
A list of all services provided under CAM.
I would prefer an electronic response however, if this is not possible I would gladly accept
letter at the address below.
I am aware that under the freedom of information act, I am entitled to a response within 20
working days. Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.
027-2023
Under the FOI Act please provide me with the information below. Please confirm receipt of this request as soon as possible. The number of inpatients who are currently medically fit to leave hospital in your area, but still reside there. Please provide this as a series of data points for the last calendar year and the year to date, broken down by day. For each day, please break the data into further categories which detail the reason behind the delayed discharge. I am aware that some of the data showing the total number of delayed transfers of care is published here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/discharge-delays-acute-data/ however I am looking for further information relating to the cause of the discharge delay. For example, the Welsh Government also used to publish a detailed breakdown of reasons behind delayed discharge - https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Performance/Delayed-Transfers-of-Care By way of illustration, a response may look like this: 01/01/22 - 100 people awaiting discharge, 20 awaiting physiotherapy, 30 awaiting transport home, 50 awaiting care packages 02/01/22 – 90 people awaiting discharge, 15 awaiting physiotherapy, 30 awaiting transport home, 45 awaiting care packages And so on…. Please provide this data in a spreadsheet format such as excel or a .csv file, with columns for the date, total number of patients and reasons for delay.
094-2023
I’m requesting the following information from your organisation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
• A copy of the trust’s sexual safety policy
258-2022
Dear FOI Team,
Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details with respect to the Trust below, details of which can be found below:
NHS Trust: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust 1. Please provide the name, email address and phone number for your Trust’s Medical Device Trainer 2. Does your trust utilise e-learning for clinical application training for medical devices? Remit of the Medical Device Trainer?.
3. Please provide the name, email address and phone number for your Trust’s Learning and Development Manager
4. Within decontamination science, does the Trust utilise apprenticeships? Remit of Learning and Development Manager.
5. Within medical engineering/clinical engineering/medical physics, does the Trust utilise apprenticeships? Remit of Learning and Development Manager.
6. Does your Trust utilise a third party company for training medical engineering/clinical engineering/medical physics – i.e. the repair of medical devices? If so, what is the name of the third party?
7. Does your Trust utilise a third party company for training sterile services staff – operators/ technicians? If so, what is the name of the third party?
8. Does the Trust utilise the Salisbury framework for non apprenticeship training courses Remit of Learning and Development Manager.
9. Regarding the sterilisation of surgical instruments and endoscopes, does the trust undertake this ‘in-house’ or outsource the requirement?
9a. If outsourced, what company provides the service?
9b. If managed in-house, how many people operate in the sterilisation department?
10. Please provide the name, email address and phone number for the person responsible for sterilisation of the Trust’s medical devices
128-2022
FOI team, Hope you are well. Please can I be provided with the figures for the number of people without a fixed abode who have been discharged from hospitals within your trust over the past five years. Please can you provide this data in the following way. • By annual year for each of the following years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 so far. • Please can you provide one figure for each year, taking in the total discharges from your NHS trust. Please can I also be provided with the figures for the number of people without a fixed abode who were readmitted within six months. Can you please provide this data in the same way as above. Any questions or clarifications do let me know.
076-2122
Sent: 07 April 2021 15:42
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI housing support This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. If unsure, please contact ghcit@ghc.nhs.uk
I would like to request, under the freedom of information act, the following information for adult mental health services in Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust.
1. The number of nurses or support workers who support patients regarding their housing while they are inpatient in a mental health unit. These could be housing officers, housing support workers, special housing nurses, or similar professions that are specialised in housing support.
2. The protocol for discharging homeless patients or patients who face homelessness after their discharge. Please provide a document with the discharge policy or, if there is no document, please state what the protocol is.
3. The number of nurses or support workers who support mental health patients regarding their housing while they are in the community. These could be housing officers, housing support workers, special housing nurses, or similar professions that are specialised in housing support.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request. If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request. My details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
148-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI hospital leave
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I would like to request, under the freedom of information act, the following information for mental health services in Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust. 1. The total number of inpatients in your mental health wards. Please could you provide the data in a monthly breakdown for the following years:
01 January 2018 to 31 December 2018; 01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019; 01 January 2020 to 31 December 2020; 01 January 2021 to latest available data.
Please could you provide the information in the form of an CSV or Excel. 2. The total number of leave of absences, broken down into escorted and unescorted.
Please could you provide the data in a monthly breakdown for the following years:
01 January 2018 to 31 December 2018; 01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019; 01 January 2020 to 31 December 2020; 01 January 2021 to latest available data.
Please could you provide the information in the form of an CSV or Excel. 3. The total number of home leaves.
Please could you provide the data in a monthly breakdown for the following years:
01 January 2018 to 31 December 2018; 01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019; 01 January 2020 to 31 December 2020; 01 January 2021 to latest available data.
Please could you provide the information in the form of an CSV or Excel. 4. The total number of trial leaves. Please could you provide the data in a monthly breakdown for the following years:
01 January 2018 to 31 December 2018; 01 January 2019 to 31 December 2019; 01 January 2020 to 31 December 2020; 01 January 2021 to latest available data.
Please could you provide the information in the form of an CSV or Excel. – Please could you provide the data as a total for all wards as well as for
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Wards
• Adult Mental Health Wards
• Learning Disabilities Wards
• Older People’s Mental Health Wards
If breaking the data down into the different wards would exceed the cost of compliance limits, then please provide only the total for all wards. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request. If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request. My details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
023-2122
This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. If unsure, please contact ghcit@ghc.nhs.uk
To whom it may concern,
Subject: Children and Adult Mental Health Services waiting times across the UK Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Please tell me: 1. Within your mental health trust Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. what was the average CAMHS waiting time to be seen in the following situation.
a. After referral to CAMHS, to the point of receiving first treatment a.i. In 2019, monthly breakdowns please a.ii. In 2020, monthly average breakdowns please 2. Within your mental health trust Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. what was the average CAMHS waiting time to be seen in the CAMHS Eating Disorder Clinic a. After referral to the CAMHS Eating Disorder clinic, to the point of receiving first treatment a.i. In 2019, monthly breakdowns please a.ii. In 2020, monthly average breakdowns please 3. Within your mental health trust Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. how long in number of patients waiting to be treated, following a referral to CAMHS. was the CAMHS waiting list for all treatments?
a. in 2019, monthly breakdown please b. in 2020, monthly breakdown please
4. Within your mental health trust Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. how long in number of patients waiting to be treated, following a referral to CAMHS. was the CAMHS Eating Disorder Clinic waiting list?
a. in 2019, monthly breakdown please b. in 2020, monthly breakdown please 5. Within your mental health trust Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. what were the longest that anyone has waited for the following CAMHS treatments, following a referral to CAMHS?
a. Talking therapies
a.i. in 2019
a.ii. in 2020
b. Eating disorder recovery
b.i. in 2019 b.ii. in 2020 c. All other treatment areas c.i. in 2019
c.ii. in 2020
6. Within your mental health trust Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. how many CAMHS patients were prescribed medication for anxiety a. In 2019
b. In 2020
As you know, under the act you are required to provide a response within 20 days. Please send your response to this email address only.
If you do not provide the information requested, you must explain the legal basis for the information being withheld. If you decline part of the request due to information being sensitive, the request being too vague, or reasonable cost being exceeded, you must still provide the part you can fulfil.
I look forward to hearing from you.
001-2122
Hello
Under the FOI act, please can you supply me with the following monthly data for the trust, for March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December 2020:
How many Covid 19/Coronavirus patients were in intensive care units?
Total number of beds in the trust at the time?
How many of these beds were occupied?
If applicable, could you also provide the following:
Community Occupancy %
Adult Mental Health Beds Occupancy %
Older Adult Mental Health Occupancy %
How many of the patients died FROM Coronavirus/Covid-19
How many of the patients died WITH Coronavirus/Covid-19
Please provide the information in electronic form.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
If my request is denied in whole or in part I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act. I will also expect you to release all non-exempt material. I reserve the right to appeal your decision to withold any information or to charge excessive fees.
I would be grateful if you could confirm via email that you have received this request. I look forward to your response within 20 working days as outlined by the statute.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.