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274-2023

Under the FOI Act please provide me with the information below. Please confirm receipt of this request as soon as possible. Please provide additional details of clinical service incidents caused by estates and infrastructure failures which resulted in clinical services being delayed, cancelled or otherwise interfered with owing to problems or failures related to the estates and infrastructure failure, as measured in the ERIC return, in the 2022/23 financial year. This information could be collected from incident reporting systems.
Include:
Where estates and facilities staff availability is a cause e.g. porters;
External incidents which estates and infrastructures should have mitigated, e.g. utility power failures where the trust’s backup power system failed to offset;
Equivalent failures by services contracted out to subsidiaries, PFI, LIFT and NHS Property Services Ltd;
Both inpatient and outpatient service incidents;
Types of incidents:
Design of healthcare buildings;
Engineering of healthcare buildings i.e. medical gas system and lift failure;
Fires, false alarms and evacuations exclude where caused by equipment faults or malfunction and/or deliberate/malicious causes.;
Infection control relating to the built environment;
Resilience of healthcare premises including flooding;
Heating including overheating;
Hospital food services;
Cleaning and cleanliness in healthcare premises;
Linen and laundry services;
Pest control;
Water and/or sewerage supply;
Decontamination of surgical instruments;
NHS car parking;
Healthcare waste management;
Bedside TVs, telephones and mobile phones;
Physical security of the NHS estate;
Portering.
For each incident, please provide:
1. A summary of the incident.
2. The number of patients affected.
3. The service affected.
4. How long the service was delayed/if it was cancelled.

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269-2023

I’d like to request information for this financial year 2023/24. for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
I’m requesting this information under the Freedom of Information Act because I couldn’t find it in your relevant Integrated Care Board’s ICB. published papers.
We had sent FOI requests to the relevant ICBs but were told we would need to send FOI requests to NHS trusts.
My request is as follows:
Firstly, please could you tell me the NHS agency/locum spending cap/ceiling agreed at the start of this financial year.
Secondly, please could you send me the following data from the financial plans submitted at the start of the year, giving the planned positions for each month from M1 to M12:
1. Trust financial position revenue expenditure.
a. Planned surplus/deficit
b. Planned expenditure
2. Workforce expenditure
a. Planned agency/locum spend
b. Planned bank spend
c. Planned total staff expenditure
3. Efficiency savings
a. Planned efficiency savings
Finally, please could you send me the following data for each month of this financial year to date:
1. Trust financial position
a. Actual surplus/deficit, and forecast outturn for M12
b. Actual expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12
2. Workforce expenditure
a. Actual agency/locum spend, and forecast outturn for M12
b. Actual bank spend, and forecast outturn for M12
c. Actual spend relating to industrial action, and forecast outturn for M12
d. Actual total staff expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12
3. Efficiency savings
a. Achieved efficiency savings, and forecast outturn for M12
4. Prescribing costs
a. Actual spend relating to prescribing, and forecast outturn for M12
I would appreciate it if you could return the data in a computer-readable format such as CSV or XLSX.
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.

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061-2023

I hope you are well. Following on from my previous FOI, as of the 9th May, I would like to send an updated corrected FOI, replacing the last one. Please do let me know if there are any issues.

1.How many cases of total adult patients with eating disorders have been referred to your eating disorder services every calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

2a. I would like to know the average waiting time in days. for adult patients between referral and treatment for non-urgent routine eating disorder treatment after being referred from CAMHS to your adult eating disorder services for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

2b. I would like to know the longest maximum wait time in days. for adult patients between referral and treatment for non-urgent routine eating disorder treatment who were referred from CAMHS to your adult eating disorder services. I would like this one figure for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

3a. I would like to know the average waiting time in days. for an adult patient between referral and treatment for urgent eating disorder treatment who were referred from CAMHS to your adult eating disorder services. I would like this one figure for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

3b. I would like to know the longest maximum wait time in days. for adult patients between referral and treatment for urgent eating disorder treatment who were referred from CAMHS to your adult eating disorder services. I would like this one figure for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

4a. . I would like to know the average waiting time in days. for adult patients between referral and treatment for non-urgent routine eating disorder treatment after being referred from a GP service to your adult eating disorder services? I would like this one figure for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

4b. I would like to know the longest maximum wait time in days. for adult patients between referral and treatment for a non-urgent routine eating disorder treatment who were referred from a GP service to your adult eating disorder services. I would like this one figure for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

5a. I would like to know the average waiting time in days. for an adult patient between referral and treatment for urgent eating disorder treatment who were referred from a GP service to your adult eating disorder services. I would like this one figure for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

5b. I would like to know the longest maximum wait time in days. for adult patients between referral and treatment for urgent eating disorder treatment who were referred from CAMHS to your adult eating disorder services. I would like this one figure for each calendar year from 2018 to 2022?

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050-2023

My request concerns your NHS mental health services. Please provide the following information as a month-by-month breakdown each month from 1 November 2018 to 1 November 2022.

On the first day of each month, how many people were on the waiting list for the following:
diagnosis from your NHS Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services CYPMHS.?
treatment from your NHS Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services CYPMHS.?
diagnosis from your NHS adult mental health services?
treatment from your NHS adult mental health services?

Of those, how many were – at that time – waiting for:
3 months?
6 months?
12 months?
more than 12 months?

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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.

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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

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