Misc

I’m writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about reports of bullying and racism/racial discrimination amongst midwives working at your trust.

From 1 Jan 2020 up to and including 6 May 2025, can you please tell me the following:

1) How many reports of bullying have been made by midwives against other midwives (including student midwives on placement) at your trust? Please provide the outcomes of these.

2) How many reports of racism or racial discrimination have been made by midwives against other midwives (including student midwives on placement) at your trust? Please provide the outcomes of these.

3) Have there been any dismissals in light of bullying reports? If so, when were these? Please provide the year.

4) Have there been any dismissals in light of racism or racial discrimination reports? If so, when were these? Please provide the year.

If this request is at risk of triggering the s12 cost exemption, please advise us on how we can amend the wording of our request to align with the trust’s categorisation and/or filing conventions.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information relating to maternity care provided by your Trust.

I am conducting research into potential disparities in pain relief experienced by patients of different ethnic backgrounds during childbirth and maternity care. Specifically, I would like to request the following:

a) Does your Trust provide any mandatory training to maternity staff on cultural competence, anti-racism, or unconscious bias, particularly relating to patient care or pain management?

b) If so, please provide: · The name(s) of the training programme(s) used · Which organisation provides the training · Whether completion is mandatory · When it was introduced

I understand that not all data may be held in the exact format requested. However, I would be grateful for any partial or relevant information you can provide. If any part of this request exceeds the cost limit, please inform me as soon as possible so that I can refine the request.

I recently came across a published FOI response from another requester regarding the med recs EDM System. After reviewing the details, I’m seeking information about paper records instead and would like to raise an FOI. Given that medical records are important information assets containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), some of which will be sensitive, I am particularly interested in how the Trust manages (or who manages!) and safeguards paper medical/health records.
I’ve had a look at the NHSE ERIC data but can only see on-site and off-site spend. Nothing around the number of paper records etc. therefore could you have a look at the below request? Most of it should be in your info asset logs, registers and/or DPIAs so hopefully the request is not too much of an impact.
Paper Medical Records Management
How many paper medical records does the Trust have as a data controller?
How many primary on-site record libraries are there? (Just looking for primary storage locations, not local departmental stores etc. as that would take a long time to repply to).
How many off-site record libraries are there?
Is records management outsourced for some paper medical records?
Is records management outsourced for all paper medical records?
How many records are Trust-managed and how many are outsourced to a records management provider?
If some or all records management is outsourced, what is the records management provider(s) company name(s)?
Is the company (if more than 1, please list) a Data Controller and/or a Data Processor for the Trust?
How many records has the Trust authorised and had destruction undertaken for within the last two years (2022/23 & 2023/24)?
Was destruction undertaken by a BS15713 provider?
If yes, which of the following are they accredited to: BS15713:2009 or BS15713:2023?
If records management is outsourced, does this include active records (records that have been in active circulation within the last three years)?
If records management is outsourced, does this include dormant records (records that have been in active circulation in the last four to eight years)?

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, please could you answer the following questions –

Who holds trust wide responsibility for the maintenance of procedures and policies?

What is their name and email address?

What digital tools does the Trust use for the staff to reference these procedures and policies? – i.e. – intranet.

How does the Trust record that staff have read and comply with the procedures and policies?

Which tools are used for on-boarding new staff in relation to reading procedures and policies?

How do the heads of department monitor that clinical and non clinical staff have read/understood mandatory procedural updates?

How many staff have accessed your NHS Intranet in the past year?

I am writing to request information from the local authority under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

It relates to occurrences of scam/fake QR codes in hospital car parks. I would be interested in the following information relating to any incidents of this in hospital car parks owned or controlled by your trust:

– Have hospital parking enforcement officers (or equivalent role with oversight over hospital car parks) recorded/noted any incidents of fake or scam QR codes in hospital car parks owned or controlled by the trust? (Yes or No)

– If the trust uses 3rd party operators to manage their hospital car parks – have these operators made the trust aware of any incidents of fake/scam QR codes in these car parks? (Yes or No)

– Has the trust received any reports from members of the public relating to incidents of fake/scam QR codes in these car parks?

– if yes to any of the above, please provide details of (i) how many and (ii) which sites these incidents took place at.

– If held, please also provide documentation relating to the most recent five incidents (this may include photos/internal reporting/correspondence etc, redacted where necessary)

Use of insourcing in FY 2024-25:

1. What was the total amount spent by the Trust on insourcing services during the financial year 2024/25?
2. Please provide a list of all external providers engaged to deliver insourcing services during 2024/25.
3. For each provider listed in response to Question 2, please state the total amount paid to that provider for insourcing services during 2024/25.
4. For each provider, please list the types of clinical services or specialties they delivered (e.g. endoscopy, dermatology, ophthalmology, etc.).

I am contacting you with a FoI request for the benefit of RNID.

Please can you provide the name and contact details for the current Head of Adult Audiology for Gloucestershire Health and care NHS foundation trust.

If this role does not exist in your Trust, please provide the name and contact details for the most senior member of staff responsible for audiology services.

I would like to submit a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) regarding cases of food poisoning due to incorrect identification or inappropriate preparation of wild food.

Please provide the relevant information for the period between 1 April 2020 and the most recent date for which data is available. Please could you provide the following:

A yearly breakdown of the number of cases of food poisoning due to incorrect identification or inappropriate preparation of wild food.
The type of wild food that caused the food poisoning (for example: fungi, plant, berries, etc…). Please include the specific species if known.
The symptoms experienced by the patient and the recovery time (for example: overnight stay or discharged within a couple hours)
The location where this food was picked. We would define ‘wild or foraged’ foods to be either: Wild, naturally growing food which was picked and consumed by an individual Wild, naturally growing food which was consumed by an individual, but was served in a restaurant environment, having been picked in the wild within the UK.

If you need to carry out a key terms search to locate these records, please include the terms “foraged”, “foraging”, “wild food”, “forager”, “wild ingredients”. If you would document these cases in another way, please include these results as per the spirit of my request.

If you feel that my request is unclear or too broad, I would be grateful if you could provide me with some guidance as to how I could refine it.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding your compliance with the Learning from Deaths Guidance issued by NHS England (2017) which ensures your trust complies with the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

This requires every NHS Trust to annually report (with a quarterly breakdown) the number of patients who died during the reporting period, how many case record reviews or investigations took place, and estimate how many deaths were determined to be likely due to problems in the care provided. It also requires the reporting of a summary of lessons learnt, what actions have been taken as a result, and what the impact of these actions has been.

Included in the Quality Accounts should also be the number of case record reviews and investigations relating to deaths in the previous reporting period that were only concluded in the most recent period and an estimation of how many of those deaths were due to problems in the care provided.

Please provide answers to the following questions for the most recent reporting period (2023/24):

1. Policy and Governance
a) Does your trust currently comply with the requirements of the Leaming from Deaths Guidance?
b) If not do you have plans to comply with it and if so by when?
 
2. Reporting
a) How many deaths were reported within your trust during the reporting period (2023/24)?
b) How many of these deaths were reviewed, and how many were judged more likely than not to have been avoidable?
c) Have you published quarterly reports on learning from deaths on your website, as required by the guidance? Please provide links to the most recent reports.
d) Is information on learning from deaths included in your latest Quality Account?

3. Family Involvement
a) Are families and carers involved in the review process where appropriate?
b) Please provide the number of deaths that were reviewed in this period (2023/24) where families and carers were involved and engaged in the review.

4. Actions and Learning
a) Please provide a summary of all actions taken as a result of the learning from deaths process in the last reporting period.

Please can I request the below information on the utilisation of Insourcing for the following period 01/01/2025-31/03/2025

• Total spend during the period for Insourcing for the below specialties:

• Neurology
• Neurophysiology
• Dermatology
• Gastroenterology
• Endoscopy
• Cardiology
• Respiratory
• Orthodontics / Dental
• OMFS
• ENT
• Rheumatology
• Gynaecology

– Please break the spend down by insourcing company

• Please confirm if there was a budget for insourcing for the specialties outlined during the same period

• What was the service type relating to the specialties outlined, for example, outpatient, diagnostic or theatres.

• Was it a fully managed service or Team provision

• Please can you confirm the Frameworks utilised for each specialty

• Please confirm any direct awards or mini competitions which are being utilised for each specialty

• Total procedures completed by insourcing companies for the specialties outlined during the same period

Under the Freedom of Information Act (2000), please provide the following information:

In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.3ppm but less than or equal to 0.4ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.4ppm but less than or equal to 0.5ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.5ppm but less than or equal to 0.6ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.6ppm but less than or equal to 0.7ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.7ppm but less than or equal to 0.8ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.8ppm but less than or equal to 0.9ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.9ppm but less than or equal to 1ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 1ppm but less than or equal to 1.5ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 1.5ppm but less than or equal to 2ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that exceed 2ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department?

May I please ask for the following information under the FOI act.

1. Does your NHS Trust/Board have an executive board where health research strategy for the hospital/s is set? e.g a Research and Innovation Board or other relevant high-level board.
2. If yes, is there a PPIE (patient public involvement engagement) representative on this board with the specific remit to provide insights into research agenda setting from the perspective of a patient with lived experience of health issues or as a member of the public/community? [I am not referring to the presence of a lay chair].
3. Is there a PPIE advisory structure (e.g. board, committee, panel) which provides PPIE insights to inform the work of the executive board? (not within individual study groups- I refer to high level feedback into your research strategy meetings).
4. If yes to question 2, 3, 4 or 5, please provide the most recent minutes/agenda with a list of members with designated roles/remits (not names).
5. Are PPIE representatives remunerated?
6. Do you require PPIE representatives to do any training? If yes, please specify e.g NIHR training or in house-training.
7. I realise that some of this information may already be available. However, I was unable to locate it. So, if it is, please provide me with a link to the data.

This is a Freedom of Information request for information relating to the letter this summer from Dame Emily Lawson and Vin Diwaker, to all trust executives and COOs, asking them to confirm “that [they] plan to adopt the NHS FDP in the next two years”.

I would like to see all emails, documents, attachments, and any other forms of response relating to this request between Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and the two senior NHS officials.

It is public information that you have been asked to inform the NHS when you “envisage adopting already available nationally commissioned local Products”.

I would like to know when specifically you plan to start adopting the FDP and who you are naming as lead (as is requested in the letter)?

I would also like to know what your plans are for how you will maximise the benefits of the Federated Data Platform to deliver better joined-up care for their patients within the next two years (again, asked of you in the above mentioned letter)?

We would like to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust

1) We have the following formularies listed as used by the organisation:
Gloucestershire Joint Formulary
Please confirm if this is correct and if not, please provide any relevant online links or copies of formularies.

2) We understand the following committees maintain the formularies in question 1:
One Gloucestershire Medicines Optimisation Board (OGMOB)
Please confirm if this is correct. If not correct, please list the relevant committees with the corresponding formulary.

3) Does the organisation have representation on the committees listed in question 2?

4) Are any of the above formularies listed in question 1 dominant when making prescribing decisions or does this depend on therapy area? Please say which is the dominant formulary of the organisation.

5) If you use a PDF formulary, have you considered moving it to an online platform like Netformulary, and if yes, when are you planning to do so?

6) Request for Re-use
If your organisation does hold this information and is able to share it, then I would like to submit the following request for re-using the information:

We (IQVIA) request permission to re-use the information provided as part of independent analyses commissioned by our clients. The contents of the reports will not be made available publicly but may be used by other IQVIA Group entities and service suppliers. The information in the reports will be presented in a factual manner with all publication details staying true to the publisher.

1. How many clinical coders are employed by the Trust?
2. Who is responsible for the clinical coding team and who does that individual report into?
3. What did the Trust spend on external coding support in the 2023-2024 financial year?
4. What is the current coding backlog?
5. How many Finished Consultant Episodes does the Trust complete per year?
6. How many vacancies does the Trust currently have for clinical coding staff?

We are a Medical Recruitment Agency who supply doctors into the NHS. As such, we supply under specific NHS Frameworks, one of the framework obligations is that we receive written confirmation that we have verified that the worker completed this training.

Can you please confirm that Dr Olusola Kolawole has an E – learning account with you and all courses are aligned to CSTF or UK Resus as applicable.

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Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 257-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request received via post on 2nd November 2021. Please find our response below.
1. How many people have died in your hospitals that are part of the Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT from COVID-19 alone? I am aware of the number of people that have died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test, so they could have died from other causes. I just want to know the exact figure from 1st February 2020 until the 30th September 2021 of people that have died due COVID-19 alone and not anything else please. In order to answer this question, a review of patient Medical Certificate of Cause of Death MCCD. was undertaken. Between 01.02.2020 and 30.09.2021, there were 9 deaths of patients in GHCNHDFT hospitals, where COVID-19* was the only recorded disease or condition on the patients’ MCCD, including at Part 1 MCCD direct cause of death. and Part 2 other significant conditions contributing to death but not related to the direct cause of death recorded at Part 1 MCCD..
*To ensure inclusivity of data, in addition to ‘COVID-19’ being recorded at Part 1a MCCD, the table below shows the alternatives which were included in above figure, where COVID-19 remained the only cause of death recorded:
Part 1a MCCD Part 1b MCCD
Acute respiratory distress syndrome COVID-19
Covid-pneumonia –
Covid19 pneumonitis Coronavirus infection
Lower respiratory tract infection COVID-19
Pneumonia COVID-19
NB: Please note, as the request clearly stipulates ‘people that have died due COVID-19 alone and not anything else please’, deceased patients who had COVID-19 recorded at Part 1 MCCD, together with other conditions/diseases recorded at Part 1 and/or Part 2 of the MCCD have not been included in the above figure. If this information is required, please submit an additional request stipulating a breakdown of deaths where COVID-19 was recorded at Part 1 MCCD as the direct cause of death, regardless of whether any other conditions or diseases were recorded at Part 2 MCCD.

How many paperclips are bought yearly?

Answer to requester – Test and ready to publish as all complete.

Complaint

I’m a journalist for the i paper investigating CAMHS and the delays/rejections since the pandemic. Please could you provide me with the following information for your area:
• The proportion of referrals to the mental health service deemed inappropriate or rejected in the 2019/2020 financial year and the 2020/2021 financial year
• The reasons for referrals to the mental health services being rejected in these years
• The median and maximum waiting times between initial assessment and the start of treatment in these years

We write to you on behalf of the Academic Collaborative for Equality & Inclusivity in Surgery ACEIS. UK. We are a newly formed independent think tank that is performing a deep dive into workforce inequalities faced by both gender and race in surgery.

Our first project is looking into the ENT profession across the four nations of the NHS. It will then be our intention to then look at other surgical disciplines over time.

Please accept our freedom of information request that is attached to this email. We would be grateful if you can sanction our request which requires limited anonymised data. We would of course be happy to work with your ESR team to advise on the data sets if required.

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 244-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
Contact Centre/Call Centre Contracts Contracts and Costs associating to all/any systems used to manage Inbound Contact from Patients. i.e Call/Telephony Management Systems, Email Management Services/software, Help Desk Agents and Hotlines etc..
1. Do you have a call centre? No
2. If yes, how many call centre/support agents do you have?
3. What is your average cost per call annual.?
4. How many calls does your call centre receive annual.?
Inbound Network Services Contracts by “Inbound Network Services”, I am referring to Inbound Call, Telephony and Email Management Services, and any other inbound channels used by Patients to make contact..
Website Traffic Spend/Analysis even if hosted by an Agency.
Number of Visits per month Average. Who is the supplier/agency/internal stakeholder responsible for hosting/maintaining and managing the websites.? Does your organisation’s websites. have an on-site search bar?
– What Content Management System is your site-search connected to if so.?
– What is the Search Bar Utilisation? If known, % of Website visitors. – Who is the Supplier/Owner of the on-site search on your website?