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I would like to submit a freedom of information request.
I would like to know the number of daily calls made to the NHS urgent mental health helpline at your Trust since the helpline was established in May 2020.
I would like to receive the information in electronic format ideally csv or other machine-readable files..
I am currently undertaking some research into how often post occupancy evaluations take place following completion of a capital project within the NHS. Whilst the planning of post occupancy evaluations is a part of the five case model for developing public sector business cases, RIBA Plan of work stage 7 and is integral to P23 contracts, it does not appear that many post occupancy evaluations are actually undertaken, or published. I am trying to understand if NHS Trusts do undertake post occupancy evaluations but don’t publish the outcome, or the reasons preventing them from undertaking post occupancy evaluation. I would very much appreciate it if you could please answer the following questions related to this subject:
1. Has the Trust undertaken and completed any capital construction projects within the last 5 years?
2. If yes, was a post occupancy evaluation POE. study carried out after the project’s completion?
3. If no, what were the reasons for not carrying out a POE?
4. If a POE was carried out did the Trust find the results of this beneficial?
5. If a POE was carried out were the results published and/or shared within the wider NHS?
6. Please could contact details be provided of anyone within the Trust who would be willing to take part in a more detailed discussion about POE
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information regarding temporary labour usage in your organisation, including contractors, temporary workers, and freelancers.
Please can you provide me with the following information for the most recent complete fiscal year:
Total number of temporary workers engaged by your organisation, broken down by department or function, if possible.
Total annual expenditure on temporary workers, including a breakdown of costs by department or function, if possible.
Total number of agency suppliers Preferred Suppliers/non-Preferred Suppliers. in your organisation’s labour supply chain
Details of any existing Managed Service Programme or Provider MSP. and/or Vendor Management System VMS. used to manage temporary workers:
Name of the MSP and VMS.
Date the contract was awarded.
Date of contract expiration.
Name of the government procurement framework through which the MSP and VMS were procured.
Details of any upcoming retendering or renewal processes related to your MSP and VMS contracts:
Anticipated date for the retendering or renewal process to commence.
Name and contact information of the person responsible for overseeing the retendering or renewal process.
Please can you provide the information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.
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.
I’m writing to you under the Freedom of Information act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with: 1. A list of the total number of shifts in your mental health psychiatric wards that were completely unfilled by 7pm, from January 2015 to December 2022, broken down by date. 2. A list of the total number of shifts in mental health psychiatric wards that were filled by banked or agency staff, from January 2015 to December 2022, broken down by date. 3. A list of the total number of staff redundancies in mental health psychiatric wards from January 2015 to December 2022, broken down by date.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information:
Average coil both copper & hormonal. waiting times across all sites that provide this service within your area of commission. The preferable time period is 2021 – present, if possible.
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following information:
For the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022:
• How many children were referred to Speech and Language Therapy services by primary schools, per school
• Of these children, how many attended Speech and Language Therapy
• How many children were referred to Speech and Language Therapy by secondary schools, per school
• Of these children, how many attended Speech and Language Therapy
• How long were the waiting time between referral and initial assessment
I would like information on your trust’s acute learning disability liaison service, which is a team that is specifically trained in caring for people with a learning disability following admission to an acute hospital.
Please answer the following 3 questions under the Freedom of Information Act and see example answers as a guide.
1. Does your trust have an acute learning disability liaison service? Yes/No [please delete as possible] I. If so, what year was it set up and first became active? [For example: 2011]
II. What are the service team’s working hours? Does the service offer out of hours support? [For example: Mon-Fri 9am to 5pm, no out of hours covered]
2. Do you have any Nursing and Midwifery Council registered nurses in learning disabilities working in the acute learning disability liaison service? Yes/No [please delete as possible] I. If yes, what is the headcount number and their agenda for change banding? [for example: 2 X registered nurses in learning disabilities, both band 5]
II. What are the full time equivalent FTE. hours or whole time equivalent WTE. hours that this post or posts amount to? [for example: 1.0 FTE post which equates to 37.5 hours]
3. Do you have any other staff members work in the acute learning disability liaison service? Yes/No [please delete as possible] I. If yes, what is the headcount and their agenda for change banding? [for example: 1 x band 4 staff member]
II. Please specify the specific roles employed i.e.: describe whether they are registered adult nurses, registered children’s nurses or registered mental health nurses not registered learning disability nurses. or any other kind of role? For example: 2 X staff members, of which 1 is a healthcare assistant and 1 is a registered adult nurse. [for example: 1 X healthcare assistant]
III. What are the full time equivalent hours FTE. or whole time equivalent WTE. hours this post or posts amount to? [for example: 1.0 FTE post which equates to 37.5 hours]
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act to request the following information from your organisation.
1. Please confirm if your organisation works under Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework Agreement RM6277.
2. Please confirm if your organisation works under Non-Clinical Permanent CCS Framework Agreement RM6229. 3. If you organisation works under these frameworks, please can you provide a list of agencies that have supplied you with non-clinical staff and a breakdown of agency spend by bands between April 2023 – to date.
4. Please can you provide me with the names of your leadership team relating to the below job titles?
Chief Information Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Digital Officer
Digital Programme Director
Digital Programme Manager
Head of Digital Transformation
Portfolio Director
Director of IT Head of IT
Helpdesk Manager
IT Programme Manager
Head of Projects
Head of IT Infrastructure Head of EPR EPR Trainer
Director of information/ BI Head of Information/ BI Head of Bank Staff
5. Lastly, please provide organisational charts in relation to the above departments.
Re: Freedom of Information request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the
following information from the community mental health services. of your trust.
Please may you provide me with the following information:
A. Adult eating disorders services:
1. Does your Trust provide a service to adults with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa?
YES/ NO if No please proceed to section B.
2. How many adults with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa were on the Trust caseload
at 31st March 2022?
3. How many adults with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa were referred to the
service over the 1 year period 1st April 21- 31st March 22.?
4. How many registered dietitians in WTE/ FTE. were working exclusively with this
caseload to adults with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa at 31st March 2022?
5. What percentage of adults with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa received into the
service were seen by a dietitian over the 1 year period 1
st April 21- 31st March 22.?
B. Adolescent/ child eating disorder services
6. Does your Trust provide a service to adolescents/ children with anorexia nervosa or
bulimia nervosa? YES/ NO If No, no further responses are required.
7. How many adolescents/ children with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa were on
the Trust caseload at 31st March 2022?
8. How many adolescents/ children with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa were
referred to the service over the 1 year period 1
st April 21- 31st March 22.?
9. How many registered dietitians in WTE/ FTE. were working exclusively with this
caseload to adolescents/ children with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa at 31st
March 2022?
11th December 2022
10. What percentage of adolescents/ children with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa
received into the service were seen by a dietitian over the 1 year period 1
st April 21-
31st March 22.?
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the Clinical Waste Contract/s that your trust currently has in place.
The details we require are:
Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages
Actual spend on this contract/framework and any sub lots., from the start of the contract to the current date
Start date & duration of framework/contract?
Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
Is there an extension clause in the frameworks./contracts. and, if so, the duration of the extension?
Has a decision been made yet on whether the frameworks./contracts. are being either extended or renewed?
Who is the senior officer outside of procurement. responsible for this contract?
– Who is the Infection Control Lead responsible for the Trust + contact information?
– Who is the Procurement Lead for Clinical Waste contracts for the Trust + contact information
– Who is the Environmental/Sustainability lead for the Trust + contact information
– Who is the Waste management Lead for the trust + contact information
– Who is the Health and Safety lead for the Trust + contact information
– Who is the Clinical waste incumbent?
– Does the Trust make use of reusable or disposable sharps containers?
We would very much appreciate your help with our national survey of Take-home Naloxone policy by answering these two questions.
1: Does your organisation provide substance misuse services?
2: Does your organisation have a policy on prescribing Take-home Naloxone for patients prescribed or taking opiates or opiate substitutes?
1. In what year did you adopt and launch the High Intensity Network and/or the Serenity Integrated Model at your trust? 2. How many people in total from your launch date to 31st January 2023 – have been put under the care of the Serenity Integrated model? 3. If you haven’t adopted the Serenity Integrated Model, what is the name of the model and date you have adopted that model that centres on integration between mental health services with police forces, ambulance services and A and E, for “high intensity users”/ “frequent attenders” of your services and A and E? 4. How many people have been put under the care of that model?
I am writing to you under the freedom of information act to request the following:
How many patients under your care for eating disorders were put on the not recovered pathway in the last five calendar years 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2020-21, 2022-23.? Please can you break this information down by gender male/ female. and age -18/+18.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Trust/organisation.
Please may you provide details of the following:
1. Confirmation that the Trust/organisation is responsible for the provision of inpatient and or community mental health services in your area?
2. Has the Trust/organisation received a copy of the national MDO Victim Protocol check name and insert date. and the date received from the Ministry of Justice?
3. Define the specific arrangements within your Trust/organisation to meet the requirements set in the national MDO Victim Protocol?
4. Is there a Trust/organisation policy/procedure for enacting the arrangements for Victim work set out in the national MDO Victim Protocol? Please can you provide a copy?
5. Confirmation of the resources dedicated to Victims such as a lead post or designated team. to meet the requirements set out in the MDO Victim Protocol? Please describe the model and staffing resource?
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.
REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT We are writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. CACI Limited is interested in certain information held by your organisation regarding your Patient Level Costing system and Integrated Data Platform for secondary use.. As part of your response, please can you include the following information: Patient Level Costing system
1. Who is your current system supplier for your Patient Level Costing system?
2. When does that contract expire not including optional extensions.?
3. Is it used purely for the National Cost Collection submission?
4. If not, what other purposes is it used for?
Integrated Data Platform for secondary use.. 1. Do you use an Integrated Data Platform that consolidates multiple data sources for the purpose of analytics and reporting?
2. Who is the supplier of this system or systems if more than one?
3. When does the contract contracts. expire not including optional extensions.?
4. Does your current contract meet all your statutory data submission needs?
5. Does the Trust have a strategic Business Intelligence or Data Analytical tool?
6. If so which one?
I am wondering if it would be possible to receive the following information:
1. From lowest to highest, what is the range a typical day in hospital would cost including overnight stay. for the following areas:
• ICU
• HASU
• AMU
2. The spending on translation services and number of requests 21/22
3. Do you have any data regarding delayed discharge due to translation/communication barriers?
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your NHS Trust. Please may you provide me with:
1. The total number of NHS patients sent to private inpatient mental health hospitals, funded by your trust, by financial year, since 2010.
2. The total number of days that NHS patients spent at a private inpatient mental health hospital, funded by your trust, by financial year, since 2010.
3. The average cost per day of sending NHS patients to private inpatient mental health hospitals, funded by your trust, by financial year, since 2010.
How many cases of this have been reported each year?
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To whom it may concern
The British Medical Association is the trade union and professional body for all doctors and medical students in the UK.
As part of ongoing work undertaken by the BMA to improve the working lives of doctors, we are currently conducting a Freedom of Information request to all NHS trusts in the UK, along with Integrated care boards ICBs., to better understand the support and facilities available to doctors in trusts that may impact on inequalities that occur within the workplace. The results of this will enable the BMA to provide meaningful and targeted to advice to our members.
In order to gather this data effectively, under the Freedom of Information Act, I am writing to ask for you to complete the attached spreadsheet in response to the questions below. Please can I ask for the responses to these questions to be a simple “Yes.” or “No.” please delete where appropriate, on the spreadsheet.. The only exception to this is question 12, where further detail is required.
Please use the column ‘Additional information’ to expand on your response and provide examples of best practice and explanation as to why you have responded “No.”
Also provide the contact details for the people leading on best practice if you would be happy for follow-up communication.
Questions:
Caring responsibilities 1. Does your trust have a suitable area for staff where breastfeeding / milk expression can take place which meets the criteria of the Health and Safety Executive criteria below.?
Criteria: ‘You must provide a suitable area where pregnant workers and breastfeeding mothers can rest. It should include somewhere to lie down if necessary, be hygienic and private so they can express milk if they choose to – toilets are not a suitable place for this, include somewhere to store their mil, for example a fridge?’ 2. Do you hold facilities which are equipped to store expressed milk which staff can access including during night and weekend duties.?
3. Do your staff have access to a workplace nursery?
4. Do you offer any other forms of employer supported childcare benefits?
Reporting and acting on discrimination
5. Have you performed any analysis on your pay data by ethnicity? including pay gaps, awards e.g. clinical excellence awards.
a. If yes. Have you separated the analysis to look at the ethnicity pay gap of your medical workforce?
6. Does your organisation provide an independent route not HR or management. where staff can raise concerns of discrimination?
7. Do all staff inductions including medical students on work placements and doctors on short term contracts. include information about how to raise concerns?
8. Does your trust use the NHS England Just Culture Guide or a similar process when investigating incidents of patient safety?
Faith, health and wellbeing
9. Does your trust have a menopause policy?
10. Has your trust implemented the recommendations from Section 7. Appendix B of the NHS England Uniforms and Workwear Guidance regarding accommodating faith groups. into your local policies?
International medical graduates
11. Does your trust provide an induction for newly recruited international medical graduates? a. If yes. Does your induction meet the minimum requirements set out in the document Welcoming and Valuing International Medical Graduates: A guide to induction for IMGs recruited to the NHS? Specialty and specialist doctors SAS.
12. What number of SAS doctors that you employ are in leadership or extended roles? Respond as far as possible where you do collect the information. Please state in the comments column if you do not collect this information. Number of doctors Total doctors employed
Total SAS doctors employed
SAS clinical leads
SAS directors
SAS appraisers
SAS appraisal leads
SAS clinical governance leads
SAS medical directors
SAS educational supervisors
SAS undergraduate education lead
SAS audit lead
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information regarding intensive community and day patient treatment programmes for patients with eating disorders. Please provide a reference number for this request in your acknowledgement email. [If this request is forwarded internally, please do not cut out the introductory wording before the questions].
A note for clinicians/services involved in responding to this request
We are conducting this survey to help us understand how widely available these forms of treatment are across the UK. The top-level findings will be published in a report, in which individual services/providers will not be named. Instead, we will report the findings in terms of the proportion of providers or areas that offer intensive community and/or day patient treatment programmes for people with eating disorders.
We recognise that eating disorder services are under extreme pressure and are facing major challenges in recruiting and retaining the staff they need. This request will form part of a wider Beat project that will aim to understand and help overcome the barriers that the NHS faces in expanding access to these innovative service models. This will include challenging policy makers and commissioners to provide the required resources.
Background
Intensive community and day patient treatment programmes offer increased contact hours for the patient compared to traditional outpatient treatment. The patient returns home at night and therefore is not an inpatient. Such treatment programmes can help minimise inpatient admissions and reduce length of stay when admission is necessary.
Day patient treatment programmes sometimes called ‘day care’. tend to be run as a group programme, with patients attending the service during the day and returning home for evenings and weekends. Such programmes could potentially be delivered partially or wholly online/virtually. Some intensive community treatment programmes include home treatment, whereby a clinician visits the patient’s home to support meals and snacks and offer psychosocial intervention. There are other models of intensive community treatment aside from home treatment and we are very interested in hearing about these approaches too.
Questions
1. Does the Trust provide any intensive community and/or day patient treatment for eating disorders or refer patients on to receive such treatment from another NHS or non-NHS provider.? This may include day patient treatment, home treatment, or other innovative model/s. We are interested in programmes for children and young people, and/or adults.
£ Yes
£ No, and the Trust has never provided such a service
£ No, but the Trust did provide such a service in the past [Please provide more information below, including what led to the closure of this service/s]
If you answered “No” to question 1 either of the two options., that is all that is required, thank you for your response.
If you answered “Yes” to question 1, please answer the remaining questions below. If the Trust provides more than one model of intensive community or day patient treatment and/or has separate programmes based on age or any other criteria, please provide separate answers for each treatment programme and specify which programme is being referred to. If the Trust refers patients on to receive intensive community or day patient treatment from another NHS or non-NHS provider, please state the name of this provider, and cover this treatment programme within the answers you give to questions 2-8.
2. What model/s of intensive community or day patient treatment for eating disorders does the Trust provide or refer patients onto.? Examples include day treatment or home treatment, but we are keen to hear about any other forms of intensive treatment too aside from inpatient care.. In your answer, please specify whether these are provided in-person or online/virtually.
3. What is the intensity of this/these model/s of intensive community or day patient treatment for eating disorders?
a. Please provide the information requested below. If the Trust provides, or refers patients onto, more than one intensive community or day patient treatment programme please provide separate answers for each.:
Number of hours per day if applicable to model.
Number of days per week if applicable to model.
Number of contacts per week and minimum duration of those contacts if applicable to model.
Is supervised meal support provided? If so, for how many meals per day?.
b. Please provide any more information that we should know about regarding the intensity of treatment provided by this/these programme/s.
4. Are families or other carers engaged with when appropriate. in the treatment provided by this/these intensive community and/or day patient treatment programme/s for eating disorders? If so, please describe or attach further information outlining this engagement.
5. Is/are the intensive community and/or day patient treatment programme/s for eating disorders time limited, or is the length of this treatment based on clinical need? If it is time limited, what is the maximum length of treatment?
6. What are the referral criteria for patients to access the intensive community and/or day patient treatment programme/s for eating disorders? In your answer, please detail any exclusion criteria e.g., age, type of eating disorder/diagnosis, BMI, comorbidity, or otherwise..
7. What is/are the geographic catchment area/s for referrals to the intensive community and/or day patient treatment programme/s for eating disorders including any such programmes provided outside the Trust’s usual geographic area, potentially as part of an NHS-led Provider Collaborative.?
8. Please state the size of the caseload number of accepted referrals. at the Trust’s intensive community and/or day patient treatment programme/s for eating disorders on the dates below:
31 March 2023
30 September 2023
If the Trust provides more than one intensive community or day patient treatment programme, please provide the size of the caseload separately for each and specify whether the programme is for over 18s or under 18s..
9. Which organisation/s commission the intensive community and/or day patient treatment programme/s for eating disorders? If this is one or more NHS Integrated Care Board ICB. or NHS Trust as lead provider for an NHS-led Provider Collaborative., please specify their name/s in your answer to this question.
10. Please tell us what the Trust is proud of about its intensive community and/or day patient treatment programme/s for eating disorders and outline the challenges and opportunities the Trust has experienced in providing this/these programme/s.
Under the Freedom of Information Act I am writing to seek answers/obtain information to the following:
1. 2. 3. Does your organisation have a policy that covers sexual safety, specifically preventing episodes
4. of sexual misconduct and sexual violence involving patients, visitors
5. and staff?
6. 7. 8. 9. If your answer to question 1 was yes, please can you forward an electronic copy of the policy to
10. me?
11. 12. 13. 14. If your answer to question 1 was yes, what date did the policy become effective? 15. 16. 17. 18. If you have updated your policy within the past five years, please can you provide me with an electronic
19. copy of the policy it replaced? If the information is available, please can you specify how your current policy is now different.
20. 21. 22. 23. Has your organisation accepted vicarious liablity for any cases of sexual assault or violence concerning
24. any staff or patients in the past five years 2017 to date. Please include any cases that may have led to an out of court settlement..
25. 26. 27. 28. a. If your answer to question 5 was yes, please can you provide figures, specifically for the
29. total number of cases and total compensation paid per year. 30. b. If possible, can you provide a breakdown for each case, specifying year; cost; whether the claimant was a patient, staff member or other please specify.: and whether the perpetrator was a staff member or patient?
I would like to make the following FOI request for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust:
What training has been delivered to staff within the Trust relating to religion and religious beliefs, within the period 1st August 2022 to 1st August 2023?
I would like a list of all the sessions delivered to staff. If a course has been delivered multiple times, please list each instance separately. For each one, I would like to know:
What was the session title or topic if known.?
Was the session delivered even if only partially. by someone external to the Trust?
o If so, who?
o How much was paid to them for this?
o If payment is made, please specify if VAT was applicable, and if VAT is included in your figures..
I am writing to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. As a citizen of the United Kingdom, I am seeking access to certain information held by your organisation.
Please find the details of my request below:
Description of Information:
Do you have a digital or electronic tool to manage your operational activity in real-time in line with Operational Pressures Escalation Levels OPEL. Framework 2023/24 see: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PRN00551-OPEL-Framework-2023.24-V2.0.pdf for more information.
If so who is the supplier of this tool and when does the contract expire
If not, please provide an overview of how you manage OPEL levels within your organisation
Do you provide real-time data feeds into a your ICS System Control Centre
Timeframe of Information:
01/01/19 – Present Day
Re: Freedom of Information Request
I am writing to you from Leukaemia Care to request information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Leukaemia Care is the UK’s leading Leukaemia charity. We exist to improve the lives of everyone affected by Leukaemia, MDS and MPN. We provide information, advice and support for anyone affected, this includes patients and their friends and families too. We raise awareness of the issues impacting people affected by leukaemia, MDS and MPN, and campaign to fix them.
We are currently interested in finding out more information about the role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist CNS. within hospital trusts. We want to make sure that people with leukaemia are given the correct access to a CNS as we believe this role, and the support provided, is extremely valuable to those who have received a diagnosis and are being treated for leukaemia.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide as much detail as possible to the following requests in writing via email or post.
NB: All of the following requests are relating to the treatment of adults 16 years +. only.
The information we request is from your most recent data.
1, Which haematological cancers are treated at your trust?
2, How many blood cancer patients are under the care of your trust?
3, Total number of haematological Clinical Nurse Specialists are in the trust?
4, Total number of leukaemia specific CNS’s are in the trust?
– If you do have leukaemia specific CNS’s in the trust, how many leukaemia patients are there per leukaemia CNS’s?
– Do have myeloid and lymphoid specific CNS’s and if so, how many of each?
5, Are haematological/ blood cancer CNS’s required to undertake normal ward duties?
6, Have you measured patient access to CNS’s within the trust? If so, what was the outcome?
7, Do you have, or plan to have any funding in place for training more haematology or blood cancer specific CNS’s?
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust.
We are an appointed supplier to the Workforce Alliance RM6333 – International Healthcare Professional Recruitment & Associated Services Framework and require the following information.
Please may you provide me with:
The name and best contact details for your Chief People Officer, Head of recruitment, international recruitment lead or whoever would be the primary contact responsible for the recruitment of overseas Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health professionals or general clinical staffing professionals.
Please provide the following where available.
1. Contact name
2. Email address
3. Best contact number
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.
I appreciate that you may not be able to use the MS Forms link. I have a word version of the form which I append. I also include the data fields requested below.
NHS Pain Education
This information is being requested as a freedom of information request. We are trying to find out what education is taking place in the workplace for staff who work directly with patients. Although this form is several pages long it should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Section 1
1. Name of your organisation
2. Do you provide education for your healthcare staff about pain management? Delete as appropriate – if NO please do not continue with the form and return it to a.swift@bham.ac.uk.
Yes No
Section 2
3. Who do you deliver pain education to?
The following section is divided into staff groupings. Please add a cross in the relevant box to indicate who you provide pain management education to at least annually.
Mandatory Optional Mandatory for some but not all Not provided Not a staff group in this organisation
Band 3 support worker nursing or midwifery.
Nurses
Midwives
Health visitors
FY1/FY2
ST1/CT1
ST2/CT2
ST3-6
Consultant
Support worker therapy.
Physiotherapists
Occupational therapists
Speech and language therapists
Dieticians
Art therapists
Counselling team
Social workers
Dieticians
Chaplaincy
Psychologists
Pharmacists
Radiography and imaging team
Others please list.
4. What percentage of each of the following staff groups attending at least one pain education event in the last 12 months.
Support workers nursing and midwifery.
Nurses
Doctors
AHPs
Other please list.
5. Who delivers pain education in your organisation?
6. What methods do you use to deliver pain education to staff?
Face to face Online – asynchronous Online – synchronous Both F2F and online, participant chooses Method not used.
Classroom or lecture theatre LT. -lecture didactic.
Classroom or LT discussion/Q&A
Case study presentation and discussion
Video of past teaching sessions
Video of expert giving lecture or being interviewed
Simulation lab- management of a lifelike scenario
Skills demonstration e.g. injections
Supervised skills practice
Role play
Supervision in clinical area supervised practice.
Specialist embedded in the ward – work alongside
One to one coaching on request
Pain ward rounds include ward staff
Posters in the clinical area
Pocket guides
Dashboard messaging
Audit feedback
Intranet guidelines
Smartphone or app
Guidance pop-ups in electronic patient management or prescribing system
Ask the expert sessions
WhatsApp discussion groups
Pain meetings in clinical areas
Schwarz rounds
QI programmes
7. If you have a virtual learning environment as part of your pain management education please describe what methods are used e.g. case studies, narrated powerpoints, quizzes, reading materials.
8. Are there any other methods that you use?
9. Content of pain education.
The EFIC core curriculum contains seven domains. Please indicate which aspects of the curricula you include in your pain education all or some of the time.
Pain as a biopsychosocial phenomenon impact on the individual and their family/carers showing understanding of the cognitive, sensory and affective dimensions
The impact of pain on the patient and their family/carers
Pain as a multidimensional phenomenon with cognitive, sensory, and affective dimensions
The individual nature of pain and the factors contributing to the person’s understanding, experience and expression
Understand the importance of social roles, school/ work, occupational factors, finances, housing and recreational/leisure activities in relation to the patients’ pain
The importance of working in partnership with and advocating for patients and their families,
Promoting independence and self-management where appropriate
Prevalence of acute, chronic/persistent and cancer-related pain and the impact on healthcare and society
The characteristics and underlying mechanisms of nociceptive pain, inflammation, neuropathic pain, referred pain, phantom limb pain and explain nociplastic pain syndromes
The distinction between nociception and pain, including nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain
Mechanisms of transduction, transmission, perception and modulation in nociceptive pathways The relationship between peripheral/central sensitization and primary/secondary hyperalgesia
Mechanisms involved in the transition from acute to chronic/ persistent pain and how effective management can reduce this risk
The changes that occur in the brain during chronic/persistent pain and their possible impact including cognition, memory and mood. and cognitive-behavioural explanations such as fear-avoidance
The overlap between chronic/persistent pain and common co-morbidities, including stress, sleep, mood, depression and anxiety
The mechanisms underlying placebo and nocebo responses, and their relation to context, learning, genetics, expectations, beliefs and learning
The role of genetics and epigenetic mechanisms in relation to risk of developing chronic/persistent pain and pharmacotherapy
The importance of interprofessional working in pain management along with potential barriers and facilitators to team-based care
How to work respectfully and in partnership with patients, families/ carers, healthcare team members and agencies, to improve patient outcomes
Team working skills communication, negotiation, problem solving, decision-making, conflict management.
The professional perspectives, skills, goals and priorities of all team members
How to take a comprehensive pain history, an assessment of the patient across the lifespan and in care planning, consider social, psychological, and biological components of the pain condition
Person-centred care including how the following may influence the experience of illness, pain, pain assessment and treatment: Social factors, Cultural factors, Language, Psychological factors, Physical activity, Age, Health literacy, Values and beliefs, Traditional medical practices, Patients’ and families’ wishes, motivations, goals, and strengths
Patients’ and families’ different responses to the experience of pain and illness including affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses
The rationale for self-report of pain and the understand in which cases nurse-led ratings are necessary
At risk individuals for under-treatment of their pain e.g., individuals who are unable to self-report pain, neonates, cognitively impaired. and how to mitigate against this.
Using different assessment tools in different situations, using a person-centred approach
Valid, reliable and sensitive pain-assessment tools to assess pain at rest and on movement; tools that are appropriate to the needs of the patient and the demands of the care situation
Culturally sensitive and appropriate pain assessment for individuals who speak a different language to the language spoken by the healthcare professionals
Understand the rationale behind basic investigations in relation to serious pathology
What specialist assessment is, when it is needed, and how to refer.
Importance of accurate documentation
Assessment of pain coping skills and pain behaviours
Health promotion and self-management
Importance of non-pharmacological management
How to work with patients to develop goals for treatment
Evidence based complementary therapies for pain management e.g. acupuncture, reflexology.
Physical pain management strategies e.g. exercise, stretching, pacing, comfort, positioning, massage, manual therapies, heat/cold, hydrotherapy..
Psychological pain management strategies e.g. distraction, relaxation, stress management, patient and family education, counselling, health promotion and self-management..
Evidence based behavioural therapies e.g. CBT, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment, couple/family therapy, hypnosis/guided imagery, biofeedback.
Electrotherapies e.g. TENS, spinal cord stimulation.
Types of analgesics and potential combinations non-opioids, opioids, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, local anaesthetics.
Routes of delivery
Risks and benefits of various routes and methods of delivery PCA, Epidural, Nerve blocks, Plexus blocks..
Onset, peak effect, duration of effect.
Adverse events and management of these
Which drugs are appropriate to particular conditions and contexts
Side effects, detecting, limiting and managing these.
Long-term opioid use risks and benefits
Risk of addiction in different patient groups e.g. post-operative management, chronic pain management.
Addiction risk factors
Identification of aberrant drug use
Tapering opioid therapy
Preparation for discharge and ongoing pain management
10. Do you include anything else in your pain education that has not been captured so far?
11. Is there anything else that you would like to tell us about?
I am requesting the following information regarding under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 FOIA..
Payment of NHS Trust Suppliers
For the period between June 2022 and January 2023, please provide the statistics as follows:
The average number of days taken to make payments to suppliers, measured from the date of receipt of invoice or other notice to the date the cash is received by the supplier
The percentage of payments made within the reporting period which were paid in 30 days or fewer, between 31 and 60 days, and in 61 days or longer
The percentage of payments due within the reporting period which were not paid within the agreed payment period
I would like to request a list of all Operating Theatre Lights currently in use within Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust please. Specific detail required for each Operating Theatre Lights:
1. Name of hospital 2. Location within hospital e.g., theatre 1.
3. Manufacturer and model of Operating Theatre Lights in use
4. How many of each Operating Theatre Lights in use 5. Age of each individual Operating Theatre Lights date installed or date purchased. If possible, we would prefer the data in Excel or Word format not PDF. please
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information about nitrous oxide monitoring:
• Have you carried out nitrous oxide/Entonox personal sampling in your trust?
o If so, which departments have you carried out personal sampling in? • Did you find high results in any staff members?
o If yes:
How many staff members were affected?
What was the highest result you found?
Were these staff members informed?
What action was taken? e.g. have you installed mobile destruction units?.
• Have you suspended the use of Entonox at your trust?
Please provide the information by email.
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 or phone 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 within 20 working days. If you could please send an acknowledgement on receiving my request that would be much appreciated.
I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. to request data relating to the following three trainee roles: Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner, Education Mental Health Practitioner and Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner. Specifically I am seeking data on the numbers for each protected Category at each stage of the recruitment process: applications submitted, shortlisted, interviewed and made an offer, as illustrated in the table below. I understand that this information is available to your organization as an anonymised report within the NHS Jobs system. Ideally I’d like three distinct sets of data for each of the three trainee roles.
Under the freedom of information act 2000, I’m requesting the following information on compassionate use medicines:
1. How many patients at your trust have been supplied medicines approved through the Early Access to Medicines Scheme EAMS. each year between April 2014 and April 2023?
2. How many requests has your trust made to pharmaceutical companies for access to medicines offered through a company-led ‘compassionate use’ or ‘free of charge’ scheme each year between April 2014 and April 2023?
a. How many patients have received treatment with unlicensed medicines obtained this way each year between April 2014 and April 2023?
3. How many requests have clinicians at your trust submitted to pharmaceutical companies for access to an unlicensed medicine to treat patients each year between April 2014 and April 2023, outside of a company-led scheme?
a. How many patients have received treatment with unlicensed medicines obtained this way each year between April 2014 and April 2023?
Please provide the information by email. 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.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response within 20 working days.
Please can you provide me with the software system providers in the departments below that are used in your organization?
– BI reporting?
– Visualisation tools?
– Data management/architecture platforms? e.g. SQL, AWS etc.
– languages used? e.g. python, SQL etc.
– HR System?
– Finance System?
– Where is your data stored? Onsite or off-site?. cloud based etc.
For example:
BI Reporting – Power BI
Data Management – SQL
I am writing today to initiate an FOI request.
1. I would like to know the exact figures for the number of employees within Gloucestershire Health and Care Foundation NHS Trust who are currently listed by the trust as having a formal diagnosis of any mental health condition.
2. I should also like to know the number of staff members who have been suspended from their duties in the last 5 years/60 months, as well as the proportion of these staff who have/had a diagnosis of a mental health condition at the time of their suspension.
3. Additionally, I would like to know the numbers of complaints made against the trust in regards to the bullying, harassment and/or discrimination of its staff in the last 5 years/60 months.
4. I would also like to know the number of complaints made against the trust in regard to data protection and information governance in the last 5 years/60 months.
This is a freedom of information request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the following information you have pertaining to NHS Trust unlicensed medicine expenditure.
1. What is the total value of spend by your NHS Trust on unlicensed medication i.e. Special Order, Drug Tariff Special Order, Part VIIID Drug Tariff Special Order. that have a BNF liquid formulation e.g. liquid, solution, suspension.? Please provide this information on a volume and value basis for the following years please fill in the tables below..
Note: Value of spend to mean either net ingredient cost or actual cost. Please state which you have used below. Actual cost would be the total cost to NHS commissioners whereas NIC is the cost at list price excluding VAT.
Total value:
Type Total spend / cost on liquid unlicensed products procured
Apr-20 to
Mar-21 Apr-21 to
Mar-22 Apr-22 to Mar-23
Special Order
Drug Tariff Special Order
Part VIIID Drug Tariff Special Order
Other Special
Total volume:
Type Total volume of liquid unlicensed products procured
Apr-20 to
Mar-21 Apr-21 to
Mar-22 Apr-20 to
Mar-21
Special Order
Drug Tariff Special Order
Part VIIID Drug Tariff Special Order
Other Special
2. Do you outsource the manufacturing of liquid unlicensed products?
3. If no to question 3 use of outsourcing providers., what proportion of the products that you manufacture in-house are aseptically compounded rather than terminally sterilised?
4. If yes to question 3 use of outsourcing providers., what is the total value of spend by provider? Please provide this information for the following years please fill in the tables below..
Note: If more than 10 providers are used, please only detail spend with the top 10.
Outsourcing provider
fill in empty rows with provider name, add rows if required. Total value of liquid specials procured from each provider
Apr-20 to
Mar-21 Apr-21 to
Mar-22 Apr-20 to
Mar-21
RE: Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Dear Information Team
This is an information request relating to postage costs at the Trust.
Please include the information for each of the following financial years; 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22:
• How much does the Trust spend annually on postage costs?
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 have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for.
I would prefer a response via email, but if this is not possible, I will gladly accept letters to the address below.
Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.
Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request the following information. This information relates to the Gloucestershire Health and Care Children and Young People’s Services and their eating disorder services. Please could you provide the information to the following questions:
1. The number of patients referred to the service for eating disorders from 2018-2022 split monthly, if possible.
2. The number of patients referred to the service for eating disorders from 2018-2022 split by age 3. The number of patients referred to the service for eating disorders from 2018-2022 split by sex
4. The number of patients referred to the service for eating disorders from 2018-2022 split by whether they received inpatient or outpatient care
5. The number of patients referred to the service for eating disorders from 2018-2022 that received inpatient treatment
6. The number of patients referred to the service for eating disorders from 2018-2022 that had to wait longer than 12 weeks for any type of care.
We are working to provide accessible information in collaboration with the primary care network linked to the Trust.
Please can you provide me with a list of the top 10 requested languages/dialects in the last 12 months.
IAPT and Bipolar: Freedom of Information Request for Services
Version 1, 09/08/2022
Please enter the name of your NHS trust or IAPT service name and location: _____________________
1. Do you have local policies/guidelines about accepting referrals for those with Bipolar Disorder in your IAPT services? Yes/No.
a. If NO, please give details why this is e.g. national guidelines or local policies:_____________
b. Is Bipolar Disorder an exclusion criteria for your services? Yes/No
c. Does your service work with Bipolar Disorder specifically, or other issues in the context of Bipolar Disorder e.g. anxiety, PTSD.?
• Bipolar disorder specifically.
• Other issues in the context of Bipolar Disorder e.g. anxiety, PTSD..
• Both
2. Do you routinely screen for Bipolar Disorder in initial assessments? Yes/No.
Please give details here if you wish:__________________
a. If YES, what is the process you use for screening?
• Self-report measure e.g. mood disorders questionnaire, hypomania checklist.
• Structured interview questions
• Other Please state.:___________________
b. If YES, what is the process when you suspect somebody has Bipolar disorder?
• Continue usual IAPT treatment
• Continue IAPT treatment with adaptations for Bipolar
• Refer back to GP
• Refer to secondary mental health team
• Other Please state.:___________________
3. Have your staff received training about Bipolar Disorder tick all that apply.?
• Training on screening for Bipolar Disorder
• Training on psychological therapies for Bipolar Disorder
• No training
• Other Please state.:___________________
4. In the past two years, how many referrals have you received in total?__________
a. How many of these people had a Bipolar disorder diagnosis at the point of referral? ______________ Not known
5. In the past two years, how many referrals were not accepted at the point of referral without an assessment. in total?_____________ Not known
a. How many of these were due to Bipolar Disorder? _____________ Not known
6. In the past two years, how many referrals were offered an assessment/screening and then discharged without being offered therapy?_____________ Not known
a. How many of these were due to Bipolar Disorder? _____________ Not known
7. In the past two years, how many people have entered treatment with you in total 2 or more active sessions.? ___________ a. How many of these had Bipolar Disorder?____________ Not known
8. What is your definition of treatment completion?_______ Not known
9. In the past two years, how many people who entered treatment have completed the scheduled treatment with you? ___________ a. How many of these had Bipolar Disorder?____________ Not known
10. In the past two years, how many people have completed treatment with you in total using your service definition on of completion? ___________ a. How many of these had Bipolar Disorder?____________ Not known
Please can you answer the following 3 questions:
1. From September 2022 to November 2022, please list the wards/departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies in your Adult Nursing, Mental Health, Community Hospitals?
2. Please provide a list of off-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 6 months.
3. Please provide a breakdown of the number of shifts covered by each off-framework agency and their average hourly charge rate for the following disciplines:
Registered General Nurses Adult & Paediatric., Registered Mental Health Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.
Please can you provide me with the Information below?
1. Who is the head of procurement responsible for approving agency usage for Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy locums?
2. Who are the managers responsible for agency usage on and off framework. for the following departments at all hospitals associated with the Trust:
a. Physiotherapy
b. Occupational Therapy
3. Please can you provide the contact number and email addresses for the managers listed in relation to question 1 and 2.
4.. How much was your Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups since January 2023 – present?
a. Physiotherapy
b. Occupational Therapy
5. Please provide the names of the agencies currently used by the Trust to supply Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists – please include the % of shifts filled by each agency since January 2023.
6. Do you use a direct engagement model to facilitate locum placements for Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, if so, which one?
7: What is the highest rate paid for Band 6 Physiotherapists and Band 6 Occupational Therapists since January 2023?
I trust this email finds you well. My name is Melissa Thiele, and I am the Project Lead supporting Scaling People Services for the Lincolnshire Integrated Care System ICS.. As part of my responsibilities, I am working closely with Lincolnshire Community Health Services LCHS., United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust ULHT., and Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust LPFT. to explore cost-saving opportunities, corporate efficiencies, and identify areas for collaboration at the system level.
One of the specific programmes I am currently focusing on involves the scaling of workforce teams in the following departments:
1. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Team
2. Recruitment and Resourcing
3. Statutory and Mandatory Training Team
To facilitate informed discussions regarding team structure and size, I am reaching out to peer organisations within the Model Health System, and I have identified your Trust as a potential peer based on specific criteria. In particular, we are interested in organisations of a similar size and scope.
Therefore, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am formally requesting the following information related to the aforementioned teams within your organisation:
1. Organisational structure detailing the hierarchy and reporting lines of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Team, Recruitment and Resourcing, and Statutory and Mandatory Training Team.
2. Banding information for each role within the mentioned teams, specifying the band levels and associated job roles.
3. Whole-Time Equivalent WTE. figures for each team, providing an overview of the staffing levels within the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity Team, Recruitment and Resourcing, and Statutory and Mandatory Training Team.
Dear Information Team,
This is an information request relating to posters paid for by the trust in the last 3 financial years, and the current year to date 2019,20 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23..
Please include the following information:
total amount and cost of all posters paid for by the trust which are used in the hospitals, clinics, offices and other buildings of the trust.
the total number of posters in foreign languages paid for by the trust
the total cost of foreign language posters
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.
I am emailing to request information, under Freedom of Information, to support significant transformational work being undertaken in our Core Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service CAMHS. in Hull and East Riding East Yorkshire..
I work as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and we are working in partnership with NHS England via CLEAR to look at areas of challenge within our service and make recommendations for innovation. I am the Clinical Sponsor for CLEAR with in our service and it is in this capacity I am emailing you. I have attached a briefing document which summarises the CLEAR project.
An aspect of the project will involve reviewing workforce data and planning. We would like to compare staffing ratios with percentage of the population of our locality with other Core CAMHS services across the country to get a measure of how well we are doing, or whether we need to invest and remodel our workforce.
I am therefore requesting data as to staffing WTE. per percentage of the population for Core CAMH Services across the country. I was wondering if you could assist with his please?
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information regarding complaints received by GLOUCESTERSHIRE HEALTH AND CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST between 1st September 2022 and 31st August 2023 inclusive.. Specifically, I would like to know:
1. How many women inpatients complained that a trans woman inpatient was sharing the same sleeping accommodation as the complainant?
2. How many women inpatients complained that a trans woman inpatient was using the same women-only day rooms. that had been made available to the complainant?
3. How many women inpatients complained about both of the aspects of their care referred to in questions 1. and 2.?
For the avoidance of doubt, it may be helpful for me to note that:
– My questions are in reference to written complaints which may have been originally made orally and subsequently recorded in writing. received by the Trust.
– The terms ‘sleeping accommodation’ and ‘women-only day rooms’ are being used in the same sense that they are used in NHS England’s guidance 2019 guidance ‘Delivering same-sex accommodation’, retrieved
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Please provide the information in the form an email quoting the reference RTQ.
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 might refine my request.
I am writing to you on behalf of Philips UKI Install Base team.
We would like to place a Freedom of Information request, wishing to obtain a full equipment Install Base report for all Imaging systems & Ultrasound devices across all hospitals in your NHS Trust. We are specifically looking for the following information;
Equipment type
Installation date
Installation location which hospital.
Equipment modality Digital X-ray/MR/Image Guided Therapy/Ultrasound/CT.
Original Equipment Manufacturer
Associated equipment service contract
Please download the template here, populate and send back once completed.
1. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and RGN’s from ON framework agencies?
2. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies October 2023 to date?
3. Who at director level is responsible for patient safety and staffing levels and could you provide me with their contact details?
4. Who at temporary staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide me with their contact details?
5. What is the temporary staffing generic email address?
I am writing to request the information below, which the Trust has a duty to provide under both Section 181 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Consolidation. Act 1992 and Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. How many Band 2 staff are currently employed by the Trust with each of the following job titles – Healthcare Assistant, Healthcare Support Worker, Clinical Support Worker, Nursing Assistant, Maternity Support Worker?
What are the job titles of other Band 2 staff currently employed by the Trust with job descriptions matched to the Band 2 Clinical Support Worker CSW. National Role Profile, and how many have each job title?
2. How many Band 3 staff are currently employed by the Trust with each of the following job titles – Healthcare Assistant, Healthcare Support Worker, Clinical Support Worker, Nursing Assistant, Maternity Support Worker?
What are the job titles of other Band 3 staff currently employed by the Trust with job descriptions matched to the Band 3 Clinical Support Worker CSW. National Role Profile, and how many have each job title?
3. Please list the total number of staff with each of the job titles included in the response to 1. by Ward/Department/Unit/Clinic.
4. What is the voluntary resignation rate over the last 12 months for Band 2 staff with each of the job titles included in the response to 1.?
5. What is the voluntary resignation rate over the last 12 months for Band 3 staff with each of the job titles included in the response to 2.?
6. What is the total labour turnover rate over the last 12 months for Band 2 staff with each of the job titles included in the response to 1.?
7. What is the total labour turnover rate over the last 12 months for Band 3 staff with each of the job titles included in the response to 2.?
8. What is the current vacancy rate for Band 2 staff with each of the job titles included in the response to 1.? Please provide the actual number and what percentage of the FTE total this represents.
9. What is the current vacancy rate for Band 3 staff with each of the job titles included in the response to 2.? Please provide the actual number and what percentage of the FTE total this represents.
10. When were the job descriptions last updated for each of the Band 2 job titles included in the response to 1.?
11. When were the job descriptions last updated for each of the Band 3 job titles included in the response to 2.?
12. Please provide copies of the most up-to-date job descriptions and the job descriptions preceding the latest update for each of the Band 2 job titles included in the response to 1..
13. Please provide copies of the most up-to-date job descriptions and the job descriptions preceding the latest update for each of the Band 3 job titles included in the response to 2..
14. When was the last time that each of the Band 2 roles included in the response to 1. were reviewed at a Job Evaluation matching panel? Please provide copies of the Job Matching Report for each.
15. When was the last time that each of the Band 3 roles included in the response to 2. were reviewed at a Job Evaluation matching panel? Please provide copies of the Job Matching Report for each.
16. Please provide copies of the training and competency frameworks used locally for each of the Band 2 and Band 3 job titles included in the responses to 1. and 2..
17. Please list all Band 2 job titles currently on the Trust’s establishment along with each current vacancy rate. Please provide the actual number and what percentage of the FTE total this represents.
18. Please list all Band 3 job titles currently on the Trust’s establishment along with each current vacancy rate. Please provide the actual number and what percentage of the FTE total this represents.
19. Over the past 12 months, how many Bank staff have covered work usually done by employees in each of the job titles included in the response to 1..
20. Please provide the contractual documents, terms and conditions, policies and agreements that pertain to Bank staff covering work usually done by staff in the job titles included in the response to 1..
21. How many apprentices are currently employed by the Trust in apprentice equivalents of each of the job titles included in the response to 1.?
22. Please provide the relevant sections of any policies, procedures or protocols that would frustrate the Trust making employer pension contributions for backpay to staff who are moved from Band 2 to Band 3 because of a changed job evaluation.
Under the Freedom of Information Act I would like to request the following information:
Link to or copy of your trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Plan PSIRP.
I would like you to provide this information as a website URL, or where this does not exist, as a PDF attachment.
I am writing to obtain information about your Trust’s funding on interpreters and the
translation services they provide under the Freedom of Information Act.
To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting:
• How much the trust spent on foreign interpreters in each of the following financial years: 2019-20; 2020-21 and 2021-22.
• A breakdown of the languages that an interpreter was needed to translate.
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the period August 2022 – August 2023 regarding the employment and related details of Physician Associates PAs. within your trust. I believe this information is essential for public interest, transparency, and to better understand the role of PAs within the healthcare system. Please provide the information in digital media, specifically PDF, Excel, or Word documents.
To facilitate the processing of my request, please provide the following details:
1. Number of Physician Associates PAs. Employed:
– Please provide the total number of Physician Associates employed in your trust for the stated time period.
2. Average Annual Salary of PAs:
– Please disclose the average annual salary, or salary range, for Physician Associates employed in your trust for the stated time period, and a breakdown of how many PAs are on each Agenda for Change pay band.
3. Average Weekly Working Hours:
– Specify the average number of hours worked per week by Physician Associates employed at your trust for the stated time period, and the average number of hours worked outside of the 9am-5pm time range.
4. Job Duties and Responsibilities:
– Provide a detailed description of the job duties and responsibilities of Physician Associates within your trust for the stated time period.
5. Supervision and Accessibility:
– Clarify what profession and grade are supervising Physician Associates and whether PAs at your trust are able to attend work if their supervising clinician is not immediately contactable by them.
6. Role in Filling Rota Gaps:
– Indicate whether Physician Associates at your trust are permitted to fill rota gaps left by GMC Registered Medical Doctors. If so, specify the grade of doctors they are authorised to cover for.
7. Hourly Rates for Bank Shifts:
– Please provide the hourly rate range paid to Physician Associates working bank shifts at your trust for the stated time period. Break down this range according to years of service if applicable.
8. Prospective Employment:
– Please disclose the number of Physician Associates your trust plans to employ in the next 5 years, or business cases out for employing PAs in the next 5 years.
I understand that the Act requires a response within 20 working days. If, for any reason, my request cannot be fulfilled within this timeframe, please let me know the expected timeframe for a response and the reasons for any delays.