Friday 8th June 2022
RE: Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
————————-Information Team
This is an information request relating to staff networks at the Trust. As an example of a staff network, see here: https://www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-and-diversity/lgbt-staff-network/ Please provide me with the following information:
• A list of all the staff networks at the trust
• Whether each network receives funding from the trust and, if so, how much please express annually for the last three financial years.
• How much FTE equivalent staff time each network is entitled to. For example, a staff network may have a chair who’s entitled to spend 10% of their working hours devoted to the network please express annually for the last three financial years.
• A list of events that each network has held in this financial year so far April to the present day., including the title of the event, information on any guest speakers and the time of the event
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.
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062-2023
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information on waiting times for ADHD assessments in England:
1. The number of undiagnosed children age 11-18 years. currently on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment on the NHS.
1a. Please can you also provide the same information for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
2. The current average waiting time for an undiagnosed child age 11-18 years. to see a psychiatrist for ADHD assessment after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
2a. The longest waiting time for a child currently on the list.
2b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
3. How many child assessments were done in the past year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
3a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
4. The current average waiting time for a child age 11-18 years. between ADHD diagnosis and starting treatment on the NHS. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by type of treatment medication or behavioural therapy.
4a. The longest waiting time between diagnosis and treatment for a child currently on the list.
4b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
5. The number of undiagnosed adults currently on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment on the NHS.
5a. Please can you also provide the same information for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit
6. The current average wait time for an undiagnosed adult to see a psychiatrist for ADHD after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
6a. The longest waiting time for an adult currently on the list
6b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
7. How many adult assessments were done in the past year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
7a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
8. The current average waiting time for an adult between ADHD diagnosis and starting treatment on the NHS. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by type of treatment medication or behavioural therapy.
8a. The longest waiting time between diagnosis and treatment for an adult currently on the list.
8b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
108-2023
I would like to know how many schools in this Trust serve meat that may contain nitrates or nitrites. Please provide a numerical answer, for the number of hospitals.
120-2122
Sent: 24 May 2021 10:45
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request – Waste Disposal
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust relating to waste disposal services:
1. The name of the incumbent clinical and hazardous waste collector/disposer. When their contract began and when it will be out to tender again.
2. The number of tonnes per week or month of each Category.
3. The price per tonne paid for each Category.
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 your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.
In any case, if you can identify ways that my request can be refined, please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this. I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for, my details are outlined below.
452-2023
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act for a record of all the people who have died in a particular location between January 2016 and December 2022. Specifically, everyone who has died at Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital. Over this time frame the trust responsible for Wotton Lawn has changed and up until 2019 it was the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust. If the trust does not hold records for the time when it was part of 2gether, then please can you respond to my questions below based on a time frame from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust’s creation in October 2019 to December 2022. I am trying to find out:
• How many deaths occurred at Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital between January 2016 and December 2022.
• The number of deaths at Wotton Lawn between January 2016 and December 2022 that are suspected to be suicides. • The number of deaths occurred in the community between January 2016 and December 2022 among absconders/missing persons from Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital. • The number of deaths among absconders/missing persons from Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital between January 2016 and December 2022 that are suspected to be suicides.
023-2023
Do you use any kind of RFID?
318-2022
Please consider this as a Freedom of Information request. The purpose of this request is to identify health authority policies for dealing with alcohol and other substance use in employees of the authority who are registered healthcare professionals with the aim of understanding whether authorities have distinct policies or whether it is dealt with under existing wider policy. With this in mind please could you answer all of the following questions and supply the requested information and documentation: 1. Does your authority have a distinct policy covering alcohol and/or other substance use by employees of the authority? If so, on what date was this policy implemented? What policy did this supersede? Please provide a copy of your current alcohol and substance use policy. And 2. Does your authority’s current occupational health policy include sections or subsections which cover the use of alcohol and/or other substances by employees of your authority who are registered healthcare professionals, including but not limited to alcohol and/or substance addiction and/or impairment at work due to substance use? If so, on what date was this policy implemented? Please provide a copy of your current occupational health policy And 3. What policy within your authority covers performance management issues related to alcohol and substances within the workplace, including but not limited to impairment at work due to alcohol or substance use, and/or criminal activity either during or outside of work hours related to alcohol and substance use? On what date was this policy implemented? Please provide a copy of the current policy in which this information is included. And 4. If there is a concern regarding a registered healthcare professional employee’s alcohol or substance use, please outline the process applied within your authority for dealing with the issue, with reference to pathways for the employee concerned, and who has responsibility for decision making for any given pathway the employee is placed upon, and how decisions are made as to how the pathways are implemented.
259-2022
I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information.
1. What date did your mental health crisis helpline become operational? Please give a date for both the adult crisis line and crisis line for children and young people if separate.
2. How many calls did you receive to your mental health crisis line in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
3. How many calls to your mental health crisis line were abandoned in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
4. In seconds, what was the average time taken to answer calls to your mental health crisis line in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
5. In seconds, what was the maximum time taken to answer a call to your mental health crisis line in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
If the following questions cannot be answered within the 18 hour time limit, please answer only questions 1 to 5.
6. How many crisis line call handlers were in post on 1 April 2022, across both adult and child/young people helplines? If data for 1 April 2022 is not available, please provide figures correct at the time of responding to this request..
7. How many of those in question 6 were qualified mental health professionals? For example, they might have a Registered Mental Health Nurse Diploma or degree or relevant professional qualification.
260-2022
Please could you provide the following information:
• Number of Employees
• Number of IT Staff
• The name of your current IT Service Management Software and the company that supplies it
• Whether this this a Cloud / SaaS or On-Premise Solution
• The number of licences and whether these are Named or Concurrent
• The length of your current contract for this Software / Service
• The contract expiry date, and whether you intend to change it
• The Contract Review Date: approximate date of when the organisation is planning to review this contract..:
• The Annual cost of the contract
• The Total cost of the contract
• The person responsible for this Software / Service and their contact details name + email + direct phone number if possible.
• The lead person to contact about any future projects to review or replace this Software / Service, and their contact details name + email + direct phone number if possible.
If this solution is currently on Premise, please could you also provide the following information:
• Do you have a cloud migration strategy?
• If so, is there specific budget allocated to this?
• Would you be looking to move to a cloud service at the end of the current contract ?
082-2022
Subject: NHS Trusts – Freedom of Information Request
Importance: High
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To Whom It May Concern,
Please kindly send to me, at the email address below, all recorded information that the Trust holds regarding its outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards in the financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22 and its current and planned outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards in 2022/23 and future financial years.
Such information should include all recorded information regarding: –
a. the Trust’s outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards for the use by staff, volunteers, patients and service users;
b. the ways in which the Trust uses pre-paid debit cards;
c. the full names. of any outsourced service providers. supplying the Trust;
d. the contracts. with any outsourced service providers. supplying the Trust;
e. the dates. on which contracts. with outsourced service providers. expire;
f. the total fees paid by the Trust, or budgeted to be paid, by supplier, for each of the financial years requested above;
g. the number of pre-paid debit card users the Trust had, or anticipates having, for each of the financial years listed above;
h. the tendering process, or other procurement method, under which the outsourced contracts. were awarded;
i. the tendering process, or other procurement method, under which the service will be re-contracted; and
j. the date on which the process referred to in h., for the re-contracting of the outsourced service, will commence.
k. the name and email address of the person within the Trust who has responsibility for the Trust’s management and provision of pre-paid debit cards.
Please respond to: cwright@suitsmecard.com I would be grateful if you would provide the information requested above to me within the 20 working days from the date of this request, as required by the Freedom of Information Act.
Many thanks in advance.
255-2022
I am interested in gathering information on the different Autism Spectrum Condition ASC. assessment models that are used within your NHS trust. I was hoping you could share some information with us.
We are looking for the following: 1. The assessment model you use
2. Any paperwork/emails you send out in relation to ASC assessment and diagnosis
3. If and when you need psychological input from a Clinical psychologist during the diagnostic process
292-2022
This is a freedom of information FOI. request relating to non-academic job titles of paid employees at your institution.
Please provide the following information for the year 2021-2:
• A comprehensive list of employee job titles which feature any of the following phrases: equality, diversity, inclusion, wellbeing, carbon, energy, net zero, climate, change maker, race, BAME, LGBTQ+, sustainability, art, awareness, involvement, culture, solidarity, intersectionality, or green.
• The total number of employees with each job title.
• A total cost for the listed roles, including salary and employer pension contributions. There is no need to provide individually identifiable data.
This request is not intended to capture academic roles, so please exclude them, for example ‘Lecturer in Art History’.
If there is any information you are unable to provide, please provide as much information requested as possible.
I would prefer a response via email, but if this is not possible, I will gladly accept letters to the address below.
113/2022
Can you please provide me with the below information? 1.a. Who is the head of procurement and is responsible for approving Nursing agency usage at this Service ? b. Secondly, who is the temporary / flexible staffing lead responsible for the management of this service?
2. Please can you provide the contact number and email address in relation to both question 1 a. and b.
3. Have you used Off-framework nursing agency staff in the last 4 months?
4. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend across each service between January 2022 – April 2022 a. Urgent treatment centre b. Urgent care centre c. Emergency department 5. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between January 2022 – April 2022 a. ENP b. ANP c. Doctors 6. Following the same breakdown of staff groups in Question 3, how many Off-framework shifts have been unfilled between January 2022 – April 2022?
1.a. Who is the head of procurement and is responsible for approving Nursing agency usage? b. Secondly, who is the temporary / flexible staffing lead responsible for the management of this service?
2. Please can you provide the contact number and email address in relation to both question 1 a. and b.
3. Have you used Off-framework nursing agency staff in the last 4 months?
4. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between January 2022 – April 2022 a. RGN’s b. RCN’s c. RMN d. Specialist RN ITU. e. Specialist RN A&E. f. HCA 5. Following the same breakdown of staff groups in Question 3, how many Off-framework shifts have been unfilled between January 2022 – April 2022?
Kind RGood Morning,
Please could you provide me with a response to the Two Freedom of Information Requests? They are both attached and Subjected. If you could answer both of these at the same time that would be great.
326-2022
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your trust. Please may you provide me with:
1. Total time, in hours, children spent in A&E, each financial year, since 2010, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
2. Total time, in hours, adults spent in A&E, each financial year, since 2010, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
Please provide the data in a table format.
223-2022
Thank you for receiving this and taking the time needed for it.
RE: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
For your NHS Trusts. and for yourself if you have it. please could you provide the following information:
1. The current wait time for an undiagnosed child under the age of 18. to see a psychiatrist for ADHD after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
a. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the last five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
2. The current wait time for an undiagnosed adult to see a psychiatrist for ADHD after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
a. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the last five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
3. The number of children under the age of 18. with an ADHD diagnosis. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the last five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
4. The number of adults over the aged of 18 with an ADHD diagnosis. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the last five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
5. How many adult assessments were done in the last year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
6. How many children assessments were done in the last year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
7. In the last year how many adult ADHD assessment referrals have been rejected. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
8. In the last year how many children ADHD assessment referrals have been rejected. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
9. In the last year how many adults with an ADHD diagnosis had a death recorded as suicide. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
10. In the last year how many children with an ADHD diagnosis had a death recorded as suicide. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
11. In the last year how many adults on the waiting list for an ADHD diagnosis had a death recorded as suicide. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
12. In the last year how many children on the waiting list for an ADHD diagnosis had a death recorded as suicide. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
313-2022
1. Please confirm the legal name of your organisation
2. Are you a foundation trust?
3. Are you a teaching hospital / teaching trust?
4. What is your NHS geographical location for example London, East, South West etc..
5. What is your current number of nursing staff?
6. What is your current vacancy FTE. for qualified nursing?
7. What is your current vacancy FTE. for unqualified nursing eg. Care support worker.
8. What was your total framework agency spend on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
9. What was your total framework agency usage hours. on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
10. What was your total framework agency spend on unqualified nursing for the last financial year?
11. What was your total framework agency usage hours. on unqualified nursing for the last financial year?
12. What was your total non-framework agency spend on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
13. What was your total non-framework agency usage hours. on qualified nursing for the last financial year?
14. What was your total non-framework agency spend on unqualified nursing for the last financial year?
15. What was your total non-framework agency usage hours. on unqualified nursing for the last financial year?
16. Who supplies your bank staff? In house or NHSP, Locums Nest etc..
17. In the last financial year did you recruit overseas nursing staff?
18. For overseas nursing staff do you do your own recruitment or use an agent?
19. How many nursing posts did you fill with overseas recruits in the last financial year?
20. Moving forward will your overseas recruitment be managed by the trust or via the ICS
077-2122
Sent: 07 April 2021 12:24
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Requesting information on Electronic Document Management System
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————————-Gloucestershire Hlth and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
In January 2019, the Government announced its new NHS Long Term Plan, and part of that plan requires all secondary healthcare providers to transition to digital records by 2023. We are now two years into the plan, and we would like to establish where your Trust is within the process. We would be grateful if you could respond to the questions below.
1. Have you already started digital conversion of your paper medical records? YES/NO
If YES, which outsource provider do you use?
1. a. Do you undertake any scanning in-house? YES/NO
2. If you have not yet started to digitise your medical records do you have a timescale for when you would like to start this project? Please advise one of the following. • Within 6 months • Within 12 months • Within 18 months • Within 24 months • Other please state estimated timescale.
• No plans
3. If you are planning a digital transformation project, how will you manage the procurement? • OJEU • Framework
• Other please advise which.
3. a. If the answer is Framework, which framework will you use? Please advise one of the following. • LPP • ESPO • SBS • H.T.E. • NOE CPC • Other please advise which.
4. Who has responsibility for digital transformation/medical records digitisation within the Trust? Please provide:
• Name
• Job title
• Contact details
5. Does the Trust have an EDMS Electronic Document Management System.? YES/NO
If YES:
• Which system is in use?
• When does the contract expire?
If NO, does the Trust have a plan to procure an EDMS? YES/NO
6. What are the timescales to procure an EDMS? Please advise one of the following.
• Within 6 months • Within 12 months • Within 18 months • Within 24 months • Other please state estimated timescale.
• No plans
7. Which EPR Electronic Patient Record. systems does the Trust use?
8. Does the Trust have the ability to deliver “Virtual Clinics”? YES/NO
Thank you for your assistance.
247-2022
Starlight Children’s Foundation uses the power of play to make the experience of illness and treatment better for children and their families in hospital. We support children, families, and health professionals to make moments of escape for those who need it most. I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information to help us build a profile of the ‘state of play’ in hospital. This will support Starlight effectively and proactively target and deliver our services to hospitals that most need it.
If you are part of a group hospital model, we would like you to return data for each hospital provider who cares for babies, children, and young people.
I would like to know for each hospital in your Trust, including the following departments:
· Accident and Emergency
· Outpatient
· Diagnostic
· Phlebotomy
· Day case
· Surgical Units
· Inpatient Units
· Neonatal Units
Between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022, for each hospital:
1. The name of the hospital and their wards/departments that provide services to 0–17-year-olds 2. The number of admissions for 0–17-year-olds 3. A breakdown of the ethnicity, gender, and deprivation percentiles of 0–17-year-olds admitted
4. The number of 0–17-year-olds treated on an adult ward/bed and reason e.g., patient choice, bed shortages etc.. I would also like to know for each hospital:
5. Which Directorates. does the Play Teams. sit in?
6. The number of the following roles, salary band, and approximately how many hours do they work per week? Job Title Total Number of Staff Salary Band Full-Time 40+ hours. Full Time 32-40 hours. Part Time 18-31 hours. Part Time Less than 18 hours. Zero Hours Contract Play Team – Leader/Manager Play Team – Health Play Specialist HPS. Play Team – Senior HPS Play Team – HPS Student Play Team – Play Therapist Play Team – Play worker or play leader Play Team- Bank Staff Play Team – Volunteers Other Play Staff please specify. 7. Does the Play Team leads./managers., if you have them, hold a Foundation Degree in Healthcare Play Specialism?
8. If any, how many of your health play specialists are registered with the Healthcare Play Specialist Education Trust HPSET.? 9. How many hours do your play team typically work during one shift?
10. Which shifts do the Play Team typically work? Select all that are applicable.
Morning shifts Afternoon shifts Evening shifts Day shifts 12-hour shifts Weekends 11. Do you have any of the following in each of the specified hospitals? If yes, please specify where these provisions are located e.g., department/ward name.:
a. Playful ‘non-play team’ staff staff create opportunities for children to play but are not health play specialists nor play workers. i. If yes, where are they located:
b. Playrooms or play areas please specify if these are age-specific.
i. If yes, where are they located:
c. Toys, games, activities, and play items please specify if these are age-specific.
i. If yes, where are they located:
d. Commissioned or voluntary external entertainers who come in occasionally i. If yes, where are they located:
e. Starlight provisions services offered by Starlight. i. If yes, where are they located:
f. Other donations for toys and activities
i. If yes, where are they located:
12. Is there an annual budget for the delivery of play e.g., toys, staffing, etc.. in your hospitals.? If yes, for each individual hospital: a. What is the overall annual budget?
b. How much of the budget is for staffing? c. How much of the budget is spent on resources and materials for play e.g., toys.?
13. Is there a budget available for training and development that play staff can access? a. If yes, how much is this?
14. Do you have a guidance/policy on how Play should be delivered? If yes, please can you attach a copy of this or a link where it can be accessed
250-2022
Subject: Freedom of Information request: suicide prevention in mental health inpatient wards
Thank you for processing this freedom of information request, which is being sent to all 50 mental health NHS trusts in England and Wales.
The information we are seeking will inform a national study into the effectiveness of alarmed doors and anti-ligature products in reducing suicide rates on UK mental health inpatient wards. The results of the study will be of great value to NHS trusts and health boards in their decision-making around the procurement of these products, taking into account the substantial costs. To provide relevant estimates, we are relying on completeness of data provided by NHS trusts. On study completion write-up to be completed by September 2023. the authors will disseminate the findings to all Trusts and health boards providing data, as well as to central and local stakeholders.
The study is being undertaken at UCL University College London. by a team of NHS staff with dual clinical and academic NHS/UCL contracts. The study’s primary supervisor is Dr Alexandra Pitman, Associate Professor in Psychiatry at UCL, who is an academic consultant psychiatrist with experience as clinical lead of an inpatient psychiatric ward. The study’s secondary supervisor is Professor Sonia Johnson, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry at UCL and Director of the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit PRU. for England, which provides evidence to the Department of Health and Social Care and its arm’s length bodies to support policy. As the lead researcher, my own background is as a registered mental health nurse currently studying for a MSc at UCL.
112-2122
Sent: 10 June 2021 14:24
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RE: FOI 112-2122 – Clarification This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. If unsure, please contact ghcit@ghc.nhs.uk
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Yes, please could the trust still try to answer all of the questions it can. I understand that questions 4 and 5 and possibly 6. may not be answerable due to this information only be recorded in patient notes. However, I hope that trust is still able to provide some information for questions 1-3 and questions 7 and 8. Kind regards, Alex
From: Freedom of Information
To: Alex Rossiter
Subject: FOI 112-2122 – Clarification ——————-
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 112-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
• We would only be able to provide information for questions 1, 2 and 3. The information around self-harm is text recorded in the patient notes and therefore not reportable. Therefore, with this in mind would you still like the Trust to answer questions 1-3 only?
Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
Kind Regards,
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Legal Services Officer Legal Services. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8357 — Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
From: Alex Rossiter [mailto:a.rossiter@samaritans.org] Sent: 14 May 2021 11:29
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request – Improving Access to Psychological Therapies IAPT.
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, I’d like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about Improving Access to Psychological Therapies IAPT. programmes. delivered by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. I am part of a group of researchers carrying out an evaluation of NHS IAPT services across England. As part of this project, we are submitting FOI requests to a number of NHS Mental Health Trusts to ask about local policy and practice. In 2019 and 2020 please provide data for each year.: 1. How many referrals did the IAPT service receive?
2. How many people entered treatment with the IAPT service? 3. How many people were judged not suitable for treatment by the IAPT service with the following outcomes as a number and % of total referrals.:
a. No action taken or directed back to referrer b. Signposted elsewhere c. Not assessed
d. Referred to another therapy service
4. How many referrals did your service receive where self-harm was present? a. If possible, please answer with reference to the sub-questions below:
i. How many people were assessed as presenting with intentional self-harm e.g. those whose problem descriptors. included ‘intentional self-harm’ code X60-X84.? ii. How many people were assessed as presenting with ‘non-accidental self-injury or repeated self-harm’ rated 2-4 when determining their mental health care cluster?
5. How many referrals were judged not suitable for treatment by the IAPT service where self-harm was present?
a. If possible, please answer with reference to the sub-questions below:
i. How many referrals were rejected that were assessed as presenting with intentional self-harm e.g. those whose problem descriptors. included ‘intentional self-harm’ code X60-X84.? ii. How many referrals were rejected that were assessed as presenting with ‘non-accidental self-injury or repeated self-harm’ rated 2-4 when determining their mental health care cluster?
6. How many people who currently self-harm were offered treatment with your service?
Questions 7/8 refer to the IAPT service’s operational procedures affecting people who self-harm. 7. Does the IAPT service offer treatment for people who self-harm?
8. On what basis are judgments around treatment for people who self-harm made?
a. Is self-harm included as part of the IAPT service’s operational policy for example, in exclusion/ inclusion criteria or equivalent thresholds.?
i. If possible, please attach your IAPT operational policy or other internal documents that are used to determine exclusion and/or inclusion in treatment from the IAPT service.
b. If possible, please attach any other relevant documents which support judgements for treatment related to self-harm.
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016-2022
Sent: 01 February 2022 15:41
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI request – funding
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
This is an information request relating to payments made to charities and third sector organisations. Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:
• The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.
• The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately. The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:
• Royal Society for Public Health RSPH.
• Independent Sage
• NHS Confederation
• Keep our NHS public
• SOS NHS
• Care and Support Workers Organise
• UNITED VOICES OF THE WORLD
• Health Campaigns Together • Doctors for the NHS
• We Own It
• The People’s Assembly • Zero Covid Coalition
• Health Campaign Together
• Docs Not Cops
• British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
• Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• Royal College of Ophthalmology • Royal College of Psychiatrists • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 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.
Kind regards,
Scott Simmonds
051-2122
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 051-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response attached in excel format. Should you have any queries in relation to our response in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:-
– Associate Director of Corporate Governance Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office ICO. for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
339-2022
Can you tell me:
The total number of deaths, recorded as suicide, of inpatients at the trust in the years:
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
The total number of deaths, recorded as suicide, of inpatients being treated within Child, Adolescent, Mental Health Services CAMHS. at the trust in the years:
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
The total number of Patient Safety Incidents Reports produced at the trust within CAMHS where the level of severity was classed as “death” in the years:
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
Please can you send the information to this email address.
208-2022
I am working for Rizues Limited – NHS National Framework for uniforms.
Could you please provide me the email address & name of the head of procurement ? I would appreciate that Thank you in advance
210-2022
I’m writing to request the name and contact email address of your Trust’s Guardian of Safe Working or similar..
112-2022
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
REFERENCE: 113-2022 Good afternoon, We received a freedom of information request on 16th May.
Is this something you can help with at all please?
I would be grateful if you could kindly arrange for this information to be provided to me as soon as possible or no later than the 1st June 2022. If the information in the freedom of information request is commercially sensitive then please note the same on the response.
FOI Request – Information requested:
• Does the Trust have a Decontamination Leads., and which site are they based?
o Can you provide an email address for the above contact?
• Does the Trust have an Infection Control Leads., and which site are they based?
o Can you provide an email address for the above contact?
• Does the Trust hold a regular Decontamination Risk Assessment Group meeting, and when was the last one undertaken?
• Which other roles also attend the Decontamination Risk Assessment Group meeting?
If you are not the correct person to respond to part/all of the request, I would be grateful if you could let me know as soon as possible, and suggest who I need to send it to or forward it onto the person in question and copy me in.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 states that the respondent has 20 working days to reply to the query and if it takes longer than 20 working days to collate the information, the responder can ask the requester to grant discretionary extension of time up to a maximum of further 20 working days. Please let me know if it is likely that you will be unable to provide the relevant information to me by the above deadline.
The act also allows the respondent to reject or charge the requester for the request if it would take 18 or more working hours to deal with the request e.g. locating, retrieving, extracting the information. which would cost the respondent at least £450 charging at £25 per hour.. If you could please let me know whether or not it may take 18 or more working hours to provide the information, so that I am able to send a fee note to the requester, as appropriate.
Address: Edward Jenner Court, 1010 Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Blockworth, Gloucester, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8100 Email: adriana.reyes@ghc.nhs.uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
132-2022
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
We contacted you on 12/4/2022 to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act, and we have not yet received a response. For reference, the request is copied below. We would appreciate of you could respond at your earliest convenience.
Many thanks,
Do you offer a service or program which:
aims to increase exercise levels, improve eating habits or reduce weight, and Is aimed at patients with mental illness or learning disability, inpatients or outpatients
If yes, we would like to see:
Referral criteria
Any documents related to the treatment pathway or services offered by this program The number of patients who have accessed this program since 2017
If yes, are any doctors involved in the delivery of this program?
103-2022
I am writing to request some information about Learning Disability nurses.
1. How many Learning Disability nurses have been employed by your trust over the last five years please supply this information annually, from 2017 to 2022.?
2. Regarding the Learning Disability nurse, or nurses, currently employed by your trust, in which hospitals. and/or other settings are they based? If the nurses. work across multiple settings, please include all of them.
3. Could you share the hours worked by the Learning Disability nurse, or nurses, currently employed? For example, do they cover 9am-5pm or is there 24 hour provision?
4. Could you share the band of the Learning Disability nurse, or nurses, currently employed by your trust?
5. Do you employ any other healthcare professionals with a learning disability speciality?
Under section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. a public body has to provide advice and assistance to help the requester make their request manageable within the cost limit so do let me know if this is the case.
If you need any clarification, then please don’t hesitate to contact me. Please send me confirmation of receipt of this email.
057-2122
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, I hope whoever is reading this is keeping well. My name is Yohannes Lowe. This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If this is the incorrect address for this request, please would you be so kind to forward it onto the right one and cc me into the email. If you have already received this request duplicate. please ignore it.
1. What day DD/MM/YYYY. did your trust’s ‘long Covid centre/clinic’ become operational? Your trust was one of 69 which had set up long Covid clinic’s last autumn, according to this NHS England release: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2020/12/long
Please could you break down the following information per month between 1 December 2020 and 28 February 2021:
1a. How many suspected long Covid. patients were referred to this clinic by their GP over this period?
1b. How many of the long Covid. patients assessed/seen over this period at your trust’s clinic were ones who needed such help after being discharged from hospital?
Please could you break down the following information between 1 December 2020 and 28 February 2021 its entirety rather than per month as before.:
1c. What was the average waiting time in days. to be seen for long Covid assessment/specialist help at the clinic?
1d. What was the longest time a person referred to/discharged from hospital. into the clinic had to first. wait to be seen in days. For Q1d, if such a person is still waiting to be seen, as of the current day, please say: ‘X’ specify number. amount of people are ‘still waiting’ on the list.
If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad, I would be grateful if you could please contact me by email and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request.F52I am aware that staff and resources are limited at this time, so I appreciate your help with this.F53
104-2122
Sent: 05 May 2021 16:45
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI
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—————–, I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Trust. Please may you provide me with: 1. 2. The total number of CAMHS
3. referrals closed before treatment began from April 1st 2020 – March 31st 2021 or the nearest possible date.. 4. 5. 6. The percentage of CAMHS
7. referrals closed before treatment began from April 1st 2020 – March 31st 2021 or the nearest possible date..
8. 9. 10. A breakdown of reasons why
11. these referrals were closed before treatment began from April 1st 2020 – March 31st 2021 or the nearest possible date..
12. 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. Can the data please be provided in a table format for each point.
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105-2122
Sent: 05 May 2021 16:45
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI
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—————–, I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Trust. Please may you provide me with: 1. 2. Broken down by reasons for
3. referral*, the percentage of CAMHS cases closed before treatment.
4. 5. 6. Broken down by reasons for
7. referral*, the average wait time for CAMHS treatment to begin following referral.
8. 9. 10. The top 10 longest waits
11. CAMHS for treatment, including how long they’ve waited and reason for referral.
12. *Examples of reasons for referrals not exclusive.:
Anxiety, attention behaviour pathway, autism, depression, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder, PTSD, psychosis, self harm, disorders inclusive of toruetes. 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. Can the data please be provided in a table format for each point.
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027-2122
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Hello, I’m writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. to request information on the usage of certain types of Ventilator within your Trust, based on the models acquired during the ventilator challenge specifically relating to: • the Penlon ventilators, • The Breas Ventilators,
• The Smiths Medical Ventilators,
• and the CPAP non-invasive units. I’d like to know, if possible: • how many of the various invasive models were used within your trust vs how many were ordered the Penlon units being the most important with regards to this..
• the cost per unit breakdown.
• The survival / rates of recovery for those ventilated.
I’d also like to enquire if there has been an uptake in the non-invasive units for the second wave of battling the pandemic.
Thank you very much,
009-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request
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FOI Request: Handling of Whistleblowing Concerns During Covid:19 Pandemic
To whom it may concern,
1. Please provide the total number of whistleblowing concerns received between 01/03/2019 and 31/08/2019 by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
2. Please provide the total number of whistleblowing concerns received between 01/03/2020 and 31/08/2020 by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
3. Please provide the following information for each whistleblowing concern received by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust 01/03/2020 and 31/08/2020: a. A brief summary of the whistleblowing concern. b. Whether any action was taken following the concern, and if so, a brief description of the action taken. c. If the person provided the information anonymously i.e. they did not provide you with their name and/or contact details. please indicate this.
Further information: Professor Richard Hyde, University of Nottingham and Dr. Ashley Savage, independent consultant are conducting research on the handling of whistleblowing concerns by organisations during the Covid-19 pandemic. Please direct any questions to Dr. Savage in the first instance: whistleblowingresearchproject@gmail.com
We acknowledge that there may be a delay in responding to this Freedom of Information request due to the current situation,
005-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request
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Contact details for the following or most senior equivalent roles: Name Email
CIO or Director of ICT CCIO Head of Digital IT Operations Manager IT Strategy Manager CFO or Director of Finance Director of Transformation What primary software systems do you use?
Deployed Systems Product Name Vendor Version Contract end date Number of licenses
Human Resources Finance EMR/EHR/EPR Any Social Care Systems Contact Centre Email and Collaboration What computing devices do you provide for your staff?
Computing Devices Number of Devices Operating System version
MS Windows Apple Mac Chrome Devices Android Phones Apple iPhones Apple iPads Infrastructure Services Supplier Contract type and expiry
Details of any software Enterprise Agreement. Details of any Business Process Outsource arrangement for technology Who provides your data centre? What Software as a Service packages do you use? Do you use any public Cloud infrastructure services AWS/Azure/Google/UKCloud.?
011-2122
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, we would like to make a request regarding the waiting times for specialist multi-disciplinary Tier 3.* community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services CAMHS.. Our request consists of five questions:
Size of population
1. What is the size of the total population of under 18 year olds covered by your Trust?
Wait to initial appointment
2a. Overall based on the total number of referrals to Community CAMHS, what is your minimum, maximum and median waiting times in days from the date referral received to initial appointment with healthcare professional this includes a CHOICE or triage appointment and/or telephone or video call assessments.? Please provide data for the previous three full financial years 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020..
2b. In the financial year 2019/2020, what is your minimum, maximum and median waiting times in days from the date referral received to initial appointment with healthcare professional this includes a CHOICE or triage appointment and/or telephone or video call assessments. broken down by primary reason for referral?
Wait to treatment
3a. Overall based on the total number of referrals to Community CAMHS, what is your minimum, maximum and median waiting times in days from the date referral received to start of treatment? Please provide data for the previous three full financial years 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020..
3b. In the financial year 2019/2020, what is your minimum, maximum and median waiting times in days from the date referral received to start of treatment broken down by primary reason for referral?
We kindly request that the information is sent digitally in a spreadsheet format: Excel format .xlsx. would be ideal if possible – the attached spreadsheet Excel WAIT Study FOI Request Revised.xlsx. provides a template to enter the requested data. If you do not wish to use this Excel sheet, we recommend you look at it to clarify the data we are requesting.
If you need any further clarification then please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours faithfully
The WAIT trial team
* We appreciate that some services no longer use a Tiered approach; therefore, we have specified what we mean by each Tier below so you can align it to the services provided for by your Trust: • Tier 1. Early Intervention and Prevention. Usually provided in community settings such as schools and children’s centres, and provided for by health visitors, school nurses, GPs. • Tier 2. Early Help and Targeted Services. This may be some CAMHS services, but also covers school based or community counselling, educational psychologist support, targeted youth support teams, and family support.
• Tier 3. Specialist CAMHS. This is specialist support for children, young people and their families provided for by specialist multi-disciplinary teams who will usually provide outpatient services in a community clinic setting. This will cover services for mental health and learning disabilities. • Tier 4. Highly Specialist CAMHS. This is highly specialist outpatient and inpatient services. These can include secure forensic adolescent units, eating disorder units, specialist neuro-psychiatric teams and other highly specialist teams, usually serving more than one region/district.
If you only have data available for Tier 2/3 combined services, this data would be preferable than no data. Otherwise, we do not require information about Tier 1/2 early intervention / uni-disciplinary. or Tier 4 inpatient or very highly specialist. CAMHS.
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043-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request
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Please could you supply the following FOI questions:
1. Have SR Medical Recruitment Ltd ever supplied to any of the hospitals in your trust?
2. If So – Who have you been in contact with that works at SR Medical Recruitment Ltd?
3. If so – how many shifts have they filled each month to date? What date did they start their first supply?
4. If so – what rates did they charge for these shifts?
Thank you in advance.
013-2122
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Could you please under the FOI provide us with the following information.
Are any of your hospitals using UV disinfection technology to help prevent HCAI?
1. If yes, which departments and areas within the hospital are using UV technology?
2. If yes, has it had a positive effect on reducing HCAI? Kind Regards
003-2122
For the attention of,
Trust Freedom of Information Lead
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
Gloucester
GL3 4AW
Items I require,
What is the annual Apprenticeship Levy?
How much Levy do you currently use?
How many Apprentices do you currently have?
What training providers do you use?
What Apprenticeship standards do you use?
How many IT Apprentices do you have?
Who is the best contact for Apprentices?
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