I have an FOI request relating to your provision of:
• First aid training
• Life support/CPR training
• Resuscitation/defibrillator training
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049-2023
DEFINITION: This is the total IT spend for your trust and will include Hardware eg laptops/Desktops. and Infrastructure eg Cloud., as well as spend on external organisations providing services to your trust. Question 2: What percentage of your servers are virtualised? % Virtualised Main supplier Additional notes Virtualised Servers DEFINITION: A virtual server re-creates the functionality of a dedicated physical server. It exists transparently to users as a partitioned space inside a physical server. Question 3: In relation to your trust’s servers please provide the requested information Number of servers Owned or Leased Average age of servers Main supplier Annual spend 2022/2023 [£] Additional notes Servers Question 4: For each element detailed below, how does your organisation manage its data storage? On Premises Off Premises Main supplier Annual spend FY 2022/2023 [£] Contract end date Additional notes In-house data centre DEFINITION: Physical or virtual servers that are connected internally and externally through networking and communication equipment to store, transfer and access digital information Shared service DEFINITION: The consolidation of business operations that are used by multiple parts of the same organization. Data Storage Management DEFINITION: The management of various data storage methods used in the Trust Other please specify. Question 5: Please outline your trust’s WiFi coverage for each element listed below Patient WiFi coverage Staff WiFi coverage % of organisation/Campuses covered Additional notes Community wide e.g. CoIN – Community of Interest Network. Enterprise wide whole campus. Main building only Sections of buildings. only Mobile phone signal enabled through WiFi No wireless networks are used in the trust Question 6: For each device detailed below please provide the requested information Average age of product Years. Number of devices across your organisation Main supplier Annual spend 2022/2023 [£] Contract end date Average length of contract Years. Additional notes
Smartphones Laptops PCs Tablets Other please specify.:
390-2024
I would like to submit a new FOI request.
All or some of the information provided previously has expired, I require an update on the questions below.
See my request below:
Contract 1 – Telephony/Voice Services Analogue, ISDN VOIP, SIP, Cloud.
1.Telephony/Voice Services Provider- Please can you provide me with the name of the supplier for each contract.
2. Telephony/Voice Services Spend – Please can you provide me with the annual spend
3.Telephony/Voice Services – Contract Renewal Date- please provide day, month and year month and year are also acceptable.. If this is a rolling contract, please provide me with the rolling date of the contract. If there is more than one supplier, please split the renewal dates up into however many suppliers
4.Telephony/Voice Services – Contract Duration- the number of years the contract is for each provider, please also include any contract extensions.
5.Telephony/Voice Services – Type of Lines – Please can you split the type of lines and users per each supplier? PSTN, Analogue, SIP, ISDN, VOIP, Cloud
6.Telephony/Voice Services Number of Lines / Channels / SIP Trunks/ Cloud based users- Please can you split the number of lines per each supplier? SIP trunks/connections, PSTN, Analogue, ISDN
Contract 2 – Incoming and Outgoing of call services.
6.Minutes/Landline Provider- Supplier’s name NOT Mobiles. if there is no information available, please can you provide further insight into why?
7.Minutes/Landline Contract Renewal Date- please provide day, month and year month and year is also acceptable.. If this is a rolling contract, please provide me with the rolling date of the contract.
8.Minutes Landline Monthly Spend- Monthly average spend on calls for each provider. An estimate or average is acceptable. If SIP services, please provide me with the cost of services per month.
9.Minute’s Landlines Contract Duration- the number of years the contract is for each provider, please also include any contract extensions.
10.Number of Extensions- Please state the number of telephone extensions the organisation currently has. An estimate or average is acceptable.
Contract 3 – The organisation’s broadband provider.
11.Broadband Provider- Supplier’s name if there is not information available, please can you provide further insight into why?
12.Broadband expiry l Date- please provide day, month, and year month and year is also acceptable.. If this is a rolling contract, please provide me with the rolling date of the contract. If there is more than one supplier, please split the expiry dates up into however many suppliers
13.Broadband Annual Average Spend- Annual average spend for each broadband provider. An estimate or average is acceptable.
Contract 4 – Contracts relating to Wide Area Network [WAN] services, this could also include HSCN network services.
14. WAN Provider- please provide me with the main suppliers. if there is no information available, please can you provide further insight into why?
15.WAN Contract expiry Date- please provide day, month, and year month and year are also acceptable.. If this is a rolling contract, please provide me with the rolling date of the contract. If there is more than one supplier, please split the expiry dates up into however many suppliers
16.Contract Description: Please can you provide me with a brief description for each contract
17.The number of sites: Please state the number of sites the WAN covers. Approx. will do.
18. WAN Annual Average Spend- Annual average spend for each WAN provider. An estimate or average is acceptable.
19.For each WAN contract can you please provide me with information on how this was procured, especially around those procurement that used frameworks, please provide me with the framework reference.
20.Internal Contact: please can you send me their full contact details including contact number and email and job title for all the contracts above.
393-3024
Freedom of Information Request: Data Storage and IT Infrastructure
I am writing to make a Freedom of Information request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, for information regarding the IT infrastructure and data storage systems used by GHC. Please provide the following details:
1. What data storage vendors do you currently use for your primary storage?
2. How large in Terabytes is your primary storage? >50TB, 50-200TB, 200-500TB, 500-1PB, 1PB.
3. How many physical servers do you have?
4. Do you use containerized applications anywhere within your IT infrastructure?
5. Do you use Kubernetes anywhere within your IT infrastructure?
6. Who do you use for your infrastructure and backup storage software?
7. How large is your backup storage in Terabytes?
8. What data do you use your backup storage for?
9. When is your backup storage due for refresh?
10. Do you use the public Cloud AWS/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud.?
11. If you use Public Cloud, what applications are you using it for?
12. How large in terabytes is your public cloud estate?
13. Do you use Azure VMware Solution?
14. When is the renewal date for your Electronic Patient/Medical Record?
15. What is the renewal date for your PACS/Medical Imaging contract?
16. Who is your current EPR/EMR provider when is the contract end date.?
17. Who is your current PACS/Medical imaging provider?
18. When is your primary data storage due for a refresh/review?
19. Which VAR value-added resellers. do you purchase IT infrastructure through? E.g., CDW/Softcat/MTI/Telefonica Tech, etc..
20. Which frameworks does your procurement use?
21. Does the Estates department have a budget to purchase medical devices and IT separate to central IT for CCTV?
22. What is the annual budget for Estates/Facilities?
23. What % of the estates budget is associated with IT systems for the management and running of the building and trust facilities e.g., CCTV systems.?
Please provide the information electronically, preferably in a Microsoft Word or PDF document. If certain questions are not applicable, please indicate so. I understand that under the Freedom of Information Act, you are required to respond to this request within 20 working days.
433-2023
I sent a Freedom of Information request on 18 January 2022 regarding Disclosure and Barring Service DBS. checks. I would like to withdraw that request and submit the following request. I apologise for my error. This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please note there are eight parts to this request. 1. 2. 3. What is the current size of your workforce? Please include both staff and volunteers in this figure.
4. 2. 3. 4. Currently, how many members of staff and volunteers have not been DBS checked within the past three
5. years? 6. 3. 4. 5. Currently, how many members of staff and volunteers have never been DBS checked?
6. 4. 5. 6. What is the current size of your ‘patient facing’ workforce? I define ‘patient facing’ as staff
7. or volunteers with direct hands-on or close contact with patients. 8. 5. 6. 7. Currently, how many members of your ‘patient facing’ staff and volunteers have not been DBS checked
8. within the past three years? 9. 6. 7. 8. Currently, how many members of ‘patient facing’ staff and volunteers have never been DBS checked? 9. 7. 8. 9. In the past ten years how many members of your workforce have committed sexual misconduct? 10. 8. 9. 10. Of those, how many were referred to the DBS?
11. If you are unable to provide a current figure, please share the most up to date data.
474-2023
Hello, can you please kindly provide the following languages service information under freedom of information
1. Do you provide these services inhouse or outsource to the third party – if outsourced, please name the supplier.
2. when does the current contract for language interpreting and translation services. expire and are there any extensions left?
3. if expiring in the next 12 months, when will the authority be going to market again to procurement these services and via what channel?
4. Separately by inhouse and outsourced
– total number of face-to-face, in person assignment and hours completed in 2022
– total number of face-to-face, in person assignment not fulfilled in 2022
– total number of telephone interpreting, minutes completed in 2022
– total number of video interpreting assignment and hours completed in 2022
5. Who is the senior responsible person for language services at the Trust.
029-2023
This FOI request relates to people admitted to psychiatric inpatient wards who are parents.
By ‘inpatient ward’ we refer to: any ward that provides primarily psychiatric care, that has provision for overnight use, including locked and unlocked wards; including male, female, and mixed wards; including rehabilitation and forensic wards.
We do not need data relating to wards that are or were during time period in question. exclusively delivering care to patients with dementia, or exclusively delivering care to older adults, or exclusively delivering care to children and adolescents CAMHS..
Where possible please provide data on forensic wards separately from other types of ward.
By ‘parent’, we refer to any individual who has a child/children aged under 18 years this can include step/foster/adopted/biological children.. These parents need not necessarily have current caring responsibility e.g. their child/children could be in temporary foster care..
We also include as a ‘parent’ any individual who has any other formal residential caring responsibility for a child aged under 18 years e.g. where a grandparent has parental responsibility for a grandchild..
We are seeking data covering the period from 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2019 inclusive.
Please provide the following data, as far as is reasonably possible:
1. Admissions Data
a. How many individual admissions for one night or more. were made to each psychiatric inpatient ward in the Trust. This question refers to all patient admissions, not just parents.
If possible, please provide this information disaggregated by ward, and for each ward, please indicate:
Ward gender type male/female/mixed.
Mean age of patients admitted during reporting period
b. How many of the patients reported under 1.a. were parents as defined above.?
If possible, please provide this information disaggregated by ward, and for each ward, please indicate:
Ward gender type male/female/mixed.
Mean age of patients admitted during reporting period
2. Parental Status Data Collection
a. What data are routinely collected on parental status when inpatients are admitted or during their care? For example, are any of the following recorded: parenthood status, parental responsibility, children’s age, involvement of statutory services, where child currently resides? Is any other related information routinely recorded?
3. Trust/ward policies and procedures
a. Please provide copies of Trust policy documents which include reference to the needs of psychiatric inpatients who are parents and their families e.g. family visit policies..
b. Please provide copies of any internal guidelines/SOPs used by wards to manage child visits to wards.
c. Please provide a copy of each inpatient ward induction/welcome pack for inpatients.
d. Please provide a copy of any written information provided to carers of inpatients.
e. Please provide a copy of information provided to the carers of children of inpatients while they are inpatients e.g. foster carer, grandparent..
f. Please provide a copy of any information provided to children. of inpatients.
For items a-f, please state if no such materials exist.
4. Child visits.
a. During the reporting period, how many parents received at least one visit from their child/ren during their inpatient ward admission?
b. During the reporting period, how many individual visits were made by children to inpatient psychiatric wards?
5. Family-friendly facilities
a. Please provide a description of any family visit rooms. on each inpatient ward include details of fixtures and fittings..
b. For each family room, state whether it is used solely for the purpose of family visits.
c. Please provide a photograph of each family room a snapshot from a phone is fine..
368-2024
Please see below our response.
1. The number of allegations of workplace racism reported by present and former staff. Please provide the figures for the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 2020: no incidents
2021: 2 incidents GHC22942 and GHC27570.
2022: 1 incident GHC34580.
2023: 1 incident GHC49492.
2. The number of allegations of workplace racism reported by present and former staff which resulted in disciplinary action. Please provide the figures for the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 – i.e. in 2020, 20 allegations of workplace racism were made by past and present staff, 11 complaints resulted in disciplinary actions We do not hold the information.
3. In instances when compensation payments were made to former and present staff following allegations of racism/ racial discrimination, please provide the figures for the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 – i.e. in 2020, 20 allegations of workplace racism were made by past and present staff, 11 complaints resulted in disciplinary actions and in four instances the complaint was escalated to an employment tribunal, two compensation payments were paid amounting to £12,000
437-2023
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can you provide the following information.
1. Agenda for Change Band for your Data Protection Officer
2. Job Description for the post of your DPO
3. Full Job title
419-2024
Do you have a policy or procedure that covers staff working remotely from abroad on either a temporary or permanent basis? i.e. outside the UK.?
Please could I request a copy of the relevant policies and/or procedures?
192-2023
I would like to make a Freedom of Information FOI. request of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust with the following questions:
What IT systems. do your diabetes clinicians and specialists use to manage the interactions with and care of diabetes patients, both within hospital and community settings? What IT systems. do your diabetes clinicians and specialists use to view the full GP-owned medical records of diabetes patients?
What IT systems. or other methods do your diabetes clinicians and specialists use to update diabetes patients’ GP-owned medical records?
432-2024
Under Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide the following information regarding language services.
1. Please confirm your overall spend on interpreting, translation and transcription services for the following financial years:
• 2021-22
• 2022-23
2. Who is your incumbent suppliers. for language services? If you have more than one supplier, which services does each one provide to you?
3. If you have a separate British Sign Language/non-spoken supplier, who is this?
4. If you have a separate transcription supplier, who is this?
5. Do you have any in-house interpreters/translators?
6. When is your current language services contracts. due to expire, a. without extensions and b. with all possible extensions?
7. Could you please provide the name, phone number and email address of the contract manager responsible for language services?
8. Could you please provide the name, phone number and email address of the person responsible for your language services budget?
9. Could you please provide the following data for 2023:
• Total number of face-to-face interpreting assignments spoken language. and hours completed
• Total number of face-to-face interpreting assignments non-spoken language. and hours completed
• Total number of telephone interpreting calls and minutes completed
• Total number of video interpreting calls spoken language. and minutes completed
• Total number of video interpreting calls non-spoken language. and minutes completed
• Total number of document translations and words translated
• Total number of audio transcriptions and total audio duration
10. What were your top 20 highest-volume languages for interpreting/translation requests in 2023?
11. Can you please provide the fill rate % you received for the following services in 2023:
• Face-to-face interpreting
• Telephone interpreting
• Video interpreting
• Document translation
• Audio transcription
12. What languages has your provider been unable to source in the last 12 months?
13. Have service credits been applied on your language services contract in the last 12 months? If so, what performance failure was this linked to?
14. What social value has been delivered as part of this contract in the last 12 months?
15. If your contract was awarded through a tender process, can you please provide a copy of the winning bidder’s tender?
16. What are your contracted rates for each of the following services?
• Spoken face-to-face interpreting: hourly rate
• Non-spoken face-to-face interpreting: hourly rate
• Telephone interpreting: per minute rate
• Spoken video interpreting: per minute rate
• Non-spoken video interpreting:
• Document translation: per word rate
• Audio transcription: per audio minute rate
17. Has your provider of language services increased their charge rate to you in the last 12 months?
18. What is the Authority’s typical route to market?
19. Does the Authority currently have any interpreter on wheel devices as part of their current contract? If yes please advise how many and if these are provided free of charge or paid for by the Authority.
20. Could you please provide the name, phone number and email address of the person in charge of procurement for the Authority?
435-2024
I would like to request the following information:
Do you have a LLP / Wholly owned subsidiary / PFI?
If yes, what is the name of the partnership? Please detail each, if more than one
When was this established? Please detail for each one
How long is this in place for? Please detail for each one
Is there a website for this organisation?
Is it a renewable arrangement and if so, what extension terms are agreed
What services are provided by this contract/LLP/subsidiary?
If there an agreed profit return back to the NHS?
As an NHS Trust, do you provide services back to the LLP? If so, what are these?
472-2023
Please could you kindly respond to the following FOI request:
1. What senior staffing structure* do you have in place to cover your inpatient mental health units on
a. a night and
b. a weekend
2. How many units and sites does this structure cover?
253-2023
Are you able to assist with the below please?
1.What is the name of the manufacturer used to provide your inpatient mental health beds.
2. When does your current contract expire?
434-2023
I am just emailing to enquire about the process of international recruitment. I was wondering if I could get in contact with the person who deals with the international recruitment process.
I am currently writing a dissertation paper on how international recruitment affects the NHS and its benefits to the current crisis per say. I’m not sure what info is accessible to the public under the FOI act. However, I thought this was the best way I would be able to get in contact with the person responsible for international recruitment for your trust.
The main points I need information on…
– During the last financial year how many nurses, doctors or AHP have been recruited internationally via an agency?
– How much spend has been used for international recruitment?
– What agencies do you currently use for international recruitment?
– How many vacancies do the Trust have for nurses, doctors and AHPs?
436-2023
I am getting in touch to request information under the Freedom of Information Act. The request relates to the amount of money spent by your NHS Trust on first class and business class tickets for flights from 2019 to the first few weeks of 2023. 1. Over the last four years, has your Trust booked first class or business class plane tickets for staff/employees to travel on work trips abroad?
2. If yes, how much has been spent in each respective year on such flights from 2019 to 2023? 3. Where possible, please disclose the routes flown e.g LHR – NYC – LHR..
510-2023
Please provide the following information for the past five financial years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23. If the 2022-23 data is not available yet, please omit this from your response and advise as to when it will be available.
1. How many referrals to CAMHS and/or CYPMHS did you receive?
Of these referrals:
2a. How many were refused support by CAMHS / CYMPHS?
2b. How many have a closure date falling within this period? If possible, please please split such information by closure reason.
2c. How many have a rejection date within this period?
2d. How many mentioned an autism diagnosis – or other neurodivergent condition diagnosis? Please include those with any type of diagnosis, including but not limited to. previous, provisional, primary and secondary.
3.Please supply your CAMHS / CYMPHS policy on autism and specify if your service has an autism team.
468-2023
I would like to request some information under the freedom of information act.
I would like the organisation to provide me with the following departmental documents around ICT and corporate procurement.
Many organisations within your region have different document title names:
1. 2023/24 IT Department Documents ;- these types of documents have detailed information on the department’s future plans and strategies. These documents could include:
ICT Strategy/Plan, ICT Department Plan, ICT Financial Plan
2. ICT Org Chart ;- with names and job titles
3. Corporate Procurement Strategy that covers 2023/24 and more.
469-2023
I have received a request from Colleen George copied in. for the following information:
SAR
Email from me to Gary Dodson, dated 13/01/2023 at 12:02 and his response, dated 13/01/2023 at 13:16
The emails relate to conversations about Colleen’s son, Thomas GEORGE-PAIN 1138992.
FOI
Colleen has requested the eligibility / referral criteria and operational policy for both our Recovery and Assertive Outreach Teams.
471-2023
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the FOI Act 2000.
Please enter ‘No System Installed’ or ‘No Department’ under supplier name if your trust does not use the system or have the department:
System type – Clinical decision support in e-prescribing
Supplier name
System name –
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No
Procurement framework –
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract £. –
Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
–
System name -Observations – vital signs
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No
Procurement framework –
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract £. –
Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
–
System type –Oncology e-prescribing
Supplier name
System name –
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No
Procurement framework –
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract £. –
Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
–
System type – Diagnostic imaging
Supplier name
System name –
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No
Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No
Procurement framework –
Other systems it integrates with? –
Total value of contract £. –
Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
System definitions:
Clinical decision support in e-prescribing – within, or in conjunction with, its e-prescribing systems, Clinical Decision Support CDS. assists prescribing clinicians in safely identifying suitable medicines, doses and titrations, for individual patients.
Observations – vital signs – a system for electronic recording at the bedside of patient vital sign data, together with a mechanism to include in the patient’s electronic record.
Oncology e-prescribing – module or functionality that supports electronic chemotherapy prescribing, medication administration and dispensing activities.
Diagnostic imaging – electronic medical imaging systems providing the core capabilities to manage diagnostic images and associated reports.
417-2024
Freedom of Information Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following
information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Please may you
provide me with:
The most up to date version of the policy and procedure for complaints and concerns
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.
Pursuant to Section 10 of the Freedom of Information Act, it is incumbent upon Gloucestershire
Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to provide a response to this request within a period of
20 working days. Consequently, I anticipate receiving a response no later than Monday, March
25
th 2024.
426-2024
I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following:
I. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency doctors in each of the last 5 financial years including 2023/24 so far.
II. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency nurses in in each of the last 5 financial years including 2023/24 so far.
III. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency nurse shift in 2023/24
IV. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency doctor’s shift in 2023/24
431-2023
I hope you are well.
I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act.
My requests are outlined below as specifically as possible, however if any of the below is unclear, I would appreciate it if you could get in touch at simon.l.morse@gmail.com
Please could you provide answers to the following questions for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust:
Public Facing NHS Trust Website
1. What CMS/software and version does your public facing NHS Trust website use? e.g. In-house, Sharepoint, Jadu, Drupal 7.
2. Is your public facing NHS Trust website hosted and supported by a third party IT partner or on-premise? If a third party, when does your current contract expire?
3. When was your public facing NHS Trust website launched?
4. What are your separate budgets for hosting/supporting and development for your public facing NHS Trust website?
5. Which team/department/individual is responsible for maintaining your public facing NHS Trust website?
Digital Accessibility
1. When was your public facing NHS Trust website last audited for accessibility compliance?
2. Which team/department/individual is responsible for maintaining accessibility compliance across your public facing websites?
Website Content
1. Do you work with external marketing/communications suppliers to create content for your public facing services?
2. When was the last time you conducted a content audit on your website to remove outdated content?
343-2023
I would like the organisation to review my freedom of information request below, that’s focused around contract data for services around facilities management specifically around the services below:
1. Office and building cleaning – Service contract that is focused around office, commercial and building cleaning services.
2. Lift service and maintenance – Service contract for lift service and maintenance.
3. Food – Service contract that is focused around catering services.
4. General waste services contracts – The organisation’s primary general waste service contract.
5. Laundry services – where clothes and linen can be washed and ironed. 1. Contract profile questionnaire for each type of contract:
2. Supplier/Provider of the services
3. Total Annual Spend – The spend should only relate to each of the service contracts listed above.
4. A description of the services provided under this contract please includes information if other services are included under the same contract.
5. The number of sites the contract covers
6. [ONLY FOR LIFT CONTRACT] The Brand name of the type of lifts used by the organisation
7. The start date of the contract
8. The end date of the contract
9. The duration of the contract, please include information on any extensions period.
10. Who within the organisation is responsible for each of these contracts? name, Job Title, contact number and email address.
337-2023
Under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 please can you answer the following questions relating to the staffing systems. you currently use as of December 2023.
Our preference is that you copy the tables below into an excel spreadsheet and fill up the relevant fields. However, how you complete the request is entirely up to you.
E-Rostering
For each of the staff group categories: Medical and Dental Nursing and HCAs AHPs and HSS
Does your Trust use an E-Rostering provider? Yes/No – if No, have you previously tried to implementation an e-rostering provider? Please name the provider..
What is the name of your E-Rostering provider?
When does the contract for the software you currently use for E-Rostering expire? dd/mm/yyyy.
How many licenses is your contract for?
What is the cost per annum for the provider?
Bank
For each of the staff group categories: Medical and Dental Nursing and HCAs AHPs and HSS
Do you have a Digital staff bank provider?
What is the name of your Digital staff bank provider?
What is the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use for your Digital staff bank? dd/mm/yyyy.
What is the cost per annum for the provider?
Agency Management Software/Agency Tech
For each of the staff group categories: Medical and Dental Nursing and HCAs AHPs and HSS
Do you use a Agency Tech provider? Yes/No/Not Applicable.
What is the name of your VMS Provider?
What is the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use? dd/mm/yyyy.
What is the cost per annum for the provider?
331-2023
Please could you help me answer the following, in regards to the FOI requests:
1. Please provide a list of all the hospitals within your NHS trust
2. Please provide the number of inpatient wards within each hospital
3. Please provide the number of inpatient beds within each hospital
330-2023
Could you please answer the following questions:
1. Within your Organisation
a. Are you using medication pill pouches for your patients?
b. Who provides these pouches? E.g., Hospitals, community pharmacies Please state name & address..
2. On discharge long or short term. a. Do you discharge patients on medication pill pouches?
b. Who provides the medication pill pouches?
c. Do you provide other medication prompts aids?
d. Do you provide medication prompt visits?
064-2023
I am writing to request the following under the Freedom of Information Act: 1. Please provide the name of your NHS Trust 2. Do you have a specific policy for employees undergoing fertility treatment? a. if so, please provide a copy. b. if not, please advise which policy this is covered by, and provide an extract of the relevant section. 3. Do you provide paid leave for employees undergoing fertility treatment? 4. How many days paid absence are employees entitled to for fertility treatment? 5. How is the absence recorded i.e., sick leave, special leave, other, etc..? 6. How many employees have had paid time off for fertility treatment in the last 3 financial years 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.. 7. What wellbeing support is available for employees undergoing fertility treatment? 8. What guidance is available for managers to help them support and manage employees undergoing fertility treatment?
111-2023
1. Do you currently use any off framework agencies for Nursing, if so please include agency name?
2. Do you currently use any off framework agecnies for HCA/support workers, if so please include agency name?
3. Since May 2023 till now, how many shifts have been booked with off framework agency for nursing?
4. Since May 2023 till now, how many shifts have been booked with off framework agency for healthcare assisant/support workers?
5. Do you have any off framework agencies who currently charge £50+ per hour for nursing staff, if so who may they be?
6. Do you have any off framework agencies who currently charge £24+ per hour for healthcare assitant/support workers, if so who may they be?
505-2023
Can you please let me know the following;
What was the trusts off framework spend in 2022?
Which agency had the biggest spend and how much was the spend?
465-2023
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
1. The total spend for businesses that have supported your staff bank services in each of the last 12 months, starting from Jan 2022 – Jan 2023. 2. A breakdown of how these funds have been spent, including any categories or types of expenditures, in each of the last 12 months, starting from Jan 2022 – Jan 2023.
466-2023
I would like to make a request for the following information:
1. Does your trust utilise off-framework agencies for Nursing or Care, if so which agencies?
2. How many hours have been covered by off-framework agencies for Nursing and Care AUG 22-PRESENT?
3. Who at director level is responsible for patient safety and staffing levels?
415-2024
Please disclose the following information pertaining to the Trust’s use of agency workers nurses and medical locums etc.. within the 20 working days permitted under the Freedom of Information Act.
Section A: Total Agency Spend Per Job Category – Last 6 Months
1. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Agency Medical Locums including all locum grades, including locum pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee.
2. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Agency Nurses including nurse pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee. Please include all nursing bands, including band 2 HCAs. If possible, please break down the spend by banding.
3. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Agency AHP/HSS workers including all AHP.HSS job roles, including pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee.
4. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Non-Medical / Non-Clinical NMNC. agency workers including all NMNC job roles, including pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee.
Section B: Supporting Services Managed Services / Master Vendors / Neutral Vendors / Vendor Management Technology etc..
1.0. For each of the agency staffing categories mentioned above Medical Locums, Agency Nurses, AHP/HSS and NMNC., does the Trust utilise either a technology provision and/or the services of any type of managed service provider MSP., be it Master Vendor, Neutral Vendor, Managed Service or otherwise, in the course of managing the supply of Medical Locums?
If yes to Section B – 1.0, please also answer 1.1 and 1.2:
1.1: For each staff Category, please describe the solution in place – including a. the type of solution i.e. tech or managed services etc.., b. the company providing the service e.g. Medacs, Retinue, NHSP etc.., c. the cost charged for the solution e.g. 4% of agency spend, or [X] per timesheet hour], and d. the procurement Framework under which the solution is contracted e.g. CCS RM6161 or HTE TWS11 Lot 2b etc…
1.2: For each of the solutions you’ve listed above, please state the contract expiry date.
Section C: Procurement Activity and Associated Persons
1. Please advise whether the Trust is likely to undertake procurement activity in relation to any of the solution either that are already in place, or in order to put such a solution in place, in the next 12 months.
2. Please provide the name, email address and telephone number, for the persons. involved in ‘buying’ such solutions. In case of the existing contracts mentioned above, please provide the details of the person who would take overall ownership of evaluating the contract renewal moving forward.
429-2023
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following data specifically about Mental Health Act inpatients within your trust:
1. Please provide the number of allegations reported within your trust, clinical commissioning group or other care setting as defined, of
• Rape
• Sexual assault
• Sexual harassment
• Sexual misconduct
2. Please advise the location of these offences and or alleged offences broken down by location Mental Health Unit, Hospital, Other Hospital Setting to be clearly defined.
3. Please provide this data for the years – 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date. 4. Please provide a month by month and location. 5. Please identify if these allegations are:
• On Staff carried out by a staff Member
• On Staff carried out by a patient or visitor
• By Staff on a Patient
• By Staff on a visitor
• On Staff carried out by a visitor
6. For each of these allegations please advise if a suspect was identified and or arrested. 7. If a suspect was identified and the suspect was identified as a member or staff or a contractor to the trust, CCG or group.
• What was the outcome?
• Was the suspect subsequently arrested, charged, convicted or NFA?
• Was the suspect subsequently investigated, suspended or dismissed from the Trust.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits Section 12., it would be appreciated if you could provide advice and assistance Section 16 obligations of the Act. as to how I can refine my request. Should you hold information on some parts of the request but not others, please could you provide that information, rather than a blanket refusal.
432-2023
I hope this email finds you well.
I would be very grateful if you could provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, information with respect to the following there is an excel attached which helps simplify the instructions.:
Please provide total amount of money spent £. by your trust on each of the following sub-categories as stated on the NHS supply chain website. stated below for the following Financial Years FY. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.:
i. Enteral Feeding, Bile Bags and Associated Products
1. Lot 1 – Enteral Feeding Syringes and Accessories
2. Lot 2 – Enteral Feeding Devices
3. Lot 3 – Enteral Feeds, Drinks and Giving Sets
4. Lot 4 – Bile Bags, Ryles Tubes and Levin Tubes
ii. Infant Feeding and Associated Accessories
1. Lot 1 – Infant Food
2. Lot 2 – Infant Feeding Accessories
Please provide total volumes Units Purchased. of each of the categories as stated on the NHS supply chain website. below for the following Financial Years FY. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022., at your trust:
iii. Enteral Feeding, Bile Bags and Associated Products
1. Lot 1 – Enteral Feeding Syringes and Accessories
2. Lot 2 – Enteral Feeding Devices
3. Lot 3 – Enteral Feeds, Drinks and Giving Sets
4. Lot 4 – Bile Bags, Ryles Tubes and Levin Tubes
iv. Infant Feeding and Associated Accessories
1. Lot 1 – Infant Food
2. Lot 2 – Infant Feeding Accessories
Please provide a list of suppliers your trust has purchased from under the following categories as stated on the NHS supply chain website. for the following Financial Years FY. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.:
v. Enteral Feeding, Bile Bags and Associated Products
1. Lot 1 – Enteral Feeding Syringes and Accessories
2. Lot 2 – Enteral Feeding Devices
3. Lot 3 – Enteral Feeds, Drinks and Giving Sets
4. Lot 4 – Bile Bags, Ryles Tubes and Levin Tubes
vi. Infant Feeding and Associated Accessories
1. Lot 1 – Infant Food
2. Lot 2 – Infant Feeding Accessories
vii. How much money per supplier within each Category
435-2023
I am getting in touch to request data under the Freedom of Information Act.
For each question, could I please ask for responses to be split into the five most recent financial years.
I appreciate the current financial year is still ongoing.
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
e. 2018/19
1. How many days have trust staff taken off sick leave not holiday.?
2. How many days have trust staff taken off for stress or anxiety?
3. Please provide a staff breakdown for the figure for question two – ie, how many days were taken off by doctors, nurses, porters, cleaners, admin staff etc.
4. How many days have trust employees taken off due to a. covid and b. Covid contact-related self-isolation?
5. How many trust staff have taken more than a month off in one given year due to stress or anxiety.
6. What was the longest period a single member of staff has taken due to stress or anxiety? Please provide their job type or role if possible and an answer for each year.
349-2024
I hope this email finds you well, and I extend my wishes for a Happy New Year.
I am writing to you under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request specific information related to your organisation’s ICT testing practices. This information is requested for academic research purposes. My questions are as follows:
1. Do you have a dedicated Informatics and Communications Technology ICT. test team?
2. Do you outsource project testing?
3. Do you outsource Business as Usual BAU. testing?
4. Do you test core functions not just key applications. before releasing your regular Operating System patches and updates to the ICT estate?
5. Do you test your new End User Devices and peripherals before deploying to the ICT estate?
6. Would you consider using an independent Testing as a Service TaaS. option? If not, please explain why.
350-2024
From 1st November 2023 until 31st December 2023 how many shifts has your Trust or Health Board utilised Thornbury Nursing services for?
Within this same time frame 1st November 2023 until 31st December 2023. please list all wards or departments that utilised this agency and display the number of shifts in each.
Within this same time frame 1st November 2023 until 31st December 2023. please list all other off contract agencies utilised by the Trust or Health Board for nursing and break down a list of each ward or department and total number of shifts for each off contract agency. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period 01/11/2023- 31/12/2023.
Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period 01/11/2023- 31/12/2023.
Please list any suppliers with a critical day rate charge Band 5 or 6. ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £60 per hour that have been utilised in this time period Please list any suppliers with a critical night rate charge Band 5 or 6. ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £70 per hour that have been utilised in this time period
351-2024
Freedom of Information Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following
information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust . Please may you
provide me with:
1. Number of admissions to the Maxwell Centre, for individuals who were detained under
Section 136 of the Mental Health Act between January and December 2023 Categorised on the
following.:
1.1.0. Age 10 – 18, 19 – 21, 22 – 24, 25 – 30, then in increments of 5 years thereafter ..
1.1.1. Gender.
1.1.2. Ethnicity.
1.2.0. Known diagnosed psychiatric disorder by Gender..
1.2.1. Previous engagement with the Crisis and Resolution Home Treatment Team by Gender..
1.3.0. Percentage of detainees searched by Police on admission by Gender..
1.3.1. The most common recorded reason for search by Gender..
1.4.0. Previous attendance on a Section 136 by Gender..
1.4.1. Most common reason for Section 136 detention by Gender..
1.5.0. Method of conveyance to the Section 136 Suite by Gender..
1.5.1. If Police have conveyed, the most common reason for Police conveyance by Gender..
1.6.0. The average time spent under Section 136 by Gender..
1.6.1. The rate at which Mental Health Act Assessments MHHA. begin within a 3-hour period of
arrival by Gender..
1.6.2. The most common recorded reason for delayed MHHA by Gender..
1.7.1. The average time spent waiting for MHAA to commence by Gender..
1.5.1. The average duration of MHAA by Gender..
1.5.2. How often Section 136B of the Mental Health Act is invoked by Gender..
1.5.3. The most common outcome of MHAA by Gender..
2. The percentage frequency at which the Approved Mental Health Professionals AMHP.
Service sent the outcome of the MHAA to the detainees’ registered General Practitioners
surgery between January and December 2023?
2.1.0. The average time to be sent.
3. The percentage frequency at which the Section 12 approved doctor sent the outcome of the
MHAA to the detainees’ registered General Practitioners surgery between January and
December 2023?
3.1.0. The average time to be sent.
4. Monthly calls to the Crisis and Resolution Home Treatment Team between January and
December 2023 Categorised on the following.:
4.1.0. Age 10 – 18, 19 – 21, 22 – 24, 25 – 30, then in increments of 5 years thereafter ..
4.1.1. Gender.
5. The average waiting time from referral to assessment for the Mental Health Intermediate
Care Team between January and December 2023 Categorised on the following.:
5.1.0. Age 10 – 18, 19 – 21, 22 – 24, 25 – 30, then in increments of 5 years thereafter..
5.1.1. Gender.
6. The average waiting time from referral to assessment for Gloucestershire Talking Therapies
formally Let’s Talk. between January and December 2023 Categorised on the following.:
6.1.0. Age 10 – 18, 19 – 21, 22 – 24, 25 – 30, then in increments of 5 years thereafter ..
6.1.1. Gender.
7. The average waiting time from referral to assessment with a qualified Psychiatrist
Categorised on the following.:
7.1.0. Age 10 – 18, 19 – 21, 22 – 24, 25 – 30, then in increments of 5 years thereafter..
7.1.1. Gender.
8. Information regarding the policies and procedures implemented by the Trust for the Maxwell
Centre in relation to individuals detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act.
Additionally, please ensure that a copy of the relevant document is included to fulfil the Trust’s
responsibility under Section 132 of the Mental Health Act.
9. The number of complaints received by the Trust regarding Mental Health for the period of
January to December 2023.
9.1.0. The most common theme/type of Mental Health complaint.
9.1.1. The most common way the complaint was dealt with i.e Serious Incident
Framework/Local Resolution etc..
9.1.2. Average timeframe to acknowledge such a complaint.
9.1.3. Average timeframe to fully respond to such a complaint.
10. How many documented cases of self-inflicted injuries occurred in the Maxwell Centre
between January and December 2023? Categorised on the following.
10.1.0. Age
10.1.1. Gender
10.1.2. Method employed in each case per Office of National Static Method categorises i.e
Drowing, Fall and Fracture, Poisoning/Overdose, Hanging/Strangulation/Suffocation, Jumping or
Lying in-front of a moving object, Sharp Object and Other..
11. How many documented cases of self-inflicted deaths occurred in the Maxwell Centre
between January and December 2023? Categorised on the following.
11.1.0. Age
11.1.1. Gender
11.1.2. Method employed in each case per Office of National Static Method categorises i.e
Drowing, Fall and Fracture, Poisoning/Overdose, Hanging/Strangulation/Suffocation, Jumping or
Lying in-front of a moving object, Sharp Object and Other..
12. A copy of the Trusts policy for Section 12 approved doctors pertaining to MHAA Fee’s.
13. A copy of the management structure for the following services, Maxwell Centre,
Gloucestershire Talking Therapies, Crisis and Resolution and Home Treatment Team and
Mental Health Intermediate Care Team.
14. Number of deceased under this Trust care with a recorded cause of death as suicide or
negligence by clinical procedure since October 1
st 2019.
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.
Pursuant to Section 10 of the Freedom of Information Act, it is incumbent upon Gloucestershire
Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to provide a response to this request within a period of
20 working days. Consequently, I anticipate receiving a response no later than Friday,
February 02
nd 2024
312-2023
This is a request for information being made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. It relates to a National Patient Safety Alert ’NatPSA’. issued by the Department of Health & Social Care on 27/09/2023: ‘Shortage of methylphenidate prolonged-release capsules and tablets, lisdexamfetamine capsules, and guanfacine prolonged-release tablets.’ reference no: NatPSA/2023/011/DHSC.. According to the Central Alerting System website, this alert was issued to Mental Health Trusts see: https://www.cas.mhra.gov.uk/ViewandAcknowledgment/ViewAlert.aspx?AlertIDequals103238.. The alert states that required actions should be completed by 11/10/2023.
The alert states that ‘prescribers should: not initiate new patients on products affected by this shortage until the supply issues resolve’.
The alert states that ‘healthcare professionals in primary care and secondary care if appropriate. should: identify all patients currently prescribed these products; and make early contact with patients to establish how much supply they have remaining.’
The alert states that ‘where patients have insufficient supplies to last until the re-supply date, contact: patient’s specialist team for advice on management options if the product cannot be sourced.’
The alert states that ‘specialist teams should: support primary care teams seeking advice for patients currently prescribed the affected products; provide individualised management plans, where required; and recommend alternatives in line with NICE guidance, where appropriate.’
Please provide the following information:
1. Did your Trust receive the above NatPSA? If so, on what date was it received?
2. Assuming that the answer to the first part of question 1 is yes, was the NatPSA forwarded to relevant specialist teams within your Trust? Which specialist teams was the NatPSA forwarded to?
3. The NatPSA states that ‘prescribers should not initiate new patients on products affected by this shortage until the supply issues resolve.’ Have any new patients under your care who would ordinarily have been prescribed the affected products not been given prescriptions because of this required action? If so, how many?
4. Where appropriate did specialist teams within your Trust ‘identify all patients currently prescribed these products’, as required by the NatPSA? If so, how many patients were identified and by what date was this action carried out?
5. Where appropriate did specialist teams within your Trust ‘make early contact with patients to establish how much supply they have remaining’, as required by the NatPSA? If so, how many patients did you attempt to contact? How many patients were successfully contacted?
6. Assuming that the answer to the first part of question 5 is ‘yes’, and that some patients were successfully contacted, how many patients were identified as having insufficient supplies to last until the re-supply date?
7. The NatPSA states that healthcare professionals should ‘contact patient’s specialist team[s] for advice on management options’. Have any specialist teams within your Trust been contacted by other healthcare professionals seeking such advice? If so, what advice were specialist teams able to provide?
8. Have specialist teams within your Trust ‘[supported] primary care teams seeking advice for patients currently prescribed the affected products’, as required by the NatPSA? If so, how?
9. Have specialist teams within your Trust provided individualised management plans, either to primary care teams or directly to patients? If so, how many?
10. Have specialist teams within your Trust recommended alternative products in line with NICE guidance, where appropriate? If so, how many such recommendations have been made?
11. What policy, if any, exists within your Trust for ensuring compliance with National Patient Safety Alerts? If such a policy exists, please provide a copy of it.
320-2023
Please could I make the following request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. The name of the Sexual Health Platform used within the Trust?
for example INFORM Sexual Health provided by INFORM, Lilie proved by Idox and MAXIMS PreView solution provided by Maxims
2. The Name of the Provider of the Sexual Health Platform?
3. The date start date and end date of the current contract?
4. The name and email of the person within the Trust that is responsible for The Sexual Health Platform utilized within the Trust
315-2023
I am submitting this request, on behalf of myself, under the Freedom of Information Act and the Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS.
I would like to receive this information by email.
1.
2.
3. Does your Trust offer a weight management service/support to patients with obesity?
4.
a.
b.
c. If yes, please confirm the name and type of each service
d.
e.
f.
g. What healthcare professionals are delivering these services and how many FTE.?
h.
i.
j.
k. If not, which organisation commissions these services for your population?
l.
m.
n.
o. Please list the relevant services provided to your population.
p.
q.
r.
s. How many places were commissioned for each service for FY 2023/34?
t.
u.
v.
w. How many referrals have been received so far for each service in FY 2023/24?
x.
y.
z.
aa. How many patients are currently waiting for their first appointment for each of these services?
bb.
cc.
dd.
ee. Which funding pots. is used to deliver the weight management services?
ff.
gg.
hh.
ii. What was the value of the budget for each service in FY 23/24?
jj.
kk.
ll.
mm. Do you anticipate expanding, maintaining or decreasing the current service provision in the next financial
nn. year?
oo.
pp.
qq.
rr. Are there currently staffing vacancies in these services, if so please provide the title, grade and
ss. FTE for each vacancy.
tt.
uu.
vv.
ww. Who is the senior person in the Trust who is responsible for commissioning this service?
xx.
yy.
zz.
aaa. Who is the senior person in the Trust who is responsible for the delivery of this service?
bbb.
ccc.
ddd.
eee. If this service is outsourced, who is your provider, and what is the duration and end date of their
fff. contract?
316-2023
I am submitting this request, on behalf of myself, under the Freedom of Information Act and the Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS.
I would like to receive this information by email.
1. Does your Trust offer diabetes services/support for Type 2 diabetes patients with obesity?
a. If yes, please confirm the name and type of each service
b. What healthcare professionals are delivering this service and how many FTE.?
c. If not, which organisation commissions these services for your population?
d. Please list the relevant services provided to your population.
e. How many places were commissioned for each service for FY 2023/34?
f. How many referrals have been received so far for each service in FY 2023/24?
g. How many patients are currently waiting for their first appointment for each of these services?
h. Which funding pots. is used to deliver these services?
i. What was the value of the budget for each service in FY 23/24?
j. Do you anticipate expanding, maintaining or decreasing the current service provision in the next financial year?
k. Are there currently staffing vacancies in these services, if so please provide the title, grade and FTE for each vacancy.
l. Who is the senior person in the Trust who is responsible for commissioning this service?
m. Who is the senior person in the Trust who is responsible for the delivery of this service?
n. If this service is outsourced, who is your provider, and what is the duration and end date of their contract?
317-2023
I am submitting this request, on behalf of myself, under the Freedom of Information Act and the Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS.
I would like to receive this information by email.
1. Does your Trust offer Diabetes Structured Education service?
a. If yes, please confirm the name and type of each service
b. What healthcare professionals are delivering this service and how many FTE.?
c. If not, which organisation commissions these services for your population?
d. Please list the relevant services provided to your population.
e. How many places were commissioned for each service for FY 2023/34?
f. How many referrals have been received so far for each service in FY 2023/24?
g. How many patients are currently waiting for their first appointment for each of these services.?
h. Which funding pots. is used to deliver the services.?
i. What was the value of the budget for each service in FY 23/24?
j. Do you anticipate expanding, maintaining or decreasing the current service provision in the next financial year?
k. Are there currently staffing vacancies in these services, if so please provide the title, grade and FTE for each vacancy.
l. Who is the senior person in the Trust who is responsible for commissioning this service?
m. Who is the senior person in the Trust who is responsible for the delivery of this service?
n. If this service is outsourced, who is your provider, and what is the duration and end date of their contract?
310-2023
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information: 1. Since 1st January 2022 how many staff have been given permission to work remotely outside of the UK?
2. Please provide a list of each unique approval detailing; country, job title of the individual concerned and length of time spent working outside of the UK.
3. Are there any additional associated costs created by staff working outside of the UK. Please provide a breakdown of these costs and the total spent since 1st January 2022.
308-2023
I am writing to request information under the freedom of information act regarding your organisations rostering utilisation. Please can you complete the below questions. 1. Please provide the rostering solution used for the below staffing groups. Where more than one supplier is used for each staff group, please provide the name of each supplier.
Medical & Dental
Nursing & Health Care Assistants Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied Health Professionals Administration and Estates
2. Please list below the staffing groups where e-rostering is currently live and being used?
3. Please tick the below Medical Specialities that are currently rostered on the system- General Medicine
General Surgery Anaesthetics Obstetrics and Gynaecology
4. What percentage of workforce are rostered on the system? Please list the percentages by the staffing groups listed below- Medical & Dental
Nursing & Health Care Assistants
Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied Health Professionals Administration and Estates
5. What is the contract start date for your rostering supplier/suppliers? Please list the name of the supplier and contract start date.
6. What is the contract end date for your rostering supplier/suppliers? Please list the name of the supplier and contract end date.
7. What was the annual cost of your rostering supplier/ suppliers for the financial year 22/23 April 2022 – March 2023.? 8. Are there any exit costs incurred for changing rostering supplier/ suppliers? If yes, please state the exit cost for each supplier
9. Did the organisation use a framework to procure your rostering supplier/ suppliers? Please state the name of the supplier and framework it was procured from. 10. From the table below please indicate which interfaces are being used and at what frequency?
Interface In/Out Daily Weekly Monthly Ad Hoc
ESR Generic Attendance Inbound Interface Out
ESR Generic Absence Inbound Interface Out
ESR Generic Outbound Interface In
E-Job Planning In/Out
Junior Doctors In/Out
Staffbank / Agency In/Out
Identity Provider Servers In/Out
11. Please provide the name of the organisations GOSWH Guardian of safe working hours.
12. Please provide the name of the organisations Lead Registrar
13. Please provide the name of the organisations Medical Education Director
14. Please provide the name of the chair of the Junior Doctors forum
306-2023
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
For the last financial year, what was the total amount spent on translation costs?
Can you provide a breakdown of these costs by language translated.
Do you hire any dedicated translators? If so provide details of how many, total salary cost and for what language.
301-2023
Please could you answers the following questions?
1. What is the population size you cover?
2. What proportion of your contracted budget is spent on Mental Health if unknown, please provide an estimate.
3. Please complete the table below for the last 5 financial years starting with the financial year April 2018 and detail the digital funding you have received from NHS sources i.e. NHS England or associated commissioners integrated care boards/clinical commissioning groups..
Month Year Amount of digital funding received £. Funding source i.e NHSE/ICB. Name of funding programme, if applicable Capital/Revenue?
302-2023
Please can I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact me if you have any questions.
1. Please advise what software/systems you use for managing medical devices to be compliant with MHRA Guidance Jan 2021? See link Safeguarding public health publishing.service.gov.uk.
2. If applicable, how long is the contract and when does it expire month and year.?
3. What is the annual budget for the system listed in response to question 1?
4. Please advise on the name and contact for the person responsible for ensuring compliance with the MHRA guidance quoted above.

