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I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following information:
1. The number of a. first consultant appointments after an urgent referral, b. first definitive cancer treatments, and c. subsequent cancer treatments, that were cancelled or rescheduled by your trust in financial year 2022/23:
i. once
b. twice
c. three times or more
2. The most amount of times the date was changed on a single one of the above cancer appointments by your trust in FY 2022/23.
I require details of all of the annual data since the data began to be collected until the present date you provide the information for Gloucestershire and for the UK as a whole for the following areas:
1. Data on the total number of diagnoses on an annual basis for the mental health As defined within the DSM-5 as calculated from UK Mental Health services using the DSM-5 criteria. area for both the UK as a whole and also specifically for Gloucestershire.
2. Data on the number of known misdiagnoses on an annual basis for the mental health As defined within the DSM-5 as calculated from UK Mental Health services using the DSM-5 criteria. area for both the UK as a whole and also specifically for Gloucestershire. And if this data is not known then I require details of why it has not been collected and if that information has been collected anywhere else in any form or as part of any other report..
3. A percentage breakdown of the number of misdiagnoses on an annual level for both Gloucestershire and the UK as a whole and if in place details of any allowable level of misdiagnoses from the legislation passed by the great and the good in both of those places The houses of Parliament and Lords..
4. Details of the number and percentage of specifically Autistic diagnoses as both a number and a percentage along with the total for both the UK and Gloucestershire.
5. Details of the actual number and percentages of the expected number of Autistic diagnoses for both the UK and Gloucestershire.
6. Details of the actual and reported overturned/revised or altered reports and /or misdiagnoses in both the UK and Gloucestershire along with the expected number of overturned/revised or altered reports / and or misdiagnoses for both the UK and Gloucestershire, and if there are no such reports and details in those areas then Why?
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
Which hospitals in your Trust open elective theatres at the weekend? please list the name of the hospital followed by a Y/N as to whether elective theatres are open at the weekend.
How many of the following scans has your Trust carried out in the last year, broken down by daily activity?
o CT Scans
o MRI Scans
o X Rays
I am writing a request for information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please could you provide me with:
– Numbers of people who have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia from 2019 to 2023;
– How much, in terms of waiting times, did it took to have a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia;
Please provide me with a breakdown per gender and year.
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.
Please confirm the Trust holds the following data, and where it is held please provide the data as requested. I would like to receive this information by email.
1. Does the Trust provide a Specialist Tier 3 Weight Management Service?
2. What is the title and grade of the clinicians. who is clinically responsible for patients seen in this service?
3. Please provide any clinical pathways and/or protocols or service specifications for this service.
4. Please provide any quality metrics and/or reports for this service.
5. How many patients was/is the Trust commissioned for, in:
a. 2022/23?
b. 2023/24?
6. How many referrals did/has the Trust received., in:
a. 2022/23?
b. 2023/24?
7. How many patients are currently waiting for their first appointment in the T3WM service?
8. How does the Trust charge for this service:
a. NHS Tariff/Payment Scheme.
b. Other Per Appointment Pricing Scheme.
c. Per Patient/Pathway Pricing.
d. Block Arrangement.
Please provide me with the details below. Section 1: Medical Locum Expenditure
1. 1.0 Between 1st April 2023 and 31st October 2023, what did the Trust spend on Agency Medical Locums? Clarification: Include all charges pay, agency fees, managed service fees, etc.. excluding VAT. All grades, including Consultants. a. 1.1 What proportion of this was attributed to the services of a Managed Service Provider MSP. / Neutral Vendor / Master Vendor and/or Technology Provider? Section 2: MSP & Tech 2.
3. 2.0 Does the Trust have a Managed Service / MSP either Neutral Vendor, Master Vendor, or otherwise. and/or technology for managing the supply of agency medics, and/or Direct Engagement? If the answer to question 1.0 is yes, please answer the following questions: a. 2.1 Which company provides this solution? Clarification: If there is more than one company involved, for example, if the tech/software is separate from the service provision, please list all contracts that are in place. Other than where an agency is providing managed services or tech, there is no need to list all of the locum agencies involved in the supply chain. b. 2.2 Which Framework was this contract / were these contracts procured under? c.
3. 2.3 Please disclose the expiry dates. of the contracts. 4.
4. 2.4 Please disclose the fee structure and cost of the above-mentioned provisions. Clarification: Excluding all elements of locum doctor pay / the cost of agency locums and excluding the agency commission charges, and excluding VAT.
2.5 What percentage of spend on agency medics was processed via a Direct Engagement model during October 2023? Clarification: how much of the agency locum spent during this period benefitted from VAT efficiency via a Direct Engagement provision? 2.6 What was the average hourly charge rate paid by the Trust for a Locum Consultant between 1st August – 31st October 2023? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT. 2.7 What was the maximum charge rate paid for a Locum Consultant between 1st August 2023 and 31st October 2023? Please specify the specialty. Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT Section 3: Accountable People 5. 3.0 Please provide the name, email address, telephone number, work mobile if applicable, and job title of the person responsible on behalf of the Trust, for the management of the above-mentioned contracts.. a. 3.1 If different, please also provide the same details of the person or persons accountable for delivering the Trust’s strategic objectives in relation to agency medics.
If you do not deal with this, please pass this email along to the department/person in your Trust that does.
Please tell me of the length of the current waiting time between referral acceptance and Diagnostic Assessment for Adult ASD Autism Spectrum Disorder. in your Trust.
Section 1: Agency Nurse Expenditure 1. 1.0 Between 1st April 2023 and 31st October 2023, what did the Trust spend on Agency Nurses? Clarification: Include all charges pay, agency fees, managed service fees, etc.. excluding VAT. 1. 1.1 What proportion of this was attributed to the services of a Managed Service Provider MSP. / Neutral Vendor / Master Vendor and/or Technology Provider? Section 2: MSP & Tech 2. 2.0 Does the Trust have a Managed Service / MSP either Neutral Vendor, Master Vendor, or otherwise. and/or technology for managing the supply of agency nurses? 3.
If the answer to question 1.0 is yes, please answer the following questions: 1.
2. 2.1 Which company provides this solution? Clarification: If there is more than one company involved, for example, if the tech/software is separate from the service provision, please list all contracts that are in place. Other than where an agency is providing managed services or tech, there is no need to list all of the nurse agencies involved in the supply chain. 2. 2.2 Which Framework was this contract / were these contracts procured under? 3. 2.3 Please disclose the expiry dates. of the contracts. 4. 2.4 Please disclose the fee structure and cost of the above-mentioned provisions. Clarification: Excluding all elements of nurse pay / the cost of agency nurses excluding the agency commission charges, and excluding VAT. 5. 2.5 What was the average total cost paid by the Trust for a “Day Rate” Band 5 Agency Nurse between 1st August – 31st October 2022? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT. 6. 2.6 What was the average total cost paid by the Trust for a “Day Rate” Band 5 Agency Nurse between 1st August – 31st October 2023? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT. 7. 2.7 What was the maximum charge rate paid for a Band 5 Agency Nurse between 1st August 2023 and 31st October 2023? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT Section 3: Accountable People 3.
4. 3.0 Please provide the name, email address, telephone number, work mobile if applicable, and job title of the person responsible on behalf of the Trust, for the management of the above-mentioned contracts..
5.
6. 3.1 If different, please also provide the same details of the person or persons accountable for delivering the Trust’s strategic objectives in relation to agency nurses.
I would like to request the following information:
1. Please provide numbers and details of incident reports on psychiatric inpatient wards of any type. where a tampon, period pad, continence pants/pullups and/or menstrual cups or other period products were involved, used or are listed in the incident information .
Please include redacted details where possible.
Methods may relate to swallowing item, using to create ligature or using to block bath/basin, using to block door, using to hide other items etc
There may be other incident reports relating to period products, please provide these.
Please provide these details to the present day from 01/01/2020
This is my real name and I am requesting this information for my use
For the time periods contained in cells B-F please provide statistical information relating to individuals who died whilst receiving in-patient psychiatric care at any facility in your jurisdiction. Please provide the total for the 5 year period in cell G. If you are unable to provide all the information request please provide as much information as possible. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
1. How many individuals died whilst recieving in-patient psychiatric care? 2. How many of the individuals who died whilst recieving in-patient psychiatric care were not detained under the Mental Health Act 1983? 3. How many non-detained patients: a. Died from self inflicted causes b. Died from natural causes c. Died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police called to assist medical staff 4. Of the non-detained patients who died from self inflicted causes how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 5. Of the non-detained patients who died from self inflicted causes and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d.Other ethnic group 6. Of the non detained patients who died from natural causes how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 7. Of the non detained patients who died from natural causes and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d. Other ethnic group 8. Of the non detained patients who died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 9. Of the non – detained patients who died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d.Other ethnic group
What is the approximate size of the population you serve?
How many staff do you currently employ?
How many AHPs do you currently employ?
What AHP services do you offer?
I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the size of your trusts net budget surplus or deficit in each of the last 5 financial years.
I am trying to understand the number of SME suppliers the public sector purchases from so please can you send me a list of all suppliers you purchase goods or services from and the annual value you bought from them in your last financial year. Please note this information is not commercially sensitive as all you will be giving me is the total money spent with each supplier not any detail of what you bought. Many thanks
Please disclose the information listed below by return email within 20 days as per the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Trust Payment arrangements for Bank worker shifts – what point on the Agenda for Change pay scale is paid? Do you administer any bank-enhanced rates of pay? If so, what are these and what staff groups/grades, and where are they applicable? What % of WTR payment is made with regards to Bank worker pay? What financial and non-financial benefits do your Bank workers have access to and what rationale for these?
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1. Please confirm your Trust’s overall spending on Translation and Interpreting Services, for each of the financial years:
a. 2020-2021:
b. 2022-2023:
2. Please provide a breakdown of languages for the last 12 months
3. What languages were your suppliers not able to supply in 2022?
4. Which external suppliers. do you currently use to deliver your interpreting and translation services ?
5. Are you able to provide approximate fee / interpreting session for:
a. In-person/face to face interpreting
b. Telephone interpreting
c. Video interpreting
6. If you outsource the provision of interpreting services to an external provider, could you please confirm:
a. Whether the provider was contracted via a national framework? If so, which one?
b. When does the current contract expire?
c. Is there is an exclusivity clause, which would prevent the trust from piloting new cost saving interpreting services during the duration of your contract with your existing provider?
7. From which budget within your organisation are interpreting services funded?
8. Where do you advertise your tenders? If you do not do a full tender / which frameworks would you use?
9. What is the start and end date for either the framework or direct contracts you have with interpreting and translation suppliers.?
10. Please provide the name and email of the contract manager for the service
11. If we would like to engage in conversation with a member of staff in your organisation to discuss the innovation we propose to develop, who would be the most suitable person to approach?
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
What is the total number of staff hired in a diversity, equity or inclusion role? I would like information for those currently on staff and for any vacancies you may currently have.
What is the total annual salary cost for these roles?
Please answer the following questions:
1. What Electronic Patients Records System do you use and when was it implemented?
2. Does the Trust scan paper records? If yes, do you
– scan day forward and legacy records? or
– just day forward records?
3. Is above handled – In house by your own scanning team? – Outsourced to an off site external service provider?
– On site by an external provider?
– Combination of above?
4. If any of the above outsourced, please name providers. and details of when the contracts. ends
5. What route to market used to obtain these services a. open tender b. framework – if yes, which one?
6. Do you have a published road map for paper-free at point of care ‘Digital at point of care’? If yes, please provide a copy or link to this document 7. Finally, please advise names of any individuals involved in this process including your Medical Records Manager b. Chief Information Officer c. Digital Project Lead?
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, could you please provide me with the following:
1. Name of the trust’s EPR
2. Name of the trust’s integration platforms.
3. What are the trust’s digital priorities?
4. Do you have any plans for a clinical data repository/regional shared care record?
4A. If so, what is it called?
4B. If no, is this likely to happen?
5. Does the trust have any clinical systems which are unable to share data interoperably?
6. Does the trust use or is planning to use Artificial Intelligence for diagnostics?
7. Does the trust use or is planning to use Clinical Decision Support tools?
8.Does the trust have a Genomics data management strategy?
9.Does the trust have an OpenEHR or other vendor-neutral interoperability strategy in place?
9A. If not, is it likely the ICB will develop one?
Thanks for your email.
— Strategy plan reads as 2021. I am seeking the latest 2023 version. Please provide.
— Please share the Business Plan and Budget report
— please brief why the structure chart not available
Please could you tell me how many patients under the auspices of the Trust have been recorded as being treated for obsessive compulsive disorder OCD. over the last two full years.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information regarding locked rehabilitation placements for adults with all mental health diagnosis. Please provide answers on the attached and accompanying Excel spreadsheet.
For the avoidance of doubt, whilst there is no set definition of a locked rehabilitation ward, we generally mean a hospital unit where patients are unable to leave as and when they want. They’re used to treat people who are considered high risk to others, so with serious conditions such as psychosis.
Where possible, please kindly include responses on the attached spreadsheet. 1. Please could you supply the name, email address and telephone number of the commissioner with responsibility for placements in locked rehabilitation. For questions 2 through 7, please supply the following snapshot information for the financial years 2019/20 to 2022/23, and budgeted information for 2023/24. 2. Please provide the total number of adults funded by the Trust in locked rehabilitation. 3. Of the total number of adults funded by the Trust in locked rehabilitation q.2. please provide the number that are male and the number that are female. 4. Of the total number of adults funded by the Trust in locked rehabilitation q.2. please provide the number that were detained under the Mental Health Act and the number that were admitted on an informal basis.
5. Of the total number of adults funded by the Trust in locked rehabilitation q.2. please provide the number that were placed ‘in area’ and the number that were placed ‘out of area’.
6. Of the total number of adults funded by the Trust in locked rehabilitation q.2. please provide the number that were placed in NHS provision and the number that were placed in independent provision. 7. Of the total number of adults funded by the Trust in locked rehabilitation q.2. please provide the number presenting with a primary support need of learning disability, a mental illness, an acquired brain injury, a neurological condition, or a personality disorder. 8. Please provide the Trust’s average and highest weekly expenditure fee. per individual throughout the financial year in locked rehabilitation
9. Please provide the Trust’s total expenditure on locked rehabilitation placements for the financial years 2019/20 to 2022/23, and budgeted information for 2023/24.
am writing with a Freedom of Information request regarding the use of healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust.
To better understand how your trust deals with healthcare and specialised transport services, please clarify whether your trust provides these services in-house, outsources them all, or uses a mix of both approaches.
Additionally, please provide the following data for your Trust and for each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23:
1. What was the spend £ value. on in-house healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust, and the respective volumes of patients / transportations that you realised with in-house capacity, split by:
– High Dependency critically ill. patients
– Neonatal newborn / premature. patients
– Non-Emergency patients
– Other patients, not included in previous splits.
– Other non-patients, such as equipment and medication.
2. What was the spend £ value. on independent sector providers for healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust, and the respective volumes of patients / transportations that you realised with contracted independent sector providers, split by:
– High Dependency critically ill. patients
– Neonatal newborn / premature. patients
– Non-Emergency patients
– Other patients, not included in previous splits.
– Other non-patients, such as equipment and medication.
I am writing with a Freedom of Information request regarding the use of healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust.
To better understand how your trust procures healthcare and specialised transport services from the independent sector, please clarify how many private providers were contracted each year.
Additionally, please provide the following data for your Trust and for each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23:
1. For each independent provider, what was the spend £ value. on independent sector providers for healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust, and the respective volumes of patients / transportations that you realised with contracted independent sector providers, split by:
– High Dependency critically ill. patients
– Neonatal newborn / premature. patients
– Non-Emergency patients
– Other patients, not included in previous splits.
– Other non-patients, such as equipment and medication.
I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the following:
1. Please provide the number of Chief Executive Officers your Trust has had since 2010.
2. Please provide the shortest amount of time a Chief Executive Officer has served at your Trust since 2010 or since you started recording this..
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12 of the FOI Act, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
I request that the information be sent to me digitally and within the legal timeframe for requests.
To whom it may concern,
I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the following:
1. Please provide the number of times your Trust called in emergency contractors or builders for unplanned maintenance and repair works in 2022.
2. Please provide the total cost of emergency contractors or builders for unplanned maintenance and repair works in 2022.
3. Please provide the largest cost for a single unplanned maintenance and repair work in 2022.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12 of the FOI Act, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
I request that the information be sent to me digitally and within the legal timeframe for requests.
Please see below information requested under the freedom of information act:
Over the last financial year, how many Nurses, Drs and AHPs have been recruited internationally?
How many international nurses, Drs and AHPs were recruited via an agency?
How did the trust engage with these agencies direct award, Call off agreement, tender, mini-competition.?
Which agencies were used over the last financial year for international recruitment, and were any of them on an exclusive basis?
How many vacancies do you currently have for international Nurses, Drs and AHPs?
What is the budget for international recruitment over and above any grant funding?
Who within your Trust is responsible for International recruitment?
I am writing today to make a Freedom of Information request.
I would like the numbers of patients being nursed on End of Life care pathways each month on Mulberry Ward at Charlton Lane Hospital from June 2012 until the present day.
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Please could I request the following information.
The name and email address of the person with your Trust that holds the following job titles:
1. Senior Information Risk Officer SIRO.
2. Chief Information Officer CIO.
3. Chief Information Security Officer CISO.
4. Directof Information Technology
5. Head of Governance
6. Caldicott Guardian
7.Head of Risk/Compliance
I am writing to request information relating to the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy on patients receiving mental health treatment by the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS foundation trust under the Freedom of Information Act 2020. Please can I request the following information:
– What percentage of overall patients treated by the service were:
– black males
– black females
– white males
– white females
– How many patients overall received ECT in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022?
– In each of those years what percentage of those patients were:
– black males
– black females
– white males
– white females
I am writing to request the following information about the S2 funding agreement with the EU/EEA/Switzeland.
The UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement, UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement and UK-Swiss Social Security Coordination Convention continue to give patients in the UK access to the S2 scheme, if they meet the criteria, in the European Union and Switzerland.
The deal gives reciprocal rights to access planned treatment in the UK for eligible residents of EU member states and Switzerland.
Please provide the following information:
1. How many applications from UK patients for pre-planned treatment abroad have you approved in the following years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
2. For patients requesting approval through the scheme, please provide the most frequently requested treatment type for each year: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
3. How many EU/EEA/Swiss patients have you approved for pre-planned treatment at your trust under the S2 scheme in the following years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
4. For EU/EEA/Swiss patients requesting treatment at your trust under the scheme, please provide the most frequently requested treatment type for each year: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Freedom of Information officer,
I
am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Apologies
my last email was blank – I am not sure what happened.
A. Do you use screening
before referring children to be assessed for ADHD.
Definition
being as per NHS:
·
Screening: a triage
process, using standardised tools and/or agreed processes and carried out by experienced Liaison and Diversion practitioners.
·
Assessment including
specialist assessment: carried out by someone with a specific professional mandate, i.e. with requisite professional skills.
A2.
If yes, when did you introduce screening?
A3.
For the years 2020,2021 and 2022 please provide the following broken down by calendar year.
i. Number
of individuals who received screening.
ii.
Number
of individuals who were then referred for assessment.
B. Do you use screening
before referring Adults to be assessed for ADHD.
Definition
being as per NHS:
·
Screening: a triage
process, using standardised tools and/or agreed processes and carried out by experienced Liaison and Diversion practitioners.
·
Assessment including
specialist assessment: carried out by someone with a specific professional mandate, i.e. with requisite professional skills.
B2.
If yes what year did you introduce screening.
B3.
For the years 2020,2021 and 2022 please provide the following broken down by calendar year.
i. Number
of individuals who received screening.
ii.
Number
of individuals who were then referred for assessment.
Recruitment toCan I have contact with the HR of your
hospital and make an inquiry about the work for me – maybe I would be useful to you the trust?
1. Which specific procedures are conducted by Healthcare Professionals within a. the diagnostic tests available in the Trust’s Community Diagnostic Centres and b. the surgeries available in the Trust’s Surgical Hubs?
2. What medical technologies are used within a. the diagnostic tests available in the Trust’s Community Diagnostic Centres and b. the surgeries available in the Trust’s Surgical Hubs?
3. Can the Trust provide a list of any applicable NICE Guidance followed within a. the diagnostic tests available in the Trust’s Community Diagnostic Centres and b. the surgeries available in the Trust’s Surgical Hubs?
Do you have a Virtual Ward?
If yes,
– For what specialities and care pathway have you implemented Virtual Wards?
– How many Virtual Ward beds do you have?
– Do you know how many Virtual Ward beds you need? If so, how many?
– Who is your Virtual ward providers.?
If no,
– Do you intend to implement a Virtual Ward?
– If yes, have you identified and engaged a Virtual Ward provider?
– Do you know how many Virtual Ward beds you need? If so, how many?
– Do you have an internal Virtual Ward lead?
I would like to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following information regarding inappropriate out of area placements in children and young people’s mental health services.
Definition of inappropriate out of area placement OAP.: An ‘out of area placement’ OAP. occurs when a child or young person who requires mental health inpatient care is admitted to a unit that does not form part of their usual local network of services because no bed is available for them locally.
Please can you provide for all following questions data for children and young people’s mental health services and inappropriate OAPs.
Q1: Total number of monthly inpatient admissions and yearly totals from January 2017 to December 2022.
Q2: Total number of monthly inappropriate OAPs and yearly totals from January 2017 to December 2022:
– Number of inappropriate OAP days per month
– Number of inappropriate OAPs active at the end of each month
– Number of inappropriate OAPs started each month
– Number of inappropriate OAPs ended each month
Q3: The monthly lengths of inappropriate OAPs and yearly totals from January 2017 to December 2022:
– In these breakdowns if possible: a. 1-30 nights, b. 31-90 nights, c. 91 or more nights
– average, longest, shortest stay as of the last day of the year.
Q4: The monthly distance travelled for inappropriate OAPs from January 2017 to December 2022:
– In these breakdowns if possible: a. less than 50km, b. 50km or greater and less than 100km, c. 100km or greater and less than 300km, d. 300km or greater
– average, longest, shortest distance as of the last day of the year.. For longest and shortest distance please include the receiving provider/inpatient unit.
Q5: The monthly cost of inappropriate OAPs and yearly totals from January 2017 to December 2022:
– Total cost for inappropriate out of area placements each month
– Average cost per bed day each month
Q6: Yearly totals of receiving providers of inappropriate OAPs, so the number of patients sent to each receiving provider per year as well as the proportion of receiving providers that are private providers.
Q7: Yearly average, youngest and oldest age of children and young people on inappropriate OAPs.
Please could you provide the information in the form of an CSV or other spreadsheet file.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request. If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request. My details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the Clinical Waste Contract/s that your trust currently has in place.
The details we require are:
Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages
Actual spend on this contract/framework and any sub lots., from the start of the contract to the current date
Start date & duration of framework/contract?
Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
Is there an extension clause in the frameworks./contracts. and, if so, the duration of the extension?
Has a decision been made yet on whether the frameworks./contracts. are being either extended or renewed?
Who is the senior officer outside of procurement. responsible for this contract?
– Who is the Infection Control Lead responsible for the Trust + contact information?
– Who is the Procurement Lead for Clinical Waste contracts for the Trust + contact information
– Who is the Environmental/Sustainability lead for the Trust + contact information
– Who is the Waste management Lead for the trust + contact information
– Who is the Health and Safety lead for the Trust + contact information
– Who is the Clinical waste incumbent?
– Does the Trust make use of reusable or disposable sharps containers?
Thanks for your response and the emails for other trust which will be useful.
As your Trust provides joined up physical health, mental health and learning disability services I would be interested in finding out what physical healthcare policies etc etc you have inplace/use and specificallywhether u have any that address even briefly. tinnitus, pulstaile tinnitus, or Sjogren’s. I am for example interested in what guidance staff have on what to do if say someone with a primary psychiatric disorder reports tinnitus and what policies etc are in place to help staff identify when autoimmune conditions such as sjogren’s. could be responsible for some of the cognitive or mental health symptoms.
I therefore wonder whether you could let me know whether the trust or its constituents hospitals/sites have any policies, procedures, guidance etc which address i.e. refer to and provide some information on for staff. tinnitus or sjogrens?
Could u also please let me know as part of the orginal request if posisble. whether you have any training documents from the last 5 years. which address tinnitus or sjogren’s?
I would like to make a Freedom Of Information Request.
How do you process Subject Access Requests?
What tools do you use to ensure that what needs to be redacted from patient records is redacted when responding to SARs?
How do you share/send personal/patient information with insurance companies or solicitors when you receive such a request?
This email is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for details relating to how your histology services were commissioned as well as details on workload, staffing, turnaround times, and budgets.
Full details of the request are detailed below as well as being contained within the attached word document.
I would like to request the following information under FOI. For the purposes of this FOI, Authority and Trust are one in the same.
1. Does the Authority Outsource its Customer Service Requirements / Helpline services which may include the provision of staff and / or the telephony used?
2. If yes which services are outsourced and how many staff deliver each of these services?
3. If yes, which company or companies are contracted to provide these services if multiple please specify each supplier.?
4. What is the contract start and expiry date if multiple contracts exist please specify for each.?
5. Is there an extension period within the contract? If yes, what is the period if multiple contracts exist, please specify for each.?
6. What is the annual contract value if it is a zero-value contract eg based on activity, what has been the average spend or budgeted amount and if multiple contracts exist, please specify for each.?
7. Is the authority partnering / working with any other Authorities / Partners on developing services which cover larger geographic areas if yes, please specify service, location, and partners.?
8. Does the Authority have an efficiency target for this financial year 2022/23, if yes please specify % of overall budget and amount to save?
9. Does the Authority provide in-house or outsource Patient Transport Services if outsourced please specify contract start / expiry dates inc contract extensions, provider name, annual contract value and number of staff to deliver the service, please split by back-office and direct staff.?
10. Is the Authority investing in Digital Solutions in 2022-23, for it’s patients and are you working with any other partners to this effect if yes, please specify nature of solution and partners names. if any..?
11. What, if any, Digital Technologies would you like to see the Authority implement and/or adopt, if money was no barrier, to improve quality of service internally and externally?
12. What was the total number of patients the Authority treated in all it’s meanings. in: 2021 – 2022 / 2020 – 2021 / 2019 – 2020 / 2018 – 2019?
13. Who is responsible for Digital Transformation within your organisation name, title, email address. and what is the budget for this in 2022-2023 and where know, in subsequent years eg part of a 5-year plan?
Would you be able to confirm if: – paper notes/drug charts are used anywhere in the trust, alongside electronic paper notes/drug charts? – if so, are there any plans to migrate away from paper to electronic? if not, how often is the decision reviewed? – if so, does the trust keep track of serious incidents etc related to paper specifically eg misreading of handwritten comments/doses? – How many incidents happened within the last year or period the trust tracks.? – if not, how long ago did the trust migrate away from paper notes?
I am enquiring as to whether there would be a need for us to take out wheelchair insurance independently or whether the chair would be covered by NHS should there be a theft, damage etc?
Also is James covered for wheelchair repairs etc should the need arise?
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from the Trust regarding;
1. How many shifts has your trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for between 1st – 28th February 2023
2. Within this timeframe, please can you list the number of shifts filled by ward or department that Thornbury were used in.
3. Please name all other Off Framework agencies that were utilised within this timeframe 1st – 28th February 2023.
4. How many shifts were filled during this time frame by these agencies 1st – 28th February 2023.
5. Within this same timeframe, please list the number of shifts filled, by ward or department.
6. Please list all suppliers with a general band 5 day charge rate of £50 per hour
7. Please list all suppliers with a general band 5 night charge rate of £55 per hour.
For the time periods contained in cells B-K please provide statistical information relating to individuals who died whilst receiving in-patient psychiatric care at any facility in your jurisdiction. Please provide the total for the 10 year period in cell L. If do not have information for any of the time periods, or are otherwise unable to provide the information for the full range of years, please provide information on any of the time periods in cells B-K. 2021-22 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 Total 1. How many individuals who were not detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 died whilst receiving in-patient psychiartic care? 2. How many non-detained patients: a. Died from self inflicted causes b. Died from natural causes c. Died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police called to assist medical staff 3. Of the non-detained patients who died from self inflicted causes how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 4.Of the non-detained patients who died from self inflicted causes and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d.Other ethnic group 5. Of the non detained patients who died from natural causes how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 6. Of the non detained patients who died from natural causes and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d. Other ethnic group 7. Of the non detained patients who died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 8. Of the non – detained patients who died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian
Dear Officer,
I would like to raise a Freedom of Information request. Please complete the questions below and return to me:
For Rostering, what software system do you use? What is the contract end date for your Rostering software? For Scheduling Community Activities, what software system do you use? What is the contract end date for your Community Scheduling software? For Expense Management what software system do you use? What is the contract end date for your Expense Management software? How many staff are employed in the Trust? How many Trust employees are Community based?
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information: The number of cancelled, delayed or missed appointments at your Trust as a result of British Medical Association strikes w/c 11th – 15th April, broken down by
1. 1. Type of appointment, e.g. checkup, treatment, surgery 2. 2. Type of care the appointment/surgery was required for, e.g. cancer – please specify which department too This information should be made available to me in electronic form if possible. If you determine some of the information I have requested to be exempt from disclosure, please redact exempt information with black boxes, instead of snipping or excerpting and please state which Category of exemption you believe applies to the information.
1.Please supply patient’s information ECT leaflet.
2.Please supply patient ECT consent form
3.Please supply any ECT reports/investigations
4.How many ECT in 2022?
5.What proportion of patients were men/women?
6.How old were they?
7.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
8.How many were receiving ECT for the first time?
9.How many patients consented to ECT?
10.How many ECT complaints were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
11.How many patients died during or 1 month after ECT and what was the cause whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
12.How many patients died within 6 months after ECT and what was the cause whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
13.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving ECT whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
14.How many patients have suffered complications during and after ECT and what were those complications?
15.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about ECT?
16.If so, what was their concerns?
17.How many patients report memory loss/loss of cognitive function?
18.What tests are used to assess memory loss/loss of cognitive function?
19.Have MRI or CT scans been used before and after ECT?
20.If so, what was the conclusion?
21.How does the Trust plan to prevent ECT in the future?
Please provide SERIOUS INCIDENT information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any serious incident reports/investigations?
2.How many SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what was the cause whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what was the cause whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to prevent SERIOUS INCIDENTS in the future?
Please provide restraints information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any Restraints/investigations?
2.How many RESTRAINTS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many RESTRAINTS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after RESTRAINTS and what was the cause whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after RESTRAINTS and what was the cause whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving RESTRAINTS whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after RESTRAINTS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about RESTRAINTS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.Are counts of forced injections available?
14.How does the Trust plan to reduce restraints in the future?
Please provide SECLUSION information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any SECLUSION reports/investigations
2.How many SECLUSIONS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many SECLUSIONS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after SECLUSION and what was the cause whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after SECLUSION and what was the cause whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving SECLUSION whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after SECLUSION and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about SECLUSION?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to reduce SECLUSIONS in the future?
Please provide MEDICATION ERRORS information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any MEDICATION ERRORS reports/investigations
2.How many MEDICATION ERRORS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many MEDICATION ERRORS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after MEDICATION ERRORS and what was the cause whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after MEDICATION ERRORS and what was the cause whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving MEDICATION ERRORS whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after MEDICATION ERRORS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about MEDICATION ERRORS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to prevent MEDICATION ERRORS in the future?
I’m working for Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, supporting our Dental services across Cambridge, Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Our current project includes a review of Special Care Dental nursing, as the trust is currently experiencing some recruitment/retention challenges in certain areas, and I’m keen to understand if these are specific to the local region or a more broader, shared challenge across the country with other trusts.
In particular, am keen to understand current:
Dental nursing vacancy rates qty and %.
Pay bands what band, if aligned, or any variation/tactical amends to aid recruitment – i.e. starting bonus, referral reward etc..
Recruitment strategy where advertised, when.
I am emailing under the Freedom of Information Act to request information regarding your trust and its participation in clinical trials by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site.
Can you please provide answers to the questions below:
1. Does your trust participate in clinical trials by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site?
2. For the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23. how many clinical trials have the trust participated in by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site for trials that have been sponsored by the following:
a. Academic institutions
b. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies
c. Other non-profit organisations
d. Other for-profit organisations
3. If you have participated in clinical trials with academic institutions, how many trials were conducted at the following stages of a clinical trial? Please answer for the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23..
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
e. Other
4. If you have participated in clinical trials with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, how many trials were conducted at the following stages of a clinical trial? Please answer for the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23..
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
e. Other
5. For each year in the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23. please detail:
a. How much income the trust should have received for all its clinical trial participation?
b. How much income has the trust actually received for all its clinical trial participation?
c. How much income is still owed to your trust for all its clinical trial participation?
Freedom of Information Request
Section -1
1. Has the trust conducted any overseas healthcare recruitment in the previous financial year of 2022-2023?
2. If yes, can you please advise which all professionals were recruited from overseas Eg. Nurses, doctors, radiographers, ODP’s
3. Can you please list out which all recruitment agencies were used for each professions respectively for year 2022-2023
4. Please list out the contact details of the recruitment agencies used
5. Please can you describe how were these agencies selected?
Section – 2
6. Is the trust planning to conduct overseas healthcare recruitment in the present financial year of 2023-2024?
7. If yes, can you please advise which all professionals were recruited from overseas Eg. Nurses, doctors, radiographers
8. Can you please list out which all recruitment agencies are being used for each professions respectively for year 2023-2024
9. Please can you describe how were these agencies selected?
Section 3
10. What is the process to get onto your framework of suppliers.
11. Would the trust be open to using a non-framework agency who could deliver a better service in a cost-effective way? if So who is the best person to contact?
12. Kindly specify when is the next lot of tenders invited for such a requirement?
13. Kindly specify where would such a tenders would be published for interested bidders to bid?
14. Are you looking for new suppliers who would be able to help you fulfil the roles?