Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 029-2023
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
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
Ward Name Female Male Total
Admissions
Mean
Age by
Ward
Admissions MH IP RehabHoneybourne
3 4 7 34
MH IP Rehab- Laurel
House
1 1 2 30
Montpellier Low Secure
Unit
12 12 39
Wotton Lawn- Abbey Ward 163 113 276 40
Wotton Lawn- Dean Ward 147 147 42
Wotton Lawn- Greyfriars
PICU
37 51 88 35
Wotton Lawn- Kingsholm
Ward
196 196 40
Wotton Lawn- Priory Ward 145 185 330 41
Grand Total 496 562 1058 40
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
We do not hold this information
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?
We do not hold this information
3. Trust/ward policies and procedures
a. Please provide copies of internal Trust policy documents intended for staff guidance which include
reference to the needs of psychiatric inpatients who are parents and their families e.g. family visit
policies..
If you are unable to provide this data, please state which of the following reason explains this:
– We do not have internal Trust policy documents intended for staff guidance which include reference to
the needs of psychiatric inpatients who are parents and their families.
– We do have internal Trust policy documents intended for staff guidance which include reference to the
needs of psychiatric inpatients who are parents and their families but to provide this information would
be outside the scope of the appropriate limit as per Section 12 of FOIA.
– Other please provide reason.
Visiting arrangements for inpatients CLP209 policy attached.
b. Please provide copies of any internal guidelines/SOPs used by wards to manage child visits to
wards.
If you are unable to provide this data, please state the reason in one of the following formats:
– We do not have specific internal guidelines/SOPs used by wards to manage child visits to wards.
– We do have internal specific internal guidelines/SOPs used by wards to manage child visits to wards
but to provide this information would be outside the scope of the appropriate limit as per Section 12 of
FOIA.
– Other please provide reason.
CLP212 Children and Young People visiting Mental Health Units Policy attached.
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?
If you are unable to provide this data please state the reason in one of the following formats:
– We do not collect this data in any form.
– We do collect this data, but it is held in individual patient notes and therefore not accessible / within the
appropriate limit as per Section 12 of FOIA.
– Other please provide reason.
We do not capture this data specifically.
b. During the reporting period, how many individual visits were made by children to inpatient psychiatric
wards?
If you are unable to provide this data please state the reason in one of the following formats:
– We do not collect this data in any form.
– We do collect this data, but it is held in individual patient notes and therefore not accessible / within the
appropriate limit as per Section 12 of FOIA.
– Other please provide reason.
Children do not directly visit our wards. We have a family room facility for this.
5. Family-friendly facilities
a. Is there a family room available for visits? Yes
b. Is the rooms. sole purpose for family visits? Yes
c. If possible, please provide a photograph of each family room a snapshot from a phone is fine..
Image attached of Wotton Lawn family room facility
FOI Request
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..