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Freedom of Information request 032-2023

Response published: 6 February 2023

FOI Request

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your NHS trust. Please may you provide me with: 1. The number of rape incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, since 2010. 2. The number of sexual assault incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, since 2010. Please provide this data in a table format. 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.

FOI Response

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 032-2023

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below:

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your NHS trust. Please may you provide me with:

1. The number of rape incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, since 2010.

2. The number of sexual assault incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, since 2010.

Please provide this data in a table format.

Response – Please find the requested information below:

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has existed since late 2019 and therefore the incident reporting systems have developed/changed with the new inception of this organisation. Reporting categories for sexual safety incidents were revised.

The following information is therefore provided:

1. The number of rape incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, from 1st April 2020 – 31st March 2023: Zero

2. The number of sexual assault incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, from April 2020:

1.4.2020 – 31.03.2021 9
1.4.2021 – 31.03.2022 8
1.4.2022 – 31.03.2023 27