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Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Brockworth
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GL3 4AW
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E-mail: freedomofinformation@ghc.nhs.uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
DATE: 12/04/2022
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 059-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
I am seeking information regarding your Trust’s use of Serenity Integrated Mentoring SIM.. I understand that in some areas it uses a different acronym, but it is designed to help police officers and NHS teams handle persistent users of emergency services who have mental health conditions, and is provided via training from the High Intensity Network HIN. or Health Innovation Network HIN..
1. The number of police officers working with your trust as part of SIM or equivalent.. Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust are not signatories to the SIM model and our current Gloucestershire High Intensity Network GHIN. is under comprehensive redesign which will align it with the newly commissioned Complex Emotional Needs CEN. service. 2. The number of service users on the programme in your Trust area. Please break this down by the year they started participating, as well as their age group, gender and ethnicity. 3. The number of service users who stopped participating in the programme. Please break this down by year, and whether their decision to stop participating was made in agreement with Trust staff. 4. The number of uses of s136 of the Mental Health Act carried out by officers participating in SIM in your area, by year since your trust began participating in/using SIM. 5. The number of times service users on the programme required admittance to hospital or the use of emergency services since your trust began using SIM. 6. Please provide any data protection impact assessments carried out regarding your use of SIM. 7. Please provide any Equality Impact Assessments regarding your use of SIM. Should you have any queries in relation to our response in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:-
– Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
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I am seeking information regarding your Trust’s use of Serenity Integrated Mentoring SIM.. I understand that in some areas it uses a different acronym, but it is designed to help police officers and NHS teams handle persistent users of emergency services who have mental health conditions, and is provided via training from the High Intensity Network HIN. or Health Innovation Network HIN..
Please provide the following information:
• • • The number of police officers working with your trust as part of SIM or equivalent..
• • • • The number of service users on the programme in your Trust area. Please break this down by the
• year they started participating, as well as their age group, gender and ethnicity.
• • • • The number of service users who stopped participating in the programme. Please break this down
• by year, and whether their decision to stop participating was made in agreement with Trust staff.
• • • • The number of uses of s136 of the Mental Health Act carried out by officers participating in SIM
• in your area, by year since your trust began participating in/using SIM.
• • • • The number of times service users on the programme required admittance to hospital or the use of
• emergency services since your trust began using SIM.
• • • • Please provide any data protection impact assessments carried out regarding your use of SIM.
• • • • Please provide any Equality Impact Assessments regarding your use of SIM.
• • • • I understand that in May 2021 Tim Kendall at NHS England asked all Trusts using SIM to review it.
• Please provide a copy of the letter requesting this review, confirm whether or not your Trust has completed a review, and if it has, any correspondence with NHS England confirming that you have submitted the review.
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