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Brockworth
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E-mail: freedomofinformation@ghc.nhs.uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
29th June 2022
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 125-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
GHC was formed on 1.10.2019, therefore, this data is only available from this date. Also, the data is not reported monthly, rather on a quarterly cycle information re mental health deaths is held annually.. This information is, therefore presented in accordance with the data available within existing reporting systems. To provide this information by month would take more than 18 hours to compile. The Trust does not provide Emergency Department care. Information provided is up to 31 March 2022.
1. The total number of in-patient deaths including emergency department deaths.
Mental Health Inpatient Deaths
Financial year 2019/20 Financial year 2020/21 Financial year 2021/21 Total
3 14 10 27
Community Hospital Deaths
Financial year 2019/20 Financial year 2020/21 Financial year 2021/22 Total
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 58 45 54 33 44 25 37 47 29 36 408
2. The number of deaths subject to case record review
2019/20
10 in the third quarter.
1 in the fourth quarter.
2020/21
16 in the first quarter.
21 in the second quarter.
14 in the third quarter.
5 in the fourth quarter.
2021/22
31 in the first quarter.
14 in the second quarter.
21 in the third quarter.
15 in the fourth quarter.
3. Of these deaths subjected to review, the number that were judged more likely than not to have been due to problems in care
2019/20
0 representing 0.0% of the patient deaths during the reporting period are judged more likely than not to have been due to problems in the care provided to the patient. In relation to each quarter, this consisted of:
0 representing 0.0% for the third quarter.
0 representing 0.0% for the fourth quarter.
2020/21
0 representing 0.0% of the patient deaths during the reporting period are judged more likely than not to have been due to problems in the care provided to the patient. In relation to each quarter, this consisted of:
0 representing 0.0% for the first quarter.
0 representing 0.0% for the second quarter.
0 representing 0.0% for the third quarter.
0 representing 0.0% for the fourth quarter.
2021/22
2, representing 0.30% of the patient deaths during the reporting period are judged to be more likely than not to have been due to problems in the care provided to the patient. 1 representing 0.58% in the first quarter.
0 representing 0% in the second quarter.
1 representing 0.58% in the third quarter.
0 representing 0% in the fourth quarter.
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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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
I would like to make the following Freedom of Information request:
As described on page 6 of the National Quality Board's National Guidance on Learning from Deaths, Trusts are required to collect specified information on deaths: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/nqb-national-guidance-learning-from-deaths.pdf
Please may I receive the following data described in that guidance, on a monthly basis from the beginning of 2018 to the most recent month available:
- The total number of in-patient deaths including emergency department deaths.
- The number of deaths subject to case record review
- Of these deaths subjected to review, the number that were judged more likely than not to have been due to problems in care
If data is not available at the beginning of 2018, please supply data from the earliest point after when data was collected.