Freedom of Information Request – Ref: 256-2024
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Please state any digital technologies, e-therapies, internet-delivered therapies, online or digital therapies, digitally enabled therapies or digital therapeutics for adult mental health problems that your Trust has procured, contracted or are paid for by the service for use by service users.
Our response:
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust do not procure, contract or pay for any digital services for use by service users.
You asked:
2. Additionally, please state any digital technologies, e-therapies, internet-delivered therapies, online or digital therapies, digitally enabled therapies or digital therapeutics for adult mental health problems that your Trust uses or recommends to service users.
Our response:
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust recommend the following applications where appropriate:
– Staying Alive
– Calm
– Mindfulness – meditation app
If a patient has used an app or service that they find helpful and it doesn’t conflict with their treatment plan we would probably encourage the continued use of that to support them.
You asked:
3. For the period of 2023/24, please provide any data monitoring information you collect on the technologies listed above. For example, the number of people that have been recommended or reported using the technologies, how long they continued to use the technology or whether there was a reported benefit from their use. Please state where this data is collected from (e.g. the technology providers or from the service).
Our response:
As GHC do not procure or contract these technologies we do not collect data on their usage, therefore we are unable to provide a response to this question.
You asked:
4. Please list any Talking Therapies (formerly known as IAPT) providers that run services on your behalf or in connection with your Trust.
Our response:
IAPT services
You asked:
5. If these services are not run directly by the NHS please state who runs them and what they are (e.g. Social Enterprise, Limited Company, third sector group).
Our response:
Not applicable
You asked:
6. Please state any organisations or third parties (e.g. ORCHA) you have partnered with or commissioned to create or provide an app library.
Our response:
ORCHA
You asked:
7. For the period 2023/24 please state the total number of people your Trust treated for common mental health problems, including how many were treated for each problem.
Our response:
| Presenting problem at referral | 2023 – 24 |
| Depression | 2,759 |
| F42 – Obsessive-compulsive disorder | 294 |
| F400 – Agoraphobia | 126 |
| F401 – Social phobias | 334 |
| F402 – Specific (isolated) phobias | 88 |
| F410 – Panic disorder[episodic paroxysmal anxiety] | 209 |
| F411 – Generalised Anxiety Disorder | 2,137 |
| F412 – Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder | 5 |
| F431 – Post-traumatic stress disorder | 713 |
| F452 – Hypochondriacal Disorders | 167 |
| Other F40-F43 code | 13 |
| Other Mental Health problems | 23 |
| Unspecified | 417 |
| Total number of referrals completing a course of treatment | 7,285 |
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. 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:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.