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I am emailing to initiate another Freedom of Information request:
• I would like copies of records of the statutory/mandatory training compliance for all staff working at Berkeley House, including bank and agency staff. from March 2019 to present day.
• I would like to know the number of DATIX reports submitted each calendar month for incidents which occurred at Berkeley House between March 2019 and the present day. If possible, I should like to know the reason/Category of incident for each DATIX report.
• I would like to know the safe staffing numbers for Berkeley House from March 2019 to the present day, including details of how many bank/agency staff were on shift, as well as any breaches where the unit was operating with insufficient staffing levels.
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. As of 01/03/24, how many inpatients at psychiatric hospitals operated by your trust are transgender, or identify as a different sex to the sex assigned to them at birth?
2. Please provide your guidance on transgender inpatients, including the contact they are allowed with other patients, and whether they are treated on wards that correspond with the gender they identify as, or the gender they were assigned at birth.
I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following:
I. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency doctors in each of the last 5 financial years including 2023/24 so far.
II. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency nurses in in each of the last 5 financial years including 2023/24 so far.
III. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency nurse shift in 2023/24
IV. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency doctor’s shift in 2023/24
Technologies Supplier Software/system Contract expiry date Revised expiry date
Electronic patient record Access UK Rio Jun-24 Electronic patient record Mayden iaptus Nov-22 Electronic patient record TPP SystmOne Jun-24 Electronic patient record Software of Excellence SOEL Health Nov-22 Electronic prescribing and medicines administration ? ? ? Maternity information system ? ? ? Diagnostic imaging information system ? ? ? Laboratory information management system LIMS. ? ? ? Cyber security services Bytes ? Jun-25 Clinical communications system ? ? ? Remote consultation system provider e.g. video and online consultations. ? ? ? Cloud provider ? ? ? Barcode and scanning technology system provider ? ? ? Computer hardware provider laptops, PCs, smartphones, tablets, iPads etc. XMA ? Jul-24 Please note: In relation to cyber security we are asking for the name of your main cyber security provider. We do not need to know the software or sub-contractors used. Clarification on ” Responses:
• Please enter ‘No System Installed’ if your trust does not have such system.
• Please enter ‘No system needed’ if your trust does not have a department or service which requires such a system. Clarification on Contract expiry date: • If the contract is expiring in the next 6 months, please state if the trust plans to renew, re-procure or take any other action?
• If the contact is on a rolling basis, Please enter ‘Rolling’.
Additionally, could you please fill in the missing product names and revised contract expiry dates?
1. Do you currently have a contractual agreement in place for supply of services from S12 Solutions Limited based at 5 Kelso Place, Bath BA1 3AU?
2. If yes, when is that agreement due to end?
3. Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
4. Is there an extension clause in the contract and, if so, the duration of the extension?
5. Has a decision been made yet on whether the contract are being either extended or renewed?
6. Who is the senior officer outside of procurement. responsible for this contract?
7. What is the total value of the contract?
ITV News would like to make a freedom of information request about your adult eating disorder services.
Please provide the following information by the following calendar years:
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 up to the present date 28/2/24.
During each calendar year, in adult services:
1.How many new referrals started treatment for an eating disorder?
2.How many patients were discharged from your service following treatment for an eating disorder?
3. How many of those patients discharged. had achieved a BMI of 18.5 or higher when they were discharged?
4. How many of those patients discharged. had a BMI of below 15 when they were discharged?
5. What was the lowest BMI recorded of a patient when they were discharged out of patients from point 4.?
6.How many of those patients from point 4. were readmitted within 3 years of being discharged?
Freedom of Information Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following
information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Please may you
provide me with:
The most up to date version of the policy and procedure for complaints and concerns
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the
cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under
the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined I would be grateful for any further
advice and assistance.
Pursuant to Section 10 of the Freedom of Information Act, it is incumbent upon Gloucestershire
Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to provide a response to this request within a period of
20 working days. Consequently, I anticipate receiving a response no later than Monday, March
25
th 2024.
Please provide me with the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Based on your latest available data, how many fines have been handed out to members of staff at your Trust over the past five years for issues related to car parking? This could include parking in the wrong area, not having a permit etc.
How many staff does your Trust currently have and how many of these currently have a car parking permit?
How many are on the waiting list to receive a permit?
If possible, please provide data broken down by year by calendar year. Spreadsheet format preferred if possible.
If it is not possible to provide some of the data requested, I would be grateful if you could provide whichever elements of this FOI request are eligible for release.
1.Please supply patient’s information ECT leaflet.
2.Please supply patient ECT consent form
3.Please supply any ECT reports/investigations
4.How many ECT in 2022?
5.What proportion of patients were men/women?
6.How old were they?
7.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
8.How many were receiving ECT for the first time?
9.How many patients consented to ECT?
10.How many ECT complaints were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
11.How many patients died during or 1 month after ECT and what was the cause whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
12.How many patients died within 6 months after ECT and what was the cause whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
13.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving ECT whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
14.How many patients have suffered complications during and after ECT and what were those complications?
15.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about ECT?
16.If so, what was their concerns?
17.How many patients report memory loss/loss of cognitive function?
18.What tests are used to assess memory loss/loss of cognitive function?
19.Have MRI or CT scans been used before and after ECT?
20.If so, what was the conclusion?
21.How does the Trust plan to prevent ECT in the future?
Please provide SERIOUS INCIDENT information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any serious incident reports/investigations?
2.How many SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what was the cause whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what was the cause whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to prevent SERIOUS INCIDENTS in the future?
Please provide restraints information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any Restraints/investigations?
2.How many RESTRAINTS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many RESTRAINTS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after RESTRAINTS and what was the cause whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after RESTRAINTS and what was the cause whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving RESTRAINTS whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after RESTRAINTS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about RESTRAINTS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.Are counts of forced injections available?
14.How does the Trust plan to reduce restraints in the future?
Please provide SECLUSION information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any SECLUSION reports/investigations
2.How many SECLUSIONS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many SECLUSIONS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after SECLUSION and what was the cause whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after SECLUSION and what was the cause whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving SECLUSION whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after SECLUSION and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about SECLUSION?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to reduce SECLUSIONS in the future?
Please provide MEDICATION ERRORS information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any MEDICATION ERRORS reports/investigations
2.How many MEDICATION ERRORS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many MEDICATION ERRORS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after MEDICATION ERRORS and what was the cause whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after MEDICATION ERRORS and what was the cause whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving MEDICATION ERRORS whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after MEDICATION ERRORS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about MEDICATION ERRORS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to prevent MEDICATION ERRORS in the future?
I am involved in negotiations with colleagues in my current service to acquire additional NHS budget to allow counsellors to be awarded the same salary as other therapists at the same level High Intensity Step 3. as recommended by all relevant NHS information. Part of this work requires the collation of the salaries paid by other Talking Therapies Services within England.
Under the Freedom of Information Act could you therefore please supply the following information –
The NHS Banding and salary range paid to counsellors who work within your service.
My name is Daniel Henry. I am a Sky News Correspondent.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
Between 2020 and 2023 – How many patients were admitted to hospitals within your NHS trust for attempted suicide?
It would be particularly helpful an annual breakdown of these figures could be provided:
EG.
2020: 10 admissions
2021: 11 admissions
2022: 12 admissions
2023: 13 admissions
Please disclose the following information pertaining to the Trust’s use of agency workers nurses and medical locums etc.. within the 20 working days permitted under the Freedom of Information Act.
Section A: Total Agency Spend Per Job Category – Last 6 Months
1. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Agency Medical Locums including all locum grades, including locum pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee.
2. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Agency Nurses including nurse pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee. Please include all nursing bands, including band 2 HCAs. If possible, please break down the spend by banding.
3. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Agency AHP/HSS workers including all AHP.HSS job roles, including pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee.
4. In the period between 1st August 2023 and 31st January 2024, how much did the Trust spend on Non-Medical / Non-Clinical NMNC. agency workers including all NMNC job roles, including pay, agency fees, on costs etc. – excluding only VAT. Please exclude the cost of any MSP fee managed service provider fee. where such arrangements mean that this is distinguishable from the agency fee.
Section B: Supporting Services Managed Services / Master Vendors / Neutral Vendors / Vendor Management Technology etc..
1.0. For each of the agency staffing categories mentioned above Medical Locums, Agency Nurses, AHP/HSS and NMNC., does the Trust utilise either a technology provision and/or the services of any type of managed service provider MSP., be it Master Vendor, Neutral Vendor, Managed Service or otherwise, in the course of managing the supply of Medical Locums?
If yes to Section B – 1.0, please also answer 1.1 and 1.2:
1.1: For each staff Category, please describe the solution in place – including a. the type of solution i.e. tech or managed services etc.., b. the company providing the service e.g. Medacs, Retinue, NHSP etc.., c. the cost charged for the solution e.g. 4% of agency spend, or [X] per timesheet hour], and d. the procurement Framework under which the solution is contracted e.g. CCS RM6161 or HTE TWS11 Lot 2b etc…
1.2: For each of the solutions you’ve listed above, please state the contract expiry date.
Section C: Procurement Activity and Associated Persons
1. Please advise whether the Trust is likely to undertake procurement activity in relation to any of the solution either that are already in place, or in order to put such a solution in place, in the next 12 months.
2. Please provide the name, email address and telephone number, for the persons. involved in ‘buying’ such solutions. In case of the existing contracts mentioned above, please provide the details of the person who would take overall ownership of evaluating the contract renewal moving forward.
1. Could you please confirm whether your organisation uses a digital dictation provider? If so, kindly specify the name of the provider.
2. Could you confirm whether you employ a speech recognition system? If yes, please provide details about the provider.
3. Does your organisation use an outsourced transcription provider? If so, kindly state the name of the provider.
4. For all the services mentioned above, I would appreciate clarification on the contract expiration date. Alternatively, if your contracts are on a rolling basis, please indicate so.
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. My request relates to the number of deaths of mental health patients whilst they were under your care, in the last three years. It also relates to the number of people waiting for treatment.
For the avoidance of doubt, I would like to know the number of deaths, either while the individual was a patient on one of your mental health wards, or within three months of being discharged. I would also like to know on the 1st of January, for the last three years, how many people had been waiting longer than 18 weeks for your services?
ITV News would like to request the following information:
1. In the last 3 years, how many patients have died whilst being treated on one of your mental health units?
2. In the last 3 years, how many patients have died within three months of being discharged from one of your mental health units?
3. For each year, in how many of those deaths do you know the cause of death?
Please break down the data as follows:
1st January 2021 – 31st December 2021
1st January 2022 – 31st December 2022
1st January 2023 – 31st December 2023
4. On the 1st January each year, for the last three years, how many people have been waiting longer than 18 weeks for your services?
Please break down the data as follows:
1st January 2021
1st January 2022
1st January 2023
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to cost of compliance limits, please let me know how I can refine my request.
I am writing to request information regarding ‘care hotels’ as per the following NHS guidance: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/hotel-space-how-to-guide/
Q1. Per month in financial year 2022/23, how many hotel rooms were booked? Please provide a breakdown per hotel, and share both the name of the hotel and the provider/ company that runs the hotel. Q2. Per month in financial year 2022/23, please also share the following information: • The cost of a hotel room per care recipient per day
• The average patient stay in weeks. in a care hotel • Whether the Trust is the sole owner of the bookings, or if the booking is shared with another Trust. If the booking is shared with another Trust, please name the Trust. Q3. Please share the minutes from all Trust Board meetings in financial year 2022/23, including copies of any presentations, such as PowerPoint slideshows, which were shown during meetings and copies of any written documents that were distributed to those attending the meetings. Q4. I assume that the Trust records the complaints made. For the purposes of this request, I am going to call those records “complaints logs”. You may use a different terminology internally such as “complaint records” or “complaint notes”. Please can you conduct a keyword search across the complaints logs in the financial year 2022/23 for the term “hotel” and provide each complaint log, including the summary of the complaint, the date, the hotel and the provider. Please also provide a total for the number of times the term “hotel” appears.
I would like to submit a request for a disclosure of information relating to your NHS trust’s Information Technology IT. Spend, and your current HIMSS EMRAM and INFRAM scores.
Can you please provide your trust’s IT spend for the following financial years:
FY 2021-2022:
FY 2022-2023:
Which HIMSS EMRAM score have your Trust currently achieved 0-7.:
Which HIMSS INFRAM score have your Trust currently achieved 0-7.:
If your Trust are working towards achieving a new HIMSS EMRAM or INFRAM level, what level is this, and when will it be achieved:
Definitions:
Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model EMRAM. – is an eight-stage model, scored from stages zero least mature. to seven most mature.. At each stage, organisations need to demonstrate a progressive and eventual removal of paper, higher pervasiveness of use and compliance statistics, and an increasing reliance on automation and clinical decision support.
Infrastructure Adoption Model INFRAM. – The eight-stage INFRAM measures the maturity of a healthcare facility’s IT infrastructure across five areas: mobility, security, collaboration, transport and data centre.
1. Does your trust deal with any of the following: A yes/no is sufficient.
a. Adult ADHD diagnosis
b. Child and/or Adolescent ADHD diagnosis
c. Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis
d. Child and/or Adolescent Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis
If Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust does deal with any of these diagnosis pathways, for all that apply, please provide:
i. average wait-time from referral to first appointment
ii. average wait-time from referral to decision on diagnosis/discharge from diagnostic service
iii. Number of individuals on the wait list as of 31 December 2023 or nearest available date.
iv. average wait-time from first appointment to decision on diagnosis/discharge from diagnostic service
Please could your trust provide the following information about your employment of locally-employed doctors. By locally employed doctors we mean doctors who are not consultants, not in formal training or on a SAS contract speciality doctor, specialists and associate specialists.. Local contracts mean contracts of employment that are not nationally negotiated. 1. Please provide the number of FTE doctors employed on local contracts at your trust as of 15 January 2024. 2. Please provide the percentage of locally employed doctors who are international medical graduates. 3. Please provide the percentage of locally employed doctors who are from an ethnic minority group.
4. Please provide a sample contract used by your trust for locally employed doctors. 5. Please provide the job titles under which these LE doctors are employed. 6. What proportion of LE doctors have been employed with your organisation for more than two years?
Please could I request information on the following questions:-
How much did your Trust spend in total on education and training in the following financial years? April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
Please advise how much of this total spend was with external providers?
April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
Please can you break down the overall spend into the following categories?
Apprenticeship training April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
Mandatory, statutory and compliance training April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
Management and Leadership training
April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
Healthcare support worker training
April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
Nursing April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
Allied Healthcare Professionals April to March 2021-2022 overall spend.
April to March 2022- 2023 overall spend.
What are the top five categories that you procure externally?
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information: 1. Please can you provide the number of physical assaults against hospital staff by patients and members of the public on the Trusts premises for the following five years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023?
2. How many of these physical assaults were reported to the police for the following five years: 2019, 2020,2021, 2022, 2023?
3. If you hold this data, how many had a criminal justice outcome e.g. cautioned, charged, taken to court. for the following five years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023?
4. Since 2019 has the Trust introduced any additional measures to try to reduce the number of physical assaults against hospital staff? If so, please specify what measures have been taken e.g. body cameras, CCTV in clinical areas, more security guards etc? As you know, under the Act you are required to provide a response within 20 working days.
If you do not provide the information requested, you must explain the legal basis for the information being withheld.
If you decline part of the request due to information being sensitive, the request being too vague, or reasonable cost being exceeded, you must still provide the part you can fulfil.
1. Has your trust implemented an integrated primary and community care team for adults and older adults with severe mental illnesses as outlined on page 25 of the implementation plan linked above?
2. How many vacancies for pharmacists were created in Adult Mental Health SMI. Community Care teams in each of the following financial years:
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
d. 2022/23
e. 2023/24 to date
3. How many pharmacists were in place in Adult Mental Health SMI. Community Care teams in each of the following financial years:
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
d. 2022/23
e. 2023/24 to date
4. How many current unfilled vacancies are there for pharmacists in Adult Mental Health SMI. Community Care teams?
Please provide the information by email. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
Please confirm the amount of total hours utilised by the Trust for Thornbury Nursing Services on a month by month basis for every month from January 2023 to December 2024.
I would like to add that this is not commercially sensitive information- as it is not asking for any confirmation of charge rates or any other financial data.
This is for safety purposes as I would like to establish the amount of usage an off contract supplier has at the Trust that is not regulated by any regional or national framework agreement. As this information is in the public interest and in the public domain I would expect a response within the 20 day allotted time frame.
1. Contract Register Request:
I am seeking the full and entirety of the organisation’s contract register or database. The register should include the following columns/headings or something similar:
Contract Reference -Unique reference number associated with the contract.
Contract Title
Procurement Category –
Supplier Name
Spend Total, Annual or contract value.
Contract Duration
Contract Extensions
Contract Start Date
Contract Expiry Date
Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
Contact Owner Person that manages the contract register.
Contact details of section 151 officer
CPV codes/Pro-Class
If any of the headings within your contract register has not been provided, please state this within your response.
Please provide the contract’s register file in Excel format.
2. Procurement Strategy Document Request:
Can the organisation provide a full version of their Procurement Strategy for the fiscal year 2023-2024?
If the Procurement Strategy is a strategic direction 2022-2025. instead of an annual plan, please provide an update document for 2023-2024. If an update cannot be provided, please provide information on when an update is planned to be published.
We require the full document. If any parts of this document have been removed, please state this within your response.
3. Contact Details Request:
Provide contact details of the person responsible for API or data sharing, including [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address].
Provide contact details of the person responsible for the actual contract’s register, including [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address].
IMPORTANT:
1. If the organisation has a CRM system or a similar system, ensure there is a facility to download and extract contract data.
2. If providing a weblink to a portal, ensure that all contracts are included, as some organisations may only upload a small portion of their contracts.
3. For organisations planning to make an exemption around spend, clarify that the spend information requested is an overall figure, and a complete breakdown is not required.
I am writing to request information on vegan options. I request the information below under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Freedom of Information Request
1. Have you undertaken an equality impact assessment for vegans at the NHS? If yes, can you provide a copy of the assessment?
2. Are you following your public sector equality duty toward vegans? Please provide any documents or information to explain whether and how the PSED is being followed towards vegans.
3. Do you guarantee a full vegan option that is nutritionally appropriate on all NHS menus and cafeterias at all times, for all meals, including breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack options. By ‘guaranteed’ I mean, is there always a fully vegan option available.
For clarity, a salad without a plant-based protein and starch or carbohydrate would obviously not be nutritionally appropriate, nor would having only fruit or toast with jam available for a vegan person. For example, many vegetarian options adapted to be vegan would not be nutritionally appropriate as they would be lacking in protein unless there was a substitution provided.
4. Do you guarantee plant milk availability on all NHS campuses for coffee and tea? For clarity, plant milk refers to: Soy, oat, almond, or coconut milk.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please supply for your NHS board:
● The total number of consultant-level doctors you currently have [WTE or equivalent]
● The total number of vacant consultant-level doctor posts you currently have [WTE or equivalent]
Please also supply:
● The total number of consultant-level posts substantially filled by agency locums for more than 6 months [WTE or equivalent]
● The total spend on agencies for locum consultants (both framework and non-framework) for the 2024/25 financial year [£s]
● Any existing or planned controls on recruitment of medical staff in 2025/26 [free text]
I am a journalist working for BBC Radio 4, writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
On 15 February 2023, the Medical and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MRHA) issued a notice advising of the withdrawal of all All NexGen Complete Knee Solution Stemmed Nonaugmentable Option Tibial Components made by Zimmer Biomet.
This was followed by an MHRA notice issued on 15th February 2023 stating that there was a higher revision rate for NexGen knee replacements compared to other knee replacements.
They identified the NexGen® Stemmed Option Tibial Components when paired with either the Legacy® Posterior Stabilized (LPS) Flex Option Femoral or the LPS Flex Gender Solutions Femoral (GSF) Option Femoral.
The MHRA advised the patients should be offered additional follow-up.
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
From the 15th February 2023 until 13 June 2025:
1. How many patients has your Trust identified that have been implanted with the affected devices?
2. How many of these patients have been notified about this recall?
3. How many of these patients have received a follow up consultation?
4. How many of these patients have received revision surgery?
5. How many of these patients are awaiting revision surgery?
FOI Request – Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
1. I would be grateful if you could send the Trust’s most recent planning document(s) for the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease including implementation of lumbar punctures (CSF) and Blood-based Biomarker testing. Please include planning documents that cover the entire Trust and specific department plans, such as neurology, psychiatry, care of the elderly, pathology or memory clinic teams.
2. How many patients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (ICD-10 codes = G30, G30.1, G30.8, G30.9, F00, F00.1, F00.2 or F00.9) in your Trust in the last 12-month period for which data are available?
3. How many patients were diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment and / or Mild Dementia due to Alzheimer’s Disease (ICD-10 codes = G31.84, G30.1, or MMSE scores = 21 to 24) in your Trust in the last 12-month period for which data are available?
4. Where, if at all, does the Trust carry out lumbar punctures (cerebrospinal fluid) for diagnosing patients with Alzheimer’s Disease?
5. Please provide a list of the full names of other Trusts or other organisations to which the Trust refers patients for lumbar punctures in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.
6. What is the average waiting time for a patient to get an appointment for a lumbar puncture to test for a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease?
7. How many lumbar punctures to test for Alzheimer’s Disease took place in the last 3-month period for which data are available?
8. How many Blood-based Biomarker (BBBM) tests from Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to test for Alzheimer’s Disease were conducted in the last 3-month period for which data are available?
9. Where, if at all, does the Trust carry out Blood-based Biomarker (BBBM) tests from Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for diagnosing patients with Alzheimer’s Disease?
10. Please provide a list of the full names of other Trusts or other organisations, to which the Trust refers Blood-based Biomarker tests from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for pathology in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.
11. What is the average waiting time for pathology results to come back from Blood-based Biomarker tests?
12. To what extent are there plans for service improvement of diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease?
13. Are the plans for service improvement of diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease related to:
Cognitive assessment services
Biomarker services
None / neither
14. Which of the following services does the Trust have in place in preparation for increased service delivery for Alzheimer’s Disease? Please complete the table provided.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information relating to your organisation’s use of learning technologies and associated services.
1. Current Learning Management System (LMS)
a. What Learning Management System (LMS) or e-learning platform(s) does your organisation currently use?
b. If Totara or Moodle is in use, please confirm which version is currently implemented.
c. What is the LMS primarily used for (e.g. internal staff development, compliance training, onboarding, external learner access, apprenticeship delivery)?
2. Contract and Provider Details
a. Who is your current LMS support, hosting, or implementation provider?
b. What is the value of your LMS-related contract per annum?
c. What is the contract start and end date (including any optional extension periods)?
d. Please confirm if the LMS is hosted on-premise, via a private cloud, or through a SaaS model.
3. Procurement and Decision-Making
a. What is the name and role of the person responsible for the learning platform and/or digital learning strategy?
b. What is the name and role of the commercial contact responsible for LMS procurement or renewals?
4. Planned Changes or Reviews
a. Are there any plans to review or replace your LMS in the next 12–24 months?
b. Are there any scheduled or anticipated procurement events or tenders related to learning, compliance, or workforce development systems?
5. Integration and Strategic Use
a. Is your LMS currently integrated with other internal systems (e.g. HRIS, payroll, CRM)?
b. Are there strategic goals linked to digital learning, compliance reporting, or learner engagement which the LMS is expected to support?
I am compiling some data for a research project, and would appreciate it if you could provide answers to the following 10 questions under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. How many individuals are currently receiving mental health interventions from the community mental health team and associated community mental health initiatives, such as Talking Therapies.
Individuals aged:
18 to 35
35 to 64
65+
2. How many in each age range are male, how many are female and how many identify as other genders?
3. How many of those individuals have been known to community mental health services for more than three years?
4. What is the average length of time for an individual to reach treatment of some kind (group, one to one, or skills course etc) from self or GP’s referral?
5. What is the average length of time from referral for an individual to reach one to one treatment with a clinician?
6. In the past 12 months, how many individuals have received the following:
Group therapy sessions.
One to one therapy sessions (CBT/counselling etc)
Other forms of therapy.
7. In the past 12 months how many individuals attended group therapy remotely?
8. In the past 12 months how many individuals attended group therapy in person?
9. In the past 12 months, how many individuals received therapeutic interventions (such as CBT/psychotherapy/IPT/counselling etc) one to one with a clinician via the following methods:
Face to face appointments.
Video Meeting (Teams/Attend Anywhere etc)
Telephone calls.
10. In the past 12 months, how many individuals have stopped engaging or failed to complete treatment?
11. How many individuals in the past 12 months have received onward referral from the CMHT/Talking Therapies etc to psychiatric services for further assessment?
This is a freedom of information request.
Section A
(A1) Does your organisation commission Adult ADHD Assessments? If yes, please list:
(A1-i) the organisation or organisations in receipt of commission from you alongside the contract value for the last public sector financial year (1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025) and the current public sector financial year (1st April 2025 – 31st March 2026).
(A2)Does your organisation commission Child ADHD Assessments? If yes, please list:
(A2-i) the organisation or organisations in receipt of commission from you alongside the contract value for the last public sector financial year (1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025) and the current public sector financial year (1st April 2025 – 31st March 2026).
(A3) Does your organisation undertake Adult ADHD Assessments? If yes, please list:
(A3-i) the organisation or organisations that have contracted you to provide the ADHD Assessment service alongside the financial contract value for the last public sector financial year (1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025) and the current public sector financial year (1st April 2025 – 31st March 2026).
(A4) Does your organisation undertake Child ADHD Assessments? If yes, please list:
(A4-i) the organisation or organisations that have contracted you to provide the ADHD Assessment service alongside the financial contract value for the last public sector financial year (1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025) and the current public sector financial year (1st April 2025 – 31st March 2026).
Section B
Please could you provide the information for the last public sector year (the period covering 1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025).
(B1). The number of Adult ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B2). The number of Adults waiting for an ADHD Assessment at the end of that period.
(B3). The number of Adults waiting for an ADHD Assessment at the date of receipt of this FOI request.
(B4). The number of Child ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B5). The number of Children waiting for an ADHD Assessment at the end of that period.
(B6). The number of Children waiting for an ADHD Assessment as of the date of receipt of this FOI request.
If it does not take us over the FOI cost threshold, then please can we ask similar questions for the prior public sector year. For the period covering 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024.
(B7). The number of Adult ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B8). The number of Adults waiting for an ADHD Assessment at the end of that period.
(B9). The number of Child ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B10). The number of Children waiting for an ADHD Assessment in that period.
If it does not take us over the FOI cost threshold, then please can we ask the same questions for the public sector, the year before the above. For the period covering 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023.
(B11). The number of Adult ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B12). The number of Adults waiting for an ADHD Assessment at the end of that period.
(B13). The number of Child ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B14). The number of Children waiting for an ADHD Assessment in that period.
If it does not take us over the FOI cost threshold, then please can we ask the same questions for the public sector, the year before the above. For the period covering 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022.
(B15). The number of Adult ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B16). The number of Adults waiting for an ADHD Assessment at the end of that period.
(B17). The number of Child ADHD Assessments undertaken in that period
(B18). The number of Children waiting for an ADHD Assessment in that period.
Section C
If it does not take us over the FOI cost threshold, then please can we ask this additional set of questions
(C1). Did you pay out under Right to Choose for Adult ADHD Assessments in the prior public sector year? If yes:
(C1-i) How many Adult ADHD Assessments were paid out under Right to Choose in the last public sector year (20024-25)
(C2-ii) What was the total value of Adult ADHD Assessments under Right to Choose in the last public sector year (20024-25).
(C2-iii) Please list the organisations you paid out for Adult ADHD Assessments under Right to Choose, alongside the total financial amount paid, and the quantity of Adult ADHD Assessments undertaken for the last public sector year (April 1st 2024- 31st March 2025).
(C2). Did you pay out under Right to Choose for Child ADHD Assessments in the prior public sector year? If yes:
(C1-i) How many Child ADHD Assessments were paid out under Right to Choose in the last public sector year (20024-25)
(C2-ii) What was the total value of Child ADHD Assessments under Right to Choose in the last public sector year (20024-25).
(C2-iii) Please list the organisations you paid out for Child ADHD Assessments under Right to Choose, alongside the total financial amount paid, and the quantity of Child ADHD Assessments undertaken for the last public sector year (April 1st 2024- 31st March 2025).
1. Do you currently commission a school nursing service? Yes/No
2. Which of the following best describes your current school nursing contract provider:
a. NHS trust
b. Charity
c. Local authority
d. Community Interest Company
e. Private healthcare provider
f. Other [please specify]
3. How many full-time equivalent (FTE) clinical staff were employed in your school nursing service in: March 2025; September 2024, March 2024? [If you do not have data for these specific months please provide the most recent full workforce data that you have]
4. How many FTE SCPHN qualified school nurses were employed at each of the following bands (6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8c) in your school nursing service in: March 2025; September 2024, March 2024? [If you do not have data for these specific months please provide the most recent full workforce data that you have]
5. If your school nursing team is employed on Agenda for Change bands, please tell us how many FTE clinical staff were employed on each Band (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8c) in March 2025; September 2024, March 2024? [If you do not have data for these specific months please provide the most recent full workforce data that you have]
6. For each Band (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8c) please state the percentage of school nursing staff on: temporary (agency), temporary (employed), fixed term, permanent contacts in March 2025; September 2024, March 2024? [If you do not have data for these specific months please provide the most recent full workforce data that you have]
7. What was the total number of school-aged children that your school nursing service was responsible for in: March 2025; September 2024, March 2024?
8. What was the average number of [primary, secondary and specialist] schools per SCPHN qualified school nurse in your area in: March 2025; September 2024, March 2024?
9. What was the SCPHN qualified school nurse (Band 6) FTE vacancy rate in your school nursing service in: March 2025; September 2024, March 2024? [If you do not have data for these specific months please provide the most recent full workforce data that you have]
10. Is your school nursing service currently [in April 2025] employing any SCPHN student school nurses? Yes/No, If Yes how many? [If you do not have data for these specific months please provide the most recent full workforce data that you have]
11. Is your school nursing service planning to employ the SCPHN student School Nurses upon completion of their training Yes/No, If Yes how many?
I am writing to request the following under the Freedom of Information Act, regarding use of and provision for the DASH checklist, aka Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence
1. Is the DASH RIC used by your organisation as part of services (e.g. domestic abuse provision, victim support)?
2. Is the use of DASH RIC a standard provision or a requirement in contracts with third-party providers of relevant services (e.g. domestic abuse services, sheltered housing)?
3. If the DASH checklist is used by your organisation, which organisation or organisations provide the training that includes DASH training? (e.g. Domestic Abuse Matters training)
4. What is the cost to your organisation of such training? Please break this down by financial year over the last five years, as well as by organisation (if more than one organisation provides the relevant training)
1) Do you use a social media management platform?
2) If so, what tools do you use?
3) What is your annual spend on a Social media management tool?
4) What dates does your contract with your current supplier end (in the format of [month/year]) ?
5)Do you use a social listening / media monitoring platform?
6) If so, what tools do you use?
7) What is your annual spend on a social listening / media monitoring tool?
8) What dates does your contract with your current supplier end (in the format of [month/year])
I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
1. The year of purchase of every LINAC machine in operation at your Trust?
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information:
1. Which suppliers are currently engaged to provide air-fluidised beds and/or low-air-loss pressure care mattresses via rental or service agreements?
2. For each supplier, please include:
o Type of equipment hired/cost
o Hire terms (daily/weekly)
o Approximate number of units hired in the last 12 months
3. Is the contract managed via NHS Supply Chain, regional procurement, or direct agreement?
Please provide the following information, Any and all annual data on record to the present day.
1. How many patients have been referred to the trust and presented for the treatment of BRUXISM (Grinding of the teeth)?
2. Please provide geographical date in regards which hospital the patients presented to.
3. Annual cost to the trust and its subsidiaries.
Does the Trust have a staff policy in respect of the wearing/use of fragranced products? Please provide a copy of your staff policy concerning the wearing/use of fragranced products (including use of fragranced laundry products). Where terms such as ‘overwhelming’, ‘overpowering’ or ‘discreet’ are used in respect of fragrance, how are these terms defined and who decides if the level of scent contravenes the guidance: the wearer, the Trust or the patient? How is the policy brought to the attention of staff? Is the policy in respect of the wearing of fragranced products enforced? How is it enforced? What training is given to staff to make them aware that the use of fragranced products can be an accessibility barrier for patients? Please provide details. If any such material is third party copyrighted, please provide a synopsis. Please provide copies of any correspondence, memos or minutes of meetings pertaining to discussion of the use of/ wearing of fragranced products by staff, including use of fragranced laundry products to wash clothing worn at work.
Please can you provide me with the below information:
In the last 6 months, please confirm if any Mental Health services have been outsourced:
If yes, please confirm:
-The service provided E.G ADHD, Autism etc (please provide breakdown for each service if applicable)
-The name of the company each service was outsourced to
-Is there a contract in place and the length of contract for each service provided (if applicable)
-The value of each service in the last 6 months
Please provide an email and contact name within the outsource provider
This is an information request relating to Pride Month.
Please include the following information:
• Whether any events have been organised for Pride month. If so please provide the date, start and end time, and title/topic of the event
• Whether any LGBT themed merchandise has been purchased for Pride month. i.e. since the beginning of the 2023/24 financial year. If so please provide me with information on what has been purchased and the cost
• Whether the organisation has sponsored any Pride events. If so which events and please provide details of the nature of the sponsorship particularly the financial value.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
Under The Freedom of Information Act 2000, could you kindly answer the following questions:
1. How much has your Trust spent on specialist bariatric equipment for obese/bariatric patients patients over 160kg. during the last five financial years? Please give a figure for each year: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.
2. How many patients needed special adaptations due to their weight in the past 12 months?
3. Please give a breakdown of the amounts spent by the Trust by the type of specialist bariatric equipment.
3.1 If equipment is used on a rental contract basis, please provide a list of contracts, including the values and suppliers.
4. How many bariatric beds does the Trust own?
5. How many bariatric fridges does the Trust own?
Please could you provide the annual spend for the below suppliers from July 2021 to July 2022? Please note this information is not commercially sensitive as all you will be providing is the total money spent with each supplier not any detail of what you bought. Please could I have this in an excel spread sheet?
Can you please carry out an internal review of the handling of my request? My specific queries that necessitate this review are outlined below in this email. I look forward to receiving your response within the next 20 working days, as outlined in the Information Commissioner’s guidance.
Questions 1 and 3 – Please can you answer these questions? I am familiar with the national guidance, however there are differing interpretations of it across the country, which is a large part of the reason that we conducted this request.
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, could you kindly confirm the name of your Trust’s Integration Engine?
I would be grateful if you could help in answering our request for information regarding any current office print procurement contracts your organisation may hold.
1. Do you have a print contract for your general office printers or multi-functional devices (MFDs), if so, please provide the name of the contract provider?
2. Please confirm the start and end date of each contract named in question 1.
3. Please confirm the end date of any extension periods for each contract named in question 1.
4. When do you intend to start re-tendering for each contract named in question 1.
5. How many printers and MFDs are deployed across your organisation?
6. What is your annual output (print and copy) volume (mono and colour) and spend?
7. Who is the person(s) within your organisation responsible for these contract(s)? please provide their role/title and contact details?
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your organisation. Please may you provide me with an answer to the following:
1. Current logistics and supply chain model
a. How much space (in sq ft) does your organisation currently use for inventory storage of medical devices and consumables (please indicate whether this is on-site or off-site)?
b. Does your organisation make use of consolidated logistics hubs or off-site storage facilities for medical devices and/or consumables?
c. Is this done in partnership with other NHS organisations?
i. If so, does your organisation run this or is it run by another organisation?
ii. If so, which organisation?
d. How much does your organisation spend on medical devices and consumables through NHS Supply Chain?
i. What is this spend as a proportion of your organisation’s total spend on medical devices and consumables?
2. Delivery and stock management
a. What systems (if any) does your Trust use to manage inventory and logistics for medical devices and consumables?
b. Are these systems integrated with NHS Supply Chain or other regional or national systems?
3. Strategic priorities
a. Is your Trust actively exploring or piloting any new logistics models, technologies, or partnerships to improve supply chain efficiency? If so, please give any details.
b. Would your organisation be open to participating in a pilot of an alternative logistics model (i.e. one offering consolidated supply, enhanced stock visibility, and just-in-time delivery capabilities)?
4. Additional
a. Who in your organisation is responsible for logistics and supply chain operations? Please provide name and contact details where possible.
b. Who in your organisation is responsible for procurement decision-making relating to medical technology and consumable supplies? Please provide name and contact details where possible.
1. HSCN connectivity (Health and Social Care Network)
a. Please can advise who is the existing supplier
b. Contract end dates
c. Total contract value
d. Which framework this was purchased under
e. Name of the contact responsible for this
2. Software Defined WAN (SDWAN)
a. Please can advise who is the existing supplier
b. Contract end dates
c. Total contract value
d. Which framework this was purchased under
e. Name of the contact responsible for this
3. Local Area Network (LAN)
a. Please can advise who is the existing supplier
b. Contract end dates
c. Total contract value
d. Which framework this was purchased under
e. Name of the contact responsible for this
4. Wireless Access (WIFI)
a. Please can advise who is the existing supplier
b. Contract end dates
c. Total contract value
d. Which framework this was purchased under
e. Name of the contact responsible for this
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
After reviewing your website and other publicly available information, I have not been able to identify the appropriate contact details for third parties (such as suppliers or service providers) to send formal legal correspondence to your organisation.
Please could you confirm the following:
1. Whether your organisation has one or more specific teams, departments, or named individuals responsible for receiving formal legal correspondence from third parties.
2. The relevant postal address(es), email address(es), and telephone number(s) that such correspondence should be directed to. If responsibility differs by type of issue (e.g. contractual, procurement-related, legal) or by region, please provide the details for each as applicable.
3. If this information is already published, please confirm where it can be found.
This request is made in the public interest to ensure there are clear and transparent routes for formal engagement with public authorities.
I wish to make a freedom of information request and would be grateful if you could provide the following information within 20 working days:
a) The number of staff employed at your Trust’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) for the years 2010 – 2024.
b) The number of children aged under 18 years old who have been received support by your Trust’s SARC between the years 2010 – 2024 and, if possible, the number of these who are identified as having been victims of gang-based CSE.
c) The number of victims of CSE who received mental health support from your trust between 2018 and 2024.
d) The number of children identified by your Trust as requiring safeguarding measures as a result of CSE between the years 2010 and 2024.
This should not exceed any cost limits you may have but should you, for whatever reason, decide that it does, the please proceed with parts a – c.
I am writing on behalf of a registered charity dedicated to supporting elderly people in our local community. We are seeking information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to enhance our understanding of the services available to older residents within your NHS’s jurisdiction.