Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 198-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. The number of patients who have died while on your waiting list to receive consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment — and who have therefore been removed from the list due to to their death or status as being deceased — between January 1 2025 and July 31 2025?
(If your trust calls this particular waiting list something else, please use common sense and provide the waiting list data most relevant to my questions.)
1a. If possible, please tell me how many of these people who died had been waiting for longer than 18 weeks since being referred for consultant-led elective hospital treatment?
1b. If possible, please provide a separate breakdown of the ethnicity and religion of all those who died while on this your waiting list to receive consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment over this time period.
2. The number of patients who have died while on your waiting list to receive consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment — and who have therefore been removed from the list due to to their death or status as being deceased — broken down into the years 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020, please.
2a. If possible, please provide a separate breakdown of the ethnicity and religion of those who died while on you waiting list for consultant-led elective (planned) hospital treatment in each of these years.
If you are encountering any practical difficulties with complying with this request, please contact me as soon as possible (in line with your duty under section 16 to advise and assist requesters), so that we can discuss the matter and if necessary I can modify the request.
Our response:
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust do not have consultant-led waiting lists. Please re-direct your request to Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at ghn-tr.foi@nhs.net.
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