Freedom of Information request – Ref: 267-2024
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. The number and type of inpatient mental health wards managed by your organisation (e.g 2 older adult inpatient wards, 1 PICU, 3 acute inpatient wards etc)
Our response:
| Low Secure | 1 |
| Older Age | 3 |
| Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit | 1 |
| Working Age | 4 |
| Working Age Rehab | 2 |
| Total | 11 |
You asked:
2. How many patients have been enterally fed on these wards, by quarter, since January 2023.
We do not record or report on information in a way that would enable us to provide a response to this question. In accordance with the FOIA we are not expected to produce a report to answer a question
3. How many of these patients were detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.
We do not record or report on information in a way that would enable us to provide a response to this question. In accordance with the FOIA we are not expected to produce a report to answer a question
4. How is enteral feeding recorded on the electronic patient records, for example RiO and ePMA?
Enteral feeding is recorded on the Electronic Patient Recorded by way of RIO ePMA.
5. If no patients were enterally fed on inpatient mental health wards within the last 24 months, is this because of an exclusion criteria, i.e. if this treatment was clinically indicated would a patient be transferred to a different setting? If so, what is the rationale for this please.
Our response:
We do not record or report on information in a way that would enable us to provide a response to this question. In accordance with the FOIA we are not expected to produce a report to answer a question.
Enteral feeding is not an exclusion criterion to admission to our hospitals.
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.