Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 335-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Request on data on bed sore-related death reports and complaints made to this trust.
Our response:
There are no bed sore-related reports.
2020: 1 complaint
2022: 1 complaint
2024: 3 complaints
None of these related to a death.
You asked:
2. Please provide any trust guidance on pressure care (for the care and prevention of pressure sores, pressure ulcers, or bed sores) issued to administrators and/or hospital staff in the past 24 months.
Our response:
The following courses have been offered to clinical staff only:
CLOSED – Pressure Ulcer Prevention Everybodys Business
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (VAC SNAP & PICO)
Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Tissue Viability – BioMonde Larval Therapy Training
Tissue Viability Foundation Level eLearning
You asked:
3. For the following years, please provide the number of patients within the trust treated for bedsores (classified as ICD-10 code L-89), as filed in Datix, Ulysses or other relevant reporting systems:
2022, 2023, 2024
Our response:
Please see the link below:
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.