Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 059-2026
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1) Please disclose by each of the following years, the total number each year of incidents of sexual violence (including sexual assault and rape) reported by the trust to the Care Quality Commission:
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
2024/25
2025/26 YTD
2) If the data is held centrally and can be easily processed within FOIA limits, please advise how many of the incidents of sexual violence in the period April 2021 to 2026 YTD were perpetrated against patients.
3) It has been reported by the media that a patient was raped whilst under the trust’s care in the last financial year.
Please confirm if this is the case.
Please advise if and when the CQC was informed of this serious incident
Please advise:
a) if this incident took place on trust premises
b) whether the patient was under inpatient care
c) if the patient was detained under the Mental Health Act
Please advise what review if any has been undertaken by the trust, and what learning and Safeguarding improvements have been made since the incident.
4) Please advise if the trust undertakes any benchmarking to compare its rates of sexual violence against other comparator trusts, the results of any such benchmarking and any action plans arising.
Our response:
Clarification question below sent on 10 March 2026, no response received within one month – FOI Closed.
Q2) If the data is held centrally and can be easily processed within FOIA limits, please advise how many of the incidents of sexual violence in the period April 2021 to 2026 YTD were perpetrated against patients.
Our question:
- Do you mean just incidents reported to CQC or all incidents of sexual violence?
- Perpetrated against patients by whom – staff, patients, public or all?
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.