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Please can you provide me with the Agency Spend, split between the 3 individual staff groups below :
1. Agency Registered Nurses (all specialities e.g. adult nursing, children’s nursing, community, mental health, midwives, etc) – April 2025
2. Agency Health Care Support Workers – April 2025
3. Agency Doctors – April 2025
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following information:
The percentage of patients who met waiting time standards of two weeks between first referral and starting treatment in Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in:
a. 2020/21
b. 2021/22
c. 2022/23
d. 2023/24
I am wondering if you could please help me with a couple of benchmarking queries?
Neonatal Leave and Pay
• Have you got a family leave policy to share for this guidance and how you will process the leave for colleagues?
Lease Cars
• We are looking to add to our current guidance around scenarios where colleagues have a lease car and then for example, go on maternity leave, return on reduced days which could put them below the national minimum wage which could revoke the car. This could also apply to any substantive employees who adjust their hours for example. How do you support colleagues in this situation?
Could you please advise of the following in terms of your Trust:
1. Is your Procurement Function in- house or outsourced?
2. How many people FTE work in your Procurement Dept including roles and bands?
3. What is the cost of your Procurement Function?
4. What is the scope of activity your Procurement Function delivers? Does this specifically include: Operational Procurement ie: transactional activity raising requisitions/ orders, Strategic Procurement ie: Category Management, tendering etc, Contract Management, general advice and guidance?
I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act relating to Workforce systems
Please respond to the following questions
1. Which software provider does the Trust use for medics rostering software
2. Which software provider does the Trust use for “direct engagement” management of temporary medical staff
3. Which software provider does the Trust use for the management of temporary medical staff
4. Which software provider does the Trust use for master vendor management software
5. What was the annual cost for the Trust’s medics rostering software in the last financial year
6. What is the contractual end date of your current medics rostering software
7. What is the contractual end date of your current direct engagement software
8. What is the contractual end date of your current temporary medical staff management software
9. What is the contractual end date of your current master vendor management software
**Freedom of Information Request: Radiology Equipment and Systems**
I am currently conducting personal academic research on the radiology equipment operated by NHS providers in England. To support this research, I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I kindly ask that the data be provided in an editable digital format (e.g., Excel, Word, or CSV).
Digital X-Ray Systems (static, non-fluoroscopy)
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Date installed
CT Scanners
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Date installed
MR Scanners
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Date installed
Mobile X-Ray Systems
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Date installed
Interventional X-Ray Systems (Angiography)
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Date installed
Gamma Camera and SPECT-CT Systems
For each nuclear medicine system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Year installed
Ultrasound Systems (Radiology)
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Year installed
Fluoroscopy Systems
(including remote control, multi-purpose, and under-couch variants)
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Year installed
Mobile/Surgical C-Arm Fluoroscopy Systems
For each system, please provide:
– Hospital where installed
– Make
– Model
– Year installed
I would like to please request information relating to the following question –
1. In the last 12 months, how many unique patients in your trust were treated with the following products:
A) Curosurf
B) Peyona
I would like to submit an FOI request for the following data for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust:
• The number of patients treated for Dravet syndrome in 2024, ideally separated by month, or quarter
o Patient numbers segmented by age:
0-3 years old
4-8 years old
9-18 years old
18 years+
• The number of patients treated for Dravet syndrome in 2025, ideally separated by month, or quarter
o Patient numbers segmented by age:
0-3 years old
4-8 years old
9-18 years old
18 years+
• The number of patients treated for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in 2024, ideally separated by month, or quarter
o Patient numbers segmented by age:
0-3 years old
4-8 years old
9-18 years old
18 years+
• The number of patients treated for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in 2025, ideally separated by month, or quarter
o Patient numbers segmented by age:
0-3 years old
4-8 years old
9-18 years old
18 years+
• The above data separated by treatment, focusing on the following treatments:
o fenfluramine
o sodium valproate
o stiripentol
o clobazam
o cannabidiol
o levetiracetam
o topiramate
o potassium bromide
o Other treatments
carbamazepine
gabapentin
lacosamide
lamotrigine
oxcarbazepine
phenobarbital
pregabalin
tiagabine
vigabatrin
rufinamide
• Numbers of patients moving from one specific treatment to another e.g. fenfluramide gains from cannabidiol, sodium valproate losses to cannabidiol
• Alternatively, just the numbers of patients on each treatment for each month/quarter will be able to show how the numbers on each treatment are changing
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information regarding your use of insourcing for haematology, histopathology, and/or microbiology services between 1 April 2024 and the date of this request (i.e., the last 12 months):
Service Usage:
Does your trust currently use (or has it used in the last 12 months) insourcing providers for any of the following services?
a) Haematology
b) Histopathology
c) Microbiology
d) Oncology
(If yes, please specify which specialties)
Provider Details:
For each insourced specialty above, provide:
a) The name(s) of the external provider(s).
b) The start and end date(s) of the contract(s).
Scope & Volume:
A brief description of the services covered (e.g., “blood film reporting,” “biopsy analysis,” “infection screening”).
Estimated annual spend (or total spend) on these insourcing arrangements for 2023/24.
Procurement Method:
Was the contract awarded via a framework (e.g., NHS SBS DPS, Crown Commercial Service)? If yes, state which one.
If no insourcing is used for these specialties, please state “None.”
Can you please provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This query relates to shopping addiction, which is also known as Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) or Oniomania. Could the information please be provided in financial years.
For background, I have been advised that:
• GPs or NHS talking therapies would be the first point of call for such patients.
• Generally those diagnosed with the condition would rarely be diagnosed with it on its own as other mental health problems are likely to be present as well.
• The ICD-11 diagnosis criteria may be used and under that, this condition could be listed as ‘obsessive compulsive disorder – other’ (which was what gambling used to be noted as before it was added to the diagnosis criteria).
1. How many people have been identified as possibly having the condition (Compulsive Buying Disorder – CBD) during the following periods:
a. 2020/21
b. 2021/22
c. 2022/23
d. 2023/24
e. 2024/25
f. 2025-to date
2. What is the age and gender of those mentioned in question 1?
3. If someone presented to the NHS with this condition, what support or treatment options are available?
4. How many people have been identified as having Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) alongside another mental health diagnosis? E.g OCD or ADHD.
5. What is the age and gender of those mentioned in question 4?
6. How many people have been identified as having a behavioural addiction e.g gambling, porn or gaming, during the following periods:
a. 2020/21
b. 2021/22
c. 2022/23
d. 2023/24
e. 2024/25
f. 2025-to date
7. What is the age and gender of those identified in question 6?
For questions 2, 5 and 7, I am not requesting any information that would identify patients.
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the FOI Act 2000.
Can you please provide an update on your Trust’s Infrastructure, including aspects of Database software, Wifi coverage, and Virtualisation? The questions are in the attached spreadsheet, which I would be grateful if you could fill in.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would be grateful if you could provide the following information:
1. Adherence to National Guidelines
Does your Trust currently follow any of the following national guidelines for the treatment and management of Overactive Bladder (OAB)? Please indicate “Yes” or “No” for each of the following:
a) NICE Interventional Procedure Guidance on sacral nerve stimulation for urge incontinence and urgency-frequency (IPG64)
b) NICE Clinical Guideline on Urinary Incontinence in Women (CG171)
c) NICE Clinical Guideline on Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men (CG97)
d) Any NHS England-issued clinical guidelines related to OAB management
2. Locally Adopted Guidelines
For any of the above guidelines that your Trust follows, please provide the title, version number, and date of the current guidance or policy document in use.
3. Local Protocols or Deviations
If your Trust does not follow one or more of the national guidelines listed above, or has developed local clinical pathways or protocols for the management of OAB, please provide a copy of the relevant local policy or a summary of the key differences compared to national guidance.
We are looking to overhaul our internal FOI process and hoping your current practices can give us inspiration, such as management software, etc.
Please write anything you like in the table provided and send back when you can.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information:
1. For each of the last five years (or as many years as data is available), please provide:
o The total number of patients recorded on the urgent referral cancer treatment pathway.
o The number of these patients whose waiting time was stopped due to an enabling treatment, as defined in the National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Dataset Guidance.
2. If available without exceeding cost limits, please also provide a breakdown by:
o Type of enabling treatment used (e.g., stent, dental treatment, or any others as set out in National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Dataset Guidance)
Please could I request the below information as a FOI request.
– Who is your provider/s for clinical waste collection and disposal?
– Which internal department manages this contract?
– What is the contract term and expiry date?
– When and how is the contract likely to be renewed or come to market?
– Do you use a framework or your own tender etc?
– Current contract spend for clinical waste?
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of information act. We are Blayde Security an NHS approved security company under the SBS framework.
We would like to know the following.
Who is the Head of Security for the trust?
Do you use an external provider for your security and if so when does this current contract end?
If this goes back out to tender where will it be advertised?
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
You are receiving this request as it is believed you operate an NHS-run SARC or provide a SARC service on behalf of the NHS.
The information being requested is contained in the attached Microsoft Word document.
1. Does your organisation offer salary sacrifice benefits* to staff? If yes, please state the name of the supplier, contract start and end dates.
*salary sacrifice benefit refers to an arrangement where employees agree to give up a portion of their pre-tax salary in exchange for non-cash benefits (e.g childcare, cycle to work schemes) a. Supplier Name b. Contract start date (dd/mm/yy) c. Contract end date (dd/mm/yy)
2. Does your organisation have an external Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)*?
* employee assistance programme refers to an employee-paid confidential service that offers employees support and advice on issues affecting their wellbeing and performance, both personal and work related.
a. If yes, who is the provider?
• The name of the supplier/s who service your weighing devices (baby scales, chair scales, floor scales, column scales, patient transfer scales, bench scales for example)
• How many weighing devices are covered by this contract?
• What standard (or average) price per scale do you pay for servicing
• The date that the servicing contract ends.
• The value of total spend on weighing devices (split between patient weighing and other) excluding servicing in the last 3 calendar years split by year and the value of that spend by weighing device supplier in the last 3 calendar years split by year.
• Do you have any weighing devices integrated directly or indirectly to an electronic patient records system (EPR)?
• Which electronic patient records system do you use/plan to use?
• If you haven’t done so already, do you intend to integrate weighing scales to an EPR in the next 12-24 months?
• Do you use Welch Allen Vital signs monitors in the Trust, if so, how many and are any of these connected to weighing devices?
• How many suppliers were invited to tender/were considered for your current contract
• What was the decision criteria with regard to the current contract including any weighting
This is a request for information that relates to the organisation’s contracts around ICT contract(s) for Server Hardware Maintenance, Server Virtualisation Licenses and Maintenance and Storage Area Network (SAN) Maintenance/Support, which may include:
• Server Hardware Maintenance- contracts relating to the support and maintenance of the organisation’s physical servers.
• Virtualisation Maintenance/Support/ Licensing (VMware, Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows Server)
• Storage Area Network Maintenance/Support (EMC, NetApp etc)
For each of the types of contract described above, please can you provide me with the following data. If there is more than one contract please split the information for each separate supplier this includes annual spend
1. Contract Title: Please provide me with the contract title.
2. Type of Contracts (ABOVE): Please can you provide me with one or more contract types the contract relates to: Server Hardware, Virtualisation, SAN (Storage Area Network)
3. Existing/Current Supplier: Please provide me with the supplier name for each contract.
4. Brand: Please state the brand of hardware or software
5. Operating System / Software (Platform): (Windows, Linux, Unix, Vsphere, AIX, Solaris etc.) Please state the operating system used by the organisation.
6. Annual Average Spend: Please provide me with the most recent annual spend for this contract?
7. Contract Duration: (Please can you also include notes if the contract includes any contract Extension periods.)
8. Contract Expiry Date: Please can you provide me with the date of when the contract expires.
9. Contract Review Date: (An approximate date of when the organisation is planning to review this particular contract.)
10. Purchase of Servers: Could you please provide me with the month and year in which most/bulk of servers were purchased.
11. Number of Physical Server: Please can you provide me with the number of physical servers.
12. Number of Virtual Servers: Please can you provide me with the number of Virtual servers
13. Brief Contract Description: I require a brief description of the service provided under this contract. Please do not just put maintenance. I need at least a sentence.
14.Contract Owner: (The person from within the organisation that is responsible for reviewing and renewing this particular contract. Please include their full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.)
Please can you provide the following:
By site location(s) within the trust:
Do you have a Decontamination Lead(s)?
What is their name(s), and what is their NHS email address?
Do you have an Infection Control Lead(s)?
What is their name(s), and what is their NHS email address?
Do you have a Sterile Services Manager(s)?
What is their name(s), and what is their NHS email address?
Do you have an Endoscopy Decontamination Manager(s)?
What is their name(s), and what is their NHS email address?
Do you have an Estates Manager(s) in charge of Decontamination Equipment Validation?
What is their name(s), and what is their NHS email address?
In accordance with the freedom of information act, please could you answer the following questions:
What EPR (Electronic Patient Record) is currently being used by the Trust?
Are there any plans to change this? If so, when?
The recent Supreme Court ruling in ‘For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers’, clarified the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 as ‘biological sex’. The Equality and Human Rights Commission states:
‘This means that, under the Act:
A ‘woman’ is a biological woman or girl (a person born female) A ‘man’ is a biological man or boy (a person born male) If somebody identifies as trans, they do not change sex for the purposes of the Act, even if they have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).
A trans woman is a biological man
A trans man is a biological woman’
Please set out what action(s) you have taken in your NHS Trust to ensure that each of the following aligns with the Supreme Court ruling and, in consequence, with the Equality Act 2010:
1) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating to staff
2) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating to patients
3) Policies on same sex accommodation
4) Related Equality Impact Assessments
Please can you tell me over the last five financial years how many people with a dementia diagnosis have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 under section 2 or section 3 of the act. Please specify whether section 2 or section 3 was used.
Please specify where each person was detained i.e. name of ward
I’m writing on behalf of Systech Innovations to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act, relating to your organisation’s data storage for digitised patient records:
1. What system is used to store image files (i.e. records which have been scanned and digitised)?
2. The current total amount of data stored in the system. Please provide this in terabytes (TB).
3. The volume of data added to the system annually for the past two years (2022/23 and 2023/24), with figures in TB.
4. The hosting environment used for the system (e.g. on-premise, local cloud, or external private cloud).
5. The total amount of data that has been deleted from the system since its initial implementation, also in terabytes.
I am submitting this request, on behalf of myself, under the Freedom of Information Act and the Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS. Please confirm the Trust holds the following data, and where it is held please provide the data. Please use the attached spreadsheet if possible.
1. Does your trust provide a chronic pain service? (Yes/No)
If no, this is the end of our request.
If yes, and the service is consultant-led, please provide:
2. Please confirm that the Trust submits RTT data for this service (yes/no)
3. Please confirm that the Trust submits WLMDS data for this service (yes/no)
4. Please supply the Trust’s RTT submission for every month between April 2024 and April 2025 (inclusive), but please only show data for TFC 191 – Pain Management. This data is available in the public domain but it is supplied aggregated with other specialities in category: ‘X02 – Other – Medical Services’. We are requesting it be disaggregated from this category. Please share this in the format that you have it.
5. Only if the data requested in #4 is unavailable, please provide the data requested in 5a-e for every month between April 2024 and April 2025:
5a. The number of people on the waiting list, as of the first day of the month
5b. The average waiting time in weeks
5c. The distribution of waiting times, as of the first day of the month (see suggested breakdown in the attached spreadsheet)
5d. Number of clock starts during the month
5e. Number of clock stops during the month for treatment, broken down by reason
5f. Number of clock stops during the month for non-treatment, broken down by reason
6. The average time between clock start and an interventional pain procedure being performed, in weeks
7. Please provide the Trust definitions used for Pain Management services for:
7a. Clock starts (e.g. referral received, referral received and validated, etc.)
7b. Clock stops for treatment (e.g. first appointment, advice given, information provided, etc.)
7c. Clock stops for non-treatment (please provide breakdown)
If yes, and the service is not consultant-led, please provide:
8. What is the clinician’s role who holds overall clinical responsibility, including governance, outcomes and quality, for the service (e.g. specialist nurse, clinical psychologist, other)? We are requesting the person’s position rather than any personal information.
9. Does the service provide interventional pain procedures, such as injections? (Yes/No)
9a. If yes, please provide the clinician’s role that performs them (e.g. consultant in pain medicine)? We are requesting the person’s position rather than any personal information.
9b. If no, where do you refer patients requiring interventional pain procedures to?
10. Please provide the following data for the non-consultant-led Pain Management service for every month between April 2024 and April 2025 (inclusive):
10a. The number of people on the waiting list at the first day of the month
10b. The average waiting time in weeks
10c. The distribution of waiting times, as of the first day of the month (see suggested breakdown in the attached spreadsheet)
10d. The number of new referrals during the month
10e. The number of patients who started treatment during the month (i.e. had their first appointment)
10f. The number of patients discharged without treatment (i.e. rejected referrals)
I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. Does your trust have any specific clinical care pathways, protocols, or service guidance specifically for the treatment or management of patients with:
Dissociative disorders (including DID, OSDD, DPDR etc..)?
Complex post-traumatic presentations involving dissociation?
2. If yes, please provide copies of any relevant documentation or pathway flowcharts.
3. Which clinical teams or services (e.g. CMHTs, trauma services, personality disorder services, psychology/psychotherapy teams) typically provide care for patients with dissociative disorders and dissociative presentations?
4. Does your Trust offer or commission any specialist assessment or treatment (e.g. SCID-D diagnostic assessment) specifically for dissociative disorders?
5. Are patients with dissociative disorders referred to external providers (e.g. Centre for Dissociative Studies, Pottergate Centre, or other independent services)? If so, under what circumstances?
6. Has your Trust delivered any training or guidance for clinicians on dissociative disorders in the past five years?
7. If possible, please provide the number or percentage of current patients under your care who have a diagnosis of a dissociative disorder. This may include conditions coded under ICD-10 (eg. F44.8), ICD-11 (e.g. 6B64) or equivalent SNOMED CT terms. (If your trust uses other diagnostic classification systems such as DSM, please indicate where applicable.)
Please can I request the below information:
In the period 1st February 2025 to 30th April 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name
In the period 1st February 2025 to 30th April 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name
In the period 1st February 2025 to 30th April 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per internal or associated external provider
Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st February 2025 to 30th April 2025
Please confirm the name of the framework used for the supply of locum doctors in your trust.
This is a request for the following data:
– How many ADHD patients do you have currently?
– What percentage of ADHD patients are prescribed stimulant medication?
– How many ADHD patients have stopped taking stimulant medication since 2020? Please specify how many patients stopped because of side effects they were experiencing and make a brief note of the side effect
– Since 2020 how many ADHD patients were prescribed non-pharmacological treatment? This could include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, parent of family training, neurofeedback or advice and programs related to mindfulness and yoga. Please specify what the treatment was.
I wish to make a freedom of information request and would be grateful if you could provide the following information:
The number of referrals made by your NHS Trust to other authorities – such as the police or social services – when there was a suspicion that a child is a victim of exploitation (sexual, criminal, gang-based grooming) for the years 2010 (or earliest available year of data) – 2024 inclusive.
The number of risks assessments conducted on children where there was concern that the had been the victim of child sexual exploitation (using the same timeframe as above).
Details of your NHS Trusts’ CSE safeguarding arrangements, including work in multi-agency partnerships.
The number of staff employed by your NHS Trust who have received training on CSE.
Please confirm the Trust holds the following data and where it is held; please provide the data as requested.
Questions
Do you offer Tier 3 weight management services (sometimes called specialist weight management services)? (Yes/No)
If yes, do you offer consultant-led Tier 3 weight management services? (Yes/No)
For each non-consultant-led Tier 3 weight management service:
How many patients were waiting for treatment at the start of April 2024?
How many referrals to the Tier 3 weight management service were received per month from April 2024 to March 2025?
How many patients started treatment per month from April 2024 to March 2025?
For each consultant-led Tier 3 weight management service:
Please confirm whether these referrals and activity are submitted in the Trust’s RTT submissions.
Please confirm which Treatment function code (TFC) is used for this activity.
How many patients were waiting for treatment at the start of April 2024?
How many referrals were received per month from April 2024 to March 2025?
How many clock starts were there per month from April 2024 to March 2025
What are the mechanisms used to record clock stops/first definitive treatments (e.g. appointment, information provided etc)?
Please provide the number of clock stops per month by mechanism from March 2024 to April 2025
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding your organisation’s Managed Bank service.
Please could you provide the following details:
1. Does your organisation currently use a Managed Bank service or system?
2. If yes, what is the name of the provider?
3. What is the end date of the current contract with this provider?
4. What are the current fees or costs associated with the service?
If possible, please also include any relevant documentation or links that provide further detail.
This is an information request relating to NHS Trusts buying and supplying Paracetamol and ibuprofen.
Please include the following information for the financial years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25:
• The total number of individual patients to whom paracetamol and ibuprofen were prescribed by your Trust annually.
• The total amount spent by your Trust on supplying prescribed paracetamol and Ibuprofen in each of those financial years.
• If available, a breakdown of the form in which paracetamol was prescribed (e.g., tablets, capsules, liquid suspension, etc.) and associated costs for each form.
• What are the specific conditions which qualify a patient to be prescribed paracetamol or ibuprofen? Or what is your general policy for qualifying a prescription for paracetamol or ibuprofen?
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The request relates to Coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths Reports (PFDs or Reg 28 letters) issued for deaths ruled to have been caused by suicide.
Please provide the following information for the time period between 1st January 2019 (or the date of inception for your trust) and 5th May 2025, inclusive.
1. Please send me a copy of every PFD relating to suicide that the Trust received. Please include PFDs received where the Trust was a listed addressee and/or where the Trust was copied for information as an ‘interested person’.
2. Please also send me a copy of the Trust’s response to each PFD, clearly marking to which PFD the response refers.
3. Please send me a copy of any internal correspondence which relates to each PFD, clearly marking to which PFD the correspondence refers. This should include:
Minutes from meetings
Email conversations between staff and contractors
Details of any staff training undertaken
Memos sent
I’m writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about reports of bullying and racism/racial discrimination amongst midwives working at your trust.
From 1 Jan 2020 up to and including 6 May 2025, can you please tell me the following:
1) How many reports of bullying have been made by midwives against other midwives (including student midwives on placement) at your trust? Please provide the outcomes of these.
2) How many reports of racism or racial discrimination have been made by midwives against other midwives (including student midwives on placement) at your trust? Please provide the outcomes of these.
3) Have there been any dismissals in light of bullying reports? If so, when were these? Please provide the year.
4) Have there been any dismissals in light of racism or racial discrimination reports? If so, when were these? Please provide the year.
If this request is at risk of triggering the s12 cost exemption, please advise us on how we can amend the wording of our request to align with the trust’s categorisation and/or filing conventions.
I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust’s current and future plans for IT service delivery models. I believe this request is in the public interest as it promotes transparency in how public sector bodies manage and procure IT services, ensuring accountability and value for taxpayers.
Specifically, I am seeking information that would help me understand the strategic direction and considerations regarding outsourcing, in-sourcing, multi-sourcing, or optimising existing contracts.
Please provide the following information where available:
• Current IT Service Model – Is your IT delivery primarily in-house, outsourced, or a hybrid approach, and if not delivered in-house, who provides this service?
• Major IT Contracts – Key details of significant IT service contracts (including scope, value, end date and any options for extension or renegotiation).
• Future IT Plans – Any strategic plans or considerations for changing IT delivery models (e.g., outsourcing, in-sourcing, multi-sourcing).
FOI Request – Information requested:
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 Title: The title of the contract, e.g., “IT Services Contract”.
• Supplier Name: The name of the organisation providing the goods or services.
• Estimated Spend (Total or Annual): [Radio Button] Whether the estimated spend is for the entire contract period or annually.
• Contract Duration: The initial term of the contract in months.
• Total Contract Period: The total duration of the contract, including any potential extensions.
• Contract Extensions: The number of months for any potential extensions.
• Contract Start Date: The date the contract officially begins.
• Contract Expiry Date: The date the initial contract period ends.
• Contract Review Date: The date on which the contract should be reviewed for renewal or extension.
• Contract Description: A detailed description of the contract, this could include the purpose, scope, and key terms and conditions.
• Contact Owner: The name, job title, main contact number, and email address of the individual responsible for the contract.
• Contract Notes: Any additional relevant information, such as specific terms and conditions, risk assessments, or performance metrics.
• Department: The department within your organisation that the contract is associated with.
• Contract Award Date: The date the contract was awarded.
• Participating Organisations: Other organisations involved in the procurement process.
• Procurement Category: The category of the procurement, e.g., IT, Facilities, or Professional Services. [I will send you a list of categories]
• Framework Reference: The reference number of procurement framework.
• Central Purchasing Body: The organisation responsible for the overall procurement.
• Tender Reference: The reference number of the tender notice.
• CPV Codes/Pro-Class/eClass: Standard classification codes used to categorise public procurement. [Radio Button] On select they should be able to select the classes.
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 2024-2025?
• 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].
Please can you provide me with the Information below?
1. What framework are you associated with for sterile service agency supply?
2. Who is responsible for agency usage on framework and off framework in the Sterile Services/Decontamination department at all hospitals associated with the Trust?
3. Please can you provide the contact number and email address for the managers. in questions 1 and 2.
4. Have you used off-framework agency staff between March 2023 and March 2024 in Sterile Services?
5. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for Sterile Services between March 2023 and March 2024?
6. Do you currently outsource your Sterile Services/Decontamination department, if yes, who do you outsource it to?
Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details with respect to the Trust below, details of which can be found below:
1. Approximately how many endoscopes does the trust own?
2. What brands of endoscope does the Trust own?
3. On average how old are the endoscopes that the Trust owns?
4. Approximately how many of the trust endoscopes are under OEM Warranty?
5. Does the trust subcontract the maintenance of endoscopes and associated equipment such as stack systems and monitors to an outside providers. or does it maintain the devices using internal engineers?
6. If an external providers. is used, what is the name of the companys.?
7. If an external providers. is used, what was the value of the contract when awarded?
8. If an external providers. is used, what is the contract type – PPM/ Fully-Comprehensive / Ad-hoc support?
9. If an external providers. is used, what is the contract renewal dates.?
10. Does your contract include the provision of loan endoscopes to temporarily replace endoscopes that are in for repair?
11. Please provide the name, email address and phone number of the role responsible for managing endoscopy equipment within the trust.
12. Please provide the name, email address, and phone number of the individual responsible for managing endoscopy contracts within the trust?
13. If endoscopy is part of a Managed Equipment Service MES. at the trust, please provide details of the service provider and specify the services provided including whether staffing is part of the MES.
Definitions:
OEM Warranty
Maintenance or repairs covered by the Original Equipment Manufacturer OEM.
PPM
Planned Preventative Maintenance, i.e. annual service. Fully Comprehensive Maintenance contract covering the cost of Planned Maintenance and cost of repair parts and labour of equipment.
Ad-hoc support
Subcontracted work to engineering company on an informal basis.
Managed Equipment Service
An MES seeks to provide a more holistic solution to a department, typically encompassing equipment recommendations, supply, replacement and disposal – occasionally providing staff also.
For clarity, contact details are kept in the strictest confidence. These details are used only to contact regarding information of legitimate interest for the relevant contracts.
1. The amount of waste generated within the last year for each of the below categories:
o General o Recycling
o Food Waste
o Confidential o High Temperature Incineration clinical.
o Alternative Treatment clinical.
o Offensive clinical.
2. The amount of waste Spend within the last year for each of the below categories:
o General o Recycling
o Food Waste
o Confidential o High Temperature Incineration clinical.
o Alternative Treatment clinical.
o Offensive clinical.
3. Contract Start Dates for:
o General Waste Services
o Recycling Services
o Food Waste Services
o Confidential Services
o High Temperature Incineration clinical. Services
o Alternative Treatment clinical. Services
o Offensive clinical. Services
4. Contract End Dates for:
o General Waste Services
o Recycling Services
o Food Waste Services
o Confidential Services
o High Temperature Incineration clinical. Services
o Alternative Treatment clinical. Services
o Offensive clinical. Services
5. Waste Company who holds the current contract
o General Waste Services
o Recycling Services
o Food Waste Services
o Confidential Services
o High Temperature Incineration clinical. Services
o Alternative Treatment clinical. Services
o Offensive clinical. Services
6. Name and Contact Details for the Waste Manager associated to the Trust
7. Name and Contact Details for the Sustainability Lead associated to the Trust
8. Name and Contact Details for the Procurement Lead associated to the Trust
9. Name and Contact Details for the Infection Prevention Control Lead associated to the Trust
10. Do the Trust have a reusable sharps solution in place to reduce the amount of single use plastic that is incinerated in traditional practices?
11. Are there any onsite treatment facilities located on Trust premises which would mitigate the need for ensuing carbon footprint through the road miles that it takes to take the waste away?
Please can we request the following information under FOI.
1. How many patients were excluded from care at your Trust in the calendar years 2010,2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
2. How many of the above patients received a planned review of their status?
3. How many excluded patients were subject of an Equality Impact Assessment?
4. Where do you record patients excluded status?
5. Do you have a policy for the exclusion of patients?
6. Please supply a copy of that policy?
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Questions:
Please could you provide me the trust’s commercial income for the financial years 2019/2020, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 broken down into the following categories:
Clinical Services:
· Private Patient Services
· Overseas Visitors
· Services to Private Hospitals
· Other clinical support services
Intellectual property related:
· Commercialising intellectual property
· Commercial Research including clinical trials
· Commercialising data
· Spin-ins
Commercial Training and Education activities including Continuing Professional Development
Consultancy
Commercial Facilities Management and non-clinical support services
Property and Estates related:
· Retail
· Tech hubs
· Advertising
Car parking
Property rental
Other
Please specify
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information regarding clinical documentation practices, specifically in relation to the capture of information during interventional procedures, such as Central Venous Access Device (CVAD) insertions.
1. Clinical Documentation
• What methods are currently used by clinicians to document key information during invasive procedures, such as CVAD insertions (e.g., paper forms, digital forms, voice dictation, other)?
o Is any form of structured digital data entry used at the point of care for these procedures?
• Are standardised templates or proformas used Trust-wide for documenting invasive procedures, such as Local Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (LocSSIPs)?
o Are any of these LocSSIPs or other forms digitised?
2. Voice Technology
• Does the Trust currently use any voice-to-text or voice recognition technology for clinical documentation (e.g., Dragon Medical One, Nuance, Voice-Care, etc.)?
• If yes, which departments or specialties currently use it, and for which types of documentation?
3. Administrative Efficiency
• Has the Trust undertaken any assessments of the administrative time burden associated with completing procedural documentation (manual or digital)?
o If so, is any information available on time spent per procedure or efforts to streamline the process?
4. Future Plans
• Is the Trust currently planning any initiatives or procurements to digitise documentation processes for interventional procedures?
o If yes, please outline the scope and timelines if available.
I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information relating to A&E MRI scan referrals guideline procedures.
· What are A&E guideline procedures for referring patients to MRI scans?
I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information relating to the diagnosis and treatment of hip fractures for patients presenting at your Minor Injuries department, broken down by year, for the past four calendar years (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) up to and including 03 May 2025:
· The number of patients who presented at Minor Injuries with hip pain and were referred for: X-Ray o MRI scan.
· Of those who underwent an X-ray only, how many had negative or inconclusive results but were later diagnosed with a femoral neck or other hip fracture?
If the request exceeds the cost exemption, as per s12 of the 2000 Act, please advise me on how to amend my request accordingly.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information relating to maternity care provided by your Trust.
I am conducting research into potential disparities in pain relief experienced by patients of different ethnic backgrounds during childbirth and maternity care. Specifically, I would like to request the following:
a) Does your Trust provide any mandatory training to maternity staff on cultural competence, anti-racism, or unconscious bias, particularly relating to patient care or pain management?
b) If so, please provide: · The name(s) of the training programme(s) used · Which organisation provides the training · Whether completion is mandatory · When it was introduced
I understand that not all data may be held in the exact format requested. However, I would be grateful for any partial or relevant information you can provide. If any part of this request exceeds the cost limit, please inform me as soon as possible so that I can refine the request.
I would like to know how many people the trust employs in the Very Senior Manager (SM) grade please.
This should cover the current financial year, 2024-25 and 2023-24.
Please also include their job titles.
– Please provide the number of persons who work or have worked at your NHS Trust who have been the subject to complaints on the basis of allegations of (1) antisemitism (2) islamophobia (3) racism against Palestinians and/or Arabs since 7 October 2023.
– For each of the above persons who works or has worked at your Trust, please confirm:
(i) whether the complaint(s) is/are based on allegations of antisemitism or islamophobia and/or racism towards Palestinians and/or Arabs;
(ii) the name of any organisation that submitted the complaint;
(iii) whether the complaint arises from the person’s actions at work and/or outside work;
(iv) whether the complaint is being or has been dealt with under informal or formal disciplinary procedures;
(v) the content of the complaint (deleting any personally identifiable information)
(vi) the outcome of any disciplinary hearing;
(vii) any sanction which has been applied against the person.
– Please provide the definitions used by your NHS Trust for (i) antisemitism, (ii) islamophobia, (iii) racism towards Palestinians and/or Arabs.
I recently came across a published FOI response from another requester regarding the med recs EDM System. After reviewing the details, I’m seeking information about paper records instead and would like to raise an FOI. Given that medical records are important information assets containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), some of which will be sensitive, I am particularly interested in how the Trust manages (or who manages!) and safeguards paper medical/health records.
I’ve had a look at the NHSE ERIC data but can only see on-site and off-site spend. Nothing around the number of paper records etc. therefore could you have a look at the below request? Most of it should be in your info asset logs, registers and/or DPIAs so hopefully the request is not too much of an impact.
Paper Medical Records Management
How many paper medical records does the Trust have as a data controller?
How many primary on-site record libraries are there? (Just looking for primary storage locations, not local departmental stores etc. as that would take a long time to repply to).
How many off-site record libraries are there?
Is records management outsourced for some paper medical records?
Is records management outsourced for all paper medical records?
How many records are Trust-managed and how many are outsourced to a records management provider?
If some or all records management is outsourced, what is the records management provider(s) company name(s)?
Is the company (if more than 1, please list) a Data Controller and/or a Data Processor for the Trust?
How many records has the Trust authorised and had destruction undertaken for within the last two years (2022/23 & 2023/24)?
Was destruction undertaken by a BS15713 provider?
If yes, which of the following are they accredited to: BS15713:2009 or BS15713:2023?
If records management is outsourced, does this include active records (records that have been in active circulation within the last three years)?
If records management is outsourced, does this include dormant records (records that have been in active circulation in the last four to eight years)?
Please complete the questionnaire attached.