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I am requesting the Regulation EU. 2016/425 Declarations of Conformity for all type IIR surgical masks provided as PPE to staff since 15 June 2020. Regulation EU. 2016/425 states that the Declarations of Conformity must be provided physically with the PPE or a weblink printed on the PPE packaging. Which means if the PPE provided is legally complaint, then the Declarations of Conformity will be readily accessible.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust.
Please may you provide me with the following information:
1. The budget allocated to each specialist community perinatal mental health team in your ICS/health board/ trust in the following years – 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23
2. How much your ICS/health board/ trust actually spent on each specialist community perinatal mental health teams in the following years – 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23
3. The projected spend in your ICS/health board/ trust for each specialist community perinatal mental health teams in the year 2022/23
4. Whether there is any difference between funding allocated for 2022/23 question 1. and projected spend question 3.? If so, is this mainly i.e. more than 50%. due to unfilled posts? If not, please explain the other reasons for the difference. Please provide the information in the attached spreadsheet format. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how we can refine our request.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.
Sent: 24 October 2021 17:23
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request – Temp Staffing
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Hello Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with:
1. What was the cost to the trust for the last 2 years Apr to Mar. of temporary workers split between:
a. 2019 / 20 – paid to agencies
b. 2019 / 20 – paid direct to workers via trust / NHS payroll.
c. 2019 / 20 – paid direct to workers via their own invoices.
d. 2020 / 21 – paid to agencies
e. 2020 / 21 – paid direct to workers via trust / NHS payroll.
f. 2020 / 21 – paid direct to workers via their own invoices.
2. Did the Trust have any irrecoverable VAT in the last 2 years Apr to Mar.? If so, what was the:
a. 2019 / 20 – total amount
b. 2019 / 20 – amount attributable to temporary worker costs
c. 2020 / 21 – total amount
d. 2020 / 21 – amount attributable to temporary worker costs
3. Did the Trust incur any temporary to permanent recruitment fees during the last 2 years? If so, what was the:
a. 2019 / 20 – total amount
b. 2020 / 21 – total amount
4. Which timesheet systems has the Trust used for managing temporary workers during the last 2 years?
5. Which frameworks has the Trust used to source temporary workers during the last 2 years? And which of these frameworks are still being used?
6. Which Managed Service Providers has the Trust worked with during the last 2 years? And which of these are still engaged?
7. Has the Trust used any portals to manage invoices from agencies during the last 2 years? And which of these are still being used?
8. What is the average time taken between completion of a shift and an agency invoice being posted into your AP ledger?
Note: All amounts should be totals, excluding or net of VAT.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
Sent: 28 September 2021 18:46
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – Employment & Funding of LXP Staff in NHS
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
In December 2020 the Adult Mental Health Team at NHSE offered Mental Health Trusts the chance to apply for funding for a Band 7 KUF Lived Experience Professional LXP. role. They have let us know via a FOI request that your trust did not take up the opportunity to apply for this funding.
People who work in LXP roles face a high level of discrimination and blocks to their careers. Most NHS Trusts do not have posts beyond Peer Support roles Bands 2-5..
Please provide answers to the following questions:
*Reasons why this funding was not applied for *Was the decision subject to an Equality Impact Assessment?
*Has your Trust made plans to reapply for the funding, which will be offered again this autumn/winter?
*Do you currently employ LXPs in Band 7 roles?
*If you currently do not employ LXPs in Band 7+ roles since declining the opportunity to apply for funding, please explain why your Trust does does not do so and what steps you are taking to change this situation.
Yours faithfully,
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Sent: 28 September 2021 15:33
To: FOI Research
Subject: Adult mental health beds & eating disorders FOI
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————————-FOI team,
I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information:
1. Please can you send me overnight bed availability and occupancy data for mental illness beds in your trust in each of the following speciality codes please provide separate figures for each.:
• 710 – Adult Mental Illness
• 711 – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• 712 – Forensic Psychiatry
• 713 – Psychotherapy
• 715 – Old Age Psychiatry
• Eating disorder beds apologies I don’t have a code for this but please provide figures specifically for in-patient eating disorder specific beds if possible.
I would like the data for each week Monday to Sunday. from week beginning Monday 13st July 2020 to week beginning Monday 27th September 2021. Please provide a weekly figure for the following data for each speciality identified above: a. average beds available b. average beds occupied c. percentage of beds occupied
2. Can you please tell me how many patients your trust is currently treating for eating disorders?
3. Of the figures identified in answer to Q2 can you please tell me how many current patients being treated for eating disorders, how many require in-patient care?
If you need any further information from me in order to deal with my request, please call me on 07772206481
If you are encountering practical difficulties with complying with this request, please contact me as soon as possible in line with your section 16 duty to advise and assist requesters. so that we can discuss the matter and if necessary I can modify the request.
Please send me the data requested in the form of an Excel spreadsheet or as a csv file.
Please can you acknowledge receipt of this request.
Many thanks for your assistance.
Sent: 07 September 2021 17:28
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – Protocols and policies regarding the care of transgender people
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
I’m writing on behalf of the healthcare provider GenderGP.
We’re writing regarding the policies, protocols, and guidelines operated by each NHS Trust in relation to the care of transgender people.
We’re aware that NHS England Specialised Commissioning is responsible for commissioning specialist gender identity services in England. However, we’re interested in what guidelines are in place for the provision of transgender healthcare at primary and secondary care levels.
With this in mind, could you please provide the following:
1. Any equality and/or diversity policies you have in place for patients.
2. Any equality and/or diversity policies you have in place for staff.
3. Any guidelines, protocols, policies, or similar relating to care provision for transgender adults.
4. Any guidelines, protocols, policies, or similar relating to care provision for transgender children and adolescents.
5. Any guidelines, etc. relating to mental capacity and/or informed consent.
6. Any guidelines, etc. relating to shared care agreements and/or working with private services to facilitate treatment, particularly with regards to transgender healthcare.
We understand that this will be more or less relevant depending on the Trust, but please provide as much information as possible. I am happy to answer any questions you might have or provide further clarification.
Yours faithfully,
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I would like to request the following details.
• Procurement team Email
• Head of Procurement and contact details
I am writing to obtain information, under the Freedom of Information Act, about your Trust’s funding of Complementary and Alternative Medicine CAM. services they provided.
To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting:
How much the Trust has spent on CAM services for the following financial years: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22. This includes salaries for those employed to carry out these services, costs of medicine, equipment and any additional costs involved.
A list of all services provided under CAM.
I would prefer an electronic response however, if this is not possible I would gladly accept
letter at the address below.
I am aware that under the freedom of information act, I am entitled to a response within 20
working days. Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.
Sent: 04 August 2021 12:42
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request
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Good Afternoon
Please find attached a letter for your attention.
Regards
I am writing to you on behalf of the Health Service Journal HSJ..
I am making a Freedom of Information request for the following:
• The number of settlement agreements formerly known as compromise agreements. entered into with staff for each of the following financial years: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
• The value of settlement agreements entered into with staff for each of the following financial years: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
• If possible, the number of settlement agreements entered into with staff which related to employment tribunal claims for each of the following financial years: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
• If possible, the value of settlement agreements entered into with staff which related to employment tribunal claims for each of the following financial years: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
• If possible the number of settlement agreements including a non-disclosure agreement or clause entered into with staff for each of the following financial years: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
• If possible, the value of settlement agreements including a non-disclosure agreement or clause entered into with staff for each of the following financial years: 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
Request you to kindly fill your response in the attached excel file. Also request you to kindly acknowledge this request
Please would you respond by 28 July, which is 20 working days from today?
Sent: 22 June 2021 16:18
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Staff Spend FOI
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, Please could you answer the attached FOI questions in relation to temporary staff spend and waiting list initiative and overtime spend in 20/21. Please contact me for any clarifications and thank you in advance for your time.
1. Please could you provide the name and email for the following job roles withing your organisation, as of March 2023:
a. Chief Operating Officer
b. Deputy Chief Operating Officer
c. Director of Performance
d. Director of Operations
e. Associate/deputy Director of Operations
f. Patient Access Manager
2. Please could you provide the names and email addresses for the following, within the following specialities:
General Surgery :
Clinical Director:
Service Manager:
Urology
Clinical Director:
Service Manager:
Trauma & Orthopaedics
Clinical Director:
Service Manager:
ENT
Clinical Director:
Service Manager:
Ophthalmology
Clinical Director:
Service Manager:
Dermatology
Clinical Director:
Service Manager:
Cardiology
Clinical Director:
Service Manager:
3. Has the Trust utilised the services of an Insourcing Company utilising Insourced clinical staff within Trust facilities to undertake additional activity. – within the Financial Year 2021/2022 and 2022/23 if you have them?
4. Which specialties has the Trust utilised Insourcing for within the Financial Year 2021/2022 and 2022/23 if you have them. and the spend in each of those specialties?
5. Which specialties has the Trust utilised Outsourcing for within the Financial Year 2021/2022 and 2022/23 and the spend in each of those specialties?
How many complaints against members of staff in your hospital have you received about their personal social media accounts undermining public trust or confidence in the NHS?
How many of these complaints included the word ‘Only Fans’ or referenced the member of staff having an Only Fans account?
How many of these complaints referred to the member of staff posting sexually explicit images of themselves online?
How many of these complaints resulted in any kind of disciplinary action?
How many of these resulted in disciplinary hearings?
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following information: The number of cancelled, delayed or missed appointments at your Trust as a result of British Medical Association strikes w/c 11th – 15th April, broken down by
1. 1. Type of appointment, e.g. checkup, treatment, surgery 2. 2. Type of care the appointment/surgery was required for, e.g. cancer – please specify which department too This information should be made available to me in electronic form if possible. If you determine some of the information I have requested to be exempt from disclosure, please redact exempt information with black boxes, instead of snipping or excerpting and please state which Category of exemption you believe applies to the information.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your NHS trust. Please may you provide me with:
1. The number of rape incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, since 2010.
2. The number of sexual assault incidents at mental health hospitals within your trust, broken down by financial year, since 2010.
Please provide this data in a table format.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.
I am e-mailing to place a request for all information available under the Freedom of Information Act relating to the Estates and Facilities Directorate of your organisation across all sites.
I would like to request an Organisation chart for all Directors, Managers, and employees within the Estates, Maintenance, Facilities, Property Services and Capital Projects departments.
Dear Officer,
I would like to raise a Freedom of Information request. Please complete the questions below and return to me:
For Rostering, what software system do you use? What is the contract end date for your Rostering software? For Scheduling Community Activities, what software system do you use? What is the contract end date for your Community Scheduling software? For Expense Management what software system do you use? What is the contract end date for your Expense Management software? How many staff are employed in the Trust? How many Trust employees are Community based?
Under the FOI Act please provide me with the information below. Please confirm receipt of this request as soon as possible. The number of inpatients who are currently medically fit to leave hospital in your area, but still reside there. Please provide this as a series of data points for the last calendar year and the year to date, broken down by day. For each day, please break the data into further categories which detail the reason behind the delayed discharge. I am aware that some of the data showing the total number of delayed transfers of care is published here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/discharge-delays-acute-data/ however I am looking for further information relating to the cause of the discharge delay. For example, the Welsh Government also used to publish a detailed breakdown of reasons behind delayed discharge - https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Performance/Delayed-Transfers-of-Care By way of illustration, a response may look like this: 01/01/22 - 100 people awaiting discharge, 20 awaiting physiotherapy, 30 awaiting transport home, 50 awaiting care packages 02/01/22 – 90 people awaiting discharge, 15 awaiting physiotherapy, 30 awaiting transport home, 45 awaiting care packages And so on…. Please provide this data in a spreadsheet format such as excel or a .csv file, with columns for the date, total number of patients and reasons for delay.
Sent: 19 May 2022 10:02
Subject: Freedom of Information request
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————————-Team, Please may I request the following details under the Freedom of Information Act. For your organisation please provide the following details around the number of pharmacists employed, their ethnicity and grading as per employment on 30.4.2022. Pharmacist Band White ethnicity. pharmacists in post WTE. Other ethnicity. pharmacists in post WTE. Vacant posts WTE. Total pharmacist staff base – Including vacancies WTE. Band 5 Band 6 Band 7 Band 8A Band 8B Band 8C Band 8D Band 9 Very Senior Manager Grand Total WTE. WTE – Whole time equivalent
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide me with the attached information about the status of tech-enabled virtual wards within your Trust.
We look forward to receiving the data within 20 working days.
Dear Freedom of Information Officer,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. and in relation to disabled children’s occupational therapy OT. services provided in your area Gloucestershire., I would be grateful if you could provide the following information to us:
For the following two periods:
1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 and
1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023
1. What was the average timeframe from referral of a disabled child to the Occupational Therapy service to the comprehensive assessment of their needs by an Occupational Therapist?
From the date of receipt of this request:
2. How many disabled children are currently waiting for an assessment?
3. After being referred, what is the longest waiting time that a disabled child is currently waiting for an assessment?
1. Do any patients at your Trust’s adult eating disorder service have ‘Advance Decisions/Directives to refuse medical treatment’ ADRTs. recorded on their electronic records? It is NHS policy that all ADRTs must be recorded on patients electronic records..
2. How many adult eating disorder patients ADRTs have ‘Advance Decisions/Directives to refuse medical treatment’ ADRTs. currently recorded on their electronic records?
ID 21 Questions Responses Q1 Has your organiszation outsourced its ERP system? If you answered ‘YES’, please go to Q4.. Q2 What ERP system are you currently using? Q3 How long have you been using your current ERP system? Q4 How many invoices does your organisation process annually? Q5 What percentage of invoices in your ERP system are currently matched to a purchase order? Q6 What percentage of invoices received are single line invoices? Q7 Do you use 3-way matching? Q8 Do you employ price tolerances? Q9 If you answered ‘YES’ , what levels have your price tolerances been set at? Non Receipts Price variance Other
Q10 How many invoices are in query at any given point in time by query type.? – Q11 Do you currently employ an AP Invoice Automation tool to process supplier invoices? Q12 If you answered ‘YES’ to Q11, What AP Invoice automation tool do you use? Q13 Do you receive consolidated invoices from NHSSC, NHSP and Bunzl ?
Can you please tell me, under the Freedom Of Information Act,
The totals for Sudden Unexpected Deaths In Children SUDIC. for the Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust for years 2015-2023?
Can you give me the monthly stats for each year, and include cause of death, and put the ages in ascending order please?
The NHSE South West Outpatient Transformation Programme, Patient Reference Group PRG. consists of 31 patient volunteers with lived experience of outpatient services in the last two years. The group has representatives from each of the 7 ICS’s across the South West. The key purpose of the PRG is to support the NHSE Outpatient Transformation Programme to deliver user centric transformation initiatives that are co-designed in partnership, with a focus on improving patient experience and tackling inequalities in access to outpatient services in the South West.
1-year interim report
Towards the end of 2022 the PRG produced the 1-year interim report, a report by the Patient Reference Group Chair & Vice Chair on the group’s findings of patient experience in outpatient services in the South West and service user involvement over their first year. A key finding is that they could not find any published patient experience surveys on any outpatient services across the South West. This is surprising given that Patient Experience is increasingly recognised as one of the three pillars of quality in healthcare alongside clinical effectiveness and patient safety. To get a further understanding as to why there is an absence of published patient experience data, we have decided to reach out to each NHS trust and make an FoI request for the following
Would you please support our evidence-gathering process with answers to the following questions?
1 Is there a specific system to measure outpatient experience in your Trust?
2. Does your Trust use the NHS Patient Experience Framework themes to measure and record patient experience?
3. Is there an easily accessible place for the public to review on your website your patient experience reports? not just within published board papers.
4. How are these outpatient experience reports used for continuous improvement within your Trust?
If you would like to learn more about how we are involving patients and those with lived experience, please contact the South West Outpatient Transformation Programme england.swoutpatientstransf@nhs.net
Thank you for helping us to gather evidence on how NHS trusts collect and use patient experience to improve services.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following workforce information for your Trust for each of the following pay years: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23:
• The consultant workforce expressed in headcount average of the monthly totals during each year..
• The consultant workforce expressed in whole time or full time equivalent WTE/FTE., where WTE/FTE reflects all programmed activities undertaken by consultants, including additional programmed activities average of the monthly totals during each year.. By programmed activities, we mean the unit used by hospitals to plan consultant work.
o For avoidance of doubt, this is different to the FTE figure routinely published in the NHS Digital NHS Workforce Statistics https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics., where individual consultants contributing to that figure can only take up to a value of 1 FTE, even where they are working more than full-time.
• The total number of all programmed activities PAs. performed by consultants during each of the stated years.
• The total number of additional programmed activities APA’s. performed by consultants during each of the stated years. By additional programmed activities, we mean programmed activities that are additional to those in consultant main contracts i.e. those above programmed activities above 10 per week, in the case of a full-time consultant..
• Total number of programmed activities PAs. and/or hours of extra contractual work i.e. excluding APAs, e.g. waiting list initiative activity, additional sessions outside the job plan, etc. performed by consultants during each of the stated years.
• The total number of programmed activities PAs. performed by consultants during a.. weekends, b.. weekday evenings, c.. weekday nights, and d.. weekday days during each of the stated years.
o For avoidance of doubt, we mean:
weekends: any time on a Saturday or a Sunday
weekday evenings: 7 pm to 11 pm Monday to Friday
weekday nights: 11 pm to 7 am Monday to Friday
weekday days: 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday
• The number of consultant vacancies in the Trust expressed in whole time or full time equivalent WTE/FTE. at the beginning of each of the stated years.
I would like to request some information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please acknowledge receipt of my request by email. The questions relate to how much the trust paid consultants during recent industrial action by junior doctors and whether the paid rates in line with the BMA’s ‘rate card’.
Please answer the following questions in the Excel sheet provided: 1. How much did the trust spend £. in total on paying for consultants to carry out non-contractual shifts, or paying for consultants to act down during contractual shifts, required to cover junior doctors’ during the seven days of industrial action by junior doctors taken between 13 to 16 March, and 11 to 14 April 2023? Please provide a £ figure for the total. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 2. Did the trust pay the hourly rates outlined on the BMA rate card for consultants’ non-contractual work, during either of the junior doctors’ strikes in March or April? Please answer Yes or No. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 3. If the trust answered “No” to question 2, what was the maximum hourly rate £/hour. the trust paid for non-contractual shifts, or for consultants to act down during contractual shifts required to cover junior doctors’ shifts during either the March or April junior doctors’ strike? If you answered “yes” to question 2, please leave this answer blank. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 4. Did the trust pay the hourly rates outlined on the BMA rate card for consultants’ non-contractual shifts as of April 2023? Please answer Yes or No. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 5. If the trust answered “No” to question 4, what is the maximum hourly rate £/hour. the trust paid consultants for non-contractual shifts as of April 2023? If the trust answered “yes” to question 4, please leave this answer blank. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. If you need any clarification of this request or if it is too broad, please email me. I would remind you that under your Section 16 duty to advise and assist I would expect you to contact me to discuss any practical difficulties that you may have in fulfilling this request so that I may narrow my request in a way that works for both of us. If some parts of this request are more difficult to answer than others please release the answerable material as it is available rather than hold up the entire request for the contested data. If FOI requests of a similar nature have already been asked could you please include your responses to those requests. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you within the 20-working day statutory time period.
Sent: 12 May 2021 18:08
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request – Car Leasing, Grey Fleet and Salary Sacrifice Schemes
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding your organisation’s car leasing, grey fleet and salary sacrifice schemes for employees. Please could you complete the attached FOI questions. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Sent: 12 April 2022 13:26
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – Inventory Management System
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
Please confirm what Inventory Management System the Trust has implemented?
Subject: Request for Information
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Good Afternoon
I have been informed I need to submit the above to gather some information around a previous patient.
I am looking to establish what the patients capacity was at the time of the incident and if a capacity assessment was conducted at the time?
Sent: 04 April 2022 18:27
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RT policy
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I am currently undertaking research nationally reviewing Rapid Tranquilisation policies across the UK, I was requesting if I could have a copy of the trusts rapid tranquilisation policy, so that it could be used for research.
Sent: 04 April 2022 13:11
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request
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Can you please confirm the name of the providers you have for the following services? Please include journey numbers and mobilities for all patient journeys per annum, start date, end date of contracts, include if any extensions may be applicable and initial length of awarded contract. Please also include all complaints/concerns for each provider, both formal, informal, DATIX, PALS, any SUI’s and CQC reported incidents etc. Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services NEPTS. Any Ambulance services not included in the above, including any specialist services Mental Health Transport Services Pathology Courier Services Any other Courier Services Patient Taxi services – for Taxis booked by the Trust are the providers CQC registered?. For all courier work, please confirm if you have regular GP runs, if yes how many individual runs, what services you supply the GPs, how many GPs are associated to them and the number of journeys per annum?
To confirm, yes, I would like details of the Trust’s spending:
a. with private healthcare providers on occupational health services for the Trust’s staff and
b. on medical treatment for Trust staff delivered by private healthcare providers
for each of the following financial years: Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 077-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT was formed in October 2019 therefore we can only provide data from this time. Please can you confirm if this is acceptable and we will continue with your request?
Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
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To whom it may concern,
Please may you send me details of the Trust’s spending:
a. with private healthcare providers on occupational health services for the Trust’s staff and
b. on medical treatment for Trust staff delivered by private healthcare providers
for each of the following financial years: 2021-22; 2020-21; 2019-20; and 2018-19.
EMAIL 1 | FOI 049-2022| FOR RESPONSE | Freedom of Information Request
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
REFERENCE: 049-2022 Good afternoon,
Is this something the DATIX team can help with at all please? I would be grateful if you could kindly arrange for this information to be provided to me as soon as possible or no later than the 30TH March 2022. the information in the freedom of information request is commercially sensitive then please note the same on the response.
FOI Request – Information requested:
1. Please provide the number of allegations reported within your trust, clinical commissioning group or other care setting as defined, of
a. Rape
b. Sexual assault
c. Sexual harassment
d. Sexual misconduct
2. Please advise the location of these offences and or alleged offences broken down by location Mental Health Unit, Hospital, Other Hospital Setting to be clearly defined.
3. Plese provide this data for the last three years, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date.
4. Please provide a month by month and location
5. Please identify if these allegations are
A On Staff carried out by a staff Member
B On Staff carried out by a patient or visitor
C By Staff on a Patient
D by Staff on a visitor
E On Staff carried out by a visitor
6. For each of these allegations please advise if a suspect was identified and or arrested
7. If a suspect was identified and the suspect was identified as a member or staff or a contractor to the trust, CCG or group. What was the outcome? Was the suspect subsequently arrested, charged or convicted? Was the suspect subsequently investigated,suspended or dismissed from the Trust.
Sent: 14 April 2021 14:59
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request
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I am writing to submit a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.. It concerns the trust’s placement of patients in inpatient mental health wards. 1. When it is not possible for the trust to place mental health patients in beds in services in the area, is it the trust’s policy formally or informally. to prioritize in-area beds for local residents/nationals and place foreign nationals further afield? If it is the policy, please provide the reasoning behind this policy. 2. Please provide copies of any policies which reference the trust’s placement of foreign nationals in inpatient mental health beds. 3. Please state how many foreign nationals have been placed in out of area beds by the trust in the last three years 2018-21 please provide a total and a total for each year.. Please state how many foreign nationals have been placed in in-area beds by the trust in the last three years, 2018-21, please provide a total and a total for each year.. 4. Please state how many nationals have been placed in out of area beds by the trust in the last three years, 2018-21, please provide a total and a total for each year.. Please state how many nationals have been placed in in-area beds by the trust in the last three years, 2018-21, please provide a total and a total for each year.. Please send the information by email in an electronic format. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or that it is too broad or too vague, please provide immediate advice to issystanley@gmail.com. as to how I could refine the request as per your legal duty under S.16 of the FOIA.
Sent: 24 February 2022 15:00
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request
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To whom it may concern,
Under the freedom of information act 2000, please could Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust provide answers to the following: A. For the financial year 2018-2019 whether an audit of patient urinary catheterisation was carried out by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust?
B. For the financial year 2019-2020 whether an audit of patient urinary catheterisation was carried out by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust?
C. For the financial year 2020-2021 whether an audit of patient urinary catheterisation was carried out by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust?
Please can you answer the following 3 questions:
1. From September 2022 to November 2022, please list the wards/departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies in your Adult Nursing, Mental Health, Community Hospitals?
2. Please provide a list of off-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 6 months.
3. Please provide a breakdown of the number of shifts covered by each off-framework agency and their average hourly charge rate for the following disciplines:
I’m working for Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, supporting our Dental services across Cambridge, Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Our current project includes a review of Special Care Dental nursing, as the trust is currently experiencing some recruitment/retention challenges in certain areas, and I’m keen to understand if these are specific to the local region or a more broader, shared challenge across the country with other trusts.
In particular, am keen to understand current:
Dental nursing vacancy rates qty and %.
Pay bands what band, if aligned, or any variation/tactical amends to aid recruitment – i.e. starting bonus, referral reward etc..
Recruitment strategy where advertised, when.
Sent: 04 February 2022 08:40
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request
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I am researching the usage of software for the processing of prescribing and medicines administration, and would therefore appreciate a response under the Freedom of Information Act to the following: What Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration system does the Trust use?
When did the trust go-live or start using the system?
When does the current contract expire?
How many wards use the system?
Is the system used in outpatients/community?
I appreciate your time & response to my FOI request.
If possible, I would like the past 5 years recruitment and retention data for nurses at your Eating Disorders Service. The purpose of this information would be to ask a question in relation to recruitment and retention in eating disorders, both inpatient and outpatient settings. It would also be helpful to know trends over the same period for the use of agency and bank staff. I would also like to see the following information on regarding your waiting lists and CYP service as of 15th November 2022.:
• Currently how long is your waiting list priority and normal. for adult patients to access eating disorder treatment? • Currently how long is your waiting list priority and normal. for children patients to access eating disorder treatment?
• In your trust how many people have made appointments for adult services in the last 8 weeks to discuss an eating disorder?
• What percentage of your CYP patients are in care or under Child Protection or Child in need status.?
I would like to request the below information under the Freedom of Information Act;
1. Are Bank colleagues paid top of band for bank working or does bank pay fall in-line with Agenda for change guidelines i.e. at band point pay? If this varies between specialisms please give detail about variation.
2. Are bank colleagues engaged on employee contracts or worker agreements?
3. Are there any monetary incentivisation or reward schemes in operation for Bank colleagues that aim to tackle staffing shortages?
4. Please give detail of the above scheme/s by answering the following points;
How much is offered per shift?
How are payments distributed and authorised within the trust?
Does the scheme/s have any eligibility criteria?
Is the scheme/s operational all year round or do you only offer incentivisation/reward at times of great need i.e. winter pressures?
Is this a formal scheme or it is at the discretion of senior management to offer incentivisation as required?
5. How many shifts in the financial years 19/20, 20/21, 21/22 received monetary reward/incentivisation?
6. How much did the trust spend on incentivisation/reward in the above years?
7. Are there any non-monetary incentivisation/reward schemes in operation in the trust for bank working that aim to increase staffing levels at times of need?
8. If answered yes to the above please give detail of the scheme?
9. Have the monetary and/or non-monetary schemes positively impacted bank fill rates during times of use? Please provide data to support.
10. Do you operate weekly, monthly or other please state. pay schedules for bank colleagues?
11. Please provide data, by month, for the amount of bank, agency and unfilled shifts during financial years 19/20, 20/21, 21/22 for the below specialisms;
Registered Nursing
Healthcare Assistants
Medical & Dental
Allied Health Professionals
Healthcare Support
Administration & Clerical
12. Please provide spend information, by month, for bank and agency for financial years 19/20, 20/21, 21/22 for the below specialisms;
Registered Nursing
Healthcare Assistants
Medical & Dental
Allied Health Professionals
Healthcare Support
Administration & Clerical
13. Does the trust operate an agency tiering system in-line with NHSE agency cap guidelines, to include the 50% cap?
14. If answered yes to above please give brief detail as to how this operates?
15. Does the trust have a central team that manage temporary staffing or does the trust have a vendor arrangement or is this managed in another way please give detail.?
16. If answered yes to above, does this team include a clinical colleague who has line-management responsibilities over bank colleagues?
Sent: 21 October 2021 17:54
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RE: FOI 237-2122 – Clarification Required This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. If unsure, please contact ghcit@ghc.nhs.uk
Many thanks for your email – yes please if you could respond with the data available since the trust was formed that would be great. Thanks again for your help, From: Freedom of Information
To: Gorman, Chris Subject: FOI 237-2122 – Clarification Required ——————-
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 237-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
• Regarding Q3-Q6 Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT was formed in October 2019 therefore we couldn’t provide the full financial data you are requesting. Please confirm if you wish us to answer this request still but with data from October 2019 onwards?
Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
Kind Regards,
Legal Services Officer Legal Services. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8357 Email: .uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
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————————-FoI lead, Please find below a request under the Freedom of Information Act. This information would normally be provided by your trust’s patient equality lead/manager, possibly in conjunction with the leads for your patient administratioppointment-booking systems. Questions:
1 – At the point of registration/referral, in line with the Accessible Information Standard, does your trust currently:
• A – ask all patients whether they have any information or communication support needs, and find out how to meet those needs?
• B – routinely highlight or ‘flag’ in the person’s file or notes that they have information or communication needs which must be met?
• C – routinely share this information with other providers of NHS and adult social care, when patients have given consent/permission to do so?
2 – Barriers to compliance:
• A – If you have answered ‘no’ to 1A, what is the main reason why this is not currently done?
• B – If you have answered ‘no’ to 1B, what is the main reason why this is not currently done? • C – If you have answered ‘no’ to 1C, what is the main reason why this is not currently done?
3 – If you have answered yes to 1B, what is the process by which patients’ needs are recorded and subsequently acted on? eg via pop-up alerts within patient administration system, use of colour-coded stickers within paper records.
4 – In the last three full financial years 2020/21, 2019/20 and 2018/19., have you undertaken any audits to assess your compliance against the Accessible Information Standard or the provision of accessible information generally? If yes, please share any resulting reports/findings.
5 – In the last three full financial years 2020/21, 2019/20 and 2018/19., how many complaints has your trust received which primarily related to patients not receiving information in accessible formats? If it is not possible to provide these figures in full without incurring the Act’s Section 12 time/cost limit, please provide any figures you are able to within the limit eg figures for one year, any snapshot reports/audits.
6 – Please provide figures for your trust’s spending on interpreting and translation into non-English languages if possible, excluding British Sign Language BSL. interpreting and translation of materials into easy read. for the last three full financial years 2020/21, 2019/20 and 2018/19. together, if possible, with the number of requests for interpreting/translation that this represents.
If it is not possible to provide the details requested without incurring the Act’s Section 12 time/cost limit, please the information you are able to provide within the limit. I look forward to receiving your response. Please do not hesitate to contact me via chris.gorman@healthwatch.co.uk if you require any clarification. To avoid any potential confusion please note that this request has been submitted by Healthwatch England – a separate organisation to any local Healthwatch organisations which may operate in your area.
Many thanks, Healthwatch is your health and social care champion. We make sure NHS leaders and other health and social care decision-makers hear your voice and use your feedback to improve care. Visit www.healthwatch.co.uk to share your story, access information or to find your local Healthwatch.
Personal data is processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. and relevant data protection law. You can find information on the processing of personal data by us at www.healthwatch.co.uk/privacy. Statutory requests for information made under access to information legislation such as the GDPR and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 should be sent to
Sent: 17 August 2021 16:24
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of information request: funding to charities and third sector bodies
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
This is an information request relating to payments made to charities and third sector organisations. Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:
• • • The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information
• for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.
• • • • The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information
• for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately. • The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:
• • • Operation Black Vote
• • • • U.K. Black Pride
• • • • Mermaids
• • • • Ozanne Foundation
• • • • Gendered Intelligence
• • • • British Medical Association
• • • • ActionAid UK • • • • Hope Not Hate • • • • Led by Donkeys
• • • • Extinction Rebellion
• • • • Migrants Organise
• • • • CLASS • • • • Black Lives Matter
• • • • Action on Smoking and Health
• • • • Action on Smoking and Health Scotland
• • • • Action on Smoking and Health Wales
• • • • Breath 2025
• • • • Association of Directors of Public Health
• • • • Improving Performance in Practice previously Public Management Associates. • I would prefer a response via email, but if this is not possible, I will gladly accept letters to the address below.
Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.
Sent: 03 August 2021 17:35
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Covid-19 Vaccines Administered, Discarded and/or Thrown Away.
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————————-FOI Officer, I am writing to request the following information regarding the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered by centres run by your Trust, and the number of vaccine doses discarded or thrown away at these centres run by your trust. Please provide figures and information for the time period starting from when the UK vaccine-roll out began in December 2020 – Present. 1. The total number of single Covid-19 vaccine doses administered by all health authorities within your trust each month, broken down by manufacturer, e.g. AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna. 2. The total number of single vaccine doses that have been wasted or discarded at vaccine hubs controlled by your trust each month, broken down by manufacturer, e.g. AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna. 3. Please state the reasons for this wastage or discarding, e.g. dropped or contaminated vials; human error in the preparation process; expired stock; leftover doses; and faulty syringes.
If you do not hold this specific information I would be grateful if in line with Section 16 of the Act you could provide me advice and assistance as to what information you hold that is relevant to my request. Similarly, if you require any clarification regarding my above questions then please contact me under your section 16 duty.
I understand that under the FOI Act I should be entitled to a response within 20 working days. I would be grateful if you could confirm via email that you have received this request. If obtaining the information I require is likely to incur a fee, then I would also be grateful if you could warn me about this before proceeding.
Sent: 23 July 2021 10:37
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request
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Hi, I have been passed your details from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts to complete the attached Freedom of Information request. Please could you provide a response to the FOI attached? Many thanks and best wishes
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Friday 8th June 2022
RE: Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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This is an information request relating to staff networks at the Trust. As an example of a staff network, see here: https://www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-and-diversity/lgbt-staff-network/ Please provide me with the following information:
• A list of all the staff networks at the trust
• Whether each network receives funding from the trust and, if so, how much please express annually for the last three financial years.
• How much FTE equivalent staff time each network is entitled to. For example, a staff network may have a chair who’s entitled to spend 10% of their working hours devoted to the network please express annually for the last three financial years.
• A list of events that each network has held in this financial year so far April to the present day., including the title of the event, information on any guest speakers and the time of the event
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for.
I would prefer a response via email, but if this is not possible, I will gladly accept letters to the address below.
Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.
Please can I request under the FOIA 2000.:
A. For 2021 please supply the total number of times a patient absconded from inpatient mental health facilities within the Trust;
i. A breakdown of absconsions per facility
B. For 2020 please supply the total number of times a patient absconded from inpatient mental health facilities within the Trust;
i. A breakdown of absconsions per facility
C. For 2019 please supply the total number of times a patient absconded from inpatient mental health facilities within the Trust;
i. A breakdown of absconsions per facility
i.e. A. 50 Absconsions
i. 10 – Ward x
20 – Ward y
Please can this information be sent to me electronically. If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary. I would like to remind you of your duty under section 16 of the Freedom of Information act to offer such advice and assistance on a request if necessary.
If this request is too wide please can I request that requests A,B,C are answered before a refusal is given.
Please reply to this email as form of a receipt.
I am writing to request some information about your Hospital Trust under the Freedom of Information Act. This information is being requested from the following contact: Role: Head of Insights
Could you please provide the following information to me via email:
1. Does your Trust routinely offer Laboratory based Coagulation testing? please answer either yes or no to this question..
2. If you answered yes to question 1, can you please provide us with a list of the tests that you perform.
3. If you answered yes to question 1 can you please tell us if any of these tests are sent away for testing outside of your trust please also detail which tests are sent away..
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
Have any discussions been held internal to the Trust or with external parties or are any planned to be held. about the use of Private Healthcare Companies to deliver healthcare services at Wotton Lawn Hospital or Mental Health community services in Glos?
What were the healthcare requirements behind any such
Good morning, In line with the freedom of information act, please could you let me know the following information in accordance with your guidelines: 1. 1. Do you currently use digital dictation? Yes/No
2. If yes, who is your provider for digital dictation?
3. If no, what is your process for letter production?
4. What is the contract end date for your current digital dictation provider?
5. Do you use outsourced transcription or speech recognition or both?
6. Who are your suppliers for each?
7. What is the contract end date for these suppliers?
8. What EPR and PAS system is used?
9. What is your current letter turnaround time target from appointment to letter sent to the GP.?
10. Are you compliant with this target?
11. Do your teams suffer from letter backlogs due to capacity?
12. How many secretarial/admin staff are employed to support outpatient letter production?
I look forward to hearing from you.