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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information regarding nursing and care agencies at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust:
– A list of nursing agencies currently utilized for nursing and care staff at the Trust.
– Information on off-framework agencies that supplied nursing staff between April 2023 and April 2024, including the associated spend data.
1. What system is currently used by the Trust for Theatre Management and Scheduling?
2. When does the contract for this system expire, and when is it due for renewal?
3. What system is currently used by the Trust for managing pre-operative assessments?
4. When does the contract for this system expire, and when is it due for renewal?
5. Are your patients able to complete a pre-operative questionnaire electronically at home? If so, which system facilitates this?
FOI Questions on NHS Infrastructure; Hospital Repairs, Backlog, and Investments (2019-2024)
1. Building Age and Infrastructure Risks
1.1 For each year from 2019 to 2024, how many hospital buildings under your Trust were identified as being in urgent need of repair due to their age? Please also include the age of each building.
1.2 For each hospital building under your Trust, what specific infrastructure risks were identified (e.g., structural deficiencies, malfunctioning equipment, fire safety hazards, etc.)?
1.3 How much funding has been allocated for the maintenance and repair of ageing hospital buildings under your Trust over the past five years?
2. Annual Backlog of Repairs in NHS Hospitals
2.1 Please provide the total cost of the backlog of repairs for hospitals buildings under your Trust, broken down by year for the period 2019 to 2024.
2.2 Could you also break down these costs into the following risk categories, for each year:
• High Risk and Critical Repairs: What is the estimated cost to eradicate high-risk backlog maintenance in hospital buildings under your Trust from 2019 to 2024?
• Moderate and Low Risk Repairs: What is the estimated cost to eradicate non-critical repairs in hospital buildings under your Trust for the same period?
3. Major Infrastructure Failures
3.1 From 2019 to 2024, have there been any significant failures in hospital infrastructure within your Trust, such as structural problems, mechanical breakdowns, fires, etc., related to repair backlogs? Please provide details for each occurrence, including:
• The type of failure (e.g., structural issues, mechanical breakdowns, fires, etc.).
• The date the failure occurred.
1. Did any services within your trust provide SSIs to Children and Young People (CYP)?
2. If yes, which services and what SSIs did they offer? (please give as much detail as possible about these, including whether these are individual/group, aimed at a specific type of disorder or age group, what therapeutic modality/model these are based on)
3. Who delivered these interventions?
4. At what point(s) in the care pathway are SSIs are offered to CYP/families?
1. Please share the total number of full time equivalent staff at your organisation on 1st April 2024, as well as the total number of physician associates, junior-level doctors and consultant doctors.
2. Please share the same information for 1st April 2023, 1st April 2022, 1st April 2020 and so on back to 1st April 2015.
• What Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) resourcing that you have in post. I would appreciate if this could be broken down in to: FTE, permanent/not permanent etc, job title and band?
• What is the trust’s budget in relation to EPRR?
• What the total patient population served by the trust?
• What is the trust’s current operating budget?
1. Does the Trust have a Social Value strategy in place?
2. If so, can you provide a link to the Trusts Social Value policy, strategy, framework or similar document.
3. Please outline the economic, social, environmental and other priorities for the Trust.
4. Please outline the KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) the Trust use to measure Social Value output and impact.
5. Who is the key contact for Social Value within the Trust
Since April 2020, have you commissioned or received any Royal College invited reviews into your services? Please list service involved, Royal College involved, date commissioned and date delivered.
For each of the reviews
1. Were any patient safety issues raised by the invited review?
2. If so, did you inform your regulator/s? Which ones and when?
3. If patient safety issue was identified, was this discussed by the board, either in public or private? When was this and can you include a link to the relevant board papers?
4. If a patient safety issue was identified, did you publish a summary of the report – its conclusions, recommendations, terms of reference and actions taken by you? Please include a link showing where it can be seen.
5. If a patient safety issue was identified, did you exercise duty of candour to those patients affected? How many and when were they contacted?
Please attach all invited reviews commissioned or received since April 2020.
We are collecting data about recruitment rates on commercially sponsored clinical trials (primarily Phase II and III) and would appreciate it if you could share with us a list of the trials that your hospitals have participated in the past five (5) years. We are happy to receive this information in any format but, ideally, we would like the information to include:
• A Study Identifier such as: NCT Study Number / Study Name / EudraCT no / Protocol no.;
• The name of the Hospital participating in the Study;
• Confirmation of how many patients were successfully enrolled by the Hospital (i.e. completed screening and recruited).
Subject: Freedom Of Information Request Regarding Supplier Selection Under Lot 1 Of Workforce Alliance Rm6281
Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
I am writing to formally submit a Freedom of Information (FOI) request concerning the procurement and award of contracts under Lot 1 of the Workforce Alliance RM6281 framework for providing temporary nurses and clinical staffing. I kindly request your assistance in addressing the following inquiries:
1. Compliance with Public Contracts Regulations 2015: Please provide information on how the Trust ensures that the awarding of contracts under Lot 1 of the Workforce Alliance RM6281 framework adheres to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
2. Non-discrimination and Fairness: How does the Trust ensure that it does not discriminate or act unfairly towards suppliers when selecting contractors under this framework?
3. Supplier Invitation: Does the Trust invite all approved suppliers under the framework to bid or supply services, as stipulated by the framework’s rules? If so, could you provide evidence or examples of this process in practice?
4. Supplier Selection Process: Please outline the legal justification the Trust uses when selecting certain suppliers while excluding others under the Workforce Alliance RM6281 framework.
5. Compliance with Selection Criteria: Could you explain the process by which suppliers are selected under the framework, particularly concerning ensuring compliance with the selection criteria set out in the Workforce Alliance RM6281 framework and the Public Contracts Regulations 2015?
6. Further Competition Process: Could you describe the process your Trust follows for further competition under the Workforce Alliance RM6281 framework? Specifically, do you use direct awards, or do you invite suppliers for further competition for Lot 1? Please provide evidence to support your response.
7. Evidence of Compliance: Kindly provide any documentation or evidence demonstrating how the Trust ensures compliance with the aforementioned regulations and framework rules when awarding contracts under Lot 1 for the provision of temporary nurses and clinical staffing.
8. Legal Queries and Proceedings: Please provide contact details (department and individual, if available) for submitting legal queries or initiating legal proceedings related to procurement processes under this framework
1. Does your organisation use any applications or software to record Record of Processing Activity ROPA.?
If so, please state the product names. and version numberss. if known.
2. Does your organisation use any applications or software to support preparation for, or maintenance of ISO 27001 and/or ISO 27701 compliance?
If so, please state the product names. and version numberss. if known.
3. Does your organisation use any applications or software associated with data breach management?
If so, please state the product names. and version numberss. if known.
4. Does your organisation use any applications or software for Policy Management?
If so, please state the product names. and version numberss. if known.
5. Does your organisation use any applications or software associated with handling FOI requests?
If so, please state the product names. and version numberss. if known.
6. Does your organisation have any plans to explore the market regarding data privacy compliance tools? If so, please describe
7. Who is responsible for procuring ICT applications that support your organisation’s Information Governance teams? A job-title & directorate will be sufficient
I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I would like to request the following information:
The total amount spent by your hospital bank on payments to doctors and nurses, from January 2022 to January 2023.
I would like this information to be provided in electronic format, such as a spreadsheet or a PDF document.
If any of this information is already available in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with reference to the relevant sources.
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following information regarding your facilities management approach:
If any, which software solutions. are used to manage your corporate property/assets, ownerships and occupations, lease agreements and facilities management CAFM., and who are your current providers.?
What is the start date and duration of the contracts.?
Is there an extension clause in the contracts. and, if so, the duration of the extension?
Has a decision been made yet on whether the contracts. will be extended or renewed?
What is the annual value of the contracts.?
What is the total contract value of each contract?
How was the contracts. procured, e.g., framework/tender?
Who is the senior officer responsible for these systems?
Details of the request.
I’m interested in gaining the following information regarding Trust Procurement of pre-printed stationery, that is NOT produced within the Trust.
1. Under which OJEU/Framework contract reference is the trust currently operating under for stock and ad-hoc printing services and what is a value of each contract?
2. What is the annual spend on printed stationery for the organisation and what % of spend is ad-hoc?
3. When was the contract awarded and for what period of time? If in an extension period, when does it end?
4. Who is the current contracted supplier?
5. Is stock held by a 3rd party? If yes, what value of stock is being held by the 3rd party supplier?
6. Does the Trust have a Communication’s Department? If so, please can you advise the contact details?
7. For the further conversation, who is the main contact within the trust to discuss ongoing print contracts?
Please could I request the following information Under the Freedom of Information Act:
The number of calls your NHS mental health trust received on its urgent mental health helpline for each month of the years i. 2022, ii. 2021, iii. 2020
The number of referrals made for a face to face assessment after someone called your urgent mental health helpline by your NHS mental health trust for each month of the years i. 2022, ii. 2021, iii. 2020
Please could you provide this information by email, preferably in a spreadsheet.
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.
Please could you provide the annual spend for the below suppliers from August 2023 to July 2024?
The suppliers are:-
Arco Ltd
Banner Group Ltd
Bunzl Greenham
Lyreco UK Ltd
Camfil Ltd
Alan Wilson Electrical Supplies
Albion Electric
AN Supplies Ltd
B E D ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
Bennett & Fountain
Bridge Electrical Supplies
C & K Supplies
CEL Electrical
City Electrical Factors
Contact Electrical Distributor
CRS Electrical Supplies Ltd
CUMBERLAND ELECTRICAL WHOLESALERS LTD
DINNING ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE
Edmundson Electrical
Electric Base
Electric Centre
ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE SUPPLIES LTD (EWS)
Electrical Wholesale Supplies Swansea Ltd
EXPERT ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES LTD
Eyre and Elliston Ltd
FYLDE ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES LTD
GCG ELECTRICAL WHOLESALERS LIMITED,
GILBEY ELECTRICAL WHOLESALERS LTD
GILTBROOK ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LTD
Hardings Electrical
IMPACT ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LTD
Independent Electrical Supplies
Juice Electrical Supplies
KEW ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LTD
LH Evans
LINCS ELECTRICAL WHOLESALERS LTD (LEW)
Links Electrical Supplies
MAINS ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS LTD
Medlock
Newey & Eyre
NORTHERN & CENTRAL ORMSKIRK ELECTRICAL LTD
Park Electrical Distribution
Phase Electrical Distributors
QUALITY ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND TECHNOLOGY LTD
R & M Electrical
Rexel
Roblett Electrical Supplies Ltd
RS Components
Ryness Electrical
S & A Electrical Distribution
Screwfix
Service Electrical Wholesale
Smith Brothers
Stearn Electrical
SWIFT ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
THE WHOLESALE LIGHTING & ELECTRICAL COMPANY
TJ ELECTRICAL WHOLESALE LTD
TLC Electrical Supplies
TN Robinson
TRAFFORD ELEC WHOLESALERS
Upex Electrical Distributors Ltd
WF Senate
Wilson Electrical Distibutors Ltd
Wilts Wholesale
Wyeverne Electrical
YESSS Electrical
Cu-Plas
1. What is your organisation’s name?
2. How many full-time employees are at your organisation?
3. Who is your mobile phone network provider?
Renewal
4. Did you switch on last renewal?
5. When did you renew the last time?
6. What is the contract length?
7. Did you use a Framework, if so which one?
Contract and usage details
8. How many total connections do you currently have?
9. How many connections are Voice only?
10. How many connections are Voice and Data?
11. Do you use a shared data bundle, if so, what is the data allowance?
12. What is your average data usage of the last 3 months?
13. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for July 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
14. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for August 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
15. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for September 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
16. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for October 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
17. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for November 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
18. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for December 2023 (excluding purchase of handsets):
19. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for January 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
20. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for February 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
21. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for March 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
22. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for April 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
23. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for May 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
24. Please provide your total mobile phone contract costs for June 2024 (excluding purchase of handsets):
25. Is VAT included in the above figures?
26. Do you have a hardware fund, if so, how much and is it included in the monthly spend?
27. Do you host any mobile phone masts on your premises, if so, how many and who provides them?
28. Who is the primary contact for this contract?
1. Does your Trust provide mental health services for children and young people?
2. NHS England has decided that referrals to children and young people’s gender services must come from NHS Paediatric or mental health services. It has said that this will come into effect from 1 September 2024 to allow time for NHS services to adjust their operating protocols. Please outline what changes you have made to your operating protocols in response to this decision by NHS England and what date these changes were made by.
3. Can you identify:
a. Which staff assess patients requesting access to gender services
b. Which staff decide whether to refer onward to gender services
c. What is the basis of the decision whether to refer to gender services
4. Please outline any training your trust provides staff around trans healthcare. Please include:
a. the title of the training
b. the length of the training
c. who provides the training
d. what staff group it is for
e. whether it is mandatory
5. What percentage of staff who assess patients requesting access to gender services have completed the training listed above around trans healthcare?
The British Medical Association is the trade union and professional body for doctors and medical students in the UK. As part of ongoing work undertaken by the BMA to improve the working lives of doctors and medical students, we are currently conducting a Freedom of Information request to all NHS Trusts/Health Boards in the UK to better understand the support and accommodations offered to disabled doctors and medical students.
We would therefore be grateful if you could reply to the following questions within 20 working days:
1. Sickness absence
The Bradford factor is a formula used by HR departments to calculate the impact of employees’ absences on an organisation.
Q1. Does your Trust/Board use Bradford Factor scoring as part of monitoring sickness absence?
Q2: Does your Trust/Board’s sickness absence policy include a threshold at which sickness absence triggers performance management action?
-If yes, what is the threshold? (either days absent or, if used, Bradford Factor score)
Q3: Does your Trust/Board’s record disability-related absence separately from sickness absence?
2. Disability Leave
Disability leave is a period of time off work for a reason related to an employee’s disability; for example, to attend hospital appointments or to receive treatment, usually agreed in advance.
Q4: Does your Trust/Board have a disability leave policy?
-If yes, please provide a link to/copy of the policy.
Q5: Does your Trust/Board offer paid disability leave?
3. Championing disability
Disability champions are people in roles that provide a personal lead and commitment to championing accessibility and opportunity for disabled people within their organisation.
Q6: Does your Trust/Board have the following available to doctors and medical students:
– A disabled staff/student network
– A disability champion at a senior/Board level *
– Disability advocates/champions with lived experience
Q7: Do you have anyone who is employed in a paid role specifically to ensure that disabled doctors receive workplace support?
– If yes, please provide a brief description of the job role
4. Reasonable adjustments process
Q8: Does your Trust/Board have a reasonable adjustments policy?
-If yes, please provide a link/copy
Q9: Does your Trust/Board have a centralised budget for making workplace adjustments for disabled doctors/medical students?
Q10: Does your Trust/Board have a single point of contact/centralised process for disabled doctors/medical students to request reasonable adjustments?
-If no, please provide brief details of how individual employees can make requests for adjustments (e.g. via their line manager)
1. a) The total amount paid in waiting list initiative payments (and other higher rate additional payments for weekend and evening work) to consultants for the following financial years
• i) 2023-24
• ii) 2022-23
• iii) 2021-22
b) The five highest totals of such payments paid to individual consultants, stating the department of each consultant, and how many sessions and hours they worked, for the 2023-24 financial year.
c) The maximum hourly rate or session rate for such payments for the 2023-24 financial year (if providing by session please state length of session (in hours).
2. During junior doctor strike days since March 2023 and up to and including the one in late June / early July 2024 please provide the five highest hourly rates paid to consultants to provide cover, stating their normal department and what department they provide cover in, and the date of payment and how long their shift was for
1. Does your NHS Trust provide its employees (doctors, nurses, other clinical staff) with Occupational Health (OH) Services? (Yes/No)
2. If yes, what has been your annual spend on Occupational Health (OH) services for your employees over the last 3 years (FY 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)?
3. Please split the annual spending between physical occupational health services and mental occupational health services for the last 3 years (FY 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24).
4. Does the trust provide these services in-house, or does it outsource it through a contract?
a. Please provide the split of the percentage of in-house vs outsourced services based on the values provided in Question 2 (i.e., how much is spent on OH services in-house vs contracting to outsourced providers) for the last 3 years (FY 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24)?
1/ How much money was spent by your trust on private security for the protection of staff in the following years?
2018 –
2019 –
2020 –
2021 –
2022 –
2023 –
Secondly,
2/ How many attacks were recorded on members hospital/ambulance staff by non-hospital staff in the same years?
2018 –
2019 –
2020 –
2021 –
2022 –
2023 –
Finally,
3/ If recorded, what was the nature of these incidents (verbal/physical/racial etc)?
2018 –
2019 –
2020 –
2021 –
2022 –
2023 –
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information regarding expenditure for mental health provision, healthcare software, dermatology, imaging and medical devices.
Mental Health
• Which providers are you working with to support on ADHD assessment and treatment?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which providers are you working with for Autism assessment and treatment?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which providers are on the NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT) framework?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which online mental health providers are you working with?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Healthcare software
• Which software providers are you working with for electronic patient/health records?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which software providers are you working with for healthcare compliance/incident tracking e.g RL Datix, inphase etc…
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which consultancy providers are you working with for digital transformation support?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Dermatology
• Which providers are you working with to provide community dermatology/skin screening services?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Imaging
• Which providers are you working with to provide teleradiology services
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which private radiology providers are you working with to increase capacity?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Medical Devices
• Which medical device suppliers are you working with for wound care products?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting detailed information regarding your organisations Access Control System. This information is likely known by someone within Estates, Security, or Facilities Management.
Please provide the following details:
Access Control System Overview:
1. Current System(s):
* What electronic access control system(s) do you currently have in place? Please include manufacturer of control unit & model (e.g. SALTO, PAXTON, ASSA)
2. Access-Controlled Doors:
* How many doors across all of your sites have access control systems installed? How many per each site?
3. Access Control Types:
* Please provide a detailed breakdown of the different types of access control setups in place (e.g., magnetic lock doors, electric strike doors, battery-operated electronic handle sets, battery-operated electronic cylinders, etc.).
4. System Age:
* When was your current access control system installed? Which company installed it?
5. System Integration:
* Is your access control system integrated with your ID card production or other systems (e.g., time and attendance, building management/CCTV and/or fire/security alarm systems)? If so, which system(s) is it integrated with?
6. Supplier Information:
* What are the names of the suppliers of your existing access control system?
* Who is your current supplier for access cards and fobs, and do you purchase these directly or through your access control installers/maintenance contractors?
7. Manufacturer and Models:
* What manufacturer and model of cards and fobs do you use for your access control system? Please provide specific details of each of the exact manufacturer/model of card(s)/fob(s) that you use at each site (e.g. Paxton 692-052 Net2 Proximity ISO Cards Pack of 500 SKU: AC-PAX-692-052) together with the cost (including VAT) each month/year.
8. Management Software:
* What software is used to manage the door controllers and readers in your access control system? (e.g. Paxton Net2 Pro)
Usage and Distribution Details:
9. Consumable Usage:
* Please provide data on the monthly and annual usage/purchases of access control cards and fobs. This should include how many are issued, lost/replaced, and returned faulty/damaged each month/annum.
10. User Information:
* How many individual users require access control cards/fobs across all sites? If possible, please provide a breakdown by site or building.
Maintenance and Support:
11. Management and Contact Information:
* Who manages your site’s access control system? Please provide a name, direct email address and direct telephone number / extension for this contact.
12. Support/Maintenance Contracts:
* Do you have a current support/maintenance contract for your access control system? If so, when does this contract expire?
Future Plans:
13. Planned Changes:
* What are the organisations plans related to the installation, upgrade, or support/maintenance of access control systems over the next three to five years?
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to your NHS Trust, please see the questions below:
This request relates specifically to the training if any. that the Trust provides to its clinical staff, for example nurses, in how to correctly use medical devices.
Medical Device equals A medical device is any device intended to be used for medical purposes. For the purposes of this query, examples such as Anaesthetic machine, patient monitor, Infusion device, ECG Machine, defibrillator, thermometers, etc.
1. Do employees at the trust undertake clinical end user training for medical devices?
2. Which departments or employee titles are required to undertake medical device end user training?
3. How is the training provided?
• Online/E-learning
• In person
• Combination of online & in person
• Other please state.
4. Who provides/ produces the training?
• Manufacturer
• Someone directly employed by the trust please provide job title.
• A third party please provide the name of the provider.
• Other please state.
5. What types of medical devices are subject to such end user training?
6. If the training is online/e-learning, what Learning Management System LMS. does the Trust use for employee training? Examples: Moodle, Totara, Mindflash, Google Classroom
7. If you do use Learning Management Software, does it enable managers to see whether their staff are up to date with training?
8. Is annual recertification of competence managed manually, or does your Learning Management System automatically send reminders and allocate the appropriate courses to users?
9. How much funding has the trust allocated to e-Learning in the past year?
* How many patient trolleys/stretchers are used/owned within GHC and what make and model are they? Please could the list be split between all your sites.
* How many of these products have been procured in last 2 years
* Expected level of spend on these products for next 12 months
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
• The number of people admitted to your Trust’s hospital with an eating disorder between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available and their length of duration of stay in hospital to the nearest day.
• The number of people admitted to your Trust’s hospital with anorexia between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available and their length of duration of stay in hospital to the nearest day.
• The number of people admitted to your Trust’s hospital where obesity was the cause or a significantly contributing factor between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available. the condition diagnosed and their length of duration of stay in hospital to the nearest day.
• The number of patients who have undergone weight loss surgery at your Trust’s hospital between January 2013 and July 2023 broken down by type of surgery eg bariatric..
• The number of patients who have been referred to a specialist weight management service at your hospital if applicable, between January 2013 and July 2023.
• The number of children attending your emergency department where their mental health was recognised as the cause for presenting between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available.
I would like you to provide this information in the following format:
• Broken down by month, age and sex where possible.
I expect to receive this information within 20 working days, which will be by the 26th July.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information around the procurement of services under the NHS Talking Therapies, formerly IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies. program. Please provide data on providers, volume and value for outsourcing and insourcing IAPT NHS Talking Therapies. services within your respective trust, board, or ICS for the financial years 2022-23, 2021-22 ,2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19. Please provide the following: a. name of the provider to whom is outsourced/insourced, b. the total value of the services provided/contract in £s., and b. total volume of appointments procured as # of appointments covered/completed under the agreement. We have defined outsourcing as an external third party. provider that has been contracted by your trust, health board or ICB to deliver therapy, and insourcing as internal bodies within your trust, health board or ICB delivering the required therapy. Services that we considered included under NHS Talking Therapies / IAPT are the following: o Guided self-help based on cognitive behavioural therapy principles o Cognitive behavioural therapy CBT. o Interpersonal therapy IPT. o Couple therapy for depression CTfD. or behavioural couple therapy BCT. o Dynamic interpersonal therapy DIT. o Counselling for depression PCE-CfD.. o Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy MBCT. o Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy TfCBT. o Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing EDMR. Please provide the data requested by this FOI in the attached Excel template where you can fill in the nessesary information. 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.
I hope this finds you well. Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information please:
– The Trust’s spend on agency workers both on-framework and off-framework.;
– By role type;
– With which provider/s and how much the Trust spends;
– and when the current contract ends with your agency staffing provider. If possible, it would be helpful for this information to go back the last 12 months, financial or calendar, or failing that any information you might have from recently.
I would like you to provide this information in the following format please:
In a Microsoft Word/Microsoft Excel document, or by simply replying to this email. I understand that a public authority has 20 working days to comply with information requests, so I trust you will be able to provide your response within this timeframe.
Agency spend request
Please can you provide the total amount spent on agency temporary staff for the following financial periods and in the following categories:
Staff Group Total spend on agency for the financial year 21/22 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 1 22/23 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 2
22/23 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 3
22/23 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 4
22/23
Doctors
Nurses
AHPs
HCAs
International Nurse Recruitment Spend request
Please can you provide the total spend on the international recruitment of nurses in the following financial periods:
1. For the financial year 21/22
2. For Quarters 1 and 2 of 22/23
3. For Quarters 3 and 4 of 22/23
Please can you also breakdown costs in terms of:
1. Overseas trips
2. Agency fees
3. Flights
4. Visas
5. Expenses
6. Living expenses for international recruits
Total current vacancy
Please provide your current total vacancy number for:
1. Nurses
2. AHPs
3. Doctors
4. HCAs
We would like to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT
1. We understand the ICS/Trust has representation on the following Medicines Management / Prescribing / Formulary Committees:
• One Gloucestershire Medicines Optimisation Board OGMOB.
Please confirm if this is correct.
If not correct, please list the relevant Committess.
2. Does the Organisation have representation on any other medicines management / prescribing / formulary committees? If so, please advise which.
3. We have the following formularies listed as used by the Organisation:
• Gloucestershire Joint Formulary
Please confirm if this is correct and if not, please provide online links./copy of relevant formularies.
4. Are any of the above formularies dominant when making prescribing decisions or does this depend on therapy area? Please say which is the relevant formulary of the Organisation.
5. If you use a PDF formulary, have you considered moving it to an online platform like Netformulary, and if yes, when are you planning to do so?
Please can you tell me
1. what if any training in gender identity, your CAMHS staff and practitioners have received in the last 4 years,
2. who provided the training organisation.
3. Please confirm if you possess training resources supplied by the trainers.
4. If you do possess the training please confirm if it is stored in a location accessible to all clinical staff e.g a shared drive or common training resource.
5. How much any training cost.
I would be grateful if you could send me copies of all responses you have previously provided to any Freedom of Information FOI. requests received regarding the numbers of patients treated or prescribed with immunology drugs.
The specific criteria are:
FOI requests made between Jan 2021 and Apr 2023 with any of the following criteria:
• Patients treated with any of the following classes of drugs: anti-TNF inhibitors, JAK inhibitors, biologic medicines, biosimilars
• Drug treatments for one or more of the following diseases: Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Psoriasis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Hidradenitis Suppurativa and related conditions
• Patients treated in the dermatology department
• Patients treated in the gastroenterology department
• Patients treated in the rheumatology department
I am writing to request information under the FOI Act.
I would appreciate the results within the 20 day limit please or sooner.
I would like to know:
1: The number of referrals in to your neurodevelopmental services for children and young people for 2017, 2021 and 2022.
2: The average wait in weeks for a first assessment/appointment within your neurodevelopmental services for children and young people for 2017, 2021 and 2022.
3: The number of children and young people waiting for a neurodevelopmental assessment as of the date of this request or the nearest available date please.
4: The number of children and young people referred to your neurodevelopmental services who were discharged without an assessment or treatment for 2017, 2021 and 2022 please.
5: The longest wait in weeks of any CYP awaiting a first appointment with your neurodevelopmental services as of the date of this request or nearest available date.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information in regards to use of postal services by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust:
• How many letters were sent via post • How many appointment and appointment reminder letters sent via post
• How many change of appointment letters sent via post
• How much is spent on post for change of appointment letters? • How many pre-admission and pre-arrival letters sent via post
• How much is spent post for pre-admission and pre-arrival letters? • How many pages are in the average letter sent via post
• How much is the total printing costs of letters sent via post • How much is the total stamp / franking costs of letters sent via post • How much is spent on post in total
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information FOI. Act 2000. Please see below a request for the following information relating to homelessness in the workforce.
Question 1
How many staff have contacted the workplace for support because they have become homeless.
I would like this information returned in an email.
If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as soon as possible as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
From 1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024 how many shifts has your Trust or Health Board utilised Thornbury Nursing services for?
Within this same time frame 1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024. please list all wards or departments that utilised this agency and display the number of shifts in each.
Within this same time frame 1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024. please list all other off contract agencies utilised by the Trust or Health Board for nursing and break down a list of each ward or department and total number of shifts for each off contract agency. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period 01/01/2024- 01/03/2024.
Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period 01/01/2024- 01/03/2024.
Please list any suppliers with a critical day rate charge Band 5 or 6. ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £60 per hour that have been utilised in this time period Please list any suppliers with a critical night rate charge Band 5 or 6. ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £70 per hour that have been utilised in this time period
Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
I am writing to make an information request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would be grateful if the Authority could provide the following information in relation to any Managed Print and Reprographic Services:
Details of Current Contracts:
Please can you provide details of current contracts for Managed Print Services and Reprographic Services? Specifically, I am interested in:
• The start and end dates of these contracts.
• The annual value of each contract.
• The names of the service providers involved.
• Are there any extension clauses in these contracts, if so how long?
Procurement Process:
What process was used for the procurement of these services e.g., open tender, direct award.?
Where any frameworks used for the procurement? If so, which ones?
Service Specifications:
What are the key performance indicators KPIs. and service level agreements SLAs. outlined in these contracts?
How does the Authority evaluate the performance of these services?
Environmental Impact Considerations:
Does the Authority have any policies or criteria in these contracts related to environmental sustainability or carbon footprint reduction?
Expenditure and Usage Data:
Can you provide a summary of expenditure on Managed Print Services and Reprographic Services for the last two financial years?
Additionally, could you provide any available data on the volume of printing and reprographic services utilised during the same period?
Please can you provide numbers and a breakdown summary of current devices in use, i.e A3/A4, colour/mono etc?
I wish to request the following information:
• The total spend with off framework agencies for Nursing and Healthcare Assistant shifts between June 2023 – Present
• Breakdown of departments this spend was used in i.e. A&E/ITU and also the breakdown of grade i.e. RGN/RMN
• The total spend with framework agencies for Nursing and Healthcare Assistant shifts between June 2023 – Present
• Breakdown of departments this was used in i.e. A&E/ITU and also the breakdown of grade I.e RGN/RMN
• Total spent with off framework agencies for Doctor shifts/jobs between June 2023-Present
• Breakdown of Grade/Specialty this was used in
• Total spend with on framework agencies for Doctors shifts/jobs between June 2023-Present
• Breakdown of Grade/Specialty this was used in
• Breakdown of agencies and their spend during the same above period for both Doctors and Nursing.
• List of names who authorise agency usage for both Doctors and Nursing.
1. From 1st January 2023 to 28th February 2023, please list the wards/departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies in your Adult Nursing, Mental Health, Community Hospitals?
2. From 1st January 2023 to 28th February 2023 have you requested shifts for off framework agencies in your UTC/UCC/MIU?
3. Please provide me with the name, contact number & email address of the person responsible for agreeing temporary nursing agency contracts for your Trust?
4. Please provide a list of off-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 3 months
5. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between January 1st 2023 – March 10th 2023 a. RGN’s b. RCN’s c. RMN d. ITU Nurse e. A&E Nurse f. HCA g. CPN 6. How much was your off framework spent for a. Urgent Treatment Centre b. Urgent Care Centre c. Minor Injuries Unit?
Do you use any applications or tools to communicate with your patients digitally?
I am interested in all aspects of patient communication, but particularly:
– Pre- and post-operative communication
– eConsent
– Outpatients
– Patient engagement at home
– Patient satisfaction
Please advise of
– the individuals. name and/or job title. with responsibility for developing digital communications with patients.
– the suppliers presently providing such software solutions and contract values
– the contract award date and renewal date for such services
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your organisation. Please may you provide me with an answer to the following:
1. Who provides your non-emergency patient transport services NEPTS.?
2. When does this contract run until?
3. What is the value of this contract per annum i.e. for 2023/24.?
4. Do you contract your NEPTS for your organisation in isolation, or is it contracted jointly with other NHS organisations? If so, which other NHS organisations?
5. Who is the best person to contact regarding the NEPTS service for your organisation? Please provide name, position and contact details where possible.
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding PAS, EHR and task management systems. Please can you complete the questions below: 1. Patient Administration System used to support patient management, including tracking patients and managing admissions, ward attendances and appointments.
a.Does the organisation use a Patient Administration System PAS.? If yes, please provide the supplier’s name.
b. What is the contract end date of the PAS supplier?
2. Electronic Health Record System a digital record of patient health information.
a.Does the organisations use an Electronic Health Record EHR.? If yes, please provide the supplier’s name.
b. What is the contract end date of the EHR supplier?
3. Patient Engagement patient engagement tools refer to systems that enable patients to access personal health information and allows patients to choose to participate in their care.
a. Does the organisation use a patient engagement tool? If yes, please provide the supplier’s name.
b. What is the contract end date of the Patient Engagement supplier?
4. Task Management Functionality
Please tick below which task management functionality currently used at the organisation.
Functionality Tick if used
Static Task Lists Automated Escalation and Allocation of Tasks
I am conducting an analysis of employment-exit questionnaire data and the methods used to capture this information in a range of NHS Organisations. It is hoped that this information will inform the design of a new exit data collection process for my own NHS Trust. To achieve this, I kindly request your help under FOI Act 2000.. I would be grateful if you could fill in the attached excel document. Please can the answers be added to the spreadsheet and the completed spreadsheet returned via email before the 8th March 2024.
I’d like to find out what your organisational structure is with regard to community health services. Are you a standalone community health services Trust or are you embedded within an acute Trust or in partnership with a VCSE sector provider?
O365 Licencing Questions:-
a.- Which Microsoft O365 do you use eg E3,E5?
b.- Do you use the NHS-shared O365 tenant?
c.- Do you procure O365 licences through Microsoft Enterprise Agreement EA. or Cloud Service Provider CSP.. Who is your supplier?
d.- When is your licencing renewal date/anniversary for these services?
Microsoft Telephony Questions
e.- Do you have Microsoft Calling Plans, if so how many licences users.
f.- Do you have other forms of Microsoft Telephony such as Direct routing/Operator connect? How many licences users. and which supplier?
g.- When is your licencing renewal date/anniversary for these services?
In line with the Freedom of Information Act, can you kindly respond to the following questions:
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• How many Estates & Facilities sector roles at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
• were filled in the last financial year 2022/23.?
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• How many Estates & Facilities roles within this Trust were advertised but not filled in the last
• financial year 2022/23.? Which roles were these?
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• What was the spend on recruitment advertising for all of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation
• Trust Estates & Facilities roles during this time period?
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• Were recruitment agencies used for any of these roles, and if so which roles?
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• What is your current vacancy rate for Estates & Facilities at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS
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• of the Estates & Facilities roles within this NHS Trust posted on NHS Jobs?
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• As a Trust, are you doing anything different to attract a diverse workforce and if so what? If
• not, is it in your plans to do so?
I am sending this request under the FOI Act. This request relates to inpatient admissions to your trust with a primary or secondary diagnosis of an eating disorder please include all eating disorders – i.e. ICD10 code F50 – Eating Disorders.. 1. Please state the number of inpatients with an eating disorder diagnosis that were discharged from your trust in: a. 2018
b. 2019 c. 2020
d. 2021
e. 2022
f. Total 1 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2022. 2. Please break down the early totals above by patient BMI at time of discharge in the following categories: i. BMI > 18.5 ii. BMI 17-18.5
iii. BMI 16-16.99 iv. BMI 15-15.99
v. BMI <15kg For ease, I have created a table template that can be completed. Please also find it attached. Number of inpatients with a diagnosed eating disorder that were discharged from your trust, by BMI at time of discharge: Q1 Q2.i Q2.ii Q2.iii Q2.iv Q2.v
Total discharged BMI > 18.5 BMI 17-18.5 BMI 16-16.99 BMI 15-15.99 BMI <15kg 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Total 1 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2022. If numbers above are so small that a significant proportion of the data is supressed, please complete the alternative table outlining broader BMI categories also attached.
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 the following 3 questions regarding your Trust’s Infrastructure?
1. For each element of IT infrastructure below, please provide the requested details Main provider, annual spend 2021-2022, contract end date.:
– Desktop management
– Networking
– Data Centre
– Server management
– IT Security
2. For each of the elements below, please provide details about your cloud provider name, contract end date.:
– Data storage
– Networking
– Back-up and archive
– Application databases
– Big Data analytics databases
3. For each of the elements below, does your organisation plan to move to a cloud-based service in the next 2 years?
– Data storage
– Networking
– Back-up and archive
– Processing and computer capacity
– Application databases
– Analytics databases
– Email and collaboration
– Other Please specify.
We are writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Specifically, we are requesting information about the local Formularys. used by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Question 1: What local Formulary does Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust use? Answer 1: Please list all formularies used by your Trust
Question 2: Is the Formulary publicly accessible e.g. on Netformulary.?
Answer 2: Yes/No
If Yes, please provide the online links.? Formulary links.: If No, please attach your Formulary as a document / table, if possible.