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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
Please can you reply with an organisational chart including the names, job titles and contact details email or direct line. of all the divisional clinical managers/directors, deputies and general managers within the organisation.
Thanks in advance for your help, it is greatly appreciated
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149-2022
Wednesday 22nd June 2022
RE: Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
————————-Information Team
This is an information request relating to net zero jobs at the Trust.
Please can you provide me with the following:
• a list of all currently filled jobs at the Trust which include the term “Net Zero” in the title
• the salary or salary band of each job which contains the term “Net Zero” in the title
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.
Kind regards,
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Elliot Keck, Investigations Campaigns Manager
TaxPayers’ Alliance, 55 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QL
+44 0. 20 7340 6020
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24-hour media line: 07795 084113 No texts.
147-2022
FOI Team,
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 4 questions regarding your Trust’s Infrastructure as it relates to the Data Storage element?
1. Please provide the following details about your Data Storage Cloud Provider:
Does your Data Storage use Cloud Provision Yes / No.? –
Who is your main Cloud provider? –
Annual Spend 2020-21 £’s. –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes – e.g. currently out for tender
2. Does your organisation plan to move your Data Storage to a cloud-based service in the next 2 years Yes or No.? –
Main Supplier –
Additional Notes –
3. For each element detailed below, how does your organisation manage its data storage?
In-house data centre:
On Premise OR Off Premise if does not apply. –
Main Supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 £’s. –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –
Shared service:
On Premise OR Off Premise if does not apply. –
Main supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 £’s. –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –
Data Storage Management:
On Premise OR Off Premise if does not apply. –
Main supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 £’s. –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –
Other please specify.
On Premise OR Off Premise if does not apply. –
Main supplier –
Annual Spend 2020-21 £’s. –
Contract end date –
Additional Notes –
4. Does your Trust have an on-site data centre Yes / No.? –
Do you plan to build an on-site data centre Yes / No. –
If yes, what is the timeframe for this Years. –
Who is your preferred supplier –
Thank you in advance for your time.
146-2022
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I would like to know the following:
1. How many doctors in the last 5 years have been placed under a formal Trust disciplinary process? If the full timeframe is not available, or data held for a different timeframe, please provide what is available.
2. How many doctors in the last 5 years have been referred to the General Medical Council? If the full timeframe is not available, or data held for a different timeframe, please provide what is available.
3. What proportion of these local disciplinaries and GMC referrals of doctors are made up of people of Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities BAME.? I am happy to receive raw numbers or a proportion of total referrals for each.
Any format of data is acceptable – though Excel or CSV may be most appropriate.
144-2022
Good afternoon,
Please can you provide the below information: What capital investment has been made within the Trust for bariatric support in the past 3 years? Please can you provide the amount of spend and a brief summary of works completed. Kind Regards
143-2022
Hello,
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
1. The name of the trust’s Electronic Patient Record EPR. solution, if you have one.
2. The name of the trust’s Patient Portal solution, if you have one.
3. The name of the trust’s Clinical Portal solution, if you have one.
4. The name of your Trust Integration Engine.
5. The name of the trust’s Healthcare Information Exchange HIE. platform, if you have one.
6. Please confirm if the trust uses any digital solutions that support Multidisciplinary Teams MDTs., if so, which ones?
142-2022
Good afternoon, I would be very grateful if you could please send me details of the Trust’s spending on services and goods provided by Fire & Rescue Services between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022?
Thank you very much for your assistance and I look forward to your response.
139-2022
I’d like to request the following information please.
Q1. In the last 12 months, have you increased the fuel allowance for your staff who are eligible to claim back fuel costs? Please answer yes or no.
Q1i. If yes, please specify the rate now June 2022. paid back to staff for fuel costs and the criteria for reimbursement, and what the rate and criteria was in June 2021.
Q2. Between 1st June 2021 and 31st May 2022, how much money did the trust spent on the following? Please provide totals for each individual point below rather than a group total.
– Providing hire cars for staff
– Providing public transport travel passes
– Investing in pool cars
Q3. Between 1st June 2020 and 31st May 2021, how much money did the trust spent on the following? Please provide totals for each individual point below rather than a group total.
– Providing hire cars for staff
– Providing public transport travel passes
– Investing in pool cars
108-2023
I would like to know how many schools in this Trust serve meat that may contain nitrates or nitrites. Please provide a numerical answer, for the number of hospitals.
094-2023
I’m requesting the following information from your organisation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
• A copy of the trust’s sexual safety policy
091-2023
Does your Trust employ nurse associates or assistant nursing practitioners? Y/N
If you employ nurse associates/assistant nursing practitioners, do these groups of staff undertake any of the nursing roles ascribed to RMNs or LD nurses in the Mental Health Act or the Mental Health Act Code of Practice? Y/N
If so does this role include:
Receipt and scrutiny of section papers?
Explaining s132 rights?
Granting leave at the nurse’s discretion?
Any other duties outlined in the Mental Health Act or the Mental Health Act Code of Practice?
If nurse associates or nursing practitioners undertake these role do they have additional training/supervision to gain competency?
Do other registered clinicians/practitioners working in inpatient care such as Occupational Therapists or Social Workers undertake any of the duties described in the Mental Health Act or the Mental Health Act Code of Practice?
If so can you describe what these are?
089-2023
Freedom of Information request
I’m writing to request copies of the following:
[1] Any in place/in use Trust policies, procedures, guidelines, protocols, pathways, training materials, or other documents, which address the diagnosis, investigation, and/or management, of any of the following:
a. Pulsatile Tinnitus.
b. Non-pulsatile tinnitus i.e. all forms of tinnitus that are not pulsatile.
c. Sjögren’s.
[2] Any in place/in use policies, procedures, guidelines, pathways, training materials, or other documents, of any of the hospitals within the remit of your Trust, which address the diagnosis, investigation, and/or management, of any of the following:
a. Pulsatile Tinnitus.
b. Non-pulsatile tinnitus.
c. Sjögren’s.
087-2023
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.
If this information is already publicly available or you might be able to guide me to another information source, any advice would be gladly received.
Please provide data for each question for the years 2018 – 2022, broken down by calendar year i.e. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022..
1. Please provide the number of term stillbirths 37 weeks or more. at your trust
2. Please provide the review process for each stillbirth recorded, e.g.. X number of PMRTs, X number of SIIs, X number referred to the coroner. If relevant, please include the number that led to no review.
3. In any reviews done following a stillbirth please list how many times each of the following was a contributing factor, concluded from the investigation.
a. Failing to monitor reduced foetal movements
b. Wrongly interpreting test results during pregnancy
c. Failing to act on test results which highlight a problem
d. Failure to treat infections in the mother
e. Poor staffing levels
f. Failure to notice vital signs of distress
4. Please provide the number of neonatal deaths at your trust
5. Please provide the review process for each neonatal death, e.g. X number of SIIs, X number referred to the coroner. If relevant, please include the number that led to no review.
6. In any reviews following a neonatal death, please list how many times each of the following was a contributing factor, concluded from the investigation.
a. Failing to monitor reduced foetal movements
b. Wrongly interpreting test results during pregnancy
c. Failing to act on test results which highlight a problem
d. Failure to treat infections in the mother
e. Poor staffing levels
f. Failure to notice vital signs of distress
g. Failing in antenatal care
h. Insufficient or inaccurate handovers
i. Failing to recognise need for caesarean
7. Please provide the number of maternal deaths at your trust
8. Please provide the number of midwifery staffing red flags at your trust
If the request exceeds costing limits set out under the act, please advise how I can refine my request. If you do not hold data in calendar years, please provide data in financial years from 2018-19 through to 2022-23.
062-2023
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information on waiting times for ADHD assessments in England:
1. The number of undiagnosed children age 11-18 years. currently on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment on the NHS.
1a. Please can you also provide the same information for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
2. The current average waiting time for an undiagnosed child age 11-18 years. to see a psychiatrist for ADHD assessment after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
2a. The longest waiting time for a child currently on the list.
2b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
3. How many child assessments were done in the past year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
3a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
4. The current average waiting time for a child age 11-18 years. between ADHD diagnosis and starting treatment on the NHS. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by type of treatment medication or behavioural therapy.
4a. The longest waiting time between diagnosis and treatment for a child currently on the list.
4b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
5. The number of undiagnosed adults currently on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment on the NHS.
5a. Please can you also provide the same information for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit
6. The current average wait time for an undiagnosed adult to see a psychiatrist for ADHD after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
6a. The longest waiting time for an adult currently on the list
6b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
7. How many adult assessments were done in the past year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
7a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
8. The current average waiting time for an adult between ADHD diagnosis and starting treatment on the NHS. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by type of treatment medication or behavioural therapy.
8a. The longest waiting time between diagnosis and treatment for an adult currently on the list.
8b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
059-2023
I am requesting information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Q1. Does your organisation have a panel which focuses on supporting adults who hoard or a ‘hoarding panel’.?
Q2 . If yes, please can you provide me with a copy of the policy/guidance/standard operating procedure/terms of reference that informs the remit of the panel?
Q3. Is there policy or guidance in the organisation to support staff working with people who self-neglect?
Q4. If yes, please can you provide me with a copy?
048-2023
Freedom of Information Request
Section -1
1. Has the trust conducted any overseas healthcare recruitment in the previous financial year of 2022-2023?
2. If yes, can you please advise which all professionals were recruited from overseas Eg. Nurses, doctors, radiographers, ODP’s
3. Can you please list out which all recruitment agencies were used for each professions respectively for year 2022-2023
4. Please list out the contact details of the recruitment agencies used
5. Please can you describe how were these agencies selected?
Section – 2
6. Is the trust planning to conduct overseas healthcare recruitment in the present financial year of 2023-2024?
7. If yes, can you please advise which all professionals were recruited from overseas Eg. Nurses, doctors, radiographers
8. Can you please list out which all recruitment agencies are being used for each professions respectively for year 2023-2024
9. Please can you describe how were these agencies selected?
Section 3
10. What is the process to get onto your framework of suppliers.
11. Would the trust be open to using a non-framework agency who could deliver a better service in a cost-effective way? if So who is the best person to contact?
12. Kindly specify when is the next lot of tenders invited for such a requirement?
13. Kindly specify where would such a tenders would be published for interested bidders to bid?
14. Are you looking for new suppliers who would be able to help you fulfil the roles?
018-2023
I am emailing under the Freedom of Information Act to request information regarding your trust and its participation in clinical trials by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site.
Can you please provide answers to the questions below:
1. Does your trust participate in clinical trials by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site?
2. For the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23. how many clinical trials have the trust participated in by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site for trials that have been sponsored by the following:
a. Academic institutions
b. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies
c. Other non-profit organisations
d. Other for-profit organisations
3. If you have participated in clinical trials with academic institutions, how many trials were conducted at the following stages of a clinical trial? Please answer for the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23..
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
e. Other
4. If you have participated in clinical trials with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, how many trials were conducted at the following stages of a clinical trial? Please answer for the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23..
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
e. Other
5. For each year in the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23. please detail:
a. How much income the trust should have received for all its clinical trial participation?
b. How much income has the trust actually received for all its clinical trial participation?
c. How much income is still owed to your trust for all its clinical trial participation?
122-2122
Letter to Ingrid Barker
120-2122
Sent: 24 May 2021 10:45
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request – Waste Disposal
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust relating to waste disposal services:
1. The name of the incumbent clinical and hazardous waste collector/disposer. When their contract began and when it will be out to tender again.
2. The number of tonnes per week or month of each Category.
3. The price per tonne paid for each Category.
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 your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.
In any case, if you can identify ways that my request can be refined, please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this. I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for, my details are outlined below.
102-2122
Sent: 30 April 2021 12:48
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Innovation Practices and Innovation Stakeholders
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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act on your organisations innovation practices and innovation stakeholders. Please complete the attached FOI questions.
Thank you very much for your time and let me know if you have any questions.
454-2023
I sent a FOI request on Friday regarding CAMHS waiting times and budgets. I wonder if you could take into account the following clarifications as I can see some of my questions were a little opaque, apologies.
I would appreciate if you could consider the following questions:
1: The number of young people on your waiting list for a first appointment and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. A snapshot for a single day in February for those years please.
2: The number of young people on your list who had an assessment but have not started any therapeutic intervention and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017.. PLEASE DISREGARD THIS QUESTION. INSTEAD ARE YOU ABLE TO TELL ME THE TOTAL NUMBER OF REFERRALS IN 2022, 2021 AND 2017?
3: The average length of time young people are waiting for a first appointment and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. Are you able to give a snapshot of the average wait time now, plus the average wait time in 2021 and 2017 in whatever way you record this?
4: The average length of time young people are waiting between initial referral and treatment beginning and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. 5: Your annual budget and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. For CAMHS please, and the trust’s budget.
6: How many young people referred in to the service were refused treatment in 2022, 2021 and 2017.
I wonder if you could also tell me:
7: The longest time any young person has been on your current waiting list as of the date of the receipt of this email.
452-2023
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act for a record of all the people who have died in a particular location between January 2016 and December 2022. Specifically, everyone who has died at Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital. Over this time frame the trust responsible for Wotton Lawn has changed and up until 2019 it was the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust. If the trust does not hold records for the time when it was part of 2gether, then please can you respond to my questions below based on a time frame from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust’s creation in October 2019 to December 2022. I am trying to find out:
• How many deaths occurred at Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital between January 2016 and December 2022.
• The number of deaths at Wotton Lawn between January 2016 and December 2022 that are suspected to be suicides. • The number of deaths occurred in the community between January 2016 and December 2022 among absconders/missing persons from Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital. • The number of deaths among absconders/missing persons from Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital between January 2016 and December 2022 that are suspected to be suicides.
416-2023
I’m a journalist for the i paper investigating CAMHS and the delays/rejections since the pandemic. Please could you provide me with the following information for your area:
• The proportion of referrals to the mental health service deemed inappropriate or rejected in the 2019/2020 financial year and the 2020/2021 financial year
• The reasons for referrals to the mental health services being rejected in these years
• The median and maximum waiting times between initial assessment and the start of treatment in these years
414-2023
Please can you provide response to the following Freedom of Information Request for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to 1.matt.tucker.1@gmail.com:
1. The number of operating theatres OTs. in your Trust by type e.g., day case, general, obstetrics etc..
2. For each type of OT e.g., day, general, obstetrics etc.., please provide the number of OTs:
a. With no ventilation system
b. With a ‘conventional’ ventilation system
c. With an Ultra Clean Ventilation UCV. / laminar flow ventilation system
d. That are ‘Integrated’ OTs e.g. connected by a digital control panel.
3. The number of OT ventilation system that were refurbished/replaced in the last 5 years. For each, please list the supplier and capital cost of the equipment
4. For OT ventilation systems, where there is a servicing agreement, please specify:
a. Total value and duration of the servicing contract
b. Provider of the servicing contract
c. Renewal date
d. Type of agreement e.g., framework, warranty, tender etc..
5. Your Trust’s annual capital equipment spend on the following OT equipment, for the last 5 years
a. OT ventilation systems
b. Theatre control panels
c. Operating lights
d. Medical pendants
e. Mobile ventilation systems
6. The annual number of surgeries performed outside of an operating theatre, for the last 5 years
a. The number of those where a mobile ventilation system was used for the same period
050-2122
Subject: BBC FOI Request Inpatient Deaths.: 3rd March
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Good afternoon, Please treat this email as a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I am seeking information on deaths in inpatient mental health facilities run by the NHS. If you can, please provide the following information in the form of an Excel document with a yearly breakdown. Please also provide the age and location of each death if this is possible.
I’m asking for:
• The number of self-inflicted deaths which have happened in your CAMHS Tier 4. inpatient facilities from January 2016 to December 2020
• The number of self-inflicted deaths which have happened in your ADULT Mental Health inpatient facilities from January 2016 to December 2020
If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs.
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 your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.
In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined, please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this before the 20 day limit. I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for.
021-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – Pagers
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
Can you please supply the following information:
Are pagers/bleeps used for communication within your Trust?
Approximately how many pagers/bleeps does the Trust use?
Who currently supplies the pager/critical bleep solutions in the Trust?
What are the pager/bleep contract renewal dates?
019-2122
To whom it may concern,
I am emailing you to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act. The information I would like is: 1. How many Fax Machines are currently a. owned and b. used by your Trust,
and 2. What operating system does your Trust currently use Windows 8, etc.. for its Computers and Laptops?
023-2023
Do you use any kind of RFID?
318-2022
Please consider this as a Freedom of Information request. The purpose of this request is to identify health authority policies for dealing with alcohol and other substance use in employees of the authority who are registered healthcare professionals with the aim of understanding whether authorities have distinct policies or whether it is dealt with under existing wider policy. With this in mind please could you answer all of the following questions and supply the requested information and documentation: 1. Does your authority have a distinct policy covering alcohol and/or other substance use by employees of the authority? If so, on what date was this policy implemented? What policy did this supersede? Please provide a copy of your current alcohol and substance use policy. And 2. Does your authority’s current occupational health policy include sections or subsections which cover the use of alcohol and/or other substances by employees of your authority who are registered healthcare professionals, including but not limited to alcohol and/or substance addiction and/or impairment at work due to substance use? If so, on what date was this policy implemented? Please provide a copy of your current occupational health policy And 3. What policy within your authority covers performance management issues related to alcohol and substances within the workplace, including but not limited to impairment at work due to alcohol or substance use, and/or criminal activity either during or outside of work hours related to alcohol and substance use? On what date was this policy implemented? Please provide a copy of the current policy in which this information is included. And 4. If there is a concern regarding a registered healthcare professional employee’s alcohol or substance use, please outline the process applied within your authority for dealing with the issue, with reference to pathways for the employee concerned, and who has responsibility for decision making for any given pathway the employee is placed upon, and how decisions are made as to how the pathways are implemented.
315-2022
As per the FOI Act 2000, I would really appreciate it if you could help me by answering the following questions at your earliest convenience.
Question Response
Who is your Chief Operations Officer ? Who is your Chief Nurse ? Who is your Responsible Officer for Performance ? Who is your Responsible Officer for Transformation ? Who is your Responsible Officer for Informatics and Reporting ? Who is your Director of Finance? What stage of analytics are you in – Descriptive, Predictive, Prescriptive? Do you currently use predictive analytics in your Organisation? If yes, do you use it for any of the following: bed modelling, theatres, staffing and productivity better use of resources.? Is it an internal or external team that does your predictive analytics? If external, please mention their name.
260-2022
Please could you provide the following information:
• Number of Employees
• Number of IT Staff
• The name of your current IT Service Management Software and the company that supplies it
• Whether this this a Cloud / SaaS or On-Premise Solution
• The number of licences and whether these are Named or Concurrent
• The length of your current contract for this Software / Service
• The contract expiry date, and whether you intend to change it
• The Contract Review Date: approximate date of when the organisation is planning to review this contract..:
• The Annual cost of the contract
• The Total cost of the contract
• The person responsible for this Software / Service and their contact details name + email + direct phone number if possible.
• The lead person to contact about any future projects to review or replace this Software / Service, and their contact details name + email + direct phone number if possible.
If this solution is currently on Premise, please could you also provide the following information:
• Do you have a cloud migration strategy?
• If so, is there specific budget allocated to this?
• Would you be looking to move to a cloud service at the end of the current contract ?
259-2022
I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information.
1. What date did your mental health crisis helpline become operational? Please give a date for both the adult crisis line and crisis line for children and young people if separate.
2. How many calls did you receive to your mental health crisis line in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
3. How many calls to your mental health crisis line were abandoned in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
4. In seconds, what was the average time taken to answer calls to your mental health crisis line in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
5. In seconds, what was the maximum time taken to answer a call to your mental health crisis line in the following financial years. If separate, please break down the figures for each year by calls to an adult crisis line and calls to a crisis line for children and young people.
a. 2019/20
b. 2020/21
c. 2021/22
If the following questions cannot be answered within the 18 hour time limit, please answer only questions 1 to 5.
6. How many crisis line call handlers were in post on 1 April 2022, across both adult and child/young people helplines? If data for 1 April 2022 is not available, please provide figures correct at the time of responding to this request..
7. How many of those in question 6 were qualified mental health professionals? For example, they might have a Registered Mental Health Nurse Diploma or degree or relevant professional qualification.
258-2022
Dear FOI Team,
Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details with respect to the Trust below, details of which can be found below:
NHS Trust: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust 1. Please provide the name, email address and phone number for your Trust’s Medical Device Trainer 2. Does your trust utilise e-learning for clinical application training for medical devices? Remit of the Medical Device Trainer?.
3. Please provide the name, email address and phone number for your Trust’s Learning and Development Manager
4. Within decontamination science, does the Trust utilise apprenticeships? Remit of Learning and Development Manager.
5. Within medical engineering/clinical engineering/medical physics, does the Trust utilise apprenticeships? Remit of Learning and Development Manager.
6. Does your Trust utilise a third party company for training medical engineering/clinical engineering/medical physics – i.e. the repair of medical devices? If so, what is the name of the third party?
7. Does your Trust utilise a third party company for training sterile services staff – operators/ technicians? If so, what is the name of the third party?
8. Does the Trust utilise the Salisbury framework for non apprenticeship training courses Remit of Learning and Development Manager.
9. Regarding the sterilisation of surgical instruments and endoscopes, does the trust undertake this ‘in-house’ or outsource the requirement?
9a. If outsourced, what company provides the service?
9b. If managed in-house, how many people operate in the sterilisation department?
10. Please provide the name, email address and phone number for the person responsible for sterilisation of the Trust’s medical devices
191-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RE: FOI 191-2122 – Clarification 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
Thank you for the email.
I am asking for the ECT policy to ultimately answer a question regarding the administration of ECT. I would like to receive whatever policy you have in regards to ECT. I will also add the question here that I hope you may be able to answer.
Please can you confirm that the equipment used in the administration of ECT in clinics governed by the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is a Thymatron System IV machine. If this is not the machine, please provide the name of the machine being used.
146-2122
Sent: 16 June 2021 15:48
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request
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To whom it may concern
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Trust regarding.
1. Between January 1st 2021 and 31st May 2021, how many permanent Doctors Vacancies have been filled within the Trust by agencies.
2. Please break down the number of permanent roles that have been filled by agencies Between January 1st 2021 and 31st May 2021; E.G. SHO’s, Middle Grade’s, Consultant’s
3. Please list the providers you have utilised Between January 1st 2021 and 31st May 2021 to source permanent vacancies for doctors
4. Who is the person responsible for recruiting Permanent Doctors agency requirements within your trust?
5. Please list the agencies the trust have used ‘Off Framework’ for permanent vacancies Between January 1st 2021 and 31st May 2021.
Please provide the information in the form of an email to 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 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 within 20 working days as per the statute.
129-2122
Sent: 30 May 2021 13:55
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Act 2000
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Sir / Madam
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Could you please provide some information, as laid out below; Question Response
1. Does your organisation use/perform Viscosupplementation injections? 2. How much has your organisation spent in the financial year 2019/20 on viscosupplementation in Primary care and how much has been spent in Secondary care. 3. How much has your organisation spent in the financial year 2018/19, on viscosupplementation in Primary care and how much has been spent in Secondary care. 4. Which brands. Viscosupplement have been used in the financial year 2019/20? YES/NO
Arthrum H Cingal Durolane Euflexxa Fermathron Orthovisc Ostenil Ostenil Plus RenehaVis Suplasyn Synocrom Synocrom Mini Synolis Monovisc Synopsis Synvisc Hylan G-F20. Synvisc ONE Hylan G-F20.
068-2022
Subject: Re: FOI long covid
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following information:
1. How many passwords have been generated for the Your COVID Recovery App in 2020, 2021 and 2022?
2. How many patients have been referred to the Nuffield Health long COVID recovery programme from the CCG in 2020, 2021 and 2022?
Please separate the data if you oversee FOI disclosure for more than one NHS Trust.
Please confirm you have received this request.
You can contact me if you have any questions about the request or believe the information will be too burdensome to retrieve on +447551395753 or at sashabaker177@gmail.com. I would be happy to refine the request if needed.
I await your response within 20 working days.
099-2122
Are you able to provide an answer for any predecessor organizations?
094-2122
Sent: 27 April 2021 10:19
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request – Orthotics
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We are currently doing some research into Orthotics services within the UK. We are a manufacturer of orthotic devices based in the UK. We are writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from the Orthotics department at Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust to help with our research. Please could you provide us with information regarding your Orthotics services and products. A full list of questions has been attached to this email. Please provide the information in the form of letter and as digital 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 adjust our request.
If you can identify any other ways that our request could be refined we would be very grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us via email or phone and we will be very happy to clarify what we are asking for and discuss the request.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to your response.
082-2022
Subject: NHS Trusts – Freedom of Information Request
Importance: High
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To Whom It May Concern,
Please kindly send to me, at the email address below, all recorded information that the Trust holds regarding its outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards in the financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22 and its current and planned outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards in 2022/23 and future financial years.
Such information should include all recorded information regarding: –
a. the Trust’s outsourcing of the provision of pre-paid debit cards for the use by staff, volunteers, patients and service users;
b. the ways in which the Trust uses pre-paid debit cards;
c. the full names. of any outsourced service providers. supplying the Trust;
d. the contracts. with any outsourced service providers. supplying the Trust;
e. the dates. on which contracts. with outsourced service providers. expire;
f. the total fees paid by the Trust, or budgeted to be paid, by supplier, for each of the financial years requested above;
g. the number of pre-paid debit card users the Trust had, or anticipates having, for each of the financial years listed above;
h. the tendering process, or other procurement method, under which the outsourced contracts. were awarded;
i. the tendering process, or other procurement method, under which the service will be re-contracted; and
j. the date on which the process referred to in h., for the re-contracting of the outsourced service, will commence.
k. the name and email address of the person within the Trust who has responsibility for the Trust’s management and provision of pre-paid debit cards.
Please respond to: cwright@suitsmecard.com I would be grateful if you would provide the information requested above to me within the 20 working days from the date of this request, as required by the Freedom of Information Act.
Many thanks in advance.
076-2022
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Good afternoon,
Please can you provide the following information:
Please confirm the name, position and contact details telephone number and email address. of the person responsible for arranging and administering the Authority’s insurances. Which classes of commercial insurance do the Authority currently procure in addition to NHS Resolution risk pooling schemes.? When are these policies due for renewal?
How much does the Authority spend annually on its insurance premium?
Please confirm the name of the Authority’s current insurance broker/advisor if applicable..
When was the contract for insurance broking services last reviewed/tendered?
When will the current contract for insurance brokerage services expire? Is this subject to a potential extension?
070-2022
Procurement,
I am writing in respect of your finance solution. Could you kindly help me out with the below information?
1. What ERP Enterprise Resource Management. or Finance system is currently used at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust?
2.When does your contract expire?
3.Do you have any planned upgrades of the software? If so, when?
4.Are you planning to go to market for a different ERP/ Finance system? If so, when?
5. Who is the people responsible for your ERP / Finance system? Please provide full name, title, and contact information if possible.
069-2022
I am writing in respect of your current Finance solution. Please can you kindly help me out with the following information?
1. What ERP Enterprise Resource Management. or Finance system is currently used at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust?
2. When does your present contract expire?
3. Do you have any planned upgrades of the software? If so, when?
4. Are you planning to go to market for a different ERP/ Finance system? If so, when?
5. Who is the person responsible for your ERP / Finance system? Please provide full name, title, and contact information if possible.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
060-2022
The role of Director/Chief/Lead of AHPs is commonly described as “Providing Workforce
Leadership for Allied Health Professions, map the current AHP workforce across the trust, work
with other trust AHP Directors and develop a strategic workforce plan for recruitment and
retention of Allied Health Professions within the trust.”1
Section 1. Within your Trust, do you have a role that meets the above description?
☒ Yes
☐ No
If the answer is “Yes” answer section 2 only, and if the answer is “No” answer Section 3
only.
Section 2
2.1. What is title?
☐ Director of AHPs
☒ Chief AHP
☐ Lead AHP
☐ Other please specify.: ____________________________________________
2.2 When was the role of Director/Chief/Lead AHP or its equivalent first created within the
Trust?
November 2019 at the point of the formation of the newly integrated Physical Health, Mental
Health and Learning Disabilities Trust
2.3. Is there someone currently in this post?
☒ Yes
☐ No
If no, why not?
2.4. If yes, are they registered as an allied health professional AHP.?
☒ Yes
☐ No
2.5 If yes, which profession?
☐ Art Therapist
☐ Drama therapist
☐ Music therapist
☐ Chiropodist/podiatrist
☐ Dietitian
☒ Occupational therapist
☐ Operating Department Practitioner
☐ Orthoptist
☐ Osteopath
☐ Paramedic
☐ Physiotherapist
☐ Prosthetist
☐ Orthotist
☐ Radiographer
☐ Speech and language therapist
2.6. If they are not registered as an AHP, what is their professional background?
2.7. Does this individual have a position on the Trust board?
☐ Yes
☒ No
2.8. Which Allied Healthcare professions are employed by your Trust?
Please complete the table below.
Select the AHP
professions employed by
your Trust
If your Trust employs this profession, select if
the Director/Chief/Lead AHP or its equivalent
leads/directs this profession
Art Therapists ☒ ☒
Drama therapists ☒ ☒
Music therapists ☐ ☐
Chiropodists/podiatrists ☒ ☒
Dietitians
Occupational therapists
☒ ☒
Operating Department
Practitioners
☐ ☐
Orthoptists ☐ ☐
Osteopaths ☒ ☒
Paramedics ☒ ☒
Physiotherapists ☒ ☒
Prosthetists ☐ ☐
Orthotists ☐ ☐
Radiographers ☐ ☐
Speech and language
therapists
☒ ☒
Section 3.
It has been shown that “there are benefits to improvement activity, as well as to the visibility and
influence of the AHP workforce on the Trust’s priorities when there is a designated AHP lead”,
and that these roles should be put in place in each Trust1,2
.
3.1. Do you expect to advertise/create a job role meeting the above description within the next 6
months?
☐ Yes
☐ No
3.2. If no, are you planning to advertise/create this role in the long term 12-24 months?
☐ Yes
☐ No
3.3 If no, what has been the main barrier/s that are preventing a job role meeting the above
description from being created in the long term 12-24months.?
3.4. Is your Trust aware of the NHS England and NHS Improvement strategy 2019 Investing in
chief allied health professionals: insights from trust executives.. to have designated AHP leads?
☒ Yes
☐ No
References:
1. NHS England and NHS Improvement. Investing in chief allied health professionals:
insights from trust executives. 2019;July..
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/investing-chief-allied-health-professionals/
2. NHS England and NHS Improvement. Developing Allied Health Professional Leaders: A
Guide for Trust Boards and Clinicians.; 2019
059-2022
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I am seeking information regarding your Trust’s use of Serenity Integrated Mentoring SIM.. I understand that in some areas it uses a different acronym, but it is designed to help police officers and NHS teams handle persistent users of emergency services who have mental health conditions, and is provided via training from the High Intensity Network HIN. or Health Innovation Network HIN..
Please provide the following information:
• • • The number of police officers working with your trust as part of SIM or equivalent..
• • • • The number of service users on the programme in your Trust area. Please break this down by the
• year they started participating, as well as their age group, gender and ethnicity.
• • • • The number of service users who stopped participating in the programme. Please break this down
• by year, and whether their decision to stop participating was made in agreement with Trust staff.
• • • • The number of uses of s136 of the Mental Health Act carried out by officers participating in SIM
• in your area, by year since your trust began participating in/using SIM.
• • • • The number of times service users on the programme required admittance to hospital or the use of
• emergency services since your trust began using SIM.
• • • • Please provide any data protection impact assessments carried out regarding your use of SIM.
• • • • Please provide any Equality Impact Assessments regarding your use of SIM.
• • • • I understand that in May 2021 Tim Kendall at NHS England asked all Trusts using SIM to review it.
• Please provide a copy of the letter requesting this review, confirm whether or not your Trust has completed a review, and if it has, any correspondence with NHS England confirming that you have submitted the review.
•
037-2022
Sent: 22 February 2022 19:41
To: Freedom of Information
Cc: isabelblench@gmail.com
Subject: FOI Request – Social Media and Mobile Phone Guidelines
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following information: Any guidelines, protocols, policies or similar you have in place for patients under your psychiatric care regarding:
· Use of mobile phones
· Use of cameras/video recording devices or similar
· Use of social media Please could you provide this information for both adults and patients aged under 18 on residential wards and, if relevant, outpatients?
I would like to receive the information in an electronic format. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad, I would be grateful if you could contact me by telephone 07714287702. and let me know how I could refine the request.
If you don’t have all the relevant information, please could I have access to that which you do have.
066-2122
I want to submit a request for some information from the organisation, in relation to their contract’s register.
The FULL contract register should display all the organisations existing/live contracts I would like the register to display the following columns/headings:
1. Contract Reference -Unique reference number associated with the contract.
2. Contract Title
3. Procurement Category –Please state the Category name of the contract, I wish to know the Category the contract is under. 4. Supplier Name
5. Spend Total or Annual.
6. Contract Duration
7. Contract Extensions
8. Contract Starting Date
9. Expiration Date
10. Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
11. Contact Owner Full contact details if possible..
12. CPV codes/ProClass
IMPORTANT
1. For those organisations planning to make an exemption around spend, the spend information I have requested is an overall figure and I am not requesting a complete breakdown of services relating to the spend.
2. If the organisation has a CRM system or a similar system, there should be a facility to download and extract contract data.
3. You may forward me a Weblink to a portal to download the contract register, please make sure all of the organisation’s contracts are provided as doing prior research I have found that most organisations have only uploaded a small portion of all of their contracts.
Please do not think that this is the only information I require if you could provide me with more information that would be great.
Contract Data/API Contact Details
13. Can you also provide me with contact details of the person responsible for the actual contract’s register or someone responsible for API? [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address] At the very least provide me with their actual job title.
Meaning of API “a set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.”.
Please provide me with the contract’s register file in an excel format.
Thanks in advance.
065-2122
Sent: 23 March 2021 10:43
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request – Confidential waste
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————————-FOI Team,
Please could you confirm if you can provide the following information Free of Charge or if a fee will be applicable – If a fee is applicable please confirm the price before providing any information.?
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.
Confidential Waste The details we require are:
• Has confidential waste being procured via tender or framework or another means?
• If a framework, could you confirm the name of the framework please?
• Actual contract values of each framework/contract & any sub lots. • Start date & duration of contract
• Is there an extension clause in the frameworks./contracts. and, if so, the duration of the extension? • Has a decision been made yet on whether the frameworks./contracts. are being either extended or renewed? • Who is the procurement officer responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?
Who is the senior officer outside of procurement. responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?
• Who is the current supplier?
• If your current supplier is a Facilities Management/Waste Company, which sub-contractor services your organisation?
064-2122
Sent: 20 March 2021 00:13
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Cultural Competency Toolkits
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Good morning. I am a Doctorate in Public Health Student with Teesside University and l am investigating cultural competency in the NHS. I am kindly requesting a copy of your Cultural Competency Toolkit under the freedom of Information Act 2000..
060-2122
The following freedom of information request is designed to establish what process and specific software tools are used to administer your board meeting / senior management meeting process, within the NHS Trust. I am requesting this information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. How does the NHS Trust administer and manage board and other senior managed events? – what process is followed to prepare, collate and manage the board meeting documents pack, including print / e-mail and distribution? 2. Is a “manual process” used for the above or does the NHS Trust use a dedicated Software tool? 3. If yes, what is the name of the software tool used? 4. If no, is the NHS Trust considering to acquire such a tool or “Board Portal” at some time in the future? 5. Who is the most appropriate person, within the NHS Trust, to contact regarding this matter?
I look forward to hearing from you regarding my request,