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I am writing to request the following information from your NHS trust:
• The number of whistleblowing claims raised with the trust in the past five calendar years 2018-2022., broken down by year, department and main concern i.e. patient safety, poor care/abuse, etc.
• If possible, please specify how many claims were investigated, how many resulted in disciplinary/organisational action, and how many were dismissed
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
Which hospitals in your Trust open elective theatres at the weekend? please list the name of the hospital followed by a Y/N as to whether elective theatres are open at the weekend.
How many of the following scans has your Trust carried out in the last year, broken down by daily activity?
o CT Scans
o MRI Scans
o X Rays
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000 FOIA. Request
We write to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the following information:
Policies and guidelines in place in 2014 relating to:
Mental health assessments
Detaining patients following mental health assessments
Crisis and Recovery Team referrals
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for the period August 2022 – August 2023 regarding the employment and related details of Physician Associates PAs. within your trust. I believe this information is essential for public interest, transparency, and to better understand the role of PAs within the healthcare system. Please provide the information in digital media, specifically PDF, Excel, or Word documents.
To facilitate the processing of my request, please provide the following details:
1. Number of Physician Associates PAs. Employed:
– Please provide the total number of Physician Associates employed in your trust for the stated time period.
2. Average Annual Salary of PAs:
– Please disclose the average annual salary, or salary range, for Physician Associates employed in your trust for the stated time period, and a breakdown of how many PAs are on each Agenda for Change pay band.
3. Average Weekly Working Hours:
– Specify the average number of hours worked per week by Physician Associates employed at your trust for the stated time period, and the average number of hours worked outside of the 9am-5pm time range.
4. Job Duties and Responsibilities:
– Provide a detailed description of the job duties and responsibilities of Physician Associates within your trust for the stated time period.
5. Supervision and Accessibility:
– Clarify what profession and grade are supervising Physician Associates and whether PAs at your trust are able to attend work if their supervising clinician is not immediately contactable by them.
6. Role in Filling Rota Gaps:
– Indicate whether Physician Associates at your trust are permitted to fill rota gaps left by GMC Registered Medical Doctors. If so, specify the grade of doctors they are authorised to cover for.
7. Hourly Rates for Bank Shifts:
– Please provide the hourly rate range paid to Physician Associates working bank shifts at your trust for the stated time period. Break down this range according to years of service if applicable.
8. Prospective Employment:
– Please disclose the number of Physician Associates your trust plans to employ in the next 5 years, or business cases out for employing PAs in the next 5 years.
I understand that the Act requires a response within 20 working days. If, for any reason, my request cannot be fulfilled within this timeframe, please let me know the expected timeframe for a response and the reasons for any delays.
Please could you let me know about the services that you use to collect offensive and clinical waste? Forgive me if I’ve missed this on your website. Specifically, could you please let me know when you will next tender for these services, which framework you prefer and the annual tonnage for offensive waste and clinical waste?
I am writing to obtain information about your Trust’s funding on interpreters and the
translation services they provide under the Freedom of Information Act.
To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting:
• How much the trust spent on foreign interpreters in each of the following financial years: 2019-20; 2020-21 and 2021-22.
• A breakdown of the languages that an interpreter was needed to translate.
I want to make a Freedom of Information request, could you please send me the following information with regards to the organisation’s Mobile Phones contract.
You may have received the same request in the past and this information sent has now expired and I require an update as soon as possible for the following information:
If there is more than one provider, please split all the information including the annual average spend, number of connections, duration, contract dates and internal contact details.
1. Network Providers. – Please provide me with the network provider name e.g., EE, Telefonica, Vodafone, Three
2. Annual Average Spend for each Network Provider – Can you please provide me with the average annual spend over the last 3 years. If this is a new contract, can you please provide the estimated annual spend.
3. Number of Connections- Number of connections for each network provider. Number of voices only devices, voice and data devices, data only devices. please provide me with the breakdown and not the overall total.
4. Duration of the contract- please state if the contract also includes contract extensions for each provider.
5. Contract Start Date- please can you provide me with the start date of the signed agreement. Please do not provide me with the framework contract date. I require the contract dates of the signed agreement. if there are multiple start dates, could you please provide me with the earliest date for each provider.
6. Contract Expiry Date- please can you provide me with the expiry date of the signed agreement. Please do not provide me with the framework contract date. I require the contract dates of the signed agreement. If the contract is rolling, please state.
7. Contract Review Date- Please can you provide me with a date when the organisation plans to review this contract.
8. The person in the organisation responsible for this particular contract. Can you send me the full contact details Contact Name, Job Title, Contact Number and direct email address for each network provider? If full contact details cannot be provided, please send me their actual job title.
9.If the mobile phone contract is provided by a managed contract, please provide me with the actual name of the network provider along with the number of connections and the internal contact from within the organisation responsible for this contract.
I am submitting this request, on behalf of myself, under the Freedom of Information Act and the Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS.
Please confirm the Trust holds the following data, and where it is held please provide the data as requested. I would like to receive this information by email.
1. Does the Trust provide a Specialist Tier 3 Weight Management Service?
2. What is the title and grade of the clinicians. who is clinically responsible for patients seen in this service?
3. Please provide any clinical pathways and/or protocols or service specifications for this service.
4. Please provide any quality metrics and/or reports for this service.
5. How many patients was/is the Trust commissioned for, in:
a. 2022/23?
b. 2023/24?
6. How many referrals did/has the Trust received., in:
a. 2022/23?
b. 2023/24?
7. How many patients are currently waiting for their first appointment in the T3WM service?
8. How does the Trust charge for this service:
a. NHS Tariff/Payment Scheme.
b. Other Per Appointment Pricing Scheme.
c. Per Patient/Pathway Pricing.
d. Block Arrangement.
I am writing a request for information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please could you provide me with:
– Numbers of people who have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia from 2019 to 2023;
– How much, in terms of waiting times, did it took to have a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia;
Please provide me with a breakdown per gender and year.
Thank you very much for your response to the FoI request that we sent you on 8th November 2023. Your input is extremely appreciated and valued. We would like to ask for your collaboration one last time, by fully reviewing your answers and updating them as deemed adequate, in view of the information provided below and in the attachments.
Please refer to the attached document Reference Lists. to help quickly identify your answer to our FoI request. The document contains the name, date of response and reference number if provided. of all authorities that have been involved in this request.
Allow us to explain the context of this FoI request. Your answers are included in a global study on the challenges of public service organisations dealing with foreign languages, and their preparedness for the use of machine translation, a very common application of Artificial Intelligence AI.. We contacted over 500 public service organisations, consisting of all NHS Trusts, Police Forces and Local Councils in England. Previous studies have confirmed that most organisations do not have provisions for managing risks of using AI or machine translation specifically. Yet, there is sufficient evidence that these tools are very regularly used in these services, and that there is a real risk of harm caused by their misuse. Our research aims specifically at identifying good examples in public service organisations of the capacity to respond to these current societal and technological challenges.
We hope you understand the complexity of this project and the reason why we are asking you to review your answers. We have received very diverse replies from the different organisations we contacted, some of which have initially misinterpreted our request as not corresponding totally to the provisions of an FoI instrument, or found some of our questions ambiguous, or to be requesting information that we did not intend to collect.
This review request aims at giving all authorities equal opportunity to be duly represented, by sending to each and every one the clarifications that a few requested. Please read the attached PDF document FOI Q&A. and update your answers in view of the information provided. The document may seem excessively long, but for most organisations, it will simply confirm that you have given the adequate answers. Some of you will even recognise many of the clarifications. We ask that you please check the main section first, which answers queries about the questionnaire as a whole, and then the explanation of each question carefully.
If you do not deal with this, please pass this email along to the department/person in your Trust that does.
Please tell me of the length of the current waiting time between referral acceptance and Diagnostic Assessment for Adult ASD Autism Spectrum Disorder. in your Trust.
Please provide me with the details below. Section 1: Medical Locum Expenditure
1. 1.0 Between 1st April 2023 and 31st October 2023, what did the Trust spend on Agency Medical Locums? Clarification: Include all charges pay, agency fees, managed service fees, etc.. excluding VAT. All grades, including Consultants. a. 1.1 What proportion of this was attributed to the services of a Managed Service Provider MSP. / Neutral Vendor / Master Vendor and/or Technology Provider? Section 2: MSP & Tech 2.
3. 2.0 Does the Trust have a Managed Service / MSP either Neutral Vendor, Master Vendor, or otherwise. and/or technology for managing the supply of agency medics, and/or Direct Engagement? If the answer to question 1.0 is yes, please answer the following questions: a. 2.1 Which company provides this solution? Clarification: If there is more than one company involved, for example, if the tech/software is separate from the service provision, please list all contracts that are in place. Other than where an agency is providing managed services or tech, there is no need to list all of the locum agencies involved in the supply chain. b. 2.2 Which Framework was this contract / were these contracts procured under? c.
3. 2.3 Please disclose the expiry dates. of the contracts. 4.
4. 2.4 Please disclose the fee structure and cost of the above-mentioned provisions. Clarification: Excluding all elements of locum doctor pay / the cost of agency locums and excluding the agency commission charges, and excluding VAT.
2.5 What percentage of spend on agency medics was processed via a Direct Engagement model during October 2023? Clarification: how much of the agency locum spent during this period benefitted from VAT efficiency via a Direct Engagement provision? 2.6 What was the average hourly charge rate paid by the Trust for a Locum Consultant between 1st August – 31st October 2023? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT. 2.7 What was the maximum charge rate paid for a Locum Consultant between 1st August 2023 and 31st October 2023? Please specify the specialty. Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT Section 3: Accountable People 5. 3.0 Please provide the name, email address, telephone number, work mobile if applicable, and job title of the person responsible on behalf of the Trust, for the management of the above-mentioned contracts.. a. 3.1 If different, please also provide the same details of the person or persons accountable for delivering the Trust’s strategic objectives in relation to agency medics.
I would like to request the following information:
1. Please provide numbers and details of incident reports on psychiatric inpatient wards of any type. where a tampon, period pad, continence pants/pullups and/or menstrual cups or other period products were involved, used or are listed in the incident information .
Please include redacted details where possible.
Methods may relate to swallowing item, using to create ligature or using to block bath/basin, using to block door, using to hide other items etc
There may be other incident reports relating to period products, please provide these.
Please provide these details to the present day from 01/01/2020
This is my real name and I am requesting this information for my use
Section 1: Agency Nurse Expenditure 1. 1.0 Between 1st April 2023 and 31st October 2023, what did the Trust spend on Agency Nurses? Clarification: Include all charges pay, agency fees, managed service fees, etc.. excluding VAT. 1. 1.1 What proportion of this was attributed to the services of a Managed Service Provider MSP. / Neutral Vendor / Master Vendor and/or Technology Provider? Section 2: MSP & Tech 2. 2.0 Does the Trust have a Managed Service / MSP either Neutral Vendor, Master Vendor, or otherwise. and/or technology for managing the supply of agency nurses? 3.
If the answer to question 1.0 is yes, please answer the following questions: 1.
2. 2.1 Which company provides this solution? Clarification: If there is more than one company involved, for example, if the tech/software is separate from the service provision, please list all contracts that are in place. Other than where an agency is providing managed services or tech, there is no need to list all of the nurse agencies involved in the supply chain. 2. 2.2 Which Framework was this contract / were these contracts procured under? 3. 2.3 Please disclose the expiry dates. of the contracts. 4. 2.4 Please disclose the fee structure and cost of the above-mentioned provisions. Clarification: Excluding all elements of nurse pay / the cost of agency nurses excluding the agency commission charges, and excluding VAT. 5. 2.5 What was the average total cost paid by the Trust for a “Day Rate” Band 5 Agency Nurse between 1st August – 31st October 2022? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT. 6. 2.6 What was the average total cost paid by the Trust for a “Day Rate” Band 5 Agency Nurse between 1st August – 31st October 2023? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT. 7. 2.7 What was the maximum charge rate paid for a Band 5 Agency Nurse between 1st August 2023 and 31st October 2023? Clarification: Including pay and PAYE tax, NI, etc.., and agency fees. Exclude MSP / Tech fees and VAT Section 3: Accountable People 3.
4. 3.0 Please provide the name, email address, telephone number, work mobile if applicable, and job title of the person responsible on behalf of the Trust, for the management of the above-mentioned contracts..
5.
6. 3.1 If different, please also provide the same details of the person or persons accountable for delivering the Trust’s strategic objectives in relation to agency nurses.
Under the freedom of information act 2000 I’m requesting the following information on NHS hospital pharmacy services at your trust:
1. How many patient safety incidents, related to medication errors, were reported through your local risk management system in the past five financial years as follows:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
e. 2018/19
2. What percentage of inpatients at your trust received a reconciled list of medications within 24 hours of admission, in line with NICE guidance, in each of the following years:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
e. 2018/19
3. Please can you provide the number of full-time equivalent pharmacists and pharmacy technicians per 100 beds in your trust, and the vacancy rate for each, in the past five financial years as follows:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
e. 2018/19
4. What percentage of inpatient beds at your trust were visited daily by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the past five financial years as follows:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
e. 2018/19
Please provide the information by email. 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.
Thank you for your response.
However, I asked for a copy of the review that was sent to NHS England and the information you have given me is just a summary of the trust’s position.
I would therefore like to request and internal review as I would still like to see a copy of the original document.
—–Original Message—–
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Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 089-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response attached.
Kind Regards,
– —
Legal Services Officer Legal Services.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8357 Email: [email address] Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
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Please confirm if your Trust has contacted any external provider to deliver training for risk and risk assessments to Board members for the financial years.
21/22
2022 to October 2023
Can you please provide the following information:
1. Job descriptions and Bands for Records management department staff 2. Job descriptions and Bands for Access to Records department staff 3. Job descriptions and Bands for Information Governance department staff
Can you also please provide a structure for these teams and how many staff you employ in each team?
What is the approximate size of the population you serve?
How many staff do you currently employ?
How many AHPs do you currently employ?
What AHP services do you offer?
I would like to request information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please provide data on:
– How many times pest control has been called out by your Trust for EACH year for instances of rodents rats or mice. for 2017, 2018. 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Please provide information on how much was spent per annum on pest control for these call outs for rodents rats or mice. for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
What is the approximate size of the population you serve?
How many staff do you currently employ?
How many AHPs do you currently employ?
What AHP services do you offer?
For the time periods contained in cells B-F please provide statistical information relating to individuals who died whilst receiving in-patient psychiatric care at any facility in your jurisdiction. Please provide the total for the 5 year period in cell G. If you are unable to provide all the information request please provide as much information as possible. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
1. How many individuals died whilst recieving in-patient psychiatric care? 2. How many of the individuals who died whilst recieving in-patient psychiatric care were not detained under the Mental Health Act 1983? 3. How many non-detained patients: a. Died from self inflicted causes b. Died from natural causes c. Died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police called to assist medical staff 4. Of the non-detained patients who died from self inflicted causes how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 5. Of the non-detained patients who died from self inflicted causes and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d.Other ethnic group 6. Of the non detained patients who died from natural causes how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 7. Of the non detained patients who died from natural causes and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d. Other ethnic group 8. Of the non detained patients who died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police how many were: a. White b. BAME c. Not known/ not stated 9. Of the non – detained patients who died during or after being restrained by medical staff or police and were BAME how many were: a. Black b. Asian c. Mixed ethnicity. Where possible please break this down into: i. Mixed White/Black ii. Mixed White/Asian d.Other ethnic group
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————————-FOI team,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I’m requesting the following information on employees with post-Covid syndrome.
1. How many employees at your trust have an ongoing absence from work owing to illness from COVID-19 that has been ongoing for 12 weeks or more as of 11 March 2022?
2. How many employees at your trust have had an absence from work owing to illness from COVID-19 that lasted for 12 weeks or more between 30 January 2020 and 11 March 2022?
3. How many RIDDOR reports has your trust submitted to HSE since 30 January 2020 relating to:
a. accidents or incidents at work which have, or could have, led to the release or escape of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. dangerous occurrences.?
b. a person at work a worker. having been diagnosed as having COVID-19 attributed to an occupational exposure to coronavirus a case of disease.?
c. the death of a worker as a result of occupational exposure to coronavirus a work-related death due to exposure to a biological agent.?
Please provide the information by email.
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.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response within 20 working days.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in order to determine whether your trust provides any training or professional development about being an active bystander in response to sexual harassment and misconduct in the workplace context. If this training is available, please can you provide information on:
1. whether this training is mandatory or elective;
2. if any pamphlets, brochures, handbooks, online materials which can be sent to me as a PDF. or similar content is made available either stand alone or as part of the training, and if so, please attach it to the FOI response; and
3. where available, the number or percentage of your staff who have completed this training and/or education.
In the absence of this training, can you specify whether such education and/or training is being actively considered or if your trust is in the process of implementing this training.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request. I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as outlined by the statute.
BI Team, Sally Pitt, Lyn Sansom————————-FOI team,
I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information.
1. How many beds on CAMHS inpatient wards were provided by your Trust on 1 March in each of the following years?
i. 2017
ii. 2018
iii. 2019
iv. 2020
v. 2021
2. What was the total amount spent on agency nurses in each of the following years, in relation to CAMHS inpatient services?
i. 2017
ii. 2018
iii. 2019
iv. 2020
v. 2021
3. What was the total amount spent on bank nurses in each of the following years, in relation to CAMHS inpatient services? Please understand ‘bank nurses’ to be nurses employed via NHS nursing banks.
i. 2017
ii. 2018
iii. 2019
iv. 2020
v. 2021
Please also answer the following question if it is possible within the cost limit. If the following question would exceed the cost limit then please only answer questions 1 to 3 above.
4. How many full-time equivalent unregistered/support worker staff were you employing in relation to CAMHS inpatient services on 1 March in the following years:
i. 2018
ii. 2019
iii. 2020
iv. 2021
v. 2022
Please also answer the following question if it is possible within the cost limit. If the following question would exceed the cost limit then please only answer questions 1 to 4 above.
5. On how many shifts were bank and agency nurses combined. used on CAMHS inpatient wards in the following years?
i. 2019
ii. 2020
iii. 2021 Please send the response via email to adam.eley@bbc.co.uk.
If you need any further information from me in order to deal with my request, please email me or call me on 07813 354685.
Please can you acknowledge receipt of this request.
Many thanks for your assistance.
Sent: 25 March 2022 10:04
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Re: FOI 042-2022 – Clarification Required This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. If unsure, please contact ghcit@ghc.nhs.uk
Hi thank you. Yes it relates to physical health and care by the Community/District Nursing teams.
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From: Freedom of Information
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 3:35:24 PM
To: WALLIS, Graham HILARY COTTAGE SURGERY.
Subject: FOI 042-2022 – Clarification Required ————————-Graham,
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 042-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
Can you please confirm if your request relates specifically to Mental Health, Physical Health or both? Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
Kind Regards,
– —
Legal Services Officer Legal Services. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8357 — Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
From: GHC Web Forms Sent: 24 February 2022 14:45
To: GHC Comms
Subject: Communication via the website
Submitted details:
How can we help you?
Please select an option… I have a question about the trust Your details
Your name Graham Wallis Your email address graham.wallis4@nhs.net Your phone number 01285 712377 What is your query? Hi
Please can you provide me with a copy of the GHC Policy/protocol for drug charts for community nurses, for treatments/injections prescribed by GPs.
Kind regards,
Graham.
Sent: 24 March 2022 11:48
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RE: FOI 040-2022 – Clarification Required This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. If unsure, please contact ghcit@ghc.nhs.uk
Yes many thanks JACQUI LLOYD
NINE LIVES MEDIA
114 – 116 BROADWAY
MEDIACITYUK
SALFORD
M50 2UW
TEL: +44 0.161 832 2007
FAX: +44 0.161 832 2003
TWITTER: @NineLivesMedia
www.ninelivesmedia.co.uk
jacqui.lloyd@ninelivesmedia.co.uk
Nine Lives Media is a Double Bafta, RTS and International Emmy Award Winning Company
Company Number: 3557150
VAT Number: 921267145
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From: Freedom of Information
To: Jacqui Lloyd
Subject: FOI 040-2022 – Clarification Required ————————-Jacqui, Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 040-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT was formed in October 2019 therefore we can only provide data from this time. Please can you confirm if this is acceptable and we will continue with your request?
Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
Kind Regards,
– —
Legal Services Officer Legal Services. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8357 — Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
From: Jacqui Lloyd [mailto:jacqui.lloyd@ninelivesmedia.co.uk] Sent: 24 February 2022 16:26
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FAO FOI OFFICER – FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST 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
————————-FOI Officer,
I am a journalist writing from Nine Lives Media. We are an independent television production company who make current affairs programmes for all the main broadcasters.
I am writing to request the information below under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If it is convenient, please use the table to provide the information:
Q1.. For each of the past five years please state the number of complaints reported by members of staff including locums, agency workers or casual staff. against other members of staff received of:
2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
Sexual Misconduct
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Assault
Rape Allegation Q2.. By year for each of the complaints recorded above can you state the outcome following each allegation:
a. Complaint withdrawn
b. Insufficient evidence to make a finding of fact.
c. Perpetrator cautioned – or similar note made on their employment file
d. Disciplinary action
e. Sacked
Q3.. By year can you state in each Category in the table how many of the complaints were referred to the police?
Q4.. By year, please state the number of settlement/compromise agreements which contain non-disclosure clauses your organisation made with current or former staff which involve or relate to sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape. For each of these, please state the number and financial value of the settlements.
I would be interested in any information held by your organisation regarding my request. I understand that I do not have to specify particular files or documents and it is the departments’ responsibility to provide the information I require. If you need further clarification, please contact me by email.
I would like the above information to be emailed to me in electronic form to Jacqui.lloyd@ninelivesmedia.co.uk
If my request is denied in whole or in part, I ask that you justify all redactions/withholding of material by reference to specific exemptions of the act. I will also expect you to release all non-exempt material. I reserve the right to appeal your decision to withhold any information or to charge excessive fees.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request. I look forward to your response within 20 working days as outlined by the statute.
Thank you for your help. Jacqui Lloyd Assistant Producer
Nine Lives Media
0161 832 2007
JACQUI LLOYD
NINE LIVES MEDIA
114 – 116 BROADWAY
MEDIACITYUK
SALFORD
M50 2UW
TEL: +44 0.161 832 2007
FAX: +44 0.161 832 2003
TWITTER: @NineLivesMedia
www.ninelivesmedia.co.uk
jacqui.lloyd@ninelivesmedia.co.uk
Nine Lives Media is a Double Bafta, RTS and International Emmy Award Winning Company
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Sent: 22 March 2022 17:58
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Re: FOI 038-2022 – Clarification Required
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Hi,
Please can you send me any information that you have available.
On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 14:10, Freedom of Information
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 038-2022
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT was formed in October 2019 therefore we can only provide data from this time. Please can you confirm if this is acceptable and we will continue with your request?
Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
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From: Sandra Buchan [mailto:sbuchan3@sheffield.ac.uk] Sent: 23 February 2022 20:55
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request: Board Composition
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————————-FOI Team,
I am a research student with an interest in the Board composition of NHS organisations. I am therefore contacting you for the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
Please could you kindly send via email, pdf copies of the annual reports for the financial years 2012/13 and 2013/14 for both 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Care NHS Trust. Please could you also provide for each organisation, pre and post the merger, the number of Board voting members including Executive and Non-Executive Directors, Chief Executive Officers, Chairs and Lay Members for each of the categories as listed in the table below for each financial year April – Mar. from 2012/13.
Freedom of Information Request: NHS Board Composition
Please can you enter the number of Board voting members including Executive and Non-Executive Directors, Chief Executive Officers, Chairs and Lay Members for each of the Category as listed in the table below for each financial year April – Mar.. Year Male Female White BAME, Mixed ethnicity, Other ethnicity Has a disability/impairment 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 to date. Kind regards
Sandra Buchan
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Perinatal Mental Health Team. I’m interested in data held between 2020 and the present day. Please can you tell me: 1. The number of patients referred or self-referred to the service and accepted for treatment, broken down by year 2. The number of patients referred or self-referred to the service and rejected, broken down by year. 3. A list of the reasons patients were rejected from the service, by year, broken down by proportion. 4. The number of appointments per year held by phone, online and in person broken down by type. 5. The average waiting time for a patient between referral and first appointment, broken down by year.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Trust. Please may you provide me with:
1. How many total referrals did your Trust receive for psychosexual services in the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021? Please give your responses in tabular form. 2. As per the form filled by GPs and health practitioners when referring patients, please give a detailed breakdown of total figures into categories for the reason referrals were made: Erectile dysfunction
Delayed ejaculation
Premature ejaculation
Vaginismus
Anorgasmia
Arousal problems
Loss of libido assumes endocrine causes ruled out.
Sexual pain non-organic.
Other please state.
If your Trust uses a different form/lists alternate reasons, please delineate that breakdown instead.
3. What is the trust’s target waiting time for adults who are referred to psychosexual services to start treatment?
4. What was the average waiting time to start treatment for adults referred to the Trust’s psychosexual services in 2019, 2020 and 2021 – or however best you delineate your yearly figures? Again, please provide answers in tabular form.
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Subject: Freedom of Information request – Long Covid statistics by NHS Trust
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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information on the number of staff impacted by long Covid under your trust.
How many staff members were recorded to have had long Covid while working for your trust at any time in the period between March 2020 – September 2021?
What were the five longest periods in days that a member of staff took a leave of absence due to long Covid in the time period between March 2020 – September 2021?
Could you state all leave of absences taken where long Covid was cited as the cause between March 2020 and September 2021.
Does your trust offer any specialised support for staff members living with long Covid? If so could you please provide details of these services.
What plans, if any, are in place to improve the support available to staff members who are living with long Covid while working for your trust?
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I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the size of your trusts net budget surplus or deficit in each of the last 5 financial years.
I am writing concerning all your waste management contracts to request the following information:
Waste Type
Waste tonnages
Incumbent contractor
Contract start:
Contract annual value
Length of the contract
The Authority’s intention to extend
Expected date for retender.
Name of waste contract officer
Please provide the information in the form of a table within a Word document or Excel 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. If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance. If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
For the years 2018, 2019, 2020,2021 and 2022 please provide the following broken down by calendar year
1. Number of people who sought/were referred for an ADHD diagnosis.
2. Number of individuals assessed for ADHD
3. Number of individuals diagnosed for ADHD
Please also break down the data into the following two categories: Children and Young people and Adults.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the time or cost limits identified in Section 12, please provide the information in part and chronologically with a priority placed upon 2022 data. Please also advise and assist, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request if needs be.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your Trust.
Can it be broken down for the past five years into each calendar year?
1. How many reports of stolen medical equipment has your Trust made to the police over the past five years?
2. Can you provide a list of medical equipment reported stolen to the police broken down via each department
3. Can you provide a total estimated financial cost for the equipment reported as stolen
Please disclose the information listed below by return email within 20 days as per the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Trust Payment arrangements for Bank worker shifts – what point on the Agenda for Change pay scale is paid? Do you administer any bank-enhanced rates of pay? If so, what are these and what staff groups/grades, and where are they applicable? What % of WTR payment is made with regards to Bank worker pay? What financial and non-financial benefits do your Bank workers have access to and what rationale for these?
Locum Nurse AHP NMNC Locum Nurse AHP NMNC Locum Nurse AHP NMNC Locum Nurse AHP NMNC
I am trying to understand the number of SME suppliers the public sector purchases from so please can you send me a list of all suppliers you purchase goods or services from and the annual value you bought from them in your last financial year. Please note this information is not commercially sensitive as all you will be giving me is the total money spent with each supplier not any detail of what you bought. Many thanks
Under the FOI Act please provide me with the information below. Please confirm receipt of this request as soon as possible. Please provide additional details of clinical service incidents caused by estates and infrastructure failures which resulted in clinical services being delayed, cancelled or otherwise interfered with owing to problems or failures related to the estates and infrastructure failure, as measured in the ERIC return, in the 2022/23 financial year. This information could be collected from incident reporting systems.
Include:
Where estates and facilities staff availability is a cause e.g. porters;
External incidents which estates and infrastructures should have mitigated, e.g. utility power failures where the trust’s backup power system failed to offset;
Equivalent failures by services contracted out to subsidiaries, PFI, LIFT and NHS Property Services Ltd;
Both inpatient and outpatient service incidents;
Types of incidents:
Design of healthcare buildings;
Engineering of healthcare buildings i.e. medical gas system and lift failure;
Fires, false alarms and evacuations exclude where caused by equipment faults or malfunction and/or deliberate/malicious causes.;
Infection control relating to the built environment;
Resilience of healthcare premises including flooding;
Heating including overheating;
Hospital food services;
Cleaning and cleanliness in healthcare premises;
Linen and laundry services;
Pest control;
Water and/or sewerage supply;
Decontamination of surgical instruments;
NHS car parking;
Healthcare waste management;
Bedside TVs, telephones and mobile phones;
Physical security of the NHS estate;
Portering.
For each incident, please provide:
1. A summary of the incident.
2. The number of patients affected.
3. The service affected.
4. How long the service was delayed/if it was cancelled.
I am writing today to implement a freedom of information request.
I want to know the number of occasions when written patient case notes green Rio subsidiary files. have been lost or gone missing at Charlton Lane Hospital from June 2012 until present.
I also need to know how many of these missing case note files were for patients who had died in the hospital.
1. Please provide information on the Trust Capital spend in the following format for all years Table structure & categorisation taken from NHS Capital guidance 2022 to 2025 page 26 dated April 2022 attached for info.
2022/23 Capital Spend Categories 2022/23 Actual spend 2023/24 Budgeted 2023/24 Latest forecast estimate 2024/25 Budget
1 New build – Land and dwellings 2 New build – Theatres and critical care 3 New build – Wards 4 New build – Diagnostics 5 New build – A&E/AAU 6 New build – Non-clinical 7 New build – Car parking 8 New build – Multiple areas/other 9 Routine maintenance non-backlog. – Land, buildings and dwellings
10 Backlog maintenance – Significant and high risk CIR. 11 Backlog maintenance – Moderate and low risk 12 IT – Clinical systems 13 IT – Other software 14 IT – Hardware 15 IT – Telephony 16 IT – Cybersecurity, infrastructure/ networking 17 IT – Other 18 Fire safety 19 Plant and machinery 20 Equipment – Non-clinical 21 Equipment – Clinical theatres and critical care 22 Equipment – Clinical diagnostics 23 Equipment – Clinical other 24 Fleet, vehicles and transport 25 Fixtures and fittings 26 Other – Intangible assets 27 Other – including Investment property 2. For the following spend categories, please provide a best estimate of the total % spent replacing existing equipment as opposed to investing in additional capacity. 3. Are ICS’s having an impact on ability to spend capital funds on new equipment? If yes please describe operational challenges and expected timeline to be resolved
I would like to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following information regarding Gloucestershire Health And Care NHS Foundation Trust. 1. The total duration in days or hours. for which services were closed due to maintenance or repair works. Please can you provide the data with the following breakdowns:
a. Yearly for the financial years 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-13
b. The impacted site c. The impacted service area e.g. surgery, outpatient, inpatient etc.. d. The total number of cancelled services due to this 2. The total duration in days or hours. for which services were closed due to estates and infrastructure failures e.g. damages, equipment deficiencies.. Please can you provide the data with the following breakdowns:
a. Yearly for the financial years 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-13
b. The impacted site c. The impacted service area e.g. surgery, outpatient, inpatient etc.. d. The total number of cancelled services due to this
Please could you provide me with a list of each of the NHS patients, aged less than 18years, within your trust who have been billed for NHS care during the whole of the financial year of 2020-21, and any from the financial year 2021/22 that you currently have available. Please do not include the billing of any EEA nationals, or private patients. If possible, please format the data in an excel spreadsheet and include:
1. Year of birth
2. Country of birth
3. Nationality
4. Sex
5. Ethnicity
6. Date of entry into the UK
7. Amount billed
8. Date billed
9. Whether charging was deemed non-urgent, urgent or immediately necessary if this is evident.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information:
1. Does your Trust provide adult eating disorder services?
2. If so, what is the current waiting time from referral to assessment?
3. What is the current waiting time from assessment to treatment?
4. How many people are currently waiting for treatment?
1. Please confirm your Trust’s overall spending on Translation and Interpreting Services, for each of the financial years:
a. 2020-2021:
b. 2022-2023:
2. Please provide a breakdown of languages for the last 12 months
3. What languages were your suppliers not able to supply in 2022?
4. Which external suppliers. do you currently use to deliver your interpreting and translation services ?
5. Are you able to provide approximate fee / interpreting session for:
a. In-person/face to face interpreting
b. Telephone interpreting
c. Video interpreting
6. If you outsource the provision of interpreting services to an external provider, could you please confirm:
a. Whether the provider was contracted via a national framework? If so, which one?
b. When does the current contract expire?
c. Is there is an exclusivity clause, which would prevent the trust from piloting new cost saving interpreting services during the duration of your contract with your existing provider?
7. From which budget within your organisation are interpreting services funded?
8. Where do you advertise your tenders? If you do not do a full tender / which frameworks would you use?
9. What is the start and end date for either the framework or direct contracts you have with interpreting and translation suppliers.?
10. Please provide the name and email of the contract manager for the service
11. If we would like to engage in conversation with a member of staff in your organisation to discuss the innovation we propose to develop, who would be the most suitable person to approach?
Freedom of Information request
Dear Officer,
I would like to raise a Freedom of Information request. Please complete the questions below and return to me:
For each system identified in a column please complete the following questions: Electronic stock management Baby tagging in Maternity Patient location system RFID staff and/or patient location and security Patient flow monitoring Tagged asset management system for monitoring use and location of medical equipment and devices and other assets.
What system does the Trust use? Which departments is the system rolled out to? E.g. stores, theatres, ED, wards how many., outpatients how many. When did the Trust go-live or start using the system? When does the current contract for the system expire? Who is responsible for managing the current system contract? Please provide email address. What is the annual cost of the system contract? I appreciate your time and response to my FOI request.
Dear Sir/Madam
Under the Freedom of Information Act I would like to request the following information:
1. In your NHS Trust, how many patients have been seen with insomnia over the last 12 months?
2. Does your NHS Trust currently offer face-to-face Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia for people experiencing chronic insomnia symptoms?
3. Has your NHS Trust previously offered face-to-face Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia for people experiencing chronic insomnia symptoms, but now no longer do so?
4. Does your NHS Trust currently offer or signpost to digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia for people experiencing chronic insomnia symptoms?
5. Has your NHS Trust previously offered or signposted to digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia for people experiencing chronic insomnia symptoms, but now no longer do so?
6. Within your NHS Trust, could you provide a figure for how many referrals were made to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia services within the last 12 months that you have figures for?
I’d like to request information for this financial year 2023/24. for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
I’m requesting this information under the Freedom of Information Act because I couldn’t find it in your relevant Integrated Care Board’s ICB. published papers.
We had sent FOI requests to the relevant ICBs but were told we would need to send FOI requests to NHS trusts.
My request is as follows:
Firstly, please could you tell me the NHS agency/locum spending cap/ceiling agreed at the start of this financial year.
Secondly, please could you send me the following data from the financial plans submitted at the start of the year, giving the planned positions for each month from M1 to M12:
1. Trust financial position revenue expenditure.
a. Planned surplus/deficit
b. Planned expenditure
2. Workforce expenditure
a. Planned agency/locum spend
b. Planned bank spend
c. Planned total staff expenditure
3. Efficiency savings
a. Planned efficiency savings
Finally, please could you send me the following data for each month of this financial year to date:
1. Trust financial position
a. Actual surplus/deficit, and forecast outturn for M12
b. Actual expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12
2. Workforce expenditure
a. Actual agency/locum spend, and forecast outturn for M12
b. Actual bank spend, and forecast outturn for M12
c. Actual spend relating to industrial action, and forecast outturn for M12
d. Actual total staff expenditure, and forecast outturn for M12
3. Efficiency savings
a. Achieved efficiency savings, and forecast outturn for M12
4. Prescribing costs
a. Actual spend relating to prescribing, and forecast outturn for M12
I would appreciate it if you could return the data in a computer-readable format such as CSV or XLSX.
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 am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, separated by the hospitals within your trust:
Could you please provide me with the total number of EUS-FNB procedures have you performed overall in the past year 2021. and how many have been done so far?
Please provide the information in the form of an email to anna@quomeda.com
If it is not possible to provide the information requested for each hospital within your trust, please provide it for the trust overall.
If, after that consideration, this request exceeds 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 and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for.
I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000..
Could you please tell me:
– What is the number of asylum seeking and/or undocumented migrant women who had a miscarriage while in the care of your trust in the latest one year period you have data for?
– What is the overall number of women who had a miscarriage while in care of your trust during the same period?
– What is the total number of pregnant women you cared for during the same period?
– What is the number of asylum seeking and/or undocumented migrant women who had a stillbirth while in the care of your trust in the latest one year period you have data available for?
– What is the overall number of women who had a stillbirth while in care of your trust during the same period?
– What is the total number of pregnant women you cared for during the same period?
Also:
– Are you using private debt firms to recover treatment costs from overseas patients ineligible for free NHS treatment?
– In the latest year you have data available for, how much money did you recover from ineligible patients, and how much was the total debt?
– In the latest year you have data available for, how much money did you spend on fees for private debt firms to help recover payment from patients ineligible for free NHS treatment?
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Request 1A:
For 2021 please can I request the total number of times an inpatient in a mental health care facility within your trust. was restrained.
Request 1B:
For 2020 please can I request the total number of times an inpatient in a mental health care facility within your trust. was restrained.
Request 1C:
For 2019 please can I request the total number of times an inpatient in a mental health care facility within your trust. was restrained.
Please can this information be sent to me electronically. If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.
Under section 16 of the Freedom of Information act I request you offer advice and assistance on this request if necessary.