Responses

Sent: 21 October 2021 17:54
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RE: FOI 237-2122 – Clarification Required This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. If unsure, please contact ghcit@ghc.nhs.uk
Many thanks for your email – yes please if you could respond with the data available since the trust was formed that would be great. Thanks again for your help, From: Freedom of Information Sent: 19 October 2021 12:00
To: Gorman, Chris Subject: FOI 237-2122 – Clarification Required ——————-
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 237-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
• Regarding Q3-Q6 Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT was formed in October 2019 therefore we couldn’t provide the full financial data you are requesting. Please confirm if you wish us to answer this request still but with data from October 2019 onwards?
Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
Kind Regards,
Legal Services Officer Legal Services. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8357 Email: .uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
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————————-FoI lead, Please find below a request under the Freedom of Information Act. This information would normally be provided by your trust’s patient equality lead/manager, possibly in conjunction with the leads for your patient administratioppointment-booking systems. Questions:
1 – At the point of registration/referral, in line with the Accessible Information Standard, does your trust currently:
• A – ask all patients whether they have any information or communication support needs, and find out how to meet those needs?
• B – routinely highlight or ‘flag’ in the person’s file or notes that they have information or communication needs which must be met?
• C – routinely share this information with other providers of NHS and adult social care, when patients have given consent/permission to do so?
2 – Barriers to compliance:
• A – If you have answered ‘no’ to 1A, what is the main reason why this is not currently done?
• B – If you have answered ‘no’ to 1B, what is the main reason why this is not currently done? • C – If you have answered ‘no’ to 1C, what is the main reason why this is not currently done?
3 – If you have answered yes to 1B, what is the process by which patients’ needs are recorded and subsequently acted on? eg via pop-up alerts within patient administration system, use of colour-coded stickers within paper records.
4 – In the last three full financial years 2020/21, 2019/20 and 2018/19., have you undertaken any audits to assess your compliance against the Accessible Information Standard or the provision of accessible information generally? If yes, please share any resulting reports/findings.
5 – In the last three full financial years 2020/21, 2019/20 and 2018/19., how many complaints has your trust received which primarily related to patients not receiving information in accessible formats? If it is not possible to provide these figures in full without incurring the Act’s Section 12 time/cost limit, please provide any figures you are able to within the limit eg figures for one year, any snapshot reports/audits.
6 – Please provide figures for your trust’s spending on interpreting and translation into non-English languages if possible, excluding British Sign Language BSL. interpreting and translation of materials into easy read. for the last three full financial years 2020/21, 2019/20 and 2018/19. together, if possible, with the number of requests for interpreting/translation that this represents.
If it is not possible to provide the details requested without incurring the Act’s Section 12 time/cost limit, please the information you are able to provide within the limit. I look forward to receiving your response. Please do not hesitate to contact me via chris.gorman@healthwatch.co.uk if you require any clarification. To avoid any potential confusion please note that this request has been submitted by Healthwatch England – a separate organisation to any local Healthwatch organisations which may operate in your area.
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204-2122

Sent: 17 August 2021 16:24
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of information request: funding to charities and third sector bodies
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
This is an information request relating to payments made to charities and third sector organisations. Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:
• • • The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information
• for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.
• • • • The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information
• for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately. • The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:
• • • Operation Black Vote
• • • • U.K. Black Pride
• • • • Mermaids
• • • • Ozanne Foundation
• • • • Gendered Intelligence
• • • • British Medical Association
• • • • ActionAid UK • • • • Hope Not Hate • • • • Led by Donkeys
• • • • Extinction Rebellion
• • • • Migrants Organise
• • • • CLASS • • • • Black Lives Matter
• • • • Action on Smoking and Health
• • • • Action on Smoking and Health Scotland
• • • • Action on Smoking and Health Wales
• • • • Breath 2025
• • • • Association of Directors of Public Health
• • • • Improving Performance in Practice previously Public Management Associates. • I would prefer a response via email, but if this is not possible, I will gladly accept letters to the address below.
Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.

194-2122

Sent: 03 August 2021 17:35
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Covid-19 Vaccines Administered, Discarded and/or Thrown Away.
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————————-FOI Officer, I am writing to request the following information regarding the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered by centres run by your Trust, and the number of vaccine doses discarded or thrown away at these centres run by your trust. Please provide figures and information for the time period starting from when the UK vaccine-roll out began in December 2020 – Present. 1. The total number of single Covid-19 vaccine doses administered by all health authorities within your trust each month, broken down by manufacturer, e.g. AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna. 2. The total number of single vaccine doses that have been wasted or discarded at vaccine hubs controlled by your trust each month, broken down by manufacturer, e.g. AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna. 3. Please state the reasons for this wastage or discarding, e.g. dropped or contaminated vials; human error in the preparation process; expired stock; leftover doses; and faulty syringes.
If you do not hold this specific information I would be grateful if in line with Section 16 of the Act you could provide me advice and assistance as to what information you hold that is relevant to my request. Similarly, if you require any clarification regarding my above questions then please contact me under your section 16 duty.
I understand that under the FOI Act I should be entitled to a response within 20 working days. I would be grateful if you could confirm via email that you have received this request. If obtaining the information I require is likely to incur a fee, then I would also be grateful if you could warn me about this before proceeding.

187-2122

Sent: 23 July 2021 10:37
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request
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Hi, I have been passed your details from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts to complete the attached Freedom of Information request. Please could you provide a response to the FOI attached? Many thanks and best wishes
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175-2022

Friday 8th June 2022
RE: Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
————————-Information Team
This is an information request relating to staff networks at the Trust. As an example of a staff network, see here: https://www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-and-diversity/lgbt-staff-network/ Please provide me with the following information:
• A list of all the staff networks at the trust
• Whether each network receives funding from the trust and, if so, how much please express annually for the last three financial years.
• How much FTE equivalent staff time each network is entitled to. For example, a staff network may have a chair who’s entitled to spend 10% of their working hours devoted to the network please express annually for the last three financial years.
• A list of events that each network has held in this financial year so far April to the present day., including the title of the event, information on any guest speakers and the time of the event
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for.
I would prefer a response via email, but if this is not possible, I will gladly accept letters to the address below.
Please acknowledge this information request as soon as possible.

170-2021

Please can I request under the FOIA 2000.:
A. For 2021 please supply the total number of times a patient absconded from inpatient mental health facilities within the Trust;
i. A breakdown of absconsions per facility
B. For 2020 please supply the total number of times a patient absconded from inpatient mental health facilities within the Trust;
i. A breakdown of absconsions per facility
C. For 2019 please supply the total number of times a patient absconded from inpatient mental health facilities within the Trust;
i. A breakdown of absconsions per facility
i.e. A. 50 Absconsions
i. 10 – Ward x
20 – Ward y
Please can this information be sent to me electronically. If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary. I would like to remind you of your duty under section 16 of the Freedom of Information act to offer such advice and assistance on a request if necessary.
If this request is too wide please can I request that requests A,B,C are answered before a refusal is given.
Please reply to this email as form of a receipt.

168-2022

I am writing to request some information about your Hospital Trust under the Freedom of Information Act. This information is being requested from the following contact: Role: Head of Insights
Could you please provide the following information to me via email:
1. Does your Trust routinely offer Laboratory based Coagulation testing? please answer either yes or no to this question..
2. If you answered yes to question 1, can you please provide us with a list of the tests that you perform.
3. If you answered yes to question 1 can you please tell us if any of these tests are sent away for testing outside of your trust please also detail which tests are sent away..

163-2022

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
Have any discussions been held internal to the Trust or with external parties or are any planned to be held. about the use of Private Healthcare Companies to deliver healthcare services at Wotton Lawn Hospital or Mental Health community services in Glos?
What were the healthcare requirements behind any such

160-2022

Good morning, In line with the freedom of information act, please could you let me know the following information in accordance with your guidelines: 1. 1. Do you currently use digital dictation? Yes/No
2. If yes, who is your provider for digital dictation?
3. If no, what is your process for letter production?
4. What is the contract end date for your current digital dictation provider?
5. Do you use outsourced transcription or speech recognition or both?
6. Who are your suppliers for each?
7. What is the contract end date for these suppliers?
8. What EPR and PAS system is used?
9. What is your current letter turnaround time target from appointment to letter sent to the GP.?
10. Are you compliant with this target?
11. Do your teams suffer from letter backlogs due to capacity?
12. How many secretarial/admin staff are employed to support outpatient letter production?
I look forward to hearing from you.

151-2022

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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

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,

—
Elliot Keck, Investigations Campaigns Manager
TaxPayers’ Alliance, 55 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QL
+44 0. 20 7340 6020
+44 0.7562015901
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

Media

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

NHS

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

Student University

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

Media

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