This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
This FOI request refers to a Local Care Record or Shared Care Record. This is defined as a way to electronically access patient data from outside your Trust e.g. from local GP surgeries, or other local hospitals/healthcare providers.. This includes software like a clinical portal or healthcare information exchange HIE., or a point-to-point interface. This does not include access to NHS spine summary care records.
1a. In what year was the first implementation of a Local Care Record/Shared Care Record in your Trust? 1b. Please specify the name and vendor software supplier. for this first Local Care Record/Shared Care Record implementation.
1c. What local providers did this Local Care Record/Shared Care Record include? For GPs please specify the regions.. For hospitals, please name the hospital. Many thanks for your help with this data, which is being used for academic purposes. Your time is much appreciated.
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088-2122
Sent: 17 April 2021 19:20
To: Freedom of Information
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I am making a Freedom of Information request to your Trust . I would like to know: a. How many people are currently regarded as habitual / unreasonably persistent / vexatious complainants under your Trust’s Complaints policy?
b. How many have been regarded as habitual / unreasonably persistent / vexatious complainants under your complaints policy in the last five years?
and a copy of the protocol / policy on how your Trust deals with enquiries from Members of Parliament. Thank you.
084-2122
Sent: 17 April 2021 18:26
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI request
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I would like to put in a request of information. The questions are as follows:
Which Risk Management System do you use? Which version of the system are you currently using?
Have you received an upgrade in the last 18 months? Do you have a dedicated administrator for your risk management system ? By dedicated we mean more than 75% of their role is to administrate, maintain and develop the system
What is the AfC grade of the dedicated administrator person?
077-2122
Sent: 07 April 2021 12:24
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Requesting information on Electronic Document Management System
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————————-Gloucestershire Hlth and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
In January 2019, the Government announced its new NHS Long Term Plan, and part of that plan requires all secondary healthcare providers to transition to digital records by 2023. We are now two years into the plan, and we would like to establish where your Trust is within the process. We would be grateful if you could respond to the questions below.
1. Have you already started digital conversion of your paper medical records? YES/NO
If YES, which outsource provider do you use?
1. a. Do you undertake any scanning in-house? YES/NO
2. If you have not yet started to digitise your medical records do you have a timescale for when you would like to start this project? Please advise one of the following. • Within 6 months • Within 12 months • Within 18 months • Within 24 months • Other please state estimated timescale.
• No plans
3. If you are planning a digital transformation project, how will you manage the procurement? • OJEU • Framework
• Other please advise which.
3. a. If the answer is Framework, which framework will you use? Please advise one of the following. • LPP • ESPO • SBS • H.T.E. • NOE CPC • Other please advise which.
4. Who has responsibility for digital transformation/medical records digitisation within the Trust? Please provide:
• Name
• Job title
• Contact details
5. Does the Trust have an EDMS Electronic Document Management System.? YES/NO
If YES:
• Which system is in use?
• When does the contract expire?
If NO, does the Trust have a plan to procure an EDMS? YES/NO
6. What are the timescales to procure an EDMS? Please advise one of the following.
• Within 6 months • Within 12 months • Within 18 months • Within 24 months • Other please state estimated timescale.
• No plans
7. Which EPR Electronic Patient Record. systems does the Trust use?
8. Does the Trust have the ability to deliver “Virtual Clinics”? YES/NO
Thank you for your assistance.
076-2122
Sent: 07 April 2021 15:42
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI housing support 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
I would like to request, under the freedom of information act, the following information for adult mental health services in Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust.
1. The number of nurses or support workers who support patients regarding their housing while they are inpatient in a mental health unit. These could be housing officers, housing support workers, special housing nurses, or similar professions that are specialised in housing support.
2. The protocol for discharging homeless patients or patients who face homelessness after their discharge. Please provide a document with the discharge policy or, if there is no document, please state what the protocol is.
3. The number of nurses or support workers who support mental health patients regarding their housing while they are in the community. These could be housing officers, housing support workers, special housing nurses, or similar professions that are specialised in housing support.
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.
070-2122
We are contacting you to ask for further information on how your health visiting services have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As you may recall, Dr. Gabriella Conti, professor at the Department of Economics, University College London, and our team are working to evaluate the impact of health visiting on health outcomes in England. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic we have been concerned about the families and children that rely on health visitors for vital care and safeguarding. Our research on health visiting during the pandemic has already reached policy makers and chief nurses, was cited in the recent Westminster Hall Debate on maternal mental health led by Sarah Olney MP, and was featured on a BBC radio programme and in news outlets such as the Guardian. You have already provided us with highly valuable information on your health visiting services during the first wave of COVID-19. We released our findings in a briefing note – do let us know if you would like us to share this with you. This has been shared widely and was well received by Andrea Leadsom’s Early years healthy development review team. Thank you for your helpful responses. We hope to continue improving awareness of the challenges faced by health visiting teams and raising health visiting up the policy agenda.
Our first FOI request asked about staff redeployment up to September, but the pandemic continued, with further waves of COVID-19. We are, therefore, seeking information on your health visiting teams for the subsequent period. We are writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Regarding how Covid-19 has affected your health visiting teams for Gloucestershire County Council since September 2020: 1. Have you redeployed any health visiting staff between 1st September and 31st March? 2. If Q1 is yes, what was the start date of redeployment? The date on which the first staff member left their post for redeployment between 1st September and 31st March.. Please indicate in your response if redeployment was ongoing from before September. 3. If Q1 is yes, what was the end date of redeployment? The date on which the last staff member returned to their post from redeployment between 1st September and 31st March..
4. If Q1 is yes, what was the maximum number of full time equivalent FTE. health visitors both with and without caseload. that were redeployed because of COVID-19 between:
a. 1st September and 7th October[1] 2020? b. 8th October and 31st December 2020?
c. 1st January and 31st March 2021?
5. If Q1 is yes, what was the maximum number of FTE clinical staff working in health visiting teams who are NOT coded as health visitors. both with and without caseload. that were redeployed because of COVID-19 between: a. 1st September and 7th October 2020? b. 8th October and 31st December 2020?
c. 1st January and 31st March 2021?
Regarding your health visiting teams for Gloucestershire County Council on the 1st February 2021:
6. How many FTE health visitors were employed in your health visiting teams? Both with and without caseload.. Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band. 7. How many FTE health visitors with caseload were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.
8. How many FTE clinical staff who are NOT coded as health visitors. were employed in your health visiting teams? Both with and without caseload.. Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.
9. How many FTE clinical staff who are NOT coded as health visitors. with caseload were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band. 10. What was the total number of children under 5 years of age that your health visiting teams were responsible for? The attached table makes it clear exactly what we are requesting – please use this as a template. _________________________________________________________________________________
Regarding the questions above: – For your answers, please either use the NHS Digital definition of health visitor below or alternatively provide the definition that you are using in your answer.
_________________________________________________________________________________
Definitions: Definition used by NHS Digital re. Health visitors notes 28 and 29 from the nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff matrix of Occupation Code Manual.: 28. Please ensure to code the following as Health Visitors: * qualified nurses/midwives who also hold a qualification as a Registered Health Visitor under the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing part of the NMC Register working directly with children and families; * qualified and registered Health Visitors who perform specific activities such as providing breastfeeding advice to parents; * family nurses working within the Family Nurse Partnership Programme who are qualified and registered as Health Visitors; * Sure Start Children’s Centre qualified and registered named Health Visitors; * managers within a Health visiting team who hold a health visiting qualification and registration and are involved in clinical work or safeguarding.
29. Please ensure that the following employees are not coded as Health Visitors:
* any person working in a health visiting team who does not hold a qualification and registration as a Health Visitor;
* any person who holds a qualification and registration as a Health Visitor but is not employed in a role where this is a requirement;
* managers within a health visiting team who hold health visiting qualification and registration but are not involved in clinical work or safeguarding.
Please see below the general definition for ‘health visitor’ from the Occupation Code Manual:
Health Visitor: an employee who holds a qualification as a Registered Health Visitor under the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing part of the NMC Register and who occupies a post where such a qualification is a requirement. Not below Agenda for Change Band 6. _________________________________________________________________________________
045-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI
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Please disclose the information listed in the below tables by return email within 20 days as per the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Average Band 5 Agency Nurse Rates
Please respond to question one by populating the template below.
a. Average cost per hour inclusive of base pay, agency margin, NI, PAYE etc. but excluding VAT. paid for Band 5 agency Nurses for Standard Day hours between 1st April 2020 and 31st January 2021 b. Average cost per hour inclusive of base pay, agency margin, NI, PAYE etc. but excluding VAT. paid for Band 5 agency Nurses for Saturday & Evening hours between 1st April 2020 and 31st January 2021.
c. Average cost per hour inclusive of base pay, agency margin, NI, PAYE etc. but excluding VAT. paid for Band 5 agency Nurses for Sunday & Bank Holiday hours between 1st April 2020 and 31st January 2021
Part 2 – High Rate Band 5 Nurse Hours
For the below questions, please answer number of shifts rather than number of hours if this figure is easier to obtain – please clarify which unit you’re referring to within your response. Please also indicate how many individual nurses make up the figure in response to each of the below.
a. For Band 5 Agency Nurses, regardless of rate type i.e. Days, Nights, Bank Holidays etc.., how many hours since 1st April cost £50 per hour or more?
b. For Band 5 Agency Nurses, regardless of rate type i.e. Days, Nights, Bank Holidays etc.., how many hours since 1st April cost £75 per hour or more?
c. For Band 5 Agency Nurses, regardless of rate type i.e. Days, Nights, Bank Holidays etc.., how many hours since 1st April cost £100 per hour or more?
020-2122
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information please, regarding your current contractual and supply chain arrangements for the following categories:
• Provision of online payment acceptance – e.g. online website payments or payment portals
• Provision of point of sale card/EPOS machines – e.g. as found in payment offices or reception areas
• Provision of MOTO Mail Order and Telephone Order. payment acceptance
• Provision of Direct Debit services
• Provision of over the counter payment services, e.g. as used to make payments in Post Office & Pay Point outlets if relevant.
• Merchant Acquirer services
I would appreciate you providing the following for each of the above points, by completing the attached spreadsheet:
• Current supplier/s names
• Scope of current Contract
• Contract End Date
• Approximate date of your next sourcing/tender exercise
• Annual Value of the Contract
• Annual transaction volume & value, where known
• Contact details of the members. of Staff responsible for payment collection
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. Also, 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. Should the release of any of this information be prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, please specifically advise.
311-2021
Under the Freedom of Information Act I wish to request the following information:
1. The number of occasions, during each financial year from 2016/17 to 2021/22 and for 2022/23 to date, the trust has admitted a patient to an inpatient bed out of area. For each instance please provide the location facility name, trust or postcode. of the inpatient bed. 2. Please provide the total cost to the trust – for each of the above financial years – of funding out of area inpatient placements.
247-2022
Starlight Children’s Foundation uses the power of play to make the experience of illness and treatment better for children and their families in hospital. We support children, families, and health professionals to make moments of escape for those who need it most. I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information to help us build a profile of the ‘state of play’ in hospital. This will support Starlight effectively and proactively target and deliver our services to hospitals that most need it.
If you are part of a group hospital model, we would like you to return data for each hospital provider who cares for babies, children, and young people.
I would like to know for each hospital in your Trust, including the following departments:
· Accident and Emergency
· Outpatient
· Diagnostic
· Phlebotomy
· Day case
· Surgical Units
· Inpatient Units
· Neonatal Units
Between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022, for each hospital:
1. The name of the hospital and their wards/departments that provide services to 0–17-year-olds 2. The number of admissions for 0–17-year-olds 3. A breakdown of the ethnicity, gender, and deprivation percentiles of 0–17-year-olds admitted
4. The number of 0–17-year-olds treated on an adult ward/bed and reason e.g., patient choice, bed shortages etc.. I would also like to know for each hospital:
5. Which Directorates. does the Play Teams. sit in?
6. The number of the following roles, salary band, and approximately how many hours do they work per week? Job Title Total Number of Staff Salary Band Full-Time 40+ hours. Full Time 32-40 hours. Part Time 18-31 hours. Part Time Less than 18 hours. Zero Hours Contract Play Team – Leader/Manager Play Team – Health Play Specialist HPS. Play Team – Senior HPS Play Team – HPS Student Play Team – Play Therapist Play Team – Play worker or play leader Play Team- Bank Staff Play Team – Volunteers Other Play Staff please specify. 7. Does the Play Team leads./managers., if you have them, hold a Foundation Degree in Healthcare Play Specialism?
8. If any, how many of your health play specialists are registered with the Healthcare Play Specialist Education Trust HPSET.? 9. How many hours do your play team typically work during one shift?
10. Which shifts do the Play Team typically work? Select all that are applicable.
Morning shifts Afternoon shifts Evening shifts Day shifts 12-hour shifts Weekends 11. Do you have any of the following in each of the specified hospitals? If yes, please specify where these provisions are located e.g., department/ward name.:
a. Playful ‘non-play team’ staff staff create opportunities for children to play but are not health play specialists nor play workers. i. If yes, where are they located:
b. Playrooms or play areas please specify if these are age-specific.
i. If yes, where are they located:
c. Toys, games, activities, and play items please specify if these are age-specific.
i. If yes, where are they located:
d. Commissioned or voluntary external entertainers who come in occasionally i. If yes, where are they located:
e. Starlight provisions services offered by Starlight. i. If yes, where are they located:
f. Other donations for toys and activities
i. If yes, where are they located:
12. Is there an annual budget for the delivery of play e.g., toys, staffing, etc.. in your hospitals.? If yes, for each individual hospital: a. What is the overall annual budget?
b. How much of the budget is for staffing? c. How much of the budget is spent on resources and materials for play e.g., toys.?
13. Is there a budget available for training and development that play staff can access? a. If yes, how much is this?
14. Do you have a guidance/policy on how Play should be delivered? If yes, please can you attach a copy of this or a link where it can be accessed
189-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: TEAM Software Freedom of Information Request on Porter Support
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To whom it may concern,
I am writing to the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust FOI team to request information on Estates, Facilities & Ancillary Departments, specifically relating to the current management of hospital Porters. My enquiry is being submitted from the organisation called Innovise Software Trading as TEAM Software.. The information requested below has not been located within any of the Trust’s Disclosure Logs or the ‘Publication Scheme’. The date today is 26/07/2021, I understand that should the trust require additional clarification on the below questions this could delay the mandated FOI response time frame.
Can the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust please provide 4 responses to the 4 questions below:
1. Can the Trust please provide the total number porters that are currently employed/ contracted to perform porter services across the Trust’s Hospitals? This total number of porters can include individual part-time, bank and permanent porter staff that are directly employed by the Trust or porter support procured through a private service provider..
2. Can the Trust please identify the names. of the current systems. used by Trust staff to dispatch porters to jobs around the Trust’s Hospitals on a daily basis? e.g. Push To Talk Radio / Bleeper, Smart Phone / Tablet Application, Excel Spreadsheet, Paper-based System and/or Task Management Software on a Computer.. By Dispatch we refer to the process of activating an individual Porter to take on a specific Job with the hospital.
3. Can the Trust please provide clarification on the current contractual relationship of porter support, by this I mean – are porters directly employed by the Trust? or can the Trust provide both the name of the private provider contracted to deliver porter services and the time frame remaining on that contract until review?
4. Finally can the Trust please provide an updated estimate of the total number of ‘acute care’ beds currently dispersed across its hospital sites.? Thanks in advance for your time, if I can provide any further clarification on my request or alternatively if you’d prefer to arrange a time to respond through a telephone call instead of an email, please use my contact details below.
188-2122
Subject: Request for Information – Mobile
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————————-FOI Officer,
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 connection, 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 voice 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.
Please can you provide me with the latest information- If the organisations are currently out to tender please can you also state the approx. date of the award along with the information above.
Also if the contract in the response has expired/rolling please can you provide me with further information if available of the organisation’s plans going forward with regards to mobiles and the current status?
If this contract was awarded within the past three months can you please provide me with a shortlist of suppliers that bid on the contract?
175-2122
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RE: FOI 175-2122 – 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
Hi there, This request is for the following: General and Acute, Maternity, Learning Disability and Mental Health.
From: Freedom of Information
To: Pooja Kumari
Subject: FOI 175-2122 – Clarification ——————-
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 175-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
• Can you confirm if you are referring to Mental Health beds specifically. You mention the KH03 which is Mental Health but at the start of the request says ‘across the trust’.
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
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request
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I write under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information on ‘active beds’ across your Trust. An active bed is any staffed bed that is in service, occupied, or unoccupied. As of 1st of July 2021 or most recent available data.:
1. How many active beds were in service? If possible, please break this down by sector as delineated by NHS England in the KH03 quarterly collection General & Acute, Maternity, Learning Disability and Mental Health – please note, if you are a mental health trust, no additional breakdown is needed.
2. How many beds were not in service? If possible, please break this down by sector as delineated by NHS England in the KH03 quarterly collection.
3. Please clarify why these beds were not in service.
In the first week of July 2019:
1. How many active beds were in service? If possible, please break this down by sector as delineated by NHS England in the KH03 quarterly collection. 2. How many beds were not in service? If possible, please break this down by sector as delineated by NHS England in the KH03 quarterly collection.
3. Please clarify why these beds were not in service. If helpful, you can input the data in to the table below. General and Acute Maternity Mental Health Learning disability Total
As of 1 July 2021 or most recent figures. Number of active beds in service Number of beds not in service Please clarify why these beds were not in service? As of the first week of July 2019: Number of active beds in service Number of beds not in service Please clarify why these beds were not in service?
106-2122
Sent: 07 May 2021 09:02
Subject: Trust Contract Data FOI Request
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We are looking to obtain some information about your Trust as a Freedom of Information request.
We would like to know details of contracts awarded by the Trust; the vendor involved, the Category e.g. equipment maintenance, date of award, value and contract length. We would like this information for the past 3 years.
096-2122
Sent: 27 April 2021 10:54
Subject: Freedom of Information Request
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Good morning,
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you supply responses to the following questions please:
1. The number of Full time FT. and Part Time PT. employees in your Trust in:
a. March 2020 Total number; split into Medical and Support staff. b. March 2021 Total number; split into Medical and Support staff.
2. The number of Trust employees absent from work during the months March 2020 to March 2021 inclusive, in the following format:
Month Total number absent Absent due to Covid-19 March 2020 April 2020 etc If the data is held weekly, then please average the numbers across the month or provide the weekly data if easier. 3. The number of Trust employees absent from work due to a Test and Trace requirement to isolate. As above, if the data is held weekly then please average the numbers across the month or provide the weekly data if easier. 4. The total number of beds across the Hospitals. in your Trust
5. The total number of beds unused due to Covid-19 infection control measures commonly referred to as ‘red’/’green’ pathways.. Please provide these figures month by month from March 2020 to March 2021. 6. The number of retired staff returning to the Trust from March 2021 onwards to practice during Covid-19.
As per requirements, full contact details can be found in my signature below.
090-2122
Sent: 21 April 2021 09:07
Subject: FOI 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
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Please see the request for information below as per the FOIA:
Subject: Insourcing, Outsourcing and Hospitals own Waiting List initiatives Question: How much has been spent and the number of patients seen via Insourcing, Outsourcing and the Hospitals own Waiting List initiatives in the last 3 years. In the most recent FY in the 12 months ending March 2021 With regards to the requested clarification please see below:
• Insourcing we would be looking at the definition being described as an external organisation which works within a Trust to provide services to NHS Patients.
• Outsourcing – using an external provider and facilities on behalf of the NHS To support I have attached a sample template document if required.
058-2122
Freedom of Information Manager
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. I would be grateful if you would send to me the requested information detailed in the attachment to this email address FOI@tor-management-services.co.uk 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.
If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, I ask that you supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement and remind you that information should not be treated as confidential if such an agreement has not been signed.
I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this letter. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.
270-2122
Sent: 17 November 2021 11:47
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – Foureyes Insight
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Could you please provide the following information:
Do you use a software/solution in the Trust called Foureyes Insight?
If so when does the contract end for the Foureyes Insight system?
How many years is the Foureyes Insight system contract in place for?
How much do you spend on the support for the Foureyes Insight system on an annual basis?
Yours faithfully,
Is freedomofinformation@glos-care.nhs.uk the wrong address for Freedom of Information requests to Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust? If so, please contact us using this form:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/change_request/new?bodyequalsghc
266-2122
Sent: 08 November 2021 14:35
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI REQUEST – Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I am writing to request the latest monthly statistics on waiting times for memory clinics from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust for:
• mean waiting time from referral to diagnosis • mean waiting time for patient with possible dementia’s first appointment with memory clinic • Number of patients currently on waiting list for memory clinic • Number of patients waiting more than 13 weeks from referral to diagnosis • Number of patients waiting more than 26 weeks from referral to diagnosis 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 the information is already in the public domain please can you direct me to it with page references and URLs if necessary.
I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this letter. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.
282-2022
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, the following information regarding your facilities management approach:
If any, which software solutions. are used to manage your corporate property/assets, ownerships and occupations, lease agreements and facilities management CAFM., and who are your current providers.?
What is the start date and duration of the contracts.?
Is there an extension clause in the contracts. and, if so, the duration of the extension?
Has a decision been made yet on whether the contracts. will be extended or renewed?
What is the annual value of the contracts.?
What is the total contract value of each contract?
How was the contracts. procured, e.g., framework/tender?
Who is the senior officer responsible for these systems?
251-2022
A peer and I are conducting an evaluation of CSH Surrey’s community paediatric occupational therapy service – specifically their universal and targeted support support and information accessible without the need for a referral to the service.. As part of this evaluation, we are looking to benchmark against other area’s services.
I was hoping to obtain the data number of hits. for your occupational therapy page and numbers accessing the occupational therapy helpline, including the ASD/LD specific helpline.
250-2022
Subject: Freedom of Information request: suicide prevention in mental health inpatient wards
Thank you for processing this freedom of information request, which is being sent to all 50 mental health NHS trusts in England and Wales.
The information we are seeking will inform a national study into the effectiveness of alarmed doors and anti-ligature products in reducing suicide rates on UK mental health inpatient wards. The results of the study will be of great value to NHS trusts and health boards in their decision-making around the procurement of these products, taking into account the substantial costs. To provide relevant estimates, we are relying on completeness of data provided by NHS trusts. On study completion write-up to be completed by September 2023. the authors will disseminate the findings to all Trusts and health boards providing data, as well as to central and local stakeholders.
The study is being undertaken at UCL University College London. by a team of NHS staff with dual clinical and academic NHS/UCL contracts. The study’s primary supervisor is Dr Alexandra Pitman, Associate Professor in Psychiatry at UCL, who is an academic consultant psychiatrist with experience as clinical lead of an inpatient psychiatric ward. The study’s secondary supervisor is Professor Sonia Johnson, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry at UCL and Director of the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit PRU. for England, which provides evidence to the Department of Health and Social Care and its arm’s length bodies to support policy. As the lead researcher, my own background is as a registered mental health nurse currently studying for a MSc at UCL.
219-2022
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
My questions relate to commissioning by you in regards to services for Residential Mental Health placements
Q1. Does your organisation commission services for Community Based Residential Mental Health offering Transitional Rehabilitation from Hospital to Home
Q2. Do you place the above type of service out of county?
Q3.Do you place patients in secure Mental Health Hospitals outside of your County, and is this due to lack of local provision ?
Q4. Please could you provide the name, phone number and email address of your Mental Health Referral Team
Q5. Do you commission services through a specified route Example DPS system/ Framework/ Spot contract/ Other .
If yes to the above please could you provide details
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
218-2022
Under the Freedom of Information Act I would like to request the following information
regarding the financial efforts of your NHS foundation. trust to promote diversity.
I would like to know the number of employees within your trust whose job roles formally require them to address issues of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion EDI., including but not limited to all staff whose job title has ‘EDI’, ‘Equality’, ‘Diversity’ or ‘Inclusion’ in it, as well as all remuneration costs for these roles.
Does your NHS trust have an EDI strategy, a diversity strategy, or any other strategy aimed at increasing the amount of female, BAME, LGBT+, or disabled employees?
What are the costs related to the development and implementation of these strategies?
Is your NHS trust involved in any other project or initiative aimed at promoting diversity, in terms of gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual preference or ablebodiedness, and if so, what are the costs related to these projects or initiatives?
I would like to receive this information via email please.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to receiving your response.
192-2122
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
REFERENCE: 192-2122
Good morning,
Is this request something BI can help with? Or is it best to go to the services directly?
I would be grateful if you could kindly arrange for this information to be provided to me as soon as possible or no later than the 30th August 2021. If the information in the freedom of information request is commercially sensitive then please note the same on the response.
FOI Request – Information requested:
Please could you provide a breakdown of the number of patients who have waited over 52 weeks for elective treatment at your Trust by:
i. Ethnicity
ii. Whether or not English is their first language
iii. Whether or not they have a learning disability
If you are not the correct person to respond to part/all of the request, I would be grateful if you could let me know as soon as possible, and suggest who I need to send it to or forward it onto the person in question and copy me in.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 states that the respondent has 20 working days to reply to the query and if it takes longer than 20 working days to collate the information, the responder can ask the requester to grant discretionary extension of time up to a maximum of further 20 working days. Please let me know if it is likely that you will be unable to provide the relevant information to me by the above deadline.
The act also allows the respondent to reject or charge the requester for the request if it would take 18 or more working hours to deal with the request e.g. locating, retrieving, extracting the information. which would cost the respondent at least £450 charging at £25 per hour.. If you could please let me know whether or not it may take 18 or more working hours to provide the information, so that I am able to send a fee note to the requester, as appropriate.
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
190-2122
Subject: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST FOI.
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FAO: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICER
Hi,
Please can you provide the following information, requested under the Freedom of Information Act:
1. Does the NHS Trust contract a private security company to provide Security Officers to work onsite, or employ an ‘in house’ team of Security Officers, or both?
2. Please provide a copy of the most recent ‘training needs analysis’ conducted at the Trust for a Security Officer role or, explain why there isn’t one.
3. Do Security Officers have autonomy to remove people from the Trust’s premises i.e. without seeking advice from clinical staff as to whether or not the person to be removed requires medical advice, treatment or care?
4. Are Security Officer training deficiencies that are known to exist listed on the NHS Trust’s Risk Register?
Please provide the information requested in electronic format by email to: info@aegisprotectiveservices.co.uk
Thanks.
183-2122
Sent: 22 July 2021 11:53
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please provide the following information. If no IT solution is used for a specific process, please confirm if this process is paper-based or managed on a spreadsheet.
1. What IT solution does the trust use to visualise inpatient status? e.g. at which point they are on their patient journey
2. What IT solution does the trust use to manage bed occupancy?
3. What IT solution does the trust use to manage demand and capacity for:
1. Unplanned care
2. Planned/Elective care
4. What IT solution does the trust use for real-time ward and bed management?
5. What IT solution does the trust use for PT pathway management?
6. What IT solution does the trust use for Discharge Planning?
7. What IT solution does the trust use to provide Multi-Disciplinary Team views?
8. What IT solution does the trust use to manage patients from outside the region?
9. Does the trust use a single Dashboard/CommandCentre solution to manage patient placement?
1. If so, what is the name of the solution?
10. What IT solution does the trust use for Clinical Noting?
11. What IT solution does the trust use for Handovers?
12. What IT solution does the trust use for recurring task management?
13. What IT solution does the trust use for domestic services?
14. What/Which IT solutions does the trust use for task list management?
15. What IT solution does the trust use for referral, leave and bed management?
16. What IT solution does the trust use for Community team planning?
17. Does the trust provide data to, and can access a regional command centre/dashboard?
18. Does the trust have the ability to share and receive input from neighbouring Community trusts and Social services?
19. Which provider, if any, does the trust use for Hospital@Home services? e.g. repatriation of patients to their home
181-2122
Sent: 20 July 2021 16:36
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – Number of Covid 19 deaths caused by Covid 19 alone in 2021
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
I would like the exact figures for the 3 questions below:
1. The total deaths from 01/01/2021 to present – 20/07/2021 where Part 1 of the MCCD states Covid-19 solely as the immediate cause of death.
2. A figure showing what number of the total from question 1 had other serious health conditions or injuries listed on part 2 of the MCCD.
3. Average age of question 1 and average age of question 2.
Thank you.
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169-2122
Sent: 17 August 2021 17:16
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Re: Temporary Staff Management FOI
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The supplier of bank staff technology please.
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 169-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
Question 3c: – Can you please clarify Bank Supplier of what? Staff or Technology? Would you be able to provide clarification around the information you are expecting the response to include for this question?
Kind Regards,
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Temporary Staff Management FOI
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Please could you answer the attached questions relating to temporary staff management within your organisation. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
172-2022
I would like to submit a request for some information from the organisation, in relation to their contract’s register.
The FULL contract register should display all the organisations existing/live contracts I would like the register to display the following columns/headings:
1. Contract Reference -Unique reference number associated with the contract.
2. Contract Title
3. Procurement Category –Please state the Category name of the contract, I wish to know the Category the contract is under.
4. Supplier Name
5. Spend Total, Annual or contract value.
6. Contract’s Duration
7. Contract’s Extensions
8. Contract’s Start Date
9. Contract’s Expiry Date
10. Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
11. Contact Owner Person that manages the contract register.
12. CPV codes/Pro-Class
Contract Data/API Contact Details
1. Can you also provide me with contact details of the person responsible for the actual contract’s register or someone responsible for API? [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address] At the very least provide me with their actual job title.
Meaning of API “a set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.”.
IMPORTANT
1. If the organisation has a CRM system or a similar system, there should be a facility to download and extract contract data.
2. You may forward me a Weblink to a portal to download the contract register, please make sure all the organisation’s contracts are provided as doing prior research I have found that most organisations have only uploaded a small portion of all their contracts.
3. For those organisations planning to make an exemption around spend, the spend information I have requested is an overall figure and I am not requesting a complete breakdown of services relating to the spend.
099-2022
FOI Officer,
I would like to submit a request for some information from the organisation, in relation to their contract’s register.
The FULL contract register should display all the organisations existing/live contracts I would like the register to display the following columns/headings:
1. Contract Reference -Unique reference number associated with the contract.
2. Contract Title
3. Procurement Category –Please state the Category name of the contract, I wish to know the Category the contract is under.
4. Supplier Name
5. Spend Total, Annual or contract value.
6. Contract’s Duration
7. Contract’s Extensions
8. Contract’s Start Date
9. Contract’s Expiry Date
10. Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
11. Contact Owner Person that manages the contract register.
12. CPV codes/Pro-Class
Contract Data/API Contact Details
1. Can you also provide me with contact details of the person responsible for the actual contract’s register or someone responsible for API? [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address] At the very least provide me with their actual job title.
Meaning of API “a set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.”.
IMPORTANT
1. If the organisation has a CRM system or a similar system, there should be a facility to download and extract contract data.
2. You may forward me a Weblink to a portal to download the contract register, please make sure all the organisation’s contracts are provided as doing prior research I have found that most organisations have only uploaded a small portion of all their contracts.
3. For those organisations planning to make an exemption around spend, the spend information I have requested is an overall figure and I am not requesting a complete breakdown of services relating to the spend.
Please provide me with the contract’s register file in an excel format.
084-2022
Sent: 06 April 2022 23:12
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request
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—————– I am currently a third year undergraduate student, and as part of my final year I am undertaking research on Women in secure services and advocacy for my dissertation, could I please request the following information.
• Is advocacy provided in-house or via external providers
• Who are the advocacy providers the trust uses
113-2122
Sent: 14 May 2021 15:46
Subject: FOI Request – Insourcing
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I am writing to you to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please send me:
• Total spend on the use of clinical insourcing not agency/locum or outsourcing. in the current 2020/21 financial year. Please breakdown this FY only into each month.
• Total spend on the use of clinical insourcing not agency/locum or outsourcing. in the 2019/20 financial year.
• Total spend on the use of clinical insourcing not agency/locum or outsourcing. in the 2018/19 financial year.
• Total spend on the use of clinical insourcing not agency/locum or outsourcing. in the 2017/18 financial year.
I would like the above information to be provided to me via excel to this email address.
Insourcing – not to be confused with outsourcing – is where a third party provider of secondary care uses an NHS organisation’s premises and equipment to deliver extra clinical capacity, outside of when they are normally in use. In most cases it is essentially an extension of a hospital’s existing clinical service.
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. I have already searched to see if any of this information is already in the public domain including via your own site. so please respond via the request.
If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, I ask that you supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement and remind you that information should not be treated as confidential if such an agreement has not been signed.
I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this letter. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.
112-2122
Sent: 10 June 2021 14:24
To: Freedom of Information
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————————–, Thank you for your email.
Yes, please could the trust still try to answer all of the questions it can. I understand that questions 4 and 5 and possibly 6. may not be answerable due to this information only be recorded in patient notes. However, I hope that trust is still able to provide some information for questions 1-3 and questions 7 and 8. Kind regards, Alex
From: Freedom of Information
To: Alex Rossiter
Subject: FOI 112-2122 – Clarification ——————-
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 112-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. In order to respond to your request our information teams are seeking the below clarification:
• We would only be able to provide information for questions 1, 2 and 3. The information around self-harm is text recorded in the patient notes and therefore not reportable. Therefore, with this in mind would you still like the Trust to answer questions 1-3 only?
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: Alex Rossiter [mailto:a.rossiter@samaritans.org] Sent: 14 May 2021 11:29
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request – Improving Access to Psychological Therapies IAPT.
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, I’d like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 about Improving Access to Psychological Therapies IAPT. programmes. delivered by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. I am part of a group of researchers carrying out an evaluation of NHS IAPT services across England. As part of this project, we are submitting FOI requests to a number of NHS Mental Health Trusts to ask about local policy and practice. In 2019 and 2020 please provide data for each year.: 1. How many referrals did the IAPT service receive?
2. How many people entered treatment with the IAPT service? 3. How many people were judged not suitable for treatment by the IAPT service with the following outcomes as a number and % of total referrals.:
a. No action taken or directed back to referrer b. Signposted elsewhere c. Not assessed
d. Referred to another therapy service
4. How many referrals did your service receive where self-harm was present? a. If possible, please answer with reference to the sub-questions below:
i. How many people were assessed as presenting with intentional self-harm e.g. those whose problem descriptors. included ‘intentional self-harm’ code X60-X84.? ii. How many people were assessed as presenting with ‘non-accidental self-injury or repeated self-harm’ rated 2-4 when determining their mental health care cluster?
5. How many referrals were judged not suitable for treatment by the IAPT service where self-harm was present?
a. If possible, please answer with reference to the sub-questions below:
i. How many referrals were rejected that were assessed as presenting with intentional self-harm e.g. those whose problem descriptors. included ‘intentional self-harm’ code X60-X84.? ii. How many referrals were rejected that were assessed as presenting with ‘non-accidental self-injury or repeated self-harm’ rated 2-4 when determining their mental health care cluster?
6. How many people who currently self-harm were offered treatment with your service?
Questions 7/8 refer to the IAPT service’s operational procedures affecting people who self-harm. 7. Does the IAPT service offer treatment for people who self-harm?
8. On what basis are judgments around treatment for people who self-harm made?
a. Is self-harm included as part of the IAPT service’s operational policy for example, in exclusion/ inclusion criteria or equivalent thresholds.?
i. If possible, please attach your IAPT operational policy or other internal documents that are used to determine exclusion and/or inclusion in treatment from the IAPT service.
b. If possible, please attach any other relevant documents which support judgements for treatment related to self-harm.
c. If possible, please attached the service’s risk assessment questions or outline. If it is not possible to provide the information requested, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request. Please get in touch with me if you would like to clarify this request. My contact details are below. Thank you very much for your time. I look forward to your response. Yours faithfully, Alex Rossiter a.rossiter@samaritans.org
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111-2122
Sent: 11 May 2021 14:34
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request May 2021
Importance: High
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Hi,
I am writing to you to request some information about your Telecoms infrastructure. I politely request information on your current provider for the following:
1. Current mobile provider 2. No. of mobile connections
3. What MDM/UEM solution do you use
4. Is this part of your mobile contract or separate?
5. Contract end dates – for both if separate
6. Key decision maker
Many thanks, in advance.
101-2122
Subject: Freedom of Information Request – Mobile Telephony Contract Details
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————————-Freedom of Information Team,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000., please provide complete answers to the following questions:
1. How many employees are at your organisation?
2. How many mobile phone and mobile broadband data only. connections do you currently have?
3. What is the split between mobile phone and mobile broadband connections?
4. Who is your mobile phone network provider?
5. Did you switch providers on your last renewal?
6. Please provide a monthly breakdown of your total mobile phone contract costs for the past 12 months, and state whether VAT has been included in the numbers given.
7. Does your contract include a hardware, tech or transformation fund?
8. If the answer to question 7 is yes, what was the value of the fund upon the signing of the contract?
9. How have you sourced the contract?
10. What is the contract term length?
11. How long do you have remaining on your current contract?
12. Who is the primary contact for this contract?
016-2022
Sent: 01 February 2022 15:41
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI request – funding
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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:
• Royal Society for Public Health RSPH.
• Independent Sage
• NHS Confederation
• Keep our NHS public
• SOS NHS
• Care and Support Workers Organise
• UNITED VOICES OF THE WORLD
• Health Campaigns Together • Doctors for the NHS
• We Own It
• The People’s Assembly • Zero Covid Coalition
• Health Campaign Together
• Docs Not Cops
• British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
• Association of Pakistani Physicians of Northern Europe
• Royal College of General Practitioners
• Royal College of Ophthalmology • Royal College of Psychiatrists • Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 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,
Scott Simmonds
268-2122
Sent: 10 November 2021 12:55
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of information request
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Freedom of Information Request
Please could you answer the following questions:
1. How many memory assessment clinics does the trust run, or is dementia primarily diagnosed by GPs?
2. What is the total average throughput per annum for all clinics? Amalgamated or by individual clinic
3. What cognitive tests are used, and how are the tests administered?
297-2122
Sent: 15 December 2021 10:09
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI REQUEST
Importance: High
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1. a. Who is the head of procurement responsible for approving AHP agency usage? b. Secondly, who is the temporary / flexible staffing lead responsible for the management of this service?
2. Please can you provide the contact number and email address in relation to both question 1 a. & b.
3. Have you used Off-framework Allied Health agency staff between January 2021- December 2021?
4. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between January 2021 – December 2021: a. Physiotherapy b. Occupational Therapy c. Pharmacy d. Radiography
5. Following the same breakdown of staff groups in Question 4, how many Off-framework posts have been unfilled between January 2021 – December 2021?
Thank you for your time!
Kind Regards,
292-2122
Sent: 08 December 2021 11:17
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI Request / Intranet Information
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—————–, I hope you’re well.
I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
My requests are outlined below as specifically as possible, however, if any of the below is unclear, I would appreciate it if you would get in touch at adriana.myther@gmail.com. Please could you provide the following information:
1. 2. 3. How many people are employed by your organisation, including full time and part time?
4. 5. 6. 7. What is your current intranet solution? Sharepoint, Wordpress, Interact, Invotra, Oak etc.
8. 9. 10. 11. How long have you been using this intranet solution?
12. 13. 14. 15. When is your intranet contract up for renewal?
16. 17. 18. 19. What is your annual intranet budget?
20. 21. 22. 23. What is your procurement process? Please can you include any portals used to list tenders and/or
24. any suppliers used to procure. 25. 26. 27. 28. Do you share intranet/IT services with other organisations, if so who?
29. 30. 31. 32. Which team and/or individuals. are responsible for managing your intranet internally?
33. 34. 35. 36. Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so, which applications from the suite are in use?
37. 38. 39. 40. Which team and/or individuals. are responsible for your intranet’s procurement within the organisation?
41. 42. 43. 44. Is your Active Directory hosted on-premise, or in the cloud?
45. 46. 47. 48. Could you provide us with a link to your Digital Workplace Strategy?
49. If possible, please could you present the information via a Microsoft Word or Excel document, sent to me via email.
I would appreciate it if you could confirm receipt of my request and look forward to hearing from you.
291-2122
Sent: 07 December 2021 13:20
Subject: FOI request related to external courier use
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Please would you advise:
1. Does your Trust use external courier firms?
2. If so, how much did your Trust spend on external couriers in the past 12 months?
3. Who is the person responsible for your Trust’s courier spend?
4. What is the name of your Transformation Manager? I hope this does not give you too much work and look forward to your reply.
Thanks in advance.
287-2122
Sent: 02 December 2021 12:30
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: freedom of information
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FOI team, Please see freedom of information request below with 8 questions about the use of patient data in your Trust. Please note that EHR equals electronic health record
1. Does your Trust operate, or contribute data to, an EHR-linked data warehouse that holds patient-level clinical data that can be used for research purposes? This includes EHR-linked data warehouses where the Trust is the data controller, or academic collaborations where an EHR-linked data warehouse is maintained by an academic institute. This does NOT include NHS Digital Secondary Use Service SUS. data submissions.
2. If yes, please specify who the data controller organisation is for the data warehouse.
3. If yes, please specify which EHR vendor softwares. the data warehouse receives data from. 4. Apart from your EHR vendor company, is any commercial third party contracted to enable this data warehouse e.g. by handling data aggregation and linkage, or handling data storage solutions etc.?
5. If yes, which third party commercial company is involved?
6. Does the Trust store any patient data on a cloud platform e.g., including, but not limited to, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Azure or Amazon Web Services.?
7. If yes, which cloud platform solution is used?
8. Does the Trust use an automated, EHR-linked system for NHS Digital Secondary Use Service SUS. data collation and submission, or is SUS data submitted by manual upload?
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Yours Sincerely,
283-2122
Sent: 28 November 2021 22:03
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI request
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I would like to make a Freedom of Information FOI. request for the following data please.
How many NHS staff currently working at your trust remain unvaccinated with a Covid19 vaccine? Including bank/agency workers.
What percentage of your overall staff does this equate to?
Since the start of the pandemic 01/03/20., with your data from staff absence due to Covid19, contact tracing and Healthcare acquired infection HCAI., what percentage of HCAI is directly attributable to Covid19 infection in an NHS frontline worker? Since the vaccination programme has started Approx Dec 2020., what is the breakdown of this being from a covid 19 vaccinated NHS worker or unvaccinated NHS worker?
If not directly attributable, what is the rate of inpatients on non Covid19 wards getting a HCAI and becoming infected with Covid19 within a set time frame ~10days. of an NHS worker on that ward testing positive for Covid 19? And what is the breakdown of this being a Covid19 vaccinated NHS worker or non-vaccinated NHS worker?
284-2022
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, the information requested below.
The details we require are:
1. Who is your social media management and monitoring tool supplier?
2. Start date & duration of framework/contract with supplier
3. Actual spend on this contract/framework and any sub lots., from the start of the contract to the current date
4. Who is the senior officer outside of procurement. responsible for this contract?
205-2122
Sent: 17 August 2021 17:22
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information IT Related.
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Please find a FOI request, directed at IT systems and personal within the trust.
1. What Electronic Patient Record System does the trust use for community mental health and when does the contract expire?
2. What Patient Administration System does the trust use for community mental health and when does the contract expire? 3. What inpatient Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration EPMA/ Medicines Management. system does the trust use and contract expiry date? 4. What outpatient Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration EPMA/ Medicines Management. system does the trust use and contract expiry date?
5. Whom is the Chief Information Officer, Deputy Information Officer, Digital Transformation Manager or equivalent title. for the trust and their email addresses/ contact number please?
199-2122
Sent: 12 August 2021 10:35
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information Request
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please provide the following information. If no IT solution is used for a specific process, please confirm if this process is paper-based or managed on a spreadsheet.
1 – Does your Trust currently use Robotic Process Automation?
2 – Which departments within your Trust currently use Robotic Process Automation ?
3 – Which commercial partner is your Trust currently using?
4 – Is the Trust intending to expand the use of Robotic Process Automation ?
5 – Total budget spent on Robotic Process Automation ?
6 – Forecasted investment in Robotic Process Automation ?
7 – Which departments have been identified for Robotic Process Automation projects?
8 – The name of the Trusts current TIE
186-2122
Subject: CAMHS FOI Request
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide me with responses to the following:
1 a./ The monthly number of CAMHS referrals of children under-18s. for each month from April 2020 up to and including June 2021? Please only record a single referral if a single child has been referred multiple times in a month.
1 b./ The monthly number of individual. children treated by CAMHS services for each month from April 2020 up to and including June 2021?2/ The average current waiting time for treatment for a child who has been referred to CAMHS?
2/ The average current waiting time for treatment for a child who has been referred to CAMHS?
3/ The longest known time an individual child under 18. spent waiting for treatment since March 23rd 2020 the date of the first UK lockdown. having been referred for CAMHS support? The referral initiating the period of time spent waiting for treatment can pre-date the pandemic i.e. if the child was referred in November 2019 and was treated in February 2021 the response would be 15 months..
4/ The known most number of times an individual child referred for CAHMS support has been declined i.e. rejected or discharged as inappropriate referral. mental health services since March 23rd 2020 the date of the first UK lockdown.?
5/ The number of children under 18s. believed to have killed themselves i.e. suicide. while waiting for CAMHS treatment since March 23rd 2020 the date of the first UK lockdown. to date? How long had each or any case been waiting for treatment? Please detail all known or recorded cases and do not conduct additional research if records are not held. If records are not held, please detail any policy or explanation as to why they are not held.
Please send me the data requested in the form of an Excel spreadsheet or as a csv file, using the template provided.
If you are able to supply some of this information more quickly than other items, please supply each item when you can rather than delay everything until it is all available.
If there are any clarifications requested or exemptions cited for certain parts of the request, please provide responses for others in the meantime, as advised by the Information Commissioner. Under your section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance I would expect you to contact me if you find this request unmanageable in any way so we can negotiate how best to proceed.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future,
Many thanks for your assistance,
154-2122
Sent: 18 March 2021 11:08
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of information request.
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Hello,
The following freedom of information request is designed to establish what process and specific software tools are used to administer your board meeting / senior management meeting process, within the NHS Trust. I am requesting this information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. How does the NHS Trust administer and manage board and other senior managed events? – what process is followed to prepare, collate and manage the board meeting documents pack, including print / e-mail and distribution? 2. Is a “manual process” used for the above or does the NHS Trust use a dedicated Software tool? 3. If yes, what is the name of the software tool used? 4. If no, is the NHS Trust considering to acquire such a tool or “Board Portal” at some time in the future? 5. Who is the most appropriate person, within the NHS Trust, to contact regarding this matter?
I look forward to hearing from you regarding my request,
Kind regards,
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers | Sales Executive Mob: 07587474558
DD: 01608 665560
Tel: 01608 665577
Email: progers@astech.co.ukWeb: www.cmis.uk
150-2122
Sent: 20 June 2021 17:45
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – CAMH Mental Health Referral data
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
I am requesting data on children and young people CYP. accessing mental health services, including eating disorder services. Please exclude all data relating to CYP accessing learning disability and autism services.
If helpful, you may wish to collect this data from the final submissions to the Mental Health Services Data Set MHSDS. you will have made.
Contact can include assessment over telephone and/or video conferencing, but can not include text, email or letter contact.
A few pointers:
– Please simply answer the questions which relate to services you run. If you do not run eating disorder services, simple answer for the CAMH services you do run.
– The questions are in order of priority. Please simply answer as many questions as you are able within the time limit you have, and send all the information you are able to gather to me. This means you cannot apply S121., as I am only asking you to answer the questions you can within the legal time limit.
– For questions 4 and 5, please answer for all referrals closed before treatment, including but not limited to referrals that have been closed before treatment because the referral was screened and it was decided more appropriate to signpost the CYP to other services, and referrals closed before treatment after the CYP were accepted into the service for treatment.
Please answer questions 1 to 5 for the two following time periods:
Time period A. 1st April 2019 to 31 March 2020 Time period B. 1st April 2020 to 31 March 2021
1. During this time period, please give the number of CYP referred to your CAMH for:
1.1 CAMH services i.e., including treatment for symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms.;
1.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
2. Of these, how many were emergency referrals for:
2.1 CCAMH services;
2.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services?
3. During this time period, please give the number of CYP waiting longer than 12 weeks without contact by services for:
3.1 CAMH services;
3.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
4. During this time period, please give the number of CYP whose referral was closed before treatment, and who were referred for:
4.1 CAMH services;
4.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
5. For CYP whose referrals were closed before treatment, please provide all the reasons why this happened.
6. Please give the number of CYP still waiting for treatment on 31 March 2020 and 31 March 2021, and who have not been contacted for:
6.1 CAMH services;
6.2 CAMH Eating Disorder services.
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041-2022
— [mailto:request-836671-062f0b9c@whatdotheyknow.com] Sent: 24 February 2022 16:28
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: Freedom of Information request – Printers Query
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————————-Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,
We are currently updating data on your Trust’s printing devices infrastructure hardware. and would appreciate your help. Can you please complete the fields below with what you currently hold?
Standard Printers
Number of printers:
Main supplier:
Contract end date:
Annual spend £’s 2020-21:
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MFD Printers
Number of printers:
Main supplier:
Contract end date:
Annual spend £’s 2020-21:
Definitions
MFD Printers – A Multi-Function Device MFD. is a machine that can print, copy and scan. These devices have faster print speeds and allow additional functionality such as scan to email. Secure print and follow-me printing are two of the key features of the new devices.
Thank you for your time.
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