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1/ How much money was spent by your trust on private security for the protection of staff in the following years?
2018 –
2019 –
2020 –
2021 –
2022 –
2023 –
Secondly,
2/ How many attacks were recorded on members hospital/ambulance staff by non-hospital staff in the same years?
2018 –
2019 –
2020 –
2021 –
2022 –
2023 –
Finally,
3/ If recorded, what was the nature of these incidents (verbal/physical/racial etc)?
2018 –
2019 –
2020 –
2021 –
2022 –
2023 –
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information regarding expenditure for mental health provision, healthcare software, dermatology, imaging and medical devices.
Mental Health
• Which providers are you working with to support on ADHD assessment and treatment?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which providers are you working with for Autism assessment and treatment?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which providers are on the NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT) framework?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which online mental health providers are you working with?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Healthcare software
• Which software providers are you working with for electronic patient/health records?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which software providers are you working with for healthcare compliance/incident tracking e.g RL Datix, inphase etc…
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which consultancy providers are you working with for digital transformation support?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Dermatology
• Which providers are you working with to provide community dermatology/skin screening services?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Imaging
• Which providers are you working with to provide teleradiology services
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
• Which private radiology providers are you working with to increase capacity?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Medical Devices
• Which medical device suppliers are you working with for wound care products?
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY23/24
• Please can you share the spend broken down by provider for FY22/23
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting detailed information regarding your organisations Access Control System. This information is likely known by someone within Estates, Security, or Facilities Management.
Please provide the following details:
Access Control System Overview:
1. Current System(s):
* What electronic access control system(s) do you currently have in place? Please include manufacturer of control unit & model (e.g. SALTO, PAXTON, ASSA)
2. Access-Controlled Doors:
* How many doors across all of your sites have access control systems installed? How many per each site?
3. Access Control Types:
* Please provide a detailed breakdown of the different types of access control setups in place (e.g., magnetic lock doors, electric strike doors, battery-operated electronic handle sets, battery-operated electronic cylinders, etc.).
4. System Age:
* When was your current access control system installed? Which company installed it?
5. System Integration:
* Is your access control system integrated with your ID card production or other systems (e.g., time and attendance, building management/CCTV and/or fire/security alarm systems)? If so, which system(s) is it integrated with?
6. Supplier Information:
* What are the names of the suppliers of your existing access control system?
* Who is your current supplier for access cards and fobs, and do you purchase these directly or through your access control installers/maintenance contractors?
7. Manufacturer and Models:
* What manufacturer and model of cards and fobs do you use for your access control system? Please provide specific details of each of the exact manufacturer/model of card(s)/fob(s) that you use at each site (e.g. Paxton 692-052 Net2 Proximity ISO Cards Pack of 500 SKU: AC-PAX-692-052) together with the cost (including VAT) each month/year.
8. Management Software:
* What software is used to manage the door controllers and readers in your access control system? (e.g. Paxton Net2 Pro)
Usage and Distribution Details:
9. Consumable Usage:
* Please provide data on the monthly and annual usage/purchases of access control cards and fobs. This should include how many are issued, lost/replaced, and returned faulty/damaged each month/annum.
10. User Information:
* How many individual users require access control cards/fobs across all sites? If possible, please provide a breakdown by site or building.
Maintenance and Support:
11. Management and Contact Information:
* Who manages your site’s access control system? Please provide a name, direct email address and direct telephone number / extension for this contact.
12. Support/Maintenance Contracts:
* Do you have a current support/maintenance contract for your access control system? If so, when does this contract expire?
Future Plans:
13. Planned Changes:
* What are the organisations plans related to the installation, upgrade, or support/maintenance of access control systems over the next three to five years?
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to your NHS Trust, please see the questions below:
This request relates specifically to the training if any. that the Trust provides to its clinical staff, for example nurses, in how to correctly use medical devices.
Medical Device equals A medical device is any device intended to be used for medical purposes. For the purposes of this query, examples such as Anaesthetic machine, patient monitor, Infusion device, ECG Machine, defibrillator, thermometers, etc.
1. Do employees at the trust undertake clinical end user training for medical devices?
2. Which departments or employee titles are required to undertake medical device end user training?
3. How is the training provided?
• Online/E-learning
• In person
• Combination of online & in person
• Other please state.
4. Who provides/ produces the training?
• Manufacturer
• Someone directly employed by the trust please provide job title.
• A third party please provide the name of the provider.
• Other please state.
5. What types of medical devices are subject to such end user training?
6. If the training is online/e-learning, what Learning Management System LMS. does the Trust use for employee training? Examples: Moodle, Totara, Mindflash, Google Classroom
7. If you do use Learning Management Software, does it enable managers to see whether their staff are up to date with training?
8. Is annual recertification of competence managed manually, or does your Learning Management System automatically send reminders and allocate the appropriate courses to users?
9. How much funding has the trust allocated to e-Learning in the past year?
* How many patient trolleys/stretchers are used/owned within GHC and what make and model are they? Please could the list be split between all your sites.
* How many of these products have been procured in last 2 years
* Expected level of spend on these products for next 12 months
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
• The number of people admitted to your Trust’s hospital with an eating disorder between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available and their length of duration of stay in hospital to the nearest day.
• The number of people admitted to your Trust’s hospital with anorexia between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available and their length of duration of stay in hospital to the nearest day.
• The number of people admitted to your Trust’s hospital where obesity was the cause or a significantly contributing factor between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available. the condition diagnosed and their length of duration of stay in hospital to the nearest day.
• The number of patients who have undergone weight loss surgery at your Trust’s hospital between January 2013 and July 2023 broken down by type of surgery eg bariatric..
• The number of patients who have been referred to a specialist weight management service at your hospital if applicable, between January 2013 and July 2023.
• The number of children attending your emergency department where their mental health was recognised as the cause for presenting between January 2013 and July 2023 or the latest data available.
I would like you to provide this information in the following format:
• Broken down by month, age and sex where possible.
I expect to receive this information within 20 working days, which will be by the 26th July.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information around the procurement of services under the NHS Talking Therapies, formerly IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies. program. Please provide data on providers, volume and value for outsourcing and insourcing IAPT NHS Talking Therapies. services within your respective trust, board, or ICS for the financial years 2022-23, 2021-22 ,2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19. Please provide the following: a. name of the provider to whom is outsourced/insourced, b. the total value of the services provided/contract in £s., and b. total volume of appointments procured as # of appointments covered/completed under the agreement. We have defined outsourcing as an external third party. provider that has been contracted by your trust, health board or ICB to deliver therapy, and insourcing as internal bodies within your trust, health board or ICB delivering the required therapy. Services that we considered included under NHS Talking Therapies / IAPT are the following: o Guided self-help based on cognitive behavioural therapy principles o Cognitive behavioural therapy CBT. o Interpersonal therapy IPT. o Couple therapy for depression CTfD. or behavioural couple therapy BCT. o Dynamic interpersonal therapy DIT. o Counselling for depression PCE-CfD.. o Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy MBCT. o Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy TfCBT. o Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing EDMR. Please provide the data requested by this FOI in the attached Excel template where you can fill in the nessesary information. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
I hope this finds you well. Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information please:
– The Trust’s spend on agency workers both on-framework and off-framework.;
– By role type;
– With which provider/s and how much the Trust spends;
– and when the current contract ends with your agency staffing provider. If possible, it would be helpful for this information to go back the last 12 months, financial or calendar, or failing that any information you might have from recently.
I would like you to provide this information in the following format please:
In a Microsoft Word/Microsoft Excel document, or by simply replying to this email. I understand that a public authority has 20 working days to comply with information requests, so I trust you will be able to provide your response within this timeframe.
Agency spend request
Please can you provide the total amount spent on agency temporary staff for the following financial periods and in the following categories:
Staff Group Total spend on agency for the financial year 21/22 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 1 22/23 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 2
22/23 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 3
22/23 Total spend on agency for
Quarter 4
22/23
Doctors
Nurses
AHPs
HCAs
International Nurse Recruitment Spend request
Please can you provide the total spend on the international recruitment of nurses in the following financial periods:
1. For the financial year 21/22
2. For Quarters 1 and 2 of 22/23
3. For Quarters 3 and 4 of 22/23
Please can you also breakdown costs in terms of:
1. Overseas trips
2. Agency fees
3. Flights
4. Visas
5. Expenses
6. Living expenses for international recruits
Total current vacancy
Please provide your current total vacancy number for:
1. Nurses
2. AHPs
3. Doctors
4. HCAs
We would like to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT
1. We understand the ICS/Trust has representation on the following Medicines Management / Prescribing / Formulary Committees:
• One Gloucestershire Medicines Optimisation Board OGMOB.
Please confirm if this is correct.
If not correct, please list the relevant Committess.
2. Does the Organisation have representation on any other medicines management / prescribing / formulary committees? If so, please advise which.
3. We have the following formularies listed as used by the Organisation:
• Gloucestershire Joint Formulary
Please confirm if this is correct and if not, please provide online links./copy of relevant formularies.
4. Are any of the above formularies dominant when making prescribing decisions or does this depend on therapy area? Please say which is the relevant formulary of the Organisation.
5. If you use a PDF formulary, have you considered moving it to an online platform like Netformulary, and if yes, when are you planning to do so?
Please can you tell me
1. what if any training in gender identity, your CAMHS staff and practitioners have received in the last 4 years,
2. who provided the training organisation.
3. Please confirm if you possess training resources supplied by the trainers.
4. If you do possess the training please confirm if it is stored in a location accessible to all clinical staff e.g a shared drive or common training resource.
5. How much any training cost.
I would be grateful if you could send me copies of all responses you have previously provided to any Freedom of Information FOI. requests received regarding the numbers of patients treated or prescribed with immunology drugs.
The specific criteria are:
FOI requests made between Jan 2021 and Apr 2023 with any of the following criteria:
• Patients treated with any of the following classes of drugs: anti-TNF inhibitors, JAK inhibitors, biologic medicines, biosimilars
• Drug treatments for one or more of the following diseases: Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Psoriasis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Hidradenitis Suppurativa and related conditions
• Patients treated in the dermatology department
• Patients treated in the gastroenterology department
• Patients treated in the rheumatology department
I am writing to request information under the FOI Act.
I would appreciate the results within the 20 day limit please or sooner.
I would like to know:
1: The number of referrals in to your neurodevelopmental services for children and young people for 2017, 2021 and 2022.
2: The average wait in weeks for a first assessment/appointment within your neurodevelopmental services for children and young people for 2017, 2021 and 2022.
3: The number of children and young people waiting for a neurodevelopmental assessment as of the date of this request or the nearest available date please.
4: The number of children and young people referred to your neurodevelopmental services who were discharged without an assessment or treatment for 2017, 2021 and 2022 please.
5: The longest wait in weeks of any CYP awaiting a first appointment with your neurodevelopmental services as of the date of this request or nearest available date.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information in regards to use of postal services by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust:
• How many letters were sent via post • How many appointment and appointment reminder letters sent via post
• How many change of appointment letters sent via post
• How much is spent on post for change of appointment letters? • How many pre-admission and pre-arrival letters sent via post
• How much is spent post for pre-admission and pre-arrival letters? • How many pages are in the average letter sent via post
• How much is the total printing costs of letters sent via post • How much is the total stamp / franking costs of letters sent via post • How much is spent on post in total
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information FOI. Act 2000. Please see below a request for the following information relating to homelessness in the workforce.
Question 1
How many staff have contacted the workplace for support because they have become homeless.
I would like this information returned in an email.
If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as soon as possible as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
From 1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024 how many shifts has your Trust or Health Board utilised Thornbury Nursing services for?
Within this same time frame 1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024. please list all wards or departments that utilised this agency and display the number of shifts in each.
Within this same time frame 1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024. please list all other off contract agencies utilised by the Trust or Health Board for nursing and break down a list of each ward or department and total number of shifts for each off contract agency. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period 01/01/2024- 01/03/2024.
Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period 01/01/2024- 01/03/2024.
Please list any suppliers with a critical day rate charge Band 5 or 6. ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £60 per hour that have been utilised in this time period Please list any suppliers with a critical night rate charge Band 5 or 6. ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £70 per hour that have been utilised in this time period
Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
I am writing to make an information request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would be grateful if the Authority could provide the following information in relation to any Managed Print and Reprographic Services:
Details of Current Contracts:
Please can you provide details of current contracts for Managed Print Services and Reprographic Services? Specifically, I am interested in:
• The start and end dates of these contracts.
• The annual value of each contract.
• The names of the service providers involved.
• Are there any extension clauses in these contracts, if so how long?
Procurement Process:
What process was used for the procurement of these services e.g., open tender, direct award.?
Where any frameworks used for the procurement? If so, which ones?
Service Specifications:
What are the key performance indicators KPIs. and service level agreements SLAs. outlined in these contracts?
How does the Authority evaluate the performance of these services?
Environmental Impact Considerations:
Does the Authority have any policies or criteria in these contracts related to environmental sustainability or carbon footprint reduction?
Expenditure and Usage Data:
Can you provide a summary of expenditure on Managed Print Services and Reprographic Services for the last two financial years?
Additionally, could you provide any available data on the volume of printing and reprographic services utilised during the same period?
Please can you provide numbers and a breakdown summary of current devices in use, i.e A3/A4, colour/mono etc?
I wish to request the following information:
• The total spend with off framework agencies for Nursing and Healthcare Assistant shifts between June 2023 – Present
• Breakdown of departments this spend was used in i.e. A&E/ITU and also the breakdown of grade i.e. RGN/RMN
• The total spend with framework agencies for Nursing and Healthcare Assistant shifts between June 2023 – Present
• Breakdown of departments this was used in i.e. A&E/ITU and also the breakdown of grade I.e RGN/RMN
• Total spent with off framework agencies for Doctor shifts/jobs between June 2023-Present
• Breakdown of Grade/Specialty this was used in
• Total spend with on framework agencies for Doctors shifts/jobs between June 2023-Present
• Breakdown of Grade/Specialty this was used in
• Breakdown of agencies and their spend during the same above period for both Doctors and Nursing.
• List of names who authorise agency usage for both Doctors and Nursing.
1. From 1st January 2023 to 28th February 2023, please list the wards/departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies in your Adult Nursing, Mental Health, Community Hospitals?
2. From 1st January 2023 to 28th February 2023 have you requested shifts for off framework agencies in your UTC/UCC/MIU?
3. Please provide me with the name, contact number & email address of the person responsible for agreeing temporary nursing agency contracts for your Trust?
4. Please provide a list of off-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 3 months
5. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between January 1st 2023 – March 10th 2023 a. RGN’s b. RCN’s c. RMN d. ITU Nurse e. A&E Nurse f. HCA g. CPN 6. How much was your off framework spent for a. Urgent Treatment Centre b. Urgent Care Centre c. Minor Injuries Unit?
Do you use any applications or tools to communicate with your patients digitally?
I am interested in all aspects of patient communication, but particularly:
– Pre- and post-operative communication
– eConsent
– Outpatients
– Patient engagement at home
– Patient satisfaction
Please advise of
– the individuals. name and/or job title. with responsibility for developing digital communications with patients.
– the suppliers presently providing such software solutions and contract values
– the contract award date and renewal date for such services
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your organisation. Please may you provide me with an answer to the following:
1. Who provides your non-emergency patient transport services NEPTS.?
2. When does this contract run until?
3. What is the value of this contract per annum i.e. for 2023/24.?
4. Do you contract your NEPTS for your organisation in isolation, or is it contracted jointly with other NHS organisations? If so, which other NHS organisations?
5. Who is the best person to contact regarding the NEPTS service for your organisation? Please provide name, position and contact details where possible.
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding PAS, EHR and task management systems. Please can you complete the questions below: 1. Patient Administration System used to support patient management, including tracking patients and managing admissions, ward attendances and appointments.
a.Does the organisation use a Patient Administration System PAS.? If yes, please provide the supplier’s name.
b. What is the contract end date of the PAS supplier?
2. Electronic Health Record System a digital record of patient health information.
a.Does the organisations use an Electronic Health Record EHR.? If yes, please provide the supplier’s name.
b. What is the contract end date of the EHR supplier?
3. Patient Engagement patient engagement tools refer to systems that enable patients to access personal health information and allows patients to choose to participate in their care.
a. Does the organisation use a patient engagement tool? If yes, please provide the supplier’s name.
b. What is the contract end date of the Patient Engagement supplier?
4. Task Management Functionality
Please tick below which task management functionality currently used at the organisation.
Functionality Tick if used
Static Task Lists Automated Escalation and Allocation of Tasks
I am conducting an analysis of employment-exit questionnaire data and the methods used to capture this information in a range of NHS Organisations. It is hoped that this information will inform the design of a new exit data collection process for my own NHS Trust. To achieve this, I kindly request your help under FOI Act 2000.. I would be grateful if you could fill in the attached excel document. Please can the answers be added to the spreadsheet and the completed spreadsheet returned via email before the 8th March 2024.
I’d like to find out what your organisational structure is with regard to community health services. Are you a standalone community health services Trust or are you embedded within an acute Trust or in partnership with a VCSE sector provider?
O365 Licencing Questions:-
a.- Which Microsoft O365 do you use eg E3,E5?
b.- Do you use the NHS-shared O365 tenant?
c.- Do you procure O365 licences through Microsoft Enterprise Agreement EA. or Cloud Service Provider CSP.. Who is your supplier?
d.- When is your licencing renewal date/anniversary for these services?
Microsoft Telephony Questions
e.- Do you have Microsoft Calling Plans, if so how many licences users.
f.- Do you have other forms of Microsoft Telephony such as Direct routing/Operator connect? How many licences users. and which supplier?
g.- When is your licencing renewal date/anniversary for these services?
In line with the Freedom of Information Act, can you kindly respond to the following questions:
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• How many Estates & Facilities sector roles at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
• were filled in the last financial year 2022/23.?
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• How many Estates & Facilities roles within this Trust were advertised but not filled in the last
• financial year 2022/23.? Which roles were these?
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• What was the spend on recruitment advertising for all of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation
• Trust Estates & Facilities roles during this time period?
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• Were recruitment agencies used for any of these roles, and if so which roles?
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• What is your current vacancy rate for Estates & Facilities at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS
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• of the Estates & Facilities roles within this NHS Trust posted on NHS Jobs?
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• As a Trust, are you doing anything different to attract a diverse workforce and if so what? If
• not, is it in your plans to do so?
I am sending this request under the FOI Act. This request relates to inpatient admissions to your trust with a primary or secondary diagnosis of an eating disorder please include all eating disorders – i.e. ICD10 code F50 – Eating Disorders.. 1. Please state the number of inpatients with an eating disorder diagnosis that were discharged from your trust in: a. 2018
b. 2019 c. 2020
d. 2021
e. 2022
f. Total 1 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2022. 2. Please break down the early totals above by patient BMI at time of discharge in the following categories: i. BMI > 18.5 ii. BMI 17-18.5
iii. BMI 16-16.99 iv. BMI 15-15.99
v. BMI <15kg For ease, I have created a table template that can be completed. Please also find it attached. Number of inpatients with a diagnosed eating disorder that were discharged from your trust, by BMI at time of discharge: Q1 Q2.i Q2.ii Q2.iii Q2.iv Q2.v
Total discharged BMI > 18.5 BMI 17-18.5 BMI 16-16.99 BMI 15-15.99 BMI <15kg 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Total 1 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2022. If numbers above are so small that a significant proportion of the data is supressed, please complete the alternative table outlining broader BMI categories also attached.
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the FOI Act 2000.
Can you please provide an update on the following 3 questions regarding your Trust’s Infrastructure?
1. For each element of IT infrastructure below, please provide the requested details Main provider, annual spend 2021-2022, contract end date.:
– Desktop management
– Networking
– Data Centre
– Server management
– IT Security
2. For each of the elements below, please provide details about your cloud provider name, contract end date.:
– Data storage
– Networking
– Back-up and archive
– Application databases
– Big Data analytics databases
3. For each of the elements below, does your organisation plan to move to a cloud-based service in the next 2 years?
– Data storage
– Networking
– Back-up and archive
– Processing and computer capacity
– Application databases
– Analytics databases
– Email and collaboration
– Other Please specify.
We are writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Specifically, we are requesting information about the local Formularys. used by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Question 1: What local Formulary does Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust use? Answer 1: Please list all formularies used by your Trust
Question 2: Is the Formulary publicly accessible e.g. on Netformulary.?
Answer 2: Yes/No
If Yes, please provide the online links.? Formulary links.: If No, please attach your Formulary as a document / table, if possible.
1. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit temporary non-medical non-clinical staff?
1a. If so please confirm the total agency spend on non-medical non clinical temporary staff?
1b. Please provide a breakdown of your answer to question 1a, splitting the spend by job title/specialism
2. Has the Trust used agencies to recruit permanent non-medical non-clinical staff?
2a. If so please confirm the total agency spend on non-medical non clinical permanent staff?
2b. Please provide a breakdown of your answer to question 2a, splitting the spend by job title/specialism
3. The contact name of the person responsible for dealing with non-medical non clinical permanent recruitment?
4. The contact name of the person responsible for dealing with non-medical non clinical temporary recruitment?
Could you please provide the following information?
1. The number of allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual
assault and rape that the Trust received from a member of staff against another
member of staff in 2022.
2. The number of allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual
assault and rape that the Trust received from a member of staff against another
member of staff in 2021.
3. The number of allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual
assault and rape that the Trust received from a member of staff against another
member of staff in 2020.
4. The number of allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual
assault and rape that the Trust received from a member of staff against another
member of staff in 2019.
5. The total number of allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment,
sexual assault and rape that the Trust received from a member of staff against another
member of staff between 2019 and 2022.
6. The total number of allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment,
sexual assault and rape received from a member of staff against another member of
staff between 2019 and 2022 which resulted in action being taken against the
individual accused.
In line with the freedom of information act, please could you let me know the following information in accordance with your guidelines:
What Integration Platforms. is the trust currently using?
Who supports the current integration environment at the trust? Is this dealt with in house or outsourced? If outsourced, when is this contract due for renewal?
Please can you provide the following service and maintenance contract information with regards to the organisation’s Digital/Smart Buildings Platform, Fire Alarms & Fire Suppression, Access Controls, Security / CCTV, HVAC Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning., BMS Building Management System. and Care Comms/Nurse Call Care Communications.. Can this be sent over via email once available: 1. Contract Description: Please provide me with a brief description of the overall service provided under this contract. 2. Contract Type: Comprehensive, Semi Comprehensive including call outs, Basic Service Only. 3. Existing Supplier: If there is more than one supplier, please split each contract up individually. 4. Annual Average Spend: The annual average spends for this contract and please provide the average spend over the past 3 years for each provider 5. Hardware Brand: The primary hardware brand of the organisation’s Digital/Smart Buildings Platform, Fire Alarms & Fire Suppression, Access Controls, Security / CCTV, HVAC Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning., BMS Building Management System. and Care Comms/Nurse Call Care Communications..
6. Number of sites with the above-mentioned solutions.
7. Contract Duration: please include any extension periods. 8. Contract Expiry Date: Please provide me with the day/month/year. 9. Contract Review Date: Please provide me with the day/month/year. 10. Go to Market: How where these services procured, please provide me with either the tender notice or the framework reference number. Please specify if procured through other routes. 11. Contact Detail: Of the person from with the organisation responsible for each contract with details including full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.
12. If the service support area has more than one provider for Digital/Smart Buildings Platform, Fire Alarms & Fire Suppression, Access Controls, Security / CCTV, HVAC Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning., BMS Building Management System. and Care Comms/Nurse Call.Care Communications..
13. Maintenance then can you please split each contract up individually for each provider? 14. If the contract is a managed by an outside Facility Management Company, please can you provide all the relevant details with including the contact details of the responsible person from the FM Facilities Management. Company. This request includes both DDI number and Mobile Number.
Thank you for your FOI request.
We do not have a patient portal/PEP and is not on our current pipeline to procure a patient portal / patient engagement platform PEP..
Please can you provide some clarification the below queries:
– Has the trust utilised Insourcing with the FY 22/23?
– What was the insourcing spend by the trust for 22/23?
– How was Insourcing procured by the trust? Was a particular framework used?
– Outside of procurement team who is the Senior Officer responsible for Insourcing?
For clarity, ‘insourcing’ is defined as: where an NHS organisation sub-contracts medical services/procedures. It differs to locum supply in that the full end to end service is provided, not just staff.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Please may you provide me with:
Confirmation if the trust works under, Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160 and the new CCS Non-Clinical Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277.
If the trust works under, these frameworks, please can you provide a list of agencies that have supplied you with non-clinical staff and a breakdown of agency spend by bands between May 2022 and April 2023.
Can you also please provide the contact details of the person/persons responsible for agreeing non-clinical staffing call-off contracts, for roles which would fall under Lot 2 Corporate Functions. and Lot 6 Estates, Facilities Management & Ancillary Staff..
Please provide the information in the form of electronic copies of information.
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, could you provide the following information:
1. Prior to blood culture collection, what skin asepsis solution does your hospital/Trust/Health Board use in the skin preparation/ cleaning process – a. licensed skin antisepsis applicator b. licensed skin disinfection wipe c. non licensed wipe d. other?
2. How long do you clean the patient’s skin for and what technique is used?
3. How long does your organisation allow the patients skin to dry before blood culture collection?
4. Do you know the percentage of contamination rate of blood cultures in your organisation?
5. What is the management process following a confirmed blood sample contamination. Is it escalation to a. infection control team b. microbiology c. education and development d. other, please specify or e. no process?
Under Freedom of Information legislation, I would like to request the following. 1. Is your organisation and apprenticeship levy payer? Yes or no is sufficient. 2. What was the value £. of your organisation’s apprenticeship levy contributions in a. 2019-20 b. 2020-21 c. 2021-22 and d. 2022-23. Please provide an annual breakdown. 3. How much apprenticeship levy ‘expired’ – i.e. was not used – in a. 2019-20 b. 2020-21 c. 2021-22 and d. 2022-23. Please provide an annual breakdown. 4. How many apprenticeship starts did your organisation create in a. 2019-20 b. 2020-21 c. 2021-22 and d. 2022-23. Please provide an annual breakdown.
5. How many of those apprenticeship starts created were a. male and b. female in 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23. Please provide an annual breakdown for each gender. Given the statutory deadline for a response to a Freedom of Information Request is 20 working days, the deadline for your response is Tuesday 12 December. If you fail to meet this deadline, I will request an Internal Review. After that, I will log a complaint via the Commissioner’s Office.
Please provide the following information in full for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
Please note that I use the term ‘borderline personality disorder’ but would also like stats for ’emotionally unstable personality disorder’ if that is the diagnostic term that your trust uses..
1. Please provide your trust policy for borderline personality disorder diagnosis and treatment.
2. How much funding is received for the care of borderline personality disorder and how is this money spent?
3. How many adult patients are there within the trust with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder?
4. What specialist treatments or therapeutic interventions do the trust facilitate for all patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder?
5. How much does it cost the trust per year to provide medication to adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder?
6. How many patients/service users with borderline personality disorder require in-patient care?
7. How much does it cost the trust to facilitate this in-patient care?
8. Does the trust provide dialectical behaviour therapy? If so, please provide the numbers of patients/service users who have used this service. If not, is there a plan to implement this treatment?
9. How many suicides of patients with borderline personality disorder have there been each year?
10. How many complaints have been lodged in relation to borderline personality disorder treatment?
Please can the following be actioned as a Freedom of Information request.
In an attempt to understand the landscape across the NHS I am requesting information about clinical waste contracts. Please can you provide the information for the queries below for your trust. If your trust has split or amalgamated in the last 3 years, please could you break the information down into historic trusts as relevant.
1. Who is your current contractor for clinical waste collections? This will usually be one contractor for offensive/hazardous waste tiger and orange bags. as well as sharps however if you have more than one contractor, please could you name them all
2. Please could you confirm if you are in a specific contract for clinical waste management or if clinical waste is collected as part of a wider total waste management solution. If a part of a total waste management solution, the TWM provider should be named in question 1
3. If in contract for clinical waste management, please could you confirm the start date and the term of the contract? Could you please state if you contractually have the option extend past the standard duration and if so by how long? An example answer would be as follows.
‘Aug 2022 start date for 3 years with the option of +1 extension wrote into the contract’
4. If known, please could you confirm how many separate sites clinical waste is collected from across your estate?
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act, can you please provide the following?
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3. The number of data breach incidents recorded in the trust between 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023- date March
4. 2024.
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8. How much has the trust paid out in compensation for Data Breach claims between 2021/22, 2022/23 and
9. 2023-date March 2024.?
I’m writing to you under the Freedom of Information act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with: A, 1. The number of datix reports made identifying staffing shortages or referencing staffing shortages on all mental wards in the calendar year 2019. 2. The number of datix reports made identifying staffing shortages or referencing staffing shortages on all mental wards in the calendar year 2020. 3. The number of datix reports made identifying staffing shortages or referencing staffing shortages on all mental wards in the calendar year 2021. 4. The number of datix reports made identifying staffing shortages or referencing staffing shortages on all mental wards in the calendar year 2022. 5. The number of datix reports made identifying staffing shortages or referencing staffing shortages on all mental wards so far in this calendar year, 2023. B, 6. The number of shifts on all mental wards that were flagged as not meeting minimum nurse staffing levels in the calendar year 2019. 7. The number of shifts on all mental wards that were flagged as not meeting minimum nurse staffing levels in the calendar year 2020. 8. The number of shifts on all mental wards that were flagged as not meeting minimum nurse staffing levels in the calendar year 2021. 9. The number of shifts on all mental wards that were flagged as not meeting minimum nurse staffing levels in the calendar year 2022. 10. The number of shifts on all mental wards that were flagged as not meeting minimum nurse staffing levels so far in this calendar year, 2023. C, 11. The total number of shifts available in the calendar year 2019. 12. The total number of shifts available in the calendar year 2020. 13. The total number of shifts available in the calendar year 2021. 14. The total number of shifts available in the calendar year 2022. 15. The total number of shifts available in the calendar year 2023. Please provide the information in a spreadsheet, not a word document or PDF, if possible.
We have identified that you have capacity within your trust to deliver mental health services within England. Please provide the following information:
• Hospital names.
• Unit names.
• Security level
• Number of beds
• Adult or children / adolescent service
We have attached a pro-forma and would be grateful if you could provide the information in that format.
1. How many patients of [Trust Name] are using or have been prescribed the following medical devices for use in their home? a. Nebuliser b. Oxygen concentrator c. Suction d. Ventilator or non-invasive ventilation BiPAP or CPAP. e. Feeding pump f. Powered hospital bed g. Electric wheelchair h. Haemodialysis machine i. Body drier j. Chair lift.
2. What, if any, rebate or refund schemes are made available by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust for patients in respect of the energy costs they incur running the above devices?
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For nursing registered and unregistered please could you share the below agency data:
• For registered Nursing o How many hours were used in the last year?
o What is your spend over the corresponding period?
• For unregistered Nursing o How many hours were used in the last year?
o What is your spend over the corresponding period?
Please could you also confirm if you have a:
• Master vendor and their contract end date?
• Neutral vendor and their contract end date?
Could you please provide me with the information counting treatment beginning as from the first appointment following the assessment of need?
What is your current bank spend for the last 12 months?
What is your current agency spend for the last 12 months?
Do you have a Managed Bank Provider or a Bank System Provider? If so who is the Provider and what is the contract end date?
What is your current fill rate for bank?
Do you have a Master Vendor or Neutral Vendor provider? If so who is the Provider and what is the contract end date?
What is your current fill rate for agency?
Do you have a Direct Engagement Provider? If so who is the Provider, what is the fee and what is the contract end date?
If you have Direct Engagement in place what is the current % uptake?
1. Who is responsible for managing the recruitment of temporary staff and what is their work email address
2. Could you please provide your total OFF-Framework agency spend between 1st of January 2022 to 31st of December 2022 for: A. Nurses all bands and specialties. and B. General Practitioners please answer separately.
3. Could you please list individually which specialty of nurses hired through off-framework agencies that accumulated agency spend in excess of £100,000 between the 1st of January 2022 to 31st of December 2022. Example answers for question 3: Advance Nurse Practitioners total off framework agency spend £101,000, Mental Health Nurses total off framework agency spend £202,596, Paediatric Nurses total off framework agency spend £185,696.
Please enter ‘No System Installed’ or ‘No Department’ under supplier name if your trust does not use the system or have the department:
System type – Discharge Letters
Supplier name
System name –
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No Procurement framework – Other systems it integrates with? – Total value of contract £. – Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
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System name – Diagnostic Reporting
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No Procurement framework – Other systems it integrates with? – Total value of contract £. – Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
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System type –Digital Dictation
Supplier name
System name –
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No Procurement framework – Other systems it integrates with? – Total value of contract £. – Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
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System type –Bed Management
Supplier name
System name –
Date installed –
Contract expiration –
Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No Procurement framework – Other systems it integrates with? – Total value of contract £. – Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
System definitions:
Discharge Letters – the ability to electronically generate and send detailed discharge letters to GPs and other relevant HCPs, when a patient is discharged from hospital-based services.
Diagnostic Reporting – test results which are electronically transmitted to the clinician who ordered them, with receipt acknowledgement.
Digital Dictation – device used for recording and managing natural speech, allowing staff to verbally input a patients’ note into a system without having to manually input it.
Bed Management – real-time bed states are viewable and accessible, enabling more efficient management of bed occupancy and patient movements.