Can you please tell me, under the Freedom Of Information Act,
The totals for Sudden Unexpected Deaths In Children SUDIC. for the Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust for years 2015-2023?
Can you give me the monthly stats for each year, and include cause of death, and put the ages in ascending order please?
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037-2023
I would like to request some information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please acknowledge receipt of my request by email. The questions relate to how much the trust paid consultants during recent industrial action by junior doctors and whether the paid rates in line with the BMA’s ‘rate card’.
Please answer the following questions in the Excel sheet provided: 1. How much did the trust spend £. in total on paying for consultants to carry out non-contractual shifts, or paying for consultants to act down during contractual shifts, required to cover junior doctors’ during the seven days of industrial action by junior doctors taken between 13 to 16 March, and 11 to 14 April 2023? Please provide a £ figure for the total. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 2. Did the trust pay the hourly rates outlined on the BMA rate card for consultants’ non-contractual work, during either of the junior doctors’ strikes in March or April? Please answer Yes or No. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 3. If the trust answered “No” to question 2, what was the maximum hourly rate £/hour. the trust paid for non-contractual shifts, or for consultants to act down during contractual shifts required to cover junior doctors’ shifts during either the March or April junior doctors’ strike? If you answered “yes” to question 2, please leave this answer blank. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 4. Did the trust pay the hourly rates outlined on the BMA rate card for consultants’ non-contractual shifts as of April 2023? Please answer Yes or No. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. 5. If the trust answered “No” to question 4, what is the maximum hourly rate £/hour. the trust paid consultants for non-contractual shifts as of April 2023? If the trust answered “yes” to question 4, please leave this answer blank. Please use the free text box if the trust wants to further explanation its answer. If you need any clarification of this request or if it is too broad, please email me. I would remind you that under your Section 16 duty to advise and assist I would expect you to contact me to discuss any practical difficulties that you may have in fulfilling this request so that I may narrow my request in a way that works for both of us. If some parts of this request are more difficult to answer than others please release the answerable material as it is available rather than hold up the entire request for the contested data. If FOI requests of a similar nature have already been asked could you please include your responses to those requests. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request, and I look forward to hearing from you within the 20-working day statutory time period.
036-2023
1.Please supply patient’s information ECT leaflet.
2.Please supply patient ECT consent form
3.Please supply any ECT reports/investigations
4.How many ECT in 2022?
5.What proportion of patients were men/women?
6.How old were they?
7.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
8.How many were receiving ECT for the first time?
9.How many patients consented to ECT?
10.How many ECT complaints were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
11.How many patients died during or 1 month after ECT and what was the cause whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
12.How many patients died within 6 months after ECT and what was the cause whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
13.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving ECT whether or not ECT was considered the cause.?
14.How many patients have suffered complications during and after ECT and what were those complications?
15.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about ECT?
16.If so, what was their concerns?
17.How many patients report memory loss/loss of cognitive function?
18.What tests are used to assess memory loss/loss of cognitive function?
19.Have MRI or CT scans been used before and after ECT?
20.If so, what was the conclusion?
21.How does the Trust plan to prevent ECT in the future?
Please provide SERIOUS INCIDENT information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any serious incident reports/investigations?
2.How many SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what was the cause whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what was the cause whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS whether or not SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about SERIOUS INCIDENT REPORTS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to prevent SERIOUS INCIDENTS in the future?
Please provide restraints information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any Restraints/investigations?
2.How many RESTRAINTS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many RESTRAINTS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after RESTRAINTS and what was the cause whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after RESTRAINTS and what was the cause whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving RESTRAINTS whether or not RESTRAINTS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after RESTRAINTS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about RESTRAINTS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.Are counts of forced injections available?
14.How does the Trust plan to reduce restraints in the future?
Please provide SECLUSION information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any SECLUSION reports/investigations
2.How many SECLUSIONS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many SECLUSIONS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after SECLUSION and what was the cause whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after SECLUSION and what was the cause whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving SECLUSION whether or not SECLUSION was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after SECLUSION and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about SECLUSION?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to reduce SECLUSIONS in the future?
Please provide MEDICATION ERRORS information under the FOI act to the following questions: –
1.Please supply any MEDICATION ERRORS reports/investigations
2.How many MEDICATION ERRORS in 2022?
3.What proportion of patients were men/women?
4.How old were they?
5.What proportion of patients were classified people of the global majority or racialised communities POC / BAME.?
6.How many MEDICATION ERRORS were investigated outside the NHS and CCG?
7.How many patients died during or 1 month after MEDICATION ERRORS and what was the cause whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
8.How many patients died within 6 months after MEDICATION ERRORS and what was the cause whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
9.How many patients died by suicide within 6 months of receiving MEDICATION ERRORS whether or not MEDICATION ERRORS was considered the cause.?
10.How many patients have suffered complications during and after MEDICATION ERRORS and what were those complications?
11.Have there been any formal complaints from patients/relatives about MEDICATION ERRORS?
12.If so, what was their concerns?
13.How does the Trust plan to prevent MEDICATION ERRORS in the future?
418-2023
Please can you answer the following 3 questions:
1. From September 2022 to November 2022, please list the wards/departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies in your Adult Nursing, Mental Health, Community Hospitals?
2. Please provide a list of off-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 6 months.
3. Please provide a breakdown of the number of shifts covered by each off-framework agency and their average hourly charge rate for the following disciplines:
417-2023
I’m working for Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, supporting our Dental services across Cambridge, Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Our current project includes a review of Special Care Dental nursing, as the trust is currently experiencing some recruitment/retention challenges in certain areas, and I’m keen to understand if these are specific to the local region or a more broader, shared challenge across the country with other trusts.
In particular, am keen to understand current:
Dental nursing vacancy rates qty and %.
Pay bands what band, if aligned, or any variation/tactical amends to aid recruitment – i.e. starting bonus, referral reward etc..
Recruitment strategy where advertised, when.
108-2023
I would like to know how many schools in this Trust serve meat that may contain nitrates or nitrites. Please provide a numerical answer, for the number of hospitals.
094-2023
I’m requesting the following information from your organisation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
• A copy of the trust’s sexual safety policy
091-2023
Does your Trust employ nurse associates or assistant nursing practitioners? Y/N
If you employ nurse associates/assistant nursing practitioners, do these groups of staff undertake any of the nursing roles ascribed to RMNs or LD nurses in the Mental Health Act or the Mental Health Act Code of Practice? Y/N
If so does this role include:
Receipt and scrutiny of section papers?
Explaining s132 rights?
Granting leave at the nurse’s discretion?
Any other duties outlined in the Mental Health Act or the Mental Health Act Code of Practice?
If nurse associates or nursing practitioners undertake these role do they have additional training/supervision to gain competency?
Do other registered clinicians/practitioners working in inpatient care such as Occupational Therapists or Social Workers undertake any of the duties described in the Mental Health Act or the Mental Health Act Code of Practice?
If so can you describe what these are?
089-2023
Freedom of Information request
I’m writing to request copies of the following:
[1] Any in place/in use Trust policies, procedures, guidelines, protocols, pathways, training materials, or other documents, which address the diagnosis, investigation, and/or management, of any of the following:
a. Pulsatile Tinnitus.
b. Non-pulsatile tinnitus i.e. all forms of tinnitus that are not pulsatile.
c. Sjögren’s.
[2] Any in place/in use policies, procedures, guidelines, pathways, training materials, or other documents, of any of the hospitals within the remit of your Trust, which address the diagnosis, investigation, and/or management, of any of the following:
a. Pulsatile Tinnitus.
b. Non-pulsatile tinnitus.
c. Sjögren’s.
087-2023
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.
If this information is already publicly available or you might be able to guide me to another information source, any advice would be gladly received.
Please provide data for each question for the years 2018 – 2022, broken down by calendar year i.e. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022..
1. Please provide the number of term stillbirths 37 weeks or more. at your trust
2. Please provide the review process for each stillbirth recorded, e.g.. X number of PMRTs, X number of SIIs, X number referred to the coroner. If relevant, please include the number that led to no review.
3. In any reviews done following a stillbirth please list how many times each of the following was a contributing factor, concluded from the investigation.
a. Failing to monitor reduced foetal movements
b. Wrongly interpreting test results during pregnancy
c. Failing to act on test results which highlight a problem
d. Failure to treat infections in the mother
e. Poor staffing levels
f. Failure to notice vital signs of distress
4. Please provide the number of neonatal deaths at your trust
5. Please provide the review process for each neonatal death, e.g. X number of SIIs, X number referred to the coroner. If relevant, please include the number that led to no review.
6. In any reviews following a neonatal death, please list how many times each of the following was a contributing factor, concluded from the investigation.
a. Failing to monitor reduced foetal movements
b. Wrongly interpreting test results during pregnancy
c. Failing to act on test results which highlight a problem
d. Failure to treat infections in the mother
e. Poor staffing levels
f. Failure to notice vital signs of distress
g. Failing in antenatal care
h. Insufficient or inaccurate handovers
i. Failing to recognise need for caesarean
7. Please provide the number of maternal deaths at your trust
8. Please provide the number of midwifery staffing red flags at your trust
If the request exceeds costing limits set out under the act, please advise how I can refine my request. If you do not hold data in calendar years, please provide data in financial years from 2018-19 through to 2022-23.
062-2023
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information on waiting times for ADHD assessments in England:
1. The number of undiagnosed children age 11-18 years. currently on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment on the NHS.
1a. Please can you also provide the same information for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
2. The current average waiting time for an undiagnosed child age 11-18 years. to see a psychiatrist for ADHD assessment after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
2a. The longest waiting time for a child currently on the list.
2b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
3. How many child assessments were done in the past year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
3a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
4. The current average waiting time for a child age 11-18 years. between ADHD diagnosis and starting treatment on the NHS. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by type of treatment medication or behavioural therapy.
4a. The longest waiting time between diagnosis and treatment for a child currently on the list.
4b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
5. The number of undiagnosed adults currently on the waiting list for an ADHD assessment on the NHS.
5a. Please can you also provide the same information for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit
6. The current average wait time for an undiagnosed adult to see a psychiatrist for ADHD after being referred from a GP on the NHS.
6a. The longest waiting time for an adult currently on the list
6b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
7. How many adult assessments were done in the past year. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by gender.
7a. Please can you also provide this same information for each of the prior five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
8. The current average waiting time for an adult between ADHD diagnosis and starting treatment on the NHS. Please provide the total and if available. a breakdown by type of treatment medication or behavioural therapy.
8a. The longest waiting time between diagnosis and treatment for an adult currently on the list.
8b. Please can you also provide the average wait time for each of the past five years, if doing so won’t push this request over the cost limit.
059-2023
I am requesting information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Q1. Does your organisation have a panel which focuses on supporting adults who hoard or a ‘hoarding panel’.?
Q2 . If yes, please can you provide me with a copy of the policy/guidance/standard operating procedure/terms of reference that informs the remit of the panel?
Q3. Is there policy or guidance in the organisation to support staff working with people who self-neglect?
Q4. If yes, please can you provide me with a copy?
048-2023
Freedom of Information Request
Section -1
1. Has the trust conducted any overseas healthcare recruitment in the previous financial year of 2022-2023?
2. If yes, can you please advise which all professionals were recruited from overseas Eg. Nurses, doctors, radiographers, ODP’s
3. Can you please list out which all recruitment agencies were used for each professions respectively for year 2022-2023
4. Please list out the contact details of the recruitment agencies used
5. Please can you describe how were these agencies selected?
Section – 2
6. Is the trust planning to conduct overseas healthcare recruitment in the present financial year of 2023-2024?
7. If yes, can you please advise which all professionals were recruited from overseas Eg. Nurses, doctors, radiographers
8. Can you please list out which all recruitment agencies are being used for each professions respectively for year 2023-2024
9. Please can you describe how were these agencies selected?
Section 3
10. What is the process to get onto your framework of suppliers.
11. Would the trust be open to using a non-framework agency who could deliver a better service in a cost-effective way? if So who is the best person to contact?
12. Kindly specify when is the next lot of tenders invited for such a requirement?
13. Kindly specify where would such a tenders would be published for interested bidders to bid?
14. Are you looking for new suppliers who would be able to help you fulfil the roles?
018-2023
I am emailing under the Freedom of Information Act to request information regarding your trust and its participation in clinical trials by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site.
Can you please provide answers to the questions below:
1. Does your trust participate in clinical trials by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site?
2. For the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23. how many clinical trials have the trust participated in by providing patient recruitment and/or acting as a trial site for trials that have been sponsored by the following:
a. Academic institutions
b. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies
c. Other non-profit organisations
d. Other for-profit organisations
3. If you have participated in clinical trials with academic institutions, how many trials were conducted at the following stages of a clinical trial? Please answer for the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23..
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
e. Other
4. If you have participated in clinical trials with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, how many trials were conducted at the following stages of a clinical trial? Please answer for the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23..
a. Phase 1
b. Phase 2
c. Phase 3
d. Phase 4
e. Other
5. For each year in the last 3 years FY2019/20 – FY2022/23. please detail:
a. How much income the trust should have received for all its clinical trial participation?
b. How much income has the trust actually received for all its clinical trial participation?
c. How much income is still owed to your trust for all its clinical trial participation?
454-2023
I sent a FOI request on Friday regarding CAMHS waiting times and budgets. I wonder if you could take into account the following clarifications as I can see some of my questions were a little opaque, apologies.
I would appreciate if you could consider the following questions:
1: The number of young people on your waiting list for a first appointment and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. A snapshot for a single day in February for those years please.
2: The number of young people on your list who had an assessment but have not started any therapeutic intervention and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017.. PLEASE DISREGARD THIS QUESTION. INSTEAD ARE YOU ABLE TO TELL ME THE TOTAL NUMBER OF REFERRALS IN 2022, 2021 AND 2017?
3: The average length of time young people are waiting for a first appointment and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. Are you able to give a snapshot of the average wait time now, plus the average wait time in 2021 and 2017 in whatever way you record this?
4: The average length of time young people are waiting between initial referral and treatment beginning and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. 5: Your annual budget and comparable figures for 2021 and 2017. For CAMHS please, and the trust’s budget.
6: How many young people referred in to the service were refused treatment in 2022, 2021 and 2017.
I wonder if you could also tell me:
7: The longest time any young person has been on your current waiting list as of the date of the receipt of this email.
452-2023
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act for a record of all the people who have died in a particular location between January 2016 and December 2022. Specifically, everyone who has died at Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital. Over this time frame the trust responsible for Wotton Lawn has changed and up until 2019 it was the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust. If the trust does not hold records for the time when it was part of 2gether, then please can you respond to my questions below based on a time frame from Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust’s creation in October 2019 to December 2022. I am trying to find out:
• How many deaths occurred at Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital between January 2016 and December 2022.
• The number of deaths at Wotton Lawn between January 2016 and December 2022 that are suspected to be suicides. • The number of deaths occurred in the community between January 2016 and December 2022 among absconders/missing persons from Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital. • The number of deaths among absconders/missing persons from Wotton Lawn psychiatric hospital between January 2016 and December 2022 that are suspected to be suicides.
416-2023
I’m a journalist for the i paper investigating CAMHS and the delays/rejections since the pandemic. Please could you provide me with the following information for your area:
• The proportion of referrals to the mental health service deemed inappropriate or rejected in the 2019/2020 financial year and the 2020/2021 financial year
• The reasons for referrals to the mental health services being rejected in these years
• The median and maximum waiting times between initial assessment and the start of treatment in these years
414-2023
Please can you provide response to the following Freedom of Information Request for Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust to 1.matt.tucker.1@gmail.com:
1. The number of operating theatres OTs. in your Trust by type e.g., day case, general, obstetrics etc..
2. For each type of OT e.g., day, general, obstetrics etc.., please provide the number of OTs:
a. With no ventilation system
b. With a ‘conventional’ ventilation system
c. With an Ultra Clean Ventilation UCV. / laminar flow ventilation system
d. That are ‘Integrated’ OTs e.g. connected by a digital control panel.
3. The number of OT ventilation system that were refurbished/replaced in the last 5 years. For each, please list the supplier and capital cost of the equipment
4. For OT ventilation systems, where there is a servicing agreement, please specify:
a. Total value and duration of the servicing contract
b. Provider of the servicing contract
c. Renewal date
d. Type of agreement e.g., framework, warranty, tender etc..
5. Your Trust’s annual capital equipment spend on the following OT equipment, for the last 5 years
a. OT ventilation systems
b. Theatre control panels
c. Operating lights
d. Medical pendants
e. Mobile ventilation systems
6. The annual number of surgeries performed outside of an operating theatre, for the last 5 years
a. The number of those where a mobile ventilation system was used for the same period

