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The recent Supreme Court ruling in ‘For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers’, clarified the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 as ‘biological sex’. The Equality and Human Rights Commission states:

‘This means that, under the Act:
A ‘woman’ is a biological woman or girl (a person born female) A ‘man’ is a biological man or boy (a person born male) If somebody identifies as trans, they do not change sex for the purposes of the Act, even if they have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).
A trans woman is a biological man
A trans man is a biological woman’

Please set out what action(s) you have taken in your NHS Trust to ensure that each of the following aligns with the Supreme Court ruling and, in consequence, with the Equality Act 2010:

1) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating to staff
2) Gender reassignment and/or transgender guidance and policies relating to patients
3) Policies on same sex accommodation
4) Related Equality Impact Assessments

I am submitting this request, on behalf of myself, under the Freedom of Information Act and the Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS. Please confirm the Trust holds the following data, and where it is held please provide the data. Please use the attached spreadsheet if possible.

1. Does your trust provide a chronic pain service? (Yes/No)
If no, this is the end of our request.

If yes, and the service is consultant-led, please provide:
2. Please confirm that the Trust submits RTT data for this service (yes/no)
3. Please confirm that the Trust submits WLMDS data for this service (yes/no)
4. Please supply the Trust’s RTT submission for every month between April 2024 and April 2025 (inclusive), but please only show data for TFC 191 – Pain Management. This data is available in the public domain but it is supplied aggregated with other specialities in category: ‘X02 – Other – Medical Services’. We are requesting it be disaggregated from this category. Please share this in the format that you have it.
5. Only if the data requested in #4 is unavailable, please provide the data requested in 5a-e for every month between April 2024 and April 2025:
5a. The number of people on the waiting list, as of the first day of the month
5b. The average waiting time in weeks
5c. The distribution of waiting times, as of the first day of the month (see suggested breakdown in the attached spreadsheet)
5d. Number of clock starts during the month
5e. Number of clock stops during the month for treatment, broken down by reason
5f. Number of clock stops during the month for non-treatment, broken down by reason
6. The average time between clock start and an interventional pain procedure being performed, in weeks
7. Please provide the Trust definitions used for Pain Management services for:
7a. Clock starts (e.g. referral received, referral received and validated, etc.)
7b. Clock stops for treatment (e.g. first appointment, advice given, information provided, etc.)
7c. Clock stops for non-treatment (please provide breakdown)

If yes, and the service is not consultant-led, please provide:
8. What is the clinician’s role who holds overall clinical responsibility, including governance, outcomes and quality, for the service (e.g. specialist nurse, clinical psychologist, other)? We are requesting the person’s position rather than any personal information.
9. Does the service provide interventional pain procedures, such as injections? (Yes/No)
9a. If yes, please provide the clinician’s role that performs them (e.g. consultant in pain medicine)? We are requesting the person’s position rather than any personal information.
9b. If no, where do you refer patients requiring interventional pain procedures to?
10. Please provide the following data for the non-consultant-led Pain Management service for every month between April 2024 and April 2025 (inclusive):
10a. The number of people on the waiting list at the first day of the month
10b. The average waiting time in weeks
10c. The distribution of waiting times, as of the first day of the month (see suggested breakdown in the attached spreadsheet)
10d. The number of new referrals during the month
10e. The number of patients who started treatment during the month (i.e. had their first appointment)
10f. The number of patients discharged without treatment (i.e. rejected referrals)

I wish to make a freedom of information request and would be grateful if you could provide the following information:

The number of referrals made by your NHS Trust to other authorities – such as the police or social services – when there was a suspicion that a child is a victim of exploitation (sexual, criminal, gang-based grooming) for the years 2010 (or earliest available year of data) – 2024 inclusive.

The number of risks assessments conducted on children where there was concern that the had been the victim of child sexual exploitation (using the same timeframe as above).

Details of your NHS Trusts’ CSE safeguarding arrangements, including work in multi-agency partnerships.

The number of staff employed by your NHS Trust who have received training on CSE.

I’m writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about reports of bullying and racism/racial discrimination amongst midwives working at your trust.

From 1 Jan 2020 up to and including 6 May 2025, can you please tell me the following:

1) How many reports of bullying have been made by midwives against other midwives (including student midwives on placement) at your trust? Please provide the outcomes of these.

2) How many reports of racism or racial discrimination have been made by midwives against other midwives (including student midwives on placement) at your trust? Please provide the outcomes of these.

3) Have there been any dismissals in light of bullying reports? If so, when were these? Please provide the year.

4) Have there been any dismissals in light of racism or racial discrimination reports? If so, when were these? Please provide the year.

If this request is at risk of triggering the s12 cost exemption, please advise us on how we can amend the wording of our request to align with the trust’s categorisation and/or filing conventions.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information relating to maternity care provided by your Trust.

I am conducting research into potential disparities in pain relief experienced by patients of different ethnic backgrounds during childbirth and maternity care. Specifically, I would like to request the following:

a) Does your Trust provide any mandatory training to maternity staff on cultural competence, anti-racism, or unconscious bias, particularly relating to patient care or pain management?

b) If so, please provide: · The name(s) of the training programme(s) used · Which organisation provides the training · Whether completion is mandatory · When it was introduced

I understand that not all data may be held in the exact format requested. However, I would be grateful for any partial or relevant information you can provide. If any part of this request exceeds the cost limit, please inform me as soon as possible so that I can refine the request.

I recently came across a published FOI response from another requester regarding the med recs EDM System. After reviewing the details, I’m seeking information about paper records instead and would like to raise an FOI. Given that medical records are important information assets containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), some of which will be sensitive, I am particularly interested in how the Trust manages (or who manages!) and safeguards paper medical/health records.
I’ve had a look at the NHSE ERIC data but can only see on-site and off-site spend. Nothing around the number of paper records etc. therefore could you have a look at the below request? Most of it should be in your info asset logs, registers and/or DPIAs so hopefully the request is not too much of an impact.
Paper Medical Records Management
How many paper medical records does the Trust have as a data controller?
How many primary on-site record libraries are there? (Just looking for primary storage locations, not local departmental stores etc. as that would take a long time to repply to).
How many off-site record libraries are there?
Is records management outsourced for some paper medical records?
Is records management outsourced for all paper medical records?
How many records are Trust-managed and how many are outsourced to a records management provider?
If some or all records management is outsourced, what is the records management provider(s) company name(s)?
Is the company (if more than 1, please list) a Data Controller and/or a Data Processor for the Trust?
How many records has the Trust authorised and had destruction undertaken for within the last two years (2022/23 & 2023/24)?
Was destruction undertaken by a BS15713 provider?
If yes, which of the following are they accredited to: BS15713:2009 or BS15713:2023?
If records management is outsourced, does this include active records (records that have been in active circulation within the last three years)?
If records management is outsourced, does this include dormant records (records that have been in active circulation in the last four to eight years)?

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, please could you answer the following questions –

Who holds trust wide responsibility for the maintenance of procedures and policies?

What is their name and email address?

What digital tools does the Trust use for the staff to reference these procedures and policies? – i.e. – intranet.

How does the Trust record that staff have read and comply with the procedures and policies?

Which tools are used for on-boarding new staff in relation to reading procedures and policies?

How do the heads of department monitor that clinical and non clinical staff have read/understood mandatory procedural updates?

How many staff have accessed your NHS Intranet in the past year?

I am writing to request information from the local authority under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

It relates to occurrences of scam/fake QR codes in hospital car parks. I would be interested in the following information relating to any incidents of this in hospital car parks owned or controlled by your trust:

– Have hospital parking enforcement officers (or equivalent role with oversight over hospital car parks) recorded/noted any incidents of fake or scam QR codes in hospital car parks owned or controlled by the trust? (Yes or No)

– If the trust uses 3rd party operators to manage their hospital car parks – have these operators made the trust aware of any incidents of fake/scam QR codes in these car parks? (Yes or No)

– Has the trust received any reports from members of the public relating to incidents of fake/scam QR codes in these car parks?

– if yes to any of the above, please provide details of (i) how many and (ii) which sites these incidents took place at.

– If held, please also provide documentation relating to the most recent five incidents (this may include photos/internal reporting/correspondence etc, redacted where necessary)