Responses

What is the total number of staff hired in a diversity, equality, equity or inclusion role?

What was the total spend on diversity, equality and equity or inclusion, including staff salaries and external training bodies and courses for the last financial year?

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request the following information regarding the datacentre(s) maintained by your NHS Trust:
1. Which technology vendors provide the trusts primary data storage arrays? E.g Dell/Netapp/Tintri/Pure/Storage/HPE//Nutanix etc.
2. What is the size in Terabytes of the primary storage environment?
3. When does the current support contract expire on the primary data storage arrays?
4. What data storage array technology does the trust use to house the PACS environment?
5. What is the size in Terabytes of the PACS storage environment?
6. When does the current support contract expires on the primary storage arrays?
7. Which PACS provider does the trust use?
8. What Electronic Patient Record technology does the trust use?
9. Which backup technology does the trust use? E.g Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik
10. When does the current support contract expire on the backup technology?
11. Does the trust use public cloud storage? – Azure/AWS/Google Cloud
12. Does the trust use Azure VmWare Solution?
13. Does the trust have any stateless applications?
14. Does the trust use containers?
15. Does the trust use kubernetes?
16. Which frameworks does the trust tend to use to purchase hardware for the datacentre?
17. Which partners does the trust tend to use to purchase hardware for the datacentre?

I am writing to request information under the freedom of information act on your organisations service provision cost.

1. Please can you provide the annual cost of providing the below services for the financial year 2023/2024?
• Learning Disability Services
o Adult Cost
o Children and Young People Cost
• Autism Services
o Adult Cost
o Children and Young People Cost
• Eating Disorder Services
o Adult Cost
o Children and Young People Cost
• Early Intervention in Psychosis Services
o Adult Cost
o Children and Young People Cost
• ADHD Services
o Adult Cost
o Children and Young People Cost
• Anxiety and Depression Services
o Adult Cost
o Children and Young People Cost

I am writing to submit a formal request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I kindly request the following details:

1. What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?

2. Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment?

3. What are your organisation’s key strategic objectives for the next 12-24 months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?

4. Please detail any planned development of sites or assets

5. Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?

6. If so, please can you supply details of the contractual arrangements in place including date of award, details of any Framework used or link to the advertisement, contract value and duration

7. If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?

8. Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months

9. How do you engage with potential new suppliers—through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier days?

10. Please can you confirm the individual responsible for managing your surveying and geospatial contracts or wider development contracts and provide their contact details and role title?

11. Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through

12. Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?

13. Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?

14. When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?

1. The total number of Health IT systems currently in use by the organisation.
2. The number of Health IT systems currently in use by the Trust that have BOTH DCB0129 (from the manufacturer) AND DCB0160 (from the deploying organisation) Clinical Safety Case Reports.
3. The number of Health IT systems currently in use by the Trust that have a valid DCB0129 Clinical Safety Case Report from the manufacturer ONLY (i.e. have a DCB0129 report but NOT a DCB0160 report).
4. The number of Health IT systems currently in use by the Trust that have a valid DCB0160 Clinical Safety Case Report from the deploying organisation ONLY (i.e. have a DCB0160 report but NOT a DCB0129 report from the manufacturer).
5. The total Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) of Clinical Safety Officers who are currently actively working on DCB0129/DCB0160 implementation within the Trust.

We would be most grateful if you could provide us, under the Freedom of Information Act, with some information regarding current Fire Alarms & Fire Suppression Systems in place.

The details we require are:

– Hardware Brand: The primary hardware brand of the organisation’s:
a. Fire Alarms
b. Sprinklers
c. Fire extinguishers
d. Fire Doors

– Existing Supplier: If there is more than one supplier, please split each contract up individually.

– Contract Type: What is included in the current contracts with these suppliers? Comprehensive, Semi Comprehensive including call outs, Basic Service Only.

– Contract duration, end date and review date of the current contracts with these suppliers.

– On average, what is the annual spend on each of these systems for the Trust?

– 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.

– 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.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding the Endoscopy Traceability software currently in use within the Trust.

Could you please provide the following details:

Software Name and Supplier
The name of the current Endoscopy Traceability software in use and the details of the supplier.

Duration of Use
How long has the Trust been using this Traceability software?

Contract Start Date
The start date of the current contract for the Endoscopy Traceability software.

Contract End Date
The end date of the current contract.

Current Annual Contract Value
The Annual value of the current contract.

Procurement Framework (if applicable)
If relevant, please provide details of the procurement framework used to award the contract.

Who is responsible for managing the Endoscopy Traceability software?
Which service does this software fall under.

What machines are currently being used by your Endoscopy department?

What EWD cabinets or sterilisers are being used in your Endoscopy service.

I am writing to request information under the freedom of information act on your organisation’s vacancy rates.
1. Please can you provide the current vacancy rates for the bellow staffing groups-
• Medical
• Nursing and Healthcare Assistants
• Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical (STT) and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
• Healthcare Scientists
• Administrative and Support Staff
2. Please can you provide the three job roles with the highest vacancy rates in your organisation? For example Psychiatry, Psychology, Mental Health Nursing etc

Please note while question one refers to staffing groups, question two is referring to specific job roles outlined by NHS England under the heading Mental Health Roles found here- https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/working-in-mental-health/

1. What is the email retention policy at your trust for official NHS clinical staff emails related to patient care. Also, what is the retention policy for deleted clinical emails, deleted by staff from their mailbox?

1a) Does your trust require that clinical emails related to patient care be placed in the patient’s record?

2. What is the back-up policy at your trust for backing up clinical staff/doctor’s emails related to patient care? How often are the clinical emails backed-up and how long are the back-ups kept? Are the back-ups automated?

3. Are deleted clinical emails (deleted by staff) recoverable on the email system at your trust, either from onsite or offsite storage? How long after the emails are deleted by staff, can the emails be recovered from the different locations they are stored?

4. Your trust uses nhs.uk email so NHSMail helpdesk cannot assist with forensic discovery of emails. Hence, does your trust perform a forensic discovery equivalent to the forensic discovery provided by NHSmail help desk to retrieve deleted NHSmail (dot net) emails up to 2 years after they were created/sent even if deleted prior to 2 years by staff?

ie Can your trust retrieve deleted nhs.uk emails up to 2 years after they were created/received?

5. Do your doctor’s have the ability to permanently delete emails from all locations without IT system administrative privileges? Do the doctors at your trust have IT system administrative privileges?

6. When emails are deleted by clinical staff without significant knowledge and access rights, there are other possible places where the deleted emails can be recovered from: For example, local offline storage, where emails are cached on the local machine in an offline storage file (OST) which even when emails are deleted from the mailbox, can leave fully recoverable items, unless the OST file is forensically destroyed. Does your trust maintain an email OST for the staff NHS emails?

7. Are clinical staff emails archived off into different locations? If yes, what are these locations.

8. Can your trust IT team identify and create a log of emails deleted by a specified doctor working at your trust? How long after email deletion can the log still be created?

9. When emails are deleted on the local staff computer and need to be retrieved, administrators can perform a search across the entire MS 365 environment to establish the presence of any of these emails in other user mail-boxes and non-email storage locations – is this a process that your trust can perform via the IT team or other team?

10 If staff emails related to patient’s clinical care are requested under DPA 2018 SAR, what is the IT process undertaken at your trust to identify and retrieve the emails. Are offline storage searched and all locations as mentioned in this FOI or only the staff local computer/mailbox? Can you retrieve clinical emails requested under SAR DPA 2018 for up to 2 years after creation/send even if the staff have deleted them?

11) NHS’s data retention and information management policy states that “an email will be retained and available for forensic discovery in NHSMail for two years after it was sent/received or until it is deleted from the mailbox by staff, whichever is later.” Does your trust adhere to this policy with your nhs.uk email system? ie your trust must be able to retrieve a clinical email for 2 years after it was created or sent, even if it was deleted by staff prior to 2 years – NHSMail helpdesk cannot assist – so does your IT team have a process to ensure compliance with NHS’s policy highlighted above?

I am doing some research into hospital asset tracking management outside hospitals. Please could you advise re the following: · Do you have a formal digital system for tracking products sent to other hospitals? (E.g. loaning a hip to a private hospital then tracking its return/re order/billing and payment) · Which local hospitals private do you send products to? · How often do you send them? · Do you have a reliable mechanism for ensuring compliance, payment and expediting? · Do you have a formal returns process for items given to the public (e.g. crutches) I look forward to hearing from you. Florence

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information regarding your Trust’s processes to reduce medication waste. Please may you provide me with an answer to the following:

1. Does your Trust have a formal policy on medicines waste reduction?
i. Yes/No

2. Have any sustainability or environmental impact assessments been conducted regarding your Trust’s pharmaceutical waste
i. Yes/No
ii. If yes, please provide a brief summary of key findings.

3. Do you currently employ any staff specifically to support medicines waste?
i. Yes/No
ii. If yes, how many full time equivalents do you employ?

4. How often does your organisation report on the management of waste (including cost) at Board level?
i. Annually/Quarterly/Monthly/Never/Other (please state)

5. For each of the hospitals in your Trust, what is the value of medication you have had to waste in the last 2 financial years? This the value of medication that was the property of the hospital at the point it was wasted, i.e. the cost of medication that expired before int could be used.

6. For each hospital in your Trust, what has been your total drug spend over the past two financial years?

7. For the last two financial years combined what is the drug that you have wasted the most of, and what was the total cost?

8. Have any sustainability or environmental impact assessments been conducted regarding your Trust’s pharmaceutical waste
i. Yes/No
ii. If yes, please provide a brief summary of key findings.

1. Please answer yes or no. In January 2025 was your Trust conducting any… internal review / investigation / report being compiled… into a consultant that has had concerns raised about him or her (i.e.. a whistle-blower has come forward and named the person)?
2. Please answer yes or no. In January 2025 was your Trust conducting any… internal review / investigation / report being compiled… into a junior doctor that has had concerns raised about him or her (i.e.. a whistle-blower has come forward and named the person)?
3. Please answer yes or no. In January 2025 was your Trust conducting any… internal review / investigation / report being compiled… into a nurse that has had concerns raised about him or her (i.e.. a whistle-blower has come forward and named the person)?
4. Please answer yes or no. Has your Trust conducted / started or concluded an internal or external review / investigation of a medical member of staff since January 1st 2023 following a whistle-blowers or patient raising concerns?
5. Please answer yes or no. If you answered yes to question 4 – did the member of medical staff being investigated continue to have contact with patients whilst the… review/investigation/report being written… was ongoing?
6. If you answered yes to Question 4, is the member(s) of staff that was investigated / reviewed still working at your Trust following the review conclusions?
7. If you answered yes to Question 4, for those reports that have concluded, was the member of staff that was investigated / reviewed found to have fallen short of the standards your Trust would expect from their medical staff?
8. If you answered yes to Question 4, how many members of medical staff were reviewed/ investigated following an internal whistle-blower raising concerns?
9. If you answered yes to Question 4, was the whistle-blower also investigated?
10. Please answer yes or no. Do you have any experience of a malicious whistle-blower? If yes, please share further details if able.
11. Please share any review conclusions / reports / write ups where possible.
12. Please share any further details of your whistle-blower policy here. How do you manage whistle-blower when they raise concerns?

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: 263-2024 Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information...

As part of a MSc Midwifery dissertation, I am investigating the number of Consultant Midwives/Consultant Midwifery Posts in the UK (including the Channel Islands and Isle of Man). While Consultant Midwives (CMs) will primarily be employed within maternity services, an increasing number of Ambulance and Community/Mental Health organisations are utilising the specialist skills of senior Midwifery clinicians so I hope this data will help us to understand the distribution and impact of CMs in all our health services.

I would therefore be grateful if you would be able to provide the following information:

– Number of Consultant Midwives (headcount AND Whole Time Equivalent (WTE)) currently employed
– Number of vacant Consultant Midwifery posts (WTE), if applicable
– Salary band paid/offered to Consultant Midwives (e.g. Band 8b or Band 8c), if applicable
– Number of Trainee/Assistant Consultant Midwives (headcount AND WTE) currently employed
– Number of vacant Trainee/Assistant Consultant Midwife posts (WTE), if applicable
– Salary band paid/offered to Trainee/Assistant Consultant Midwives, if applicable

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the below.

A. Please confirm the number of operational Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC)’s under the ICB. And of this number how many are

Standard
Large
Hub and spoke

B. Please list the locations of the sites along with their designation (Standard, Large or Hub and Spoke)

C. Standard model –  which services are being provided and annual activity levels e.g. pathology – phlebotomy x amount of tests.

Imaging
Pathology
Physiological science

D. Large model – which services are being provided and annual activity levels e.g. pathology – phlebotomy x amount of tests.

Imaging
Pathology
Physiological science
Endoscopy

E. Hub and Spoke model – which services are being provided and annual activity levels e.g. pathology – phlebotomy x amount of tests.

F. Is audiology or hearing services including wax removal offered at any of the sites listed above? Please list the locations where it is being offered.

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the below.

1. Please list all providers that currently provide NHS audiology services in your region.

2. Please provide a copy of the current and most up to date service specification as contained in the relevant contract particulars for adult hearing care.

3. Please provide the date the adult hearing care service last was commissioned.

4. If adult hearing care is part of a wider service specification i.e. ENT, then please provide a copy of the current and most up to date service specification as contained in the relevant contract particulars.

5. If adult hearing care is part of a wider service specification i.e. ENT, then please provide the date this service was last commissioned.

Please provide information regarding Respiratory Services providing on call services i.e. physiotherapy and/or outreach department.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, could you please provide me with the following information in relation to temporary agency staffing.

1. Does your organisation engage a Neutral Vend or Master Vend agency supplier for:
a. Medical
i. Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
ii. Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier?

b. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
i. Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
ii. Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier

c. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
i. Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
ii. Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier

d. Nursing
i. Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
ii. Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier

2. Does your organisation utilise a Direct Engagement (DE) supplier for:
a. Medical
i. Name of the DE provider
ii. Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
iii. % of DE currently achieved

b. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
i. Name of the DE provider
ii. Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
iii. % of DE currently achieved

c. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
i. Name of the DE provider
ii. Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
iii. % of DE currently achieved

3. For the most recent Financial Year you have available please can you supply the spend figures on temporary agency staffing (worker pay & agency commission only) for:
a. Medical
b. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
c. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
d. Nursing

4. For the most recent Financial Year you have available please can you supply the number of hours worked by temporary agency workers for:
a. Medical
b. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
c. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
d. Nursing
6. Where a contract is in place for the provision of a Neutral Vend, Master Vend and/or a Direct Engagement supplier, please can you advise who the lead contact or responsible officer within the organisation is for this contract?
– Name:
– Job title:
– Email:

7. Alternatively please can you advise who is responsible for temporary agency staffing at the organisation across the following departments:
a. Workforce Lead
Name:
Job Title:

b. Procurement Lead
Name:
Job Title:

c. Finance Lead
Name:
Job Title:

I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I understand from the CQC’s registration directory, and your website, that you operate one or more ‘mental health units’, defined by the Mental Health (Use of Force) Act 2018, and that one or more of these units is either providing mental health inpatient services for people with learning disabilities, or sometimes accommodates people with learning disabilities as part of a wider adult mental health services

Request 1.

Following a previous FOI for ‘restraint policies’, please provide any adaptations of restraint-related policies, or procedures, for people with learning disabilities, e.g. easy read guidance. We are particularly interested in sourcing good practice in how people with learning disabilities are supported when they come into NHS mental health units.

Request 2.

Please could you list the ‘mental health units’ as defined above, which provide treatment to people with learning disabilities, either exclusively, or as part of wider adult services.

1. Contact Centre

a. Do you have a customer/ citizen facing contact centre?

b. Do you employ and manage your own agents, or do you outsource to a third party? If you outsource who to?

c. How many contact centre agents do you have?

d. Do agents work from home? Or just your offices?

e. Please confirm the manufacturer of your contact centre system(s) that are currently in place?

f. When is your contract renewal date?

g. Who maintains your contact centre system(s)?

2. CRM

a. Do you use a CRM in the contact centre? What platform is used?

b. Do you use the same CRM for the rest of the organisation? What platform is used?

c. Do you use a knowledge base / knowledge management platform? What platform is used?

3. AI & Automation

a. Does your organisation have a customer or citizen facing chatbot? If so, who provides this chatbot technology?

b. Does your organisation utilise RPA technology? If so which RPA technology provider do you use?

1. Could you please provide the contact details for the procurement officer responsible for international recruitment within the trust? For Doctors, Nurses and AHP

2. Outside of Procurement who is the Senior Officer Responsible for International Recruitment For Nurse, Doctors, AHP? and their Contaact details?

3. Additionally, what is the budget allocated for international recruitment for the financial year 2025/26 for Nurse, Doctors, AHP? Who is the responsible officer to allocate this budget?

4. Current Vacancies at the trust per Specialty: General Nurse/ Mental Health Nurses/ AHP/ Doctors

5. During the financial year 2023/24, which international recruitment partners did the trust use, if any? Who are they planning to use for 2025/26? Who is the responsible officer who decides this?

6. How many international Doctors/Nurse/AHP did the trust receive in the financial year 2023/24?

7. What was the international recruitment spend Bifurgted by Doctors/Nurses/AHP by the trust for the financial year 23/24?

In the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name
 
In the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per agency name
 
In the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025 please provide a breakdown of:
• Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
• Spend per grade
• Spend per specialty
• Spend per internal or associated external provider

Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st November 2024 to 31st January 2025

Please confirm the name of the framework used for the supply of locum doctors in your trust.

I am looking to find the total amount spend by your trust on translation and interpretation services in each financial year since 2019/20.

My FOI request is to ask for each of the two financial years 2018/19 and 2023/24:

1. Did your trust operate any HBPoS?
2. If yes, how many HBPoS were there in your Trust area?
3. During which days and hours was the HBPoS open or available to receive detainees. It might for example be generally closed but open on request between certain hours.
4. What was the maximum capacity of each HBPoS to receive detained persons?
5. If there has been a change in the number of HBPoS between the two years and if so is it possible to say why this has happened? It might for example be from changes in funding or it might be that alternative arrangements have been made.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding Rostering and Self-Rostering. Please can you complete the below questions:

1. Please provide the rostering solution used for the below staffing groups. Where more than one supplier is used for each staff group, please provide the name of each supplier.

· Medical & Dental

· Nursing & Health Care Assistants

· Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied
Health Professionals

· Administration and Estates

2. Please list below the staffing groups where e-rostering is currently live and being used?

3. Please tick the below Medical Specialities that are currently rostered on the system

· General Medicine

· General Surgery

· Anaesthetics

· Obstetrics and Gynaecology

4. What percentage of workforce are rostered on the system? Please list the percentages by the staffing groups listed below-

· Medical & Dental

· Nursing & Health Care Assistants

· Scientific, Therapeutic & Technical Staff including of Allied
Health Professionals

· Administration and Estates

5. What is the contract start date for your rostering supplier/suppliers? Please list the name of the supplier and contract start date.

6. What is the contract end date for your rostering supplier/suppliers? Please list the name of the supplier and contract end date.

7. What was the annual cost of your rostering supplier/ suppliers for the financial year 22/23 (April 2022 – March 2023)?

8. Did the organisation use a framework to procure your rostering supplier/ suppliers? Please state the name of the supplier and framework it was procured from.

9. From the table below please indicate which interfaces are being used and at what frequency?

Interface
In/Out Daily Weekly Monthly Ad Hoc
ESR Generic Attendance Inbound Interface Out
ESR Generic Absence Inbound Interface Out
ESR Generic Outbound Interface In
E-Job Planning
In/Out
Junior Doctors
In/Out
Staffbank / Agency In/Out
Identity Provider Servers In/Out

Self Rostering
1. Does your organisation use self rostering? (If yes, please complete the below questions. If no, please ignore) 2. Please list below the staffing groups where self- rostering is currently being used?
3. What percentage of your workforce is currently utilizing self-rostering?
4. Are manual or technology based mechanisms used to facilitate self-rostering?

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) has your trust instructed someone to give a second opinion on a patient that is receiving treatment for an eating disorder?

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) has your trust refused to give a second opinion on a patient that is receiving treatment for an eating disorder?

In the last 12 months – for both adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) where second opinions have happened, who did the trust instruct to give the second opinion?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) was the second opinion arranged by the clinical team or the patient/family?
Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) who paid for it?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) was it internal or external?

Of the second opinions given in adult and children eating disorder services (both inpatient and outpatient) what was the outcome?

Please can you help me answer the questions below:

Medical temporary staffing supply

1. Do you manage your Medical Workforce Bank Internally? – Yes/No
2. If Yes to the question above, do you manage your Medical workforce bank internally using specialist bank technology e.g. Patchwork, NHS Professionals, Locums Nest, Liaison, Allocate? Please specify which one?
If Yes to the above questions is it actively used?

3. Do you outsource the management of your Medical workforce bank? – Yes/No
4. If Yes to the above question, can you confirm the supplier managing it for you?

5. Do you use Direct Engagement?
6. If Yes to the above question, can you confirm the supplier managing it for you? And can you specify the staff groups and if it is bank or agency?

7. What is your total Bank and agency hours for the Financial Year 2023/2024?

8. Does your Trust have any doctors that work on the bank via a LTD company?

Associated costs -Medical

9. Please confirm the charges that you pay to your technology provider for use of their system. e.g. Patchwork, NHS Professionals, Locums Nest, Liaison, Allocate? (in the last Financial Year 2023/2024)

10. Can you confirm how you are charged eg per hour, fixed fee, percentage? And what the fees are?

11. Please confirm the charges you pay your managed service provider for Medical Workforce? e.g. Patchwork, NHS Professionals, Locums Nest, Liaison, Allocate? (if applicable, in the last Financial Year 2023/2024)

12. Can you confirm how you are charged for managed service? eg per hour, fixed fee or percentage?

13. Please confirm the roster system provider used for your medical workforce? Eg Liaison, RL Datix etc

14. Please confirm charges that you pay to your technology provider for Direct Engagement? Eg per hour fixed fee, percentage

1. Does your hospital trust allow patients to have their Personal Assistant/paid carers assist them in hospital settings?
2. Does your trust have a protocol or policy in place regarding Personal Assistants/paid carers assisting with complex care needs in hospital settings? What is it?
3. Does this policy apply both to admissions as well appointments and treatments as a day patient?
4. How many times in the last 3 years has a patient had their care needs met by their usual PAs/paid carers whilst in hospital?

Dear FOI team, My name is Jiakun Yu and I am a doctor working at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. I would like to make the following FOI request: 1. Could you provide a list of all NHS hospital at home or virtual ward available in your region as well as their email contact information please. Many thanks, Jiakun Yu

Under the Freedom of information Act 2000, I request the following information:

• What IT systems/applications are you planning to replace or upgrade over the next two years?
• What new IT systems/applications have you recently procured and are planning to implement?
• What are your implementation timescales for these deployments?
• Is the Trust using or considering external support for any IT system/applications implementations?
• If applicable, what current digital maternity system do you use?

How many of your employees are defined as lone workers or high-risk staff?
• Who is your current provider of lone worker devices/apps?
• How did you procure the service (e.g. tender, direct award, framework)?
• If framework, which framework did you procure through (GCloud, NHS Framework or other)?
• How many devices/apps do you currently pay for?
• How much are you paying per device/app?
• What is the end date for your current contract?
What is the name and job title of the person or persons managing your lone worker devices/apps

The NHS small cases policy states that codes with less than 5 cases can be shared safely when recorded as <5. Please can you give me the information I have requested including the codes with less than 5 cases recorded as <5.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could please provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the Clinical Waste Contract/s that your trust currently has in place.

The details required are as follows:

• Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful and not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages
• Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date
• Start date and duration of framework/contract
• Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
• Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension?
• Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?
• Who is the Senior Officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract + contact information
• Who is the Infection Control Lead responsible for the Trust + contact information
• Who is the Procurement Lead for Clinical Waste contracts for the Trust + contact information
• Who is the Environmental/Sustainability Lead for the Trust + contact information
• Who is the Waste Management Lead for the Trust + contact information
• Who is the Health and Safety Lead for the Trust + contact information
• Who is the current Clinical Waste incumbent (service provider)?
• Does the Trust make use of reusable or disposable sharps containers and who is the service provider?

I am a Football Development Officer (Disability Pathway) at Gloucestershire Football Association. I am emailing as I am looking to find out if there is anyone from our local NHS foundation trust and supporting networks to help upskill my knowledge around Mental Health statistics within the county of Gloucestershire. This information will be used to further support an application for a large funding project to hopefully provide new and accessible Mental Health football teams across the County.

If you are able to help or point me in the right direction of who to talk to, that would be greatly appreciated.

The information I require relates to the organisation’s software contract, please send me the organisation’s primary contract around the types of contracts below.

I require the organisations to provide me with the following contract information relating to the following corporate software/enterprise applications:

A. Enterprise Resource Planning Software Solution (ERP) -this is the organisation’s main

ERP system and may include service support, maintenance and upgrades.

B. Primary Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solution-this is the organisation’s main

CRM system and may include service support, maintenance and upgrades. Example of CRM systems the organisation may use could include Microsoft Dynamics, Front Office, Lagan CRM, Firm step

C. Primary Human Resources (HR) and Payroll Software Solution-this is the organisation’s main

HR/payroll system and may include service support, maintenance and upgrades. In some cases, the HR contract maybe separate to the payroll contract please provide both types of contracts. Example of HR/Payroll systems the organisation may use could include iTrent, Resource link.

D. The organisation’s primary corporate Finance Software Solution-this is the organisation’s main

Finance system and may include service support, maintenance and upgrades. Example of finance systems the organisation may use could include E-Business suite, Agresso (Unit4), eFinancials, Integra, SAP

In some cases you may come across contracts that provides service support maintenance and upgrades separate to the main software contract, please also provide this information in the response following the requested data below.

For each of the categories above can you please provide me with the relevant contract information listed below:
1. Software Category: ERP, CRM, HR, Payroll, Finance

2. Name of Supplier: Can you please provide me with the software provider for each contract?

3. The date in which these applications were implemented

4. The brand of the software: Can you please provide me with the actual name of the software. Please do not provide me with the supplier’s name again please provide me with the actual software name.

5. Description of the contract: Please do not just state two to three words can you please provide me with detailed information about this contract and please state if upgrade, maintenance and support is included.

Please also include any modules included within the contract as this will support the categories you have selected in question 1.

6. Number of Users/Licenses: What is the total number of user/licenses for this contract?

7. Annual Spend: What is the annual average spend for each contract?

8. Contract Duration: What is the duration of the contract please include any available extensions within the contract.

9. Contract Start Date: What is the start date of this contract? Please include month and year of the contract. DD-MM-YY or MM-YY.

10. Contract Expiry: What is the expiry date of this contract? Please include month and year of the contract. DD-MM-YY or MM-YY.

11. Contract Review Date: What is the review date of this contract? Please include month and year of the contract. If this cannot be provided, please provide me estimates of when the contract is likely to be reviewed. DD-MM-YY or MM-YY.

12. Contact Details: I require the full contact details of the person within the organisation responsible for this particular software contract (name, job title, email, contact number).

I would like to request information regarding your obstetric unit, under the FOIA

-To which LMNS does your trust belong to?
-Is your trust a tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit?
-Does your trust do a routine late third trimester scan for every woman in pregnancy?

Regarding growth scans in the second or third trimester:

-To calculate HC do you use HC or BPD + OFD?
-To calculate AC do you use AC or TAPD + APD?
-To plot FL centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )
-To plot HC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )
-To plot AC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )

-What algorithm do you use to calculate Estimated Fetal Weight?
(Eg Hadlock (HC, AC, FL), Hadlock (BPD-HC-AC-FL), Hadlock (FL-AC), Warsof (BPD-AC), Persson (BPD-TAD-APAD-FL), Hansmann et al, Combs, Souka, INTERGROWTH-21ST or other)

-What centile reference chart do you use to plot the Estimated Fetal Weight?

-Does your trust use GAP-GROW?

-To measure Amniotic Fluid does your trust measure Deepest Vertical Pool or measure Amniotic Fluid Index?

-Which chart do you use to plot the amniotic fluid volume?

-When measuring Uterine Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?
-When measuring Umbilical Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?
-When measuring Middle Cerebral Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?
-When measuring Ductus Venosus Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?

Do you use the same charts for fetal biometry, Amniotic Fluid Index and Dopplers across all hospitals in your trust and all trusts in LMNS region?

I’d like to request the following records under the FOI act.

Virtual wards

• The total number of virtual ward beds you had open as of 15 January 2025
• The total number of VW beds, broken down by the different specialties served by those virtual wards
• The beds occupancy rate as of 15 January 2025, broken down by specialty
Patient initiated follow-up

• A list of the specialities for which you offer patient initiated follow-up
• The proportion of outpatient attendances discharged to PIFU pathways, as of 15 January 2025 (or the most recent data point – please specify the date if different from 15/1/25).
• The names of each technology supplier and the product used by the trust to run its PIFU pathways

A list of your sites that are under PFI / PF2 / PPP contracts that are expiring in by the end of 2030.

– The name of the site, the value of the contract, along with the date of the expiry.
– The name of your Director of Estates & Head of Procurement.

1. The name of your soft facilities management service provider/providers (if this is managed in-house please say)
2. The date/dates that your contract/contracts with your soft FM provider ends
3. The name of your hard facilities management service provider/providers (if this is managed in-house please say)
4. The date/dates that your contract/contracts with your hard FM provider ends
5. The name of your waste management service provider/provider
6. The date/dates that your contract/contracts with waste management provider ends
7. The name of your security provider/providers
8. The annual sum spent on security each year from 2020/21 to 2024/25 (for 2024/25 if you don’t have the total that you will spend then please provide a figure to-date).

I am doing a research project investigating call-off contracts in the public sector. I have identified seven potential call-off contracts awarded by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, but I can’t find details of the framework agreements they were awarded from.

I have attached an Excel file that contains the information I am looking at. The last two columns (“Title of framework used” and “Further framework info”) is where I am missing information. Please could you provide the name of the specific framework agreements or DPS agreements used here. If there is any further info which you think would help me locate the framework agreements (e.g., a link to the framework’s Contract Finder or FTS listing, the framework provider, or a widely-used reference number such as CCS’s RM codes), please use the final column for this.

Please note that I have identified these contracts as possible call-off contracts, so some of them might not be. Some could be, for instance, procured directly (without being called off from a framework agreement), or could be themselves notices of the establishment of a framework agreement. Therefore I would kindly ask you to specify in these incidences what kind of procurement was used in the “Title of framework used” column.

I have provided the title, description, the publication date, and procedure type used to award each potential call-off, as well as a URL link to the call-off in question and a unique reference ID for each potential call-off. Please let me know if there is anything else you need to complete the request.

Dear Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust,

I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act to request information relating to Patient Transport Services in the NHS Trust. I have set out the information I require below:

– Please can you outline the procurement process for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– What is the criteria for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– Which organisation sets the criteria for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– Which organisation decides the successful bid for Patient Transport Service contracts.

– Is there any criteria for Patient Transport Service contracts attached to terms and conditions and pay of staff.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding hospital admissions related to hiking injuries.

Please provide data for the past five calendar years (from 1 January [2020] to 31 January [2025]), broken down annually and 2025 so far, on the following:

Hospital Admissions

• The number of hospital admissions where the reason for admission was linked to hiking.
• If available, the number of admissions identified through:
Text-based documentation (i.e., where “hiking” or a related term was explicitly mentioned in records).
The ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics code XE5BS (Type of sport or exercise activity, hiking).
The age and gender of those admitted.
• A brief description of the incident or injury, if recorded.

Freedom of Information Request:

1. Number of post-partum referrals to the Gloucestershire Birth Anxiety and Trauma Service (or its previous incarnation as the Maternal Mental Health Service) broken down by referral source (self or professional) and by month since Jan 2021.
Why it is important: This data will be joined with information from a separate FOI to GHFT to help to give an indication of some of the wider impact and cost of the inadequate Gloucestershire Maternity Service.

2. Provide any analyses of the impact (specifically on increased demand and additional cost) on any and all services provided by Gloucestershire Health and Care Foundation Trust caused by Gloucestershire Maternity Service since Jan 2021.
Why it is important: This will help to understand some of the impact of the provision of inadequate maternity services in Gloucestershire.

3. Provide details of any discussions with the Glos ICB (or previously the CCG) or GHFT on additional demand and cost of delivery on any services provided by GHC, believed to be linked to the ‘inadequate’ CQC rating of Gloucestershire Maternity Service since Jan 2021.
Why it is important: This will help to understand the level of awareness within the ICB and GHFT of some of the impact of the provision of inadequate maternity services in Gloucestershire.

I’m writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information about the rate of sodium nitrite poisoning in your hospital trust. Please note I am asking about sodium nitrite, not sodium nitrate. For the past five years, up to and including 6 February 2025, I’d like to know the following:

How many cases of sodium nitrite poisoning were there? Please break this down into cases of a) intentional poisoning (eg suicide) and b) unintentional poisoning. A. Of the cases of sodium nitrite poisoning, how many of them were administered Methylene Blue? How many deaths were there where sodium nitrite poisoning was listed as the, or a, cause of death? Please break this down into how many deaths were caused by a) intentional poisoning (eg suicide) and b) unintentional poisoning. A. Of the deaths caused by sodium nitrite poisoning, how many of them were administered Methylene Blue?

I am submitting this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and would appreciate your assistance in providing the following details regarding your NHS Trust’s expenditure on staff uniforms:

1. **Total uniform expenditure** for the last financial year (April 2022 – March 2023) and, if available, the current financial year to date (April 2023 – present).

2. **Breakdown of uniform items purchased**, including:
– Type of uniform items (e.g., tunics, trousers, scrubs, polo shirts, jackets, etc.).
– Number of each item purchased.
– Unit price of each item.

3. **Suppliers**: A list of uniform suppliers used by the Trust.

4. **Procurement Process**: Details of any existing contracts or agreements for uniform procurement, if applicable.

I would like the organisation to review my freedom of information request below, that’s focused around contract data for services around facilities management specifically around the services below:

1. Office and building cleaning – Service contract that is focused around office, commercial and building cleaning services.
2. Lift service and maintenance – Service contract for lift service and maintenance.
3. Food – Service contract that is focused around catering services.
4. General waste services contracts – The organisation’s primary general waste service contract.
5. Laundry services – where clothes and linen can be washed and ironed.

1. Contract profile questionnaire for each type of contract:
2. Supplier/Provider of the services
3. Total Annual Spend – The spend should only relate to each of the service contracts listed above.
4. A description of the services provided under this contract please includes information if other services are included under the same contract.
5. The number of sites the contract covers
6. [ONLY FOR LIFT CONTRACT] The Brand name of the type of lifts used by the organisation
7. The start date of the contract
8. The end date of the contract
9. The duration of the contract, please include information on any extensions period.
10. Who within the organisation is responsible for each of these contracts? name, Job Title, contact number and email address.