Responses

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)

Use of insourcing in FY 2024-25:

1. What was the total amount spent by the Trust on insourcing services during the financial year 2024/25?
2. Please provide a list of all external providers engaged to deliver insourcing services during 2024/25.
3. For each provider listed in response to Question 2, please state the total amount paid to that provider for insourcing services during 2024/25.
4. For each provider, please list the types of clinical services or specialties they delivered (e.g. endoscopy, dermatology, ophthalmology, etc.).

I am contacting you with a FoI request for the benefit of RNID.

Please can you provide the name and contact details for the current Head of Adult Audiology for Gloucestershire Health and care NHS foundation trust.

If this role does not exist in your Trust, please provide the name and contact details for the most senior member of staff responsible for audiology services.

I would like to submit a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) regarding cases of food poisoning due to incorrect identification or inappropriate preparation of wild food.

Please provide the relevant information for the period between 1 April 2020 and the most recent date for which data is available. Please could you provide the following:

A yearly breakdown of the number of cases of food poisoning due to incorrect identification or inappropriate preparation of wild food.
The type of wild food that caused the food poisoning (for example: fungi, plant, berries, etc…). Please include the specific species if known.
The symptoms experienced by the patient and the recovery time (for example: overnight stay or discharged within a couple hours)
The location where this food was picked. We would define ‘wild or foraged’ foods to be either: Wild, naturally growing food which was picked and consumed by an individual Wild, naturally growing food which was consumed by an individual, but was served in a restaurant environment, having been picked in the wild within the UK.

If you need to carry out a key terms search to locate these records, please include the terms “foraged”, “foraging”, “wild food”, “forager”, “wild ingredients”. If you would document these cases in another way, please include these results as per the spirit of my request.

If you feel that my request is unclear or too broad, I would be grateful if you could provide me with some guidance as to how I could refine it.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding your compliance with the Learning from Deaths Guidance issued by NHS England (2017) which ensures your trust complies with the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

This requires every NHS Trust to annually report (with a quarterly breakdown) the number of patients who died during the reporting period, how many case record reviews or investigations took place, and estimate how many deaths were determined to be likely due to problems in the care provided. It also requires the reporting of a summary of lessons learnt, what actions have been taken as a result, and what the impact of these actions has been.

Included in the Quality Accounts should also be the number of case record reviews and investigations relating to deaths in the previous reporting period that were only concluded in the most recent period and an estimation of how many of those deaths were due to problems in the care provided.

Please provide answers to the following questions for the most recent reporting period (2023/24):

1. Policy and Governance
a) Does your trust currently comply with the requirements of the Leaming from Deaths Guidance?
b) If not do you have plans to comply with it and if so by when?
 
2. Reporting
a) How many deaths were reported within your trust during the reporting period (2023/24)?
b) How many of these deaths were reviewed, and how many were judged more likely than not to have been avoidable?
c) Have you published quarterly reports on learning from deaths on your website, as required by the guidance? Please provide links to the most recent reports.
d) Is information on learning from deaths included in your latest Quality Account?

3. Family Involvement
a) Are families and carers involved in the review process where appropriate?
b) Please provide the number of deaths that were reviewed in this period (2023/24) where families and carers were involved and engaged in the review.

4. Actions and Learning
a) Please provide a summary of all actions taken as a result of the learning from deaths process in the last reporting period.

Please can I request the below information on the utilisation of Insourcing for the following period 01/01/2025-31/03/2025

• Total spend during the period for Insourcing for the below specialties:

• Neurology
• Neurophysiology
• Dermatology
• Gastroenterology
• Endoscopy
• Cardiology
• Respiratory
• Orthodontics / Dental
• OMFS
• ENT
• Rheumatology
• Gynaecology

– Please break the spend down by insourcing company

• Please confirm if there was a budget for insourcing for the specialties outlined during the same period

• What was the service type relating to the specialties outlined, for example, outpatient, diagnostic or theatres.

• Was it a fully managed service or Team provision

• Please can you confirm the Frameworks utilised for each specialty

• Please confirm any direct awards or mini competitions which are being utilised for each specialty

• Total procedures completed by insourcing companies for the specialties outlined during the same period

Under the Freedom of Information Act (2000), please provide the following information:

In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.3ppm but less than or equal to 0.4ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.4ppm but less than or equal to 0.5ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.5ppm but less than or equal to 0.6ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.6ppm but less than or equal to 0.7ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.7ppm but less than or equal to 0.8ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.8ppm but less than or equal to 0.9ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 0.9ppm but less than or equal to 1ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 1ppm but less than or equal to 1.5ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that are greater than 1.5ppm but less than or equal to 2ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department? In the past 12 months, on how many separate occasions have formaldehyde levels been recorded that exceed 2ppm in the Trust’s Histopathology Department?