2012 Requests

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2012 Requests

Summary of Questions Received

Written by FOI Lead

In this section, we shall publish the questions asked through the Freedom of Information Act as well as the redacted responses.

January 2012

How many confidentiality and data breaches have there been in your Trust (2009 to 2011)?
Copy of the Organisational structure for Therapy Services
Do you use HAI Surveillance software within your Infection Control team?
No. of employees (headcount and WTEs) in 2010/11 and 2011/12
Details regarding named framework agreements
Details of the Head of Information Governance
No. of audiology assessments (2008/09 to 2010/11)
Do you use the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in the delivery suite / labour ward?
Is the provision of laundry services in-house or outsourced?
A list of all Clinical Commissioning Groups that come under your area
Do you have a written policy on handling enquiries about patients?
Charge for a private patient to have a single course of IVF
Referral pathways, care pathways and prescribing guidelines for Hepatitis-C
Details of buildings used primarily for office space at the Trust
Expenditure on locum agencies for OT, physiotherapy and speech therapy
Expenditure on homeopathic remedies (past five years)
Patient activity on Wednesday 30 November (2010 and 2011)
Subject access request
Copy of Estates Strategy
Subject access request
No. of maternal deaths of mothers during / after child birth (last three years)
Copy of job description for web developers
Subject access request
Does your Trust have any lone worker devices (Identicom) through the 2009 framework agreement?
Protocol for A&E patients who have cluster seizures
Does your Trust provide overseas testing of blood samples?
Do you use fascia iliaca compartment block in the treatment of fractured NOF patients?
Expenditure on Nursing and Medical agency / locums
Instances where organs have been removed during post-mortem exam without permission
Subject access request
Expenditure on bariatric patient equipment (last three years)
Money accounted for as "losses and special payments" in 2010/12
No. of Doctors employed at 01/01/12 as FY1 and FY2
No. of bariatric beds (last five years) and cost of renting over the period
No. of Maternity complaints by category and brief description
Questionnaire on electric procedures
Copy of documentation relating to joint venture, strategic estates partnership etc with 3rd parties
Has any member of staff met with [named company] and has any contract been awarded to them?
Does your hospital trauma protocols include admin of tranexamic acid to bleeding trauma?
Questions regarding UK CRN
Expenditure on maternity services (last three years) and headcount / FTE
Copy of Trust's IT / Health Informatics Strategy
No. of beds for inpatients and question regarding capital expenditure forecasts
No. of inguinal hernia repair procedures (2011)

February 2012

Does your Trust use an e-Rostering system?
Parking facilities / management and car park security provided
Pay expenditure for the Trust - budget, variance and reason for any variance
How many solicitors work in the Trust?
How many staff were subject to disciplinary / capability action (26/10/08 to 01/02/12) within named ward?
No. of delivery episodes (2009/10 to 2011/12)
Year-to-date savings required under 2011/12 QIPP plans / targets
IMT structure charts
How many times have you had to call out a specialist pest control agency (last 6 months)?
Copy of current prescribing formulary
No. of metal-on-metal hip replacement units fitted by the Trust
How many vascular surgeons are working at your Trust (WTE) and junior doctors?
Current supplier of Trust's accounting and finance IT system(s) and contract value
No. of patient discharges which take place between 11pm and 6am (and % of total discharges)
Expenditure on agency locum doctors and consultants (2010 and 2011)
How many foreign nationals have been declined treatment after GP referral (2009/10 to 2011/12)?
Total debts owed by your Trust under PFI schemes
Who is your current provider of Patient Transport Services?
Expenditure on agency Medical Doctor Locums (last 2 years) by specialty
Query regarding the use of prescribing rebate schemes
Details of joint ventures with the Trust
How much paper is used per ward / area, quantity and price?
Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy waiting times - referral to assessment

March 2012

What do you currently do for outpatient letters? Are they outsourced?
Do you perform Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy and what patient criteria is used?
Details of the Trust's IT systems
How many patients who were not clinically fit for discharge were moved to a nursing home / hotel?
Does the hand soap you use have an antibacterial ingredient in it and it's effectiveness?
The impact of consultations for minor ailments to the Accident and Emergency workload
Details regarding the Council Mobile Phone contracts
Details of CEO and CMO including employment history (past 10 years)
How many VAC dressings have been provided in the community beyond two weeks?
How many European Econonic Area (not UK) citizens treated (2008/09 to 2010/11)?
How many WTE staff employed in infection prevention?
Copies of workforce plans and assurance information / reports
Expenditure on agency medical Doctor locums (last 2 years)
HMRC settlements to pay arrears of National Insurance (last 4/6 years)
Structure of IMT department
% of entrants to pre-registration pharmacy training programme from higher education
Copy of policy for the management of vaginal births after caesarean
Referral pathways for Rheumatoid Arthritis and prescribing guidelines
Information on corporate window cleaning contract(s)
Does your Trust administer contraceptive implants / injections in schools?
Procedures performed at institutions outside the UK but NHS funded (2010 and 2011)
Are NHS staff allowed to use the search engine Google at work?
How many patients did you identify as non-exempt overseas visitors (2008/09 to 2011/12)?
How many NHS staff have received private medical treatment paid by the NHS (2009 to 2011)?
Details of named framework agreements / contracts
Details of data stored by the Trust / 3rd parties outside the UK
Details of system messaging interfaces developed over the last 2 financial years

Last Updated ( Monday, 30 April 2012 13:10 )

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