Requests Between DateRange (01/01/200531/12/2010).
Request ID / Type of Requestor / Date Received / Date Completed / Request Details / OutcomeFOI22860 / Other / 21/12/2010 / 11/01/2011 / Staff nos by directorate and total sick days lost 08/09 and 09/10. Sickness reduction target 10/11. / Records supplied.
FOI22830 / Solicitors / 20/12/2010 / 07/02/2011 / Workload and structure of legal team, types of claim, expenditure. / Information supplied with exception of breakdown of costs by area of law - not yet available.
FOI22840 / Commercial Company / 17/12/2010 / Following the publication of Quality Accounts report for the year 2009/10 requesting Commissioning for Quality and Innovation schemes for 2009/10. Supply the goals and any progress made to date towards achieving them.
FOI22750 / Commercial Company / 14/12/2010 / Marketing intelleigence gathering in respect of ICT - integration engines
FOI22770 / Other / 13/12/2010 / 07/02/2011 / Use of Epinephrine auto-injections and SUIs relating to epinephrine administration for anaphylaxis. / No SUIs to report.
FOI22680 / Media / 13/12/2010 / 07/02/2011 / The number of cases of hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) at your hospital in each of the last three years.
The number of deaths at your hospital resulting from HAP in the same time period. / Provided numbers of cases but not deaths as not possible determine HAP as cause of death without reference to case notes. Exempted Under Section 12 and Section 40 (DPA).
FOI22690 / Organisation / 13/12/2010 / Whistleblowing policy and numbers and costs of compromise agreements.
FOI22710 / Media / 13/12/2010 / 14/12/2010 / Number of employees who are HIV positive. / No employees with HIV positive status.
FOI22740 / Other / 13/12/2010 / 13/01/2011 / Theatre utilisation, financial data and efficiency.
FOI22340 / General Public / 13/12/2010 / 06/01/2011 / Copy of sickness/repdeployment policy. / Supplied copy of sickness absence policy.
FOI22640 / Other / 10/12/2010 / 18/01/2011 / Policy for claiming regular car user allowances, numbers of staff and roles of those currently claiming. / Supplied excel spreadsheet with breakdown of departments where regular car user allowance being paid and nos. of staff.
FOI22630 / Media / 09/12/2010 / 07/02/2011 / Review of decision on FOI Request 22380 - legal costs associated with JW employment tribunal.
FOI22610 / Other / 08/12/2010 / 11/01/2011 / Information on gynae surgery teams, complaints and compensation payments. / Outcome Canceled
FOI22570 / Commercial Company / 08/12/2010 / 30/12/2010 / IT related FOI requests over last 2 years. / Outcome Cancelled - withdrawn by requestor.
FOI22380 / Media / 06/12/2010 / Legal costs involved in John Waktinson Tribunal and Appeal
FOI22600 / Media / 06/12/2010 / 07/02/2011 / Number of requests received, responded to within deadline, refused and subject matter of refused requests.
FOI22390 / Commercial Company / 02/12/2010 / 06/12/2010 / Copy of IM&T strategy
FOI22400 / Commercial Company / 01/12/2010 / How many Staff (full head-count rather than full-time equivalents) are employed in IT functions?
Do you have an internal Information Technology team or is Information Technology TOTALLY Outsourced? If Outsourced, to which Company?
Is your Information Technology Infrastructure managed internally or outsourced? If Outsourced, to which Company?
Are your Desktop computers managed internally or outsourced? If Outsourced, to which Company?
Is your Systems Development/Applications Management managed internally or Outsourced? If Outsourced, to which Company?
How many Desktop Computers are in use?
How many Laptop Computers are in use?
Which Server Platform(s) do you use?
IBM/PCM Mainframe: (Please state which Operating System(s) – z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE)
UNIX: (Please state which Operating System(s) – e.g. Sun Solaris, AIX etc.)
Microsoft Windows:
System I:
Others (Please be kind enough to state):
How many Physical Servers are in use?
How many VIRTUAL Servers are in use?
FOI22410 / Media / 25/11/2010 / 20/12/2010 / 1. The total amount paid by the trust to all consultants in WLI payments for the last three financial years (2007-8, 2008-9 and 2010-11)?
2. How many consultants have received the payments?
3.. What the range of hourly payments have been for each year? (Some trusts do it per four-hour blocks so if this is the case what the payments for those blocks have been)
4. How much the top five earning (from WLI payments) consultants have made along with their name (if possible) and speciality for the last three financial years?
5. Is the trust making WLI payments this financial year and, if so, how much has been paid out so far? / One individual payment made in 2008. Total of £1600 for 9 sessions.
FOI22620 / Other / 24/11/2010 / 07/02/2011 / The Supply, Service, Repair/Maintenance of Hoists, Mattresses and Beds
1.Contract Renewal Date
2.Contract Term
3.Contract Value for Full Contract Term / Contract details released for beds and mattresses. Hoists maintained in-house. Some older beds maintained on individual basis, newer models under warranty.
FOI22370 / Media / 23/11/2010 / 07/12/2010 / Any long stay reports the trusts has been required to write in cases where a patient has stayed an extraordinary amount of time between April 1st 2010 and now.
FOI22360 / Organisation / 19/11/2010 / Trust Policies/Guidelines of SOP do you have in place for managing acute medical, surgical or trauma emergencies which occur outside of your Trust Buildings but on your Trust Premises, for example car parks, roads or walkways?
FOI22350 / Media / 17/11/2010 / 07/02/2011 / 1.A review of staffing levels
2.A review of staff training
3.A review of the management and leadership of nursing staff
4.An assessment of whether your management structure ensures that clinical staff and their views are fully represented at all levels of the trust
5.A review of record-keeping procedures
6.A review of the level of specialist elderly care medical input into all wards admitting elderly, acutely ill patients in significant numbers
7. Please send me a copy of each review that has been carried out into the above areas. Where a series of reviews/assessments has been carried out, the most recent one will suffice.
8.In addition, please state whether nurses at your trust work to a published set of principles. If so, please send me a copy of the set of principles. / Answered questions but no review reports supplied.
FOI22180 / Solicitors / 15/11/2010 / 17/11/2010 / Copy of policy on Prevention of Falls and Use of Bed rails that would have been in place in 2009
FOI22060 / Solicitors / 12/11/2010 / 25/02/2011 / copy of 'Extravasation Policy for all drugs, chemotherapy and non-chemotherapy' / Supplied extravasation policy from European Nursing Manual as used in clinical areas. Also advised Peninsula Network policy under development.
FOI22580 / Commercial Company / 12/11/2010 / 30/11/2010 / IT related - printers, paper ink related expenditure and cost savings plans. / Outcome Canceled
FOI22590 / Commercial Company / 12/11/2010 / 30/11/2010 / IT related - sites and numbers of servers. / Outcome Canceled
FOI22510 / Commercial Company / 12/11/2010 / 29/11/2010 / ICT spend, contracts and staffing. / Outcome Canceled
FOI22540 / Commercial Company / 12/11/2010 / 30/11/2010 / IT related - server and data storage / Outcome Canceled
FOI22560 / Commercial Company / 12/11/2010 / 30/11/2010 / Numbers of laptops and spend on PC software and hardware / Outcome Canceled
FOI22550 / Commercial Company / 11/11/2010 / IT related - PC software, licencing, database
FOI22430 / Media / 11/11/2010 / 06/12/2010 / Spend on artworks over last 3 years.
FOI22420 / Media / 10/11/2010 / Numbers and costs of out of court settlements over last 5 years. / Emailed seeking clarification returned. Assumed requestor gone away.
FOI22440 / General Public / 09/11/2010 / Spend on management consultants and type of work, this financial and last year.
FOI22010 / Solicitors / 09/11/2010 / 09/11/2010 / Copy of Falls and Bed Rails Policy
FOI22450 / General Public / 08/11/2010 / 06/12/2010 / Copy of IT structure
FOI22460 / Media / 08/11/2010 / 06/12/2010 / First class rail travel and costs.
FOI22480 / Media / 05/11/2010 / 07/12/2010 / Details of compromise agreements over last 10 years. / Gave details of number of compromise agreements from Jan 06 to present.
FOI22760 / Commercial Company / 04/11/2010 / 23/12/2010 / Narrowed down request subsequent to refusal of request 20700.
FOI22090 / Other / 04/11/2010 / Staff numbers in IT specific to a range of work areas.
FOI21920 / Commercial Company / 29/10/2010 / 06/12/2010 / Details of medical consultants involved in renal cell carcinoma.
FOI21910 / Commercial Company / 28/10/2010 / 04/11/2010 / Total WTE Number of staff employed by your Trust?
Total number of beds in your Trust?
What is the Trusts Capital spend for the last financial year for which you have audited accounts?
What percentage of this was spent by your Information Technology department?
What is the Trusts’ Revenue spend for the last financial year for which you have audited accounts?
What percentage of this was spent by your Information Technology department?
What is the total number of medical records retained by your Trust? Of these, how many are held onsite and how many are in offsite storage?
How many staff form your Medical Records department?
What is the name of the Trusts’ current Patient Administration System? / Outcome Canceled
FOI21840 / Media / 26/10/2010 / No of requests made by Tax Payers Alliance in last 12 months, cost of processing them and time taken by staff.
FOI21790 / Organisation / 20/10/2010 / 20/12/2010 / Referral, diagnostic process and patient information on womb cancers. / Response compiled by Nagindra Das. Answers most but not all of request. Withheld remain info on basis do not hold records to satisfy those elements.
FOI21770 / General Public / 19/10/2010 / Nos. of ethinic minority patients attending ED since Jan 2009.
FOI21670 / Solicitors / 15/10/2010 / 15/11/2010 / Oncology patients and specialist drug treatments.
FOI21490 / MP / 14/10/2010 / Impact of PBR and tariffs on need to increase adminstrative or legal staff, if so number of posts involved. Estimate of additional administrative cost of PBR. / Records not held to enable response to request.
FOI21500 / General Public / 12/10/2010 / 18/10/2010 / How much did the trust spent on artwork in the financial year 2009/10?
How much did the trust spend on artwork in the financial year 2008/09
How much has the trust spent on artwork in the current financial year to date?
Please provide an itemised list of all artwork worth more than 5,000, purchased in the time periods described above, in the following format:
date of purchase price estimated value (if different from price) - artist description of artwork current location of artwork (i.e. room, building, address)
Please provide an itemised list of all artwork and arts projects commissioned during the time periods described above, in the following format:
date commissioned cost artist/company description of work/event/project commissioned location (if applicable) date of completion
FOI21440 / Media / 12/10/2010 / 09/11/2010 / Bed blocking data based on 11 Oct 2010 and stats relating to historic trends.
FOI21510 / General Public / 11/10/2010 / 15/10/2010 / Mandatory training policy
FOI21520 / Commercial Company / 11/10/2010 / 15/10/2010 / Copy of Standing Financial Instructions / Referred requestor to link to document on website!!
FOI21530 / Media / 11/10/2010 / Provision of meals for Halal diets, meat sourcing etc.
FOI21550 / Other / 06/10/2010 / 15/10/2010 / Policy on regrading of staff grades/associate specialists / Policy released.
FOI21560 / Organisation / 30/09/2010 / 28/10/2010 / Waste management and tonnage
FOI21570 / Organisation / 30/09/2010 / 15/10/2010 / Copy of Infeciton Control Policy / Referred requestor to policy already published on website!!
FOI21580 / Commercial Company / 30/09/2010 / 15/10/2010 / Cost of patients put up in hotels and policy for doing such. / Confirmed no patient use of hotel rooms and therefore no expenditure.
FOI21590 / General Public / 29/09/2010 / Numbers of misdiagnoses over the last 5 years and specific numbers for histopathology. / None recorded on Datix system. No central record available for further interrogation without exceeding 2.5day limit.
FOI21600 / Other / 27/09/2010 / IT strategy, contacts, voice networking
FOI21610 / Commercial Company / 22/09/2010 / 18/10/2010 / Amount paid by taxi firms to operate on Trust premises.
FOI21620 / Media / 22/09/2010 / 20/10/2010 / Details of visits by Royal Family or politicians and assoicated costs 1 Jan 10 to 22 Sept 10. Details of capital works carried during same period.
FOI21260 / Media / 20/09/2010 / 15/10/2010 / ED Staffing numbers and grades on night shifts 3 and 7 July 2010 / Staffing data released. Same both nights with some variation to consultant on-call arrangement.
FOI21630 / Commercial Company / 17/09/2010 / 28/10/2010 / Medical records folders, suppliers, contract, storage arrangements.
FOI21650 / Media / 15/09/2010 / 20/10/2010 / Agency spend 09/10 and individual assignments over £1000
FOI21660 / Other / 15/09/2010 / 06/12/2010 / Information on ITP patients and haematological treatments.
FOI21640 / Commercial Company / 14/09/2010 / 15/09/2010 / Copy of annual report and accounts. / Referred to website.
FOI21850 / Solicitors / 07/09/2010 / All documentation relating to infection rates during 2008. INfection control team member notes and minutes of IC Committee meetings. Policies relating to the specific infection, staff numbers (actual and FML), patient numbers. Space between beds, turnover, numbers of infections and audits.
FOI21100 / Media / 03/09/2010 / Information on lost/missing blood tests and wrong results given to patients.
FOI21090 / Media / 02/09/2010 / 06/12/2010 / Upaid bills for treatment of overseas patients. 2008/09 and 2009/10. Specifics relating to maternity and largest outstanding sum.
FOI21540 / Commercial Company / 01/09/2010 / 28/10/2010 / Acute Coronary syndrome guidelines;
Breast cancer guidelines;
Bowel cancer guidelines;
Lung Cancer guidelines. / Provided guidelines for breast, bowel and lung cancer. Acute coronary syndrome under separate cover.
FOI21060 / Other / 26/08/2010 / requesting information on the Trust’s compliance of VTE prevention policies with national VTE best practice and policy.
FOI20820 / Media / 19/08/2010 / 18/10/2010 / Trust budget, IT budget and IT systems in use.
FOI20830 / Media / 19/08/2010 / 20/10/2010 / Loss of medical records. / Outcome Canceled
FOI20780 / Other / 19/08/2010 / Average nurse to patient ratios, Nurse and HC Support WTEs, hospital bed numbers, in 2010-2001 and 1997.
FOI20760 / General Public / 18/08/2010 / how many elective procedures the trust has contracted out to a non-NHS provider body since the beginning of the 07/08 financial year.
This should be broken down by procedure (including HRG4 code or HRG3.5 if HRG4 is not available) cost per patient as well as total cost per year and contractor.
Please also provide me with your policy on how long a patient must be waiting before they are treated in a private provider.
FOI20710 / Organisation / 16/08/2010 / 20/10/2010 / How much did your Trust spend on chaplaincy (or equivalent non-Christian religious support)(pay and non-pay) funding in the financial year 2009/10 (or, if this is unavailable, in 2008/09). / Budget details disclosed
FOI20790 / General Public / 16/08/2010 / 14/12/2010 / Renal and transplant biospies - number, turnaround times and numbers of biomedical/clinical scientists. / Limited response. Confirmed transplants and electron microscopy not carried out. Some sames sent to PlymouthUniversity by diagnostic element carried out by RCHT consultant.
FOI20680 / Organisation / 16/08/2010 / Internal review of decision on FOI 16420
FOI20700 / Commercial Company / 13/08/2010 / 15/10/2010 / Please would you tell us the number of patients currently being treated in your trust with biologics for the following conditions, split by named biologic. / Data not available.
FOI20620 / Commercial Company / 11/08/2010 / 09/09/2010 / Internal Review of decision on FOI 19570. / Data retrieved and released.
FOI20480 / Media / 09/08/2010 / 19/10/2010 / Total and individual cost of compromise agreements 2006/7/8/9/ and to date in 2010. / Exempted under Section 40 – Data Protection – actionable breach of confidentiality.
FOI20490 / Media / 09/08/2010 / 19/11/2010 / Review of decision to withhold information on Request 18820
FOI20520 / Commercial Company / 06/08/2010 / 09/08/2010 / Accounts payable - staffing, processes etc.
FOI20510 / Media / 05/08/2010 / 28/10/2010 / Data on patient bed moves for other than clinical reasons - Jul 08 - 10.
FOI20500 / Media / 04/08/2010 / Daily per patient spend on food and highest expense claim for meal - how many diners, where etc.
FOI20380 / Media / 03/08/2010 / 09/08/2010 / Spending on luxury items - champagne, caviar, spirts etc / Nothing to disclose.
FOI20400 / Media / 02/08/2010 / Communications and advertising spend 07/08, 08/09 and 09/10 / Withheld data that could breach confidentiality (salaries/job titles). Unable to determine spend on legal advice for media.
FOI20390 / Other / 29/07/2010 / 04/08/2010 / IT/strategic planning/Green issue contacts. Savings plans and Info relating to IT data storage facilities. / Disclosed contact data, pointed to website for general Trust savings places. Declined info on data storage on grounds of security.
FOI20370 / Commercial Company / 28/07/2010 / funding, care pathways and treatments for prostate cancer patients
FOI20330 / Commercial Company / 22/07/2010 / 04/08/2010 / A - The Trust's latest IM&T plan/strategy?
B - Any plans including capital expenditure on IM&T?
C - An organisational chart of the IM&T department and the name of the Director and Head of IM&T?
D – Any cost saving/efficiency targets which have been aligned with the Trust’s IM&T department or with the Trust overall? / Released copy of IM&T strategy and structure chart. Data requested contained within these documents.
FOI20320 / Other / 21/07/2010 / - the savings the trust expects to have to make over the next five financial years (from 2010/11 to 2014/15 inclusive), broken down by year, expressed both as an amount and as a percentage of the current total trust expenditure
- the number of confirmed job cuts to be made by the hospital trust; this should include as much detail as possible on how many of the cuts are to clinical posts, and within that, how many doctors, nurses etc and in which departments; and also, how many of the cuts are to management posts
- planned job cuts, or potential job cuts under consideration by the trust; again, this should include as much detail as possible on how many of the cuts are to clinical posts, and within that, how many doctors, nurses etc and in which departments; and also, how many of the cuts are to management posts
- confirmed, planned or potential (i.e. under consideration) reductions in services or closures in departments or wards as a result of central government budget cuts
- the overall cumulative debt, if any, owed by the trust, and the most recent profit/loss made by the trust (please give the applicable financial year)
With regards to the above, “job cuts” includes posts deleted through natural wastage; where possible, the number of posts (clinical, management and other) to be deleted through natural wastage should be specified.
I am also requesting any official trust management board documents or reports that may have been prepared that detail any cuts specified above; this final request only applies to the extent that it can be fulfilled within the statutory time and cost limit as referred to within the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. This final request takes lower priority than the bullet-pointed requests listed above. / Refer to Board minutes and papers for latest financial planning information. Other discussion/documents work in progress for publication at later date, exempt under Section 22.
FOI20310 / Commercial Company / 20/07/2010 / 17/08/2010 / how many external support resource/people you have currently engaged within your trust either on a interim, fixed term or projects cost (Tender) basis / Advised 5 non-clinical posts covered on external locum basis.
FOI20290 / Media / 19/07/2010 / 1. Since 2007 I understand that companies installing and providing bedside telephone and television units do not have to apply for a licence from the Department of Health/NHS prior to tendering for contracts to provide the units at NHS hospitals. I want to confirm whether any hospitals under the management of the Trust have a contract with any company to provide bedside telephone/television units? If so, I would like to know which company provides these services; when the agreement or contract was signed; and for how long the agreement or contract will be in place?
2. I would also like to know if the company was providing bedside units prior to 2007, if the contract was renegotiated in 2007 (after the necessity for national licenses was removed), and if so, which if any terms of the contract were changed – and what the details of those clauses were.
3. Has the Trust or any of the hospitals under the management of the Trust had more than one company provide bedside telephone/television units? If so, which companies have provided the units, when, and for how long.