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3rd Party Temporary Staffing Providers. 110222.docx
Please can you provide the following information for financial years FY2016/17, FY2017/18, FY2018/19, FY2019/20, FY2020/21, current financial year to date (FY2021/22 YTD):
1) Please provide the top 5 ON framework 3rd Party providers for nursing staff, by name, used by your trust for each of the listed financial years
2) Please provide the total annual expenditure for each of the top 5 ON framework 3rd Party providers, for nursing staff, used by your trust for each of the listed financial years
3) Please provide the top 5 OFF framework 3rd Party providers for nursing staff, by name, used by your trust for each of the listed financial years
4) Please provide the total annual expenditure for each of the top 5 OFF framework 3rd Party providers, for nursing staff, used by your trust for each of the listed financial years
A&E agency staff and cost. 141021.docx
1. The amount spent on employing agency, temporary and/or locum doctors in A&E departments in each month in 2019 and 2020.
2. The number of FTE roles in A&E departments covered by agency, temporary and/or locum doctors in each month in 2019 and 2020.
3. The total number of FTE doctors (including agency, temporary and/or locum and permanent staff) working in A&E departments in each month in 2019 and 2020.
Agency and Bank nursing spend.311024.docx
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1. In the period 1st July 2024 to 30th September 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
a. Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
b. Spend per band
c. Spend per agency name
2. In the period 1st July 2024 to 30th September 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
a. Total trust spend with off framework agencies for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
b. Spend per band
c. Spend per agency name
3. In the period 1st July 2024 to 30th September 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
a. Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
b. Spend per band
c. Spend per agency name
4. Please confirm the total number of nursing shifts booked during this period (1st July 2024 to 30th September 2024)
5. Please confirm the total number of nursing shifts booked above NHSE capped rates during this period (1st July 2024 to 30th September 2024)
Agency and Bank spend.070624.docx
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In the period 1st February 2024 to 30th April 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
1. Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
a. Spend per grade
b. Spend per specialty
c. Spend per agency name
In the period of 1st February 2024 to 30th April 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
2. Total trust spend with off-framework agencies for locums doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
a. Spend per grade
b. Spend per specialty
c. Spend per agency name
In the period of 1st February 2024 to 30th April 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
3. Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum doctors
Please provide a further breakdown for locum doctors by:
a. Spend per grade
b. Spend per specialty
c. Spend per internal or associated external provider
4. Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st February 2024 to 30th April 2024.
Agency and Bank staff.100223.docx
1. The total amount spent on agency temporary staff for the year 2021/22 (April ’21 to March ‘22) and between 31/10/2021 to 31/10/2022 for the following categories:
• Doctors
• Nurses
• AHP (all categories)
• Health Care Assistants
2. Bank Spend – Total amount spent on bank staff for the year 2021/22 (April ’21 to March ‘22) and between 31/10/2021 and 31/10/2022 year split into the Trusts’ staff groups (E.g. Medical, Nursing, Admin, AHP etc.) and speciality/grade (E.g. Consultants, GP, ICU Nurse, Acute Nurse, Occupational therapists, Pharmacists, Health Care Assistants, etc.) depending on how this is reported within the Trust.
3. Confirmation on whether the trust bank is currently operated by the trust themselves or by a private provider. If the latter please confirm the name of the provider.
The names and contact information of the individual divisional directors of Surgery covering the following treatment areas:
• General Surgery
• Urology
• Trauma and Orthopaedic
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Ophthalmology
• Oral Surgery
• Neurosurgical Service
• Cardiothoracic
• Cardiology Service
• Dermatology Service
• Respiratory Medicine Service
• Gynaecology Service
• Rheumatology Service
Agency and Bank Staff costs.290623.docx
Q1: Please can you confirm what percentage of your wage bill is spent on
(a) Agency staff?
(b) Bank staff?
Q2: What does the answer to Q1 (a) equate to in Pounds Sterling (£)?
Q3: What percentage of all your medical and clinical patient facing shifts are filled with staff that are paid above the ‘break glass’ ceiling rate (above the agency rules pay cap)?
Agency and Bank staff spend.181022.docx
1)The total amount spent by the Trust on bank staff in 2021/22
2) The total amount spent by the Trust on agency staff in 2021/22
3) The total amount spent by the Trust on bank nurses in 2021/22
4) The total amount spent by the Trust on agency nurses in 2021/22
5) The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency nurse shift in 2021/22
Agency and Bank staffing and spend.150822.docx
1. Please provide agency spend for the staff group for the Financial Year 2021-22 (please specify your start and end date used) Financial Year indicating what percentage is on and off-framework (for example, “£4,650,000 – c80% framework / 20% off-framework”).
2. Please provide bank spend for the staff group for Financial Year 2021-22 (please specify your start and end date used)
3. Please confirm which model you have in place for managing agency within the staff group: Email to preferred supplier List, a Master Vendor, a Neutral Vendor, or a Software cascade to a preferred supplier list
4. Please confirm what percentage of bookings over the last 6 months have been within the NHSI agency caps (an approximation based on NHSI data submissions is fine)
5. Please confirm which provider manages your direct engagement process, the fee for the service and the date on which this contract expires (no this is not relevant for Nursing)
6. Please confirm what percentage of bookings are processed with a VAT savings by your direct engagement (DE) provider (average for last 3 months –December, January and February)
7. Is your bank managed by an external bank provider (e.g., NHS Professionals, Bank Partners) or in-house? Please confirm who is the external bank provider and when the contract expires if relevant
8. Is your bank managed via software? If so, please confirm which software.
9. Is the Trust likely to undertake any procurement activity over the next 18 months related to provision or bank or agency services or software for the relevant staff group?
10. If you have a managed service, master vendor or neutral vendor in place for Agency medics/Agency doctors please confirm who this contract is with and the date on which this contract expires
11. If you have a managed service, master vendor or neutral vendor in place for Agency Nurses please confirm who this contract is with and the date on which this contract expires
Agency and insourcing spend.260723.docx
1. What is the total value of spend by your NHS Trust with on-framework and off-framework recruitment agencies by staff group (see staff groups below) on a temporary basis? Please provide this information for the following years (please fill in the tables below).
Note: Please provide total spend inclusive of salaries and agency margin / fees.
Note: If cannot provide split of spend by on- vs off- framework agencies, please provide total spend.
2. Do you use insourcing providers?
Note: Insourcing definition: Insourcing of Clinical Services – NHS SBS
3. If yes to previous question (use of insourcing providers), what is the total value of spend, listed by speciality and insourcing provider used for Apr-22 to Mar-23?
Note: If an insourcing provider covers multiple specialities, please list that provider multiple times (one row for each speciality).
Agency and Staff details.260423.docx
1.) A) Last financial year agency locum spend
B) Please break down into Specialty and Grade
2.) A) The retention rates for permanent and fixed term staff – Doctors and Nurses only
B) Please break down into Specialty and Grade
3.) A) Please provide the Names of agencies used to fill vacancies
B) how much each agency charges
4.) Please provide your trust wide budgeted establishment per specialty and grade for Doctors
– Name of Speciality / Division or Directorate
– Consultants, Locum Consultant Contract and Associate Specialists
– CT/ST3 – CT/ST7, Specialty Doctors, Senior Clinical Fellows, CESR Fellow or Middle Grade Level
– FY1-ST2, Trust Grade, Junior Clinical Fellow or SHO level
5.) Please what is your actual current establishment for Doctor
– Name of Speciality / Division or Directorate
– Consultants, Locum Consultant Contract and Associate Specialists
– CT/ST3 – CT/ST7, Specialty Doctors, Senior Clinical Fellows, CESR Fellow or Middle Grade Level
– FY1-ST2, Trust Grade, Junior Clinical Fellow or SHO level
Agency costs during industrial action.030823.docx
How much have you spent on agency staff during days in which industrial action was taken by staff in your trust since 1st December 2022?
Agency costs during industrial action.170823.docx
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How much have you spent on agency staff during days in which industrial action was taken by staff in your trust since 1st December 2022?
Agency details.230623.docx
1. The Trust’s spend on agency workers (both on-framework and off-framework);
2. By role type;
3. With which provider/s and how much the Trust spends;
4. and when the current contract ends with your agency staffing provider.
Agency midwives.140923.docx
You asked: All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. How much have you spent on agency midwives each of the last five years?
2. What was the most expensive agency midwife shift over the last five years?
Agency nurses.250424.docx
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1.
(a) Who is the head of procurement that is responsible for approving Nursing agency usage?
(b) Secondly, who is the temporary / flexible staffing lead responsible for the management of this service ?
2. Please can you provide the contact number and email address in relation to both question 1 (a) and (b)
3.
(a) Can you please confirm the names of all OFF-Framework agencies currently supplying to your trust for the following staffing groups: Registered General Nurses (RGNs) & Registered Mental-health Nurses (RMNs), Accident & Emergency (A&E)/Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) Nurses, Prison nurses and Theatre Nurses
(b) Secondly, Can you please confirm the volume of supply, by number of shifts filled and & shift type, by each OFF-Framework agency during October 1st 2023 – February 29th 2024
4. How much was your OFF-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between January 2024 – April 2024
(a) RGN’s
(b) Chemotherapy Nurses
(c) RMN
(d) ITU Nurse
(e) A&E nurse
(f) Prison Nurses
(g) Theatre nurses
(h) Neonatal nurses
Agency nurses and midwives.240523.docx
Could you provide me with a breakdown of spend on agency nurses and midwives between May 2022 and May 2023 as below
1. Number of shifts invoiced by each provider trust has used for agency nursing
2. Framework spend on agency nursing and midwifery broken down to spend per Framework provider
3. Off-framework spend on agency nursing and midwifery broken down to spend per off-framework provider
Agency nursing.160823.docx
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Please can you confirm how much was spent on agency nursing between the period April 1st 2023 and 31st June 2023?
Further to this, please can you confirm how much of this total was spent with Off-framework agencies?
Agency Nursing.200723.docx
Please could you answer the following questions in relation to the trusts agency nursing usage in financial year 2022-2023
1. How much in total did the trust spend on agency nursing supply?
2. How was that total split between Community/ Acute/ Mental Health Nursing (please delete as appropriate)?
3. Of the total spend, how much of it was spent with off-framework agencies?
4. Who within the trust is responsible for reporting on off-framework usage?
Agency Nursing.230823.docx
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Please answer all questions with the relevant data for the month of March 2023 ( 1st to the 31st March ) for your nursing – inclusive of Adult, Mental Health, Critical, Community and District where applicable for both frameworks and off frameworks Agencies.
Information requested :
1. The total number and spend of nursing shifts sent to agencies to fill ( frameworks and off frameworks ) Please provide these totals separately
2. The total number and spend of nursing shifts filled by agencies ( frameworks and off frameworks ) Please provide these totals separately
3. The total number and spend of critical banded nursing shifts sent to agencies to fill. ( frameworks and off frameworks ) Please provide these totals separately
4. The total number and spend of critical banded nursing shifts filled by agencies. ( frameworks and off frameworks ) Please provide these totals separately
5. The total number and spend of ‘breaches’ for filling a shift with agency nurses (Registered Nurses) not within the NHSI capped charge rates.
6. Please provide a list of all frameworks agencies that are currently ‘breaching’ ‘breaches’ when filling a shift with agency nurses (Registered Nurses) not within the NHSI capped charge rates.
7. Please provide a list of all frameworks agencies which supply the trust with nursing staff.
8. Please provide a list of off framework agencies which have supplied (from 1st January 2023 to 31st March 2023) into the trust with nursing staff across all sites.
9. From 1st March 2023 to 31st March 2023, please list the wards/ departments you have requested shifts for off framework agencies.
Agency Nursing, Master Vendor and Neutral Vendor.160823.docx
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For nursing registered and unregistered please could you share the below agency data:
1. For registered Nursing
a. How many hours were used in the last year?
b. What is your spend over the corresponding period?
2. For unregistered Nursing
a. How many hours were used in the last year?
b. What is your spend over the corresponding period?
Please could you also confirm if you have a:
3. Master vendor and their contract end date?
4. Neutral vendor and their contract end date?
Agency Nursing, Master Vendor and Neutral Vendor.160823.docx
Agency nursing shifts. 210222.docx
1) How many agency nursing shifts have your Trust used SNG or Thornbury Nursing Services for between 1st December 2021 and 10th February 2022
2) Please provide a breakdown of the number of shifts per ward or department where SNG or Thornbury Nursing Services were used between 1st December 2021 and 10th February 2022
3) How many agency nursing shifts have your Trust used Nutrix, MED GEN, Greenstaff for between 1st December 2021 and 10th February 2022?
4) Please provide a breakdown of the number of shifts per ward or department where Nutrix, or Greenstaff were used between 1st December 2021 and 10th February 2022
5) Please name any other OFF CONTRACT SUPPLIERS who have been utilised by the Trust between 1st December 2021 and 10th February 2022
6) If for any reason you are unable to supply data up until 10th February please provide the data until 31st January 2022
Agency Nursing Spend.260822.docx
1. Can you confirm names of all agencies supplying into the trust directly or via the NHS Professionals platform for nursing staff specifically for both Band 2 and Band 5 requirements, including off-framework agencies.
a. With the above information, can this be broken down by
• Volume of supply (per month for the last 12 months)
• Total trust spend per agency (per month for the last 12 months)
• By AfC banding of shift request and speciality of nurse
2. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been filled by agencies supplying Band 5 Registered Nursing staff at or below NHSI agency capped rates within the last 12 month period?
3. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been filled by agencies supplying Band 5 Registered Nursing staff above NHSI agency capped rates within the last 12 month period?
4. For the same 12 month period, can you confirm the average charge rate per hour for Band 5 Nursing agency staff across:
Week Days:
Night Shift/Saturday shifts:
Sunday shift/Bank Holiday:
5. Lastly can you confirm the highest agency nurse hourly charge rate, and their speciality?
Agency nursing spend.290824.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
In the period 1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
1. Total trust spend with framework agencies for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
2. Spend per band
3. Spend per agency name
In the period 1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
4. Total trust spend with off framework agencies for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
5. Spend per band
6. Spend per agency name
In the period 1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024 please provide a breakdown of:
7. Total trust spend with the internal trust bank or associated external provider for locum nurses
Please provide a further breakdown for locum nurses by:
8. Spend per band
9. Spend per agency name
10. Please confirm the total number of nursing shifts booked during this period (1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024)
11. Please confirm the total number of nursing shifts booked above NHSE capped rates during this period (1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024)
Agency spend.300623.docx
Please can I have the following information under The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Total Spend on Temporary Locums broken down into the following specialties and sites of the Trust – From April 2022 – April 2023
Medicine
Surgery
Trauma & Orthopaedics
Paediatrics
A&E
Anaesthetics
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Agency Spend, Agency Locums, Department Contacts.240624.docx
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1. Total Spend on Temporary Locums broken down into the following specialties and sites of each Trust belonging to NHS England – From April 2023 – May 2024
Surgery – Breast
Surgery – Cardiothoracic
Surgery – Colorectal
Surgery – ENT
Surgery -General Surgery
Surgery – Lower GI
Surgery – Max Fax
Surgery – Neurosurgery
Surgery – Ophthalmology
Surgery – Plastic
Surgery – Upper GI
Surgery – Vascular
Surgery – Trauma & Orthopaedics
Paediatrics
Neonates
A&E
Anaesthetics
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
2. Locum Agency providers – Please can you advise which locum agencies you use to fill the following areas.
Surgery – Breast
Surgery – Cardiothoracic
Surgery – Colorectal
Surgery – ENT
Surgery -General Surgery
Surgery – Lower GI
Surgery – Max Fax
Surgery – Neurosurgery
Surgery – Ophthalmology
Surgery – Plastic
Surgery – Upper GI
Surgery – Vascular
Surgery – Trauma & Orthopaedics
Paediatrics
Neonates
A&E
Anaesthetics
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
3. Department contact’s – Please can you provide name and email address of the following departments,
Surgery – Breast
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Cardiothoracic
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Colorectal
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – ENT
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery -General Surgery
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Lower GI
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Max Fax
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Neurosurgery
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Ophthalmology
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Plastic
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Upper GI
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Vascular
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Surgery – Trauma & Orthopaedics
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Paediatrics
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Neonates
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
A&E
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Anaesthetics
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Agency Spend, Agency Locums, Department Contacts.240624.docx
Agency spend and staffing.290824.docx
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Please can I have the following information under The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) – There are three separate points,
1. Total Spend on Temporary Locums (Agency – Doctors Only NOT BANK LOCUMS) broken down into the following specialties and sites of each Trust belonging to NHS England – From January 2024 – August 2024
Anaesthetics
ICU
2. Locum Agency providers – Please can you advise which locum agencies you use to fill the following areas.
Anaesthetics
ICU
3. Department contact’s – Please can you provide name or email address of the following departments,
Anaesthetics
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
ICU
Rota Coordinator
Service Manager
Clinical Lead
Agency spend for 2022-2023.210623.docx
I would like to request the following information:
The trusts total temp agency spend for the financial year 22/23 broken down by Doctors, Nursing and AHP spend.
Agency Spend for Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. 070222.docx
The total amount spent on agency temporary staff between January 21 – December 21 for the following categories:
Doctors
Nurses
AHP’s
Agency Spend for Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. 070222.docx
Agency spend for nursing and midwifery.211122.docx
I would like to request the below information from the trust for year 2021/2022.
1. What was your agency spend for nursing and midwifery for the year April 2021- April 2022?
2. How much of the spend was above the NHSI rate caps April 2021- April 2022?
3. Have you used off-framework in the last 6 months?
4. If so, what was the total spend?
5. Which off-framework agencies have you used?
6. How many unfilled shifts have you had for:
a. A&E
b. ITU
c. General
d. Theatres
e. Mental Health
f. CPN
g. Midwifery
h. Paediatrics
i. Neonatal
j. HCA
7. If this cannot be provided via speciality, please could I have an over-all number?
8. How many vacancies do you have for band 5/6 nurses in the following areas?
a. A&E
b. ITU
c. General
d. Theatres
e. Mental Health
f. CPN
g. Midwifery
h. Paediatrics
i. Neonatal
j. HCA
9. How many incident/critical incidents have been declared as a result of staffing?
10. Who is the nurse bank/temporary staffing manager?
11. What are the contact details for the Nurse Bank / Temporary Staffing Manager?
Agency staff.040923.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. How much have you spent on agency staff each of the last five years?
a. What was the most expensive agency midwife shift last year?
b. How much on bank midwives each of the past five years?
Agency Staff.100822.docx
Please can you provide the following information regarding use of agency staff in your NHS Trust.
Please note there are three parts to this request.
1. Please can you provide the total spend on agency staff in your NHS Trust in the financial year ending April 2022
2. Please can you provide the total spend on agency staff in your NHS Trust in the financial year ending April 2019
3. Please can you provide the total spend on agency staff in your NHS Trust in the financial year ending April 2017
Agency Staff.210323.docx
1. What was your trust spend on agency for the period 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 inclusive for the following staff groups: –
a. Registered nurse (RN)
b. Health care support workers/healthcare assistants/nursing associates?
2. What was your trust spend on agency for the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 inclusive for the following staff groups: –
a. Registered nurse (RN)
b. Health care support workers/healthcare assistants/nursing associates?
3. What was your trust spend on agency for the period I January 2020 to 31 December 2020 inclusive for the following staff groups: –
a. Registered nurse (RN)
b. Health care support workers/healthcare assistants/nursing associates?
Agency Staff.210823.docx
Nurses:
1. Total number of hours of agency nurses used by the Trust in the month of February 2023
2. Of the total number of agency nurse hours used, the number of hours procured ‘off-framework’
3. Of the total number of agency nurse hours used, the number of hours procured at ‘break glass’ or rates above the NHSI rate caps.
4. Of the total number of agency nurse hours used, the number of hours procured at an increased AFC banding i.e. band 5 offered band 6 as an incentive
Healthcare Assistants:
1. Total number of hours of agency healthcare assistants used by the Trust in the month of February 2023
2. Of the total number of agency healthcare assistants hours used, the number of hours procured ‘off-framework’
3. Of the total number of agency healthcare assistants hours used, the number of hours procured at ‘break glass’ or rates above the NHSI rate caps.
Pharmacy Staff:
1. Total number of hours of agency pharmacy staff used by the Trust in the month of February 2023
2. Of the total number of agency pharmacy staff hours used, the number of hours procured ‘off-framework’
3. Of the total number of agency pharmacy staff hours used, the number of hours procured at ‘break glass’ or rates above the NHSI rate caps.
Agency Staff Bank.250322.docx
For Hospitals
1. Hospitals in trust
2. Names of off-framework agencies used between 2021- to date
3. Names of on-framework agencies used between 2021- to date
4. Do you have a master vendor in place?
5. If yes, please provide your account manager’s email
6. Temporary agency staff manager full name
7. Temporary agency staff manager email
8. Temporary agency staff manager telephone
9. Permanent agency staff manager full name
10. Permanent agency staff manager email
11. Permanent agency staff manager telephone
12. Off-framework agency spend between Feb 2021-date
13. Framework agency spend between Feb 2021 – date
14. Total agency shift cancelations Feb 2021-date
For Urgent Care Centres/Walk-in Clinics
1. Urgent treatment / walk-in centres
2. Names of off-framework agencies used between 2021- to date
3. Names of on-framework agencies used between 2021- to date
4. Do you have a master vendor in place?
5. If yes, please provide your account manager’s email
6. Temporary agency staff manager full name
7. Temporary agency staff manager email
8. Temporary agency staff manager telephone
9. Permanent agency staff manager full name
10. Permanent agency staff manager email
11. Permanent agency staff manager telephone
12. Off-framework agency spend between Feb 2021-date
13. Framework agency spend between Feb 2021 – date
14. Total agency shift cancelations Feb 2021-date
Agency Staff costs.101122.docx
The total amount spent on agency temporary staff for the year 2021/22 (April ’21 to March ‘22) and between 31/10/2021 to 31/10/2022 for the following categories:
• Doctors
• Nurses
• AHP (all categories)
• Health Care Assistants
Agency staff in Emergency Medicine.100524.docx
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1. From 1st January 2024 to 1st March 2024, within your Emergency Medicine Departments, how many locum agency doctors were employed by the trust at Middle grade level (ST3 – ST8 level)?
2. From 1st January 2024 to 1st March 2024, within your Emergency Medicine Departments, how much money was spent on agency locum doctors working in the Middle grade (ST3 – ST8 level)?
3. From 1st January 2024 to 1st March 2024, within your Emergency Medicine Departments, how much money was spent on bank doctors covering vacant shifts within the department?
Agency staff spend.050224.docx
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For the most recent month available please provide your usage in terms of financial spend of agency staff for the job types below. Where the information is available, indicate the percentages ‘on-framework’ and ‘off-framework’.
The job types are:
1. Nursing
2. HCAs
3. Pharmacists
4. Pharmacy Technicians
Agency staff spend.100524.docx
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For the most recent month available please provide your usage in terms of financial spend of agency staff for the job types below.
Agency staffing.070624.docx
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1. The total (£) spent by the trust on agency nurses and healthcare staff in April 2023 – April 2024?
2. Of the amount spent above, how much was the total (£) spent within Mental Health services?
3. Which agencies have the highest agency spend for temporary nurses?
4. What is the current model for dealing with agency staff, such as NHSP / temporary staffing or other such as master or neutral vendor?
5. If the Trust does have a master or neutral vendor agreement in place for the supply of qualified nursing, when does this end?
6. The total off framework agency spend on temporary nurses and healthcare assistant staff in April 2023 – April 2024.
Agency staffing.151024.docx
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1. The total Trust expenditure on framework agencies for the provision of Registered General Nurses, Registered Mental Health Nurses, and Health Care Assistants from 1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024.
2. The total Trust expenditure on off-framework agencies for the provision of Registered General Nurses, Registered Mental Health Nurses, and Health Care Assistants for the same period.
3. The total Trust expenditure through the internal Trust bank from 1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024.
4. The total number of Nursing and Health Care Assistant shifts booked during this period.
5. The total number of Nursing and Health Care Assistant shifts booked above NHSE capped rates during this period.
6. The number of agencies currently assigned to tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 under Lot 1.
Agency staffing.160724.docx
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1. What type of agency arrangement / agreement do you currently have in place for the provision of AHP’s, Doctor’s and Nursing i.e. Preferred Supplier List / Master Vend:
a. AHP – arrangement / agreement type
b. Doctor – arrangement / agreement type
c. Nursing – arrangement / agreement type
2. Who is the arrangement / agreement in place with:
a. AHP – Provider Name(s)
b. Doctor – Provider Name(s)
c. Nursing – Provider Name(s)
3. For each of the above staffing categories, when is the arrangement / agreement up for renewal and how do you intend to come to market:
a. AHP – Renewal Date / Route to Market
b. Doctor – Renewal Date / Route to Market
c. Nursing – Renewal Date / Route to Market
Agency staffing.180724.docx
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Question 1: Please provide us with a spend report for Agency Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses from 1st Jan 2024 – 30th June 2024.
Question 2: Can you please provide us with a break down per month of hours filled with Agency workers both Band 5 and Band 6 between 1st Jan 2024 and end of 30th June 2024
Question 3: Can you please provide us with a break down of money spent on off framework agency nurses from 1st Jan 2024-June2024.
Question 4: can you please confirm your top 5 agencies by spend for Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses for the period 1st Jan 2024-30th June 2024.
Agency Supply and Ethical Business Practices.190324.docx
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1. Does the Trust have a Managed Service (MSP) or MV or an external Bank supplier for the recruitment of agency staff? Please break this down into Doctors, Nursing & AHP if appropriate.
2. If yes, who is that contract with and when does it end?
3. If yes, how did the Trust review whether the supplier followed ethical business practices, what ethical insights did they gather?
4. What steps do the Trust take to ensure suppliers are paying their fair share of taxes and acting with integrity.
5. Who is responsible within the Trust, for ensuring that suppliers follow ethical business practices?
Agency usage and spend.181124.docx
I would like to request the following information regarding your agency nurse spend for the months of March, April, and May 2024, specifically for “Band 2 HCAs” and separately for “all other Nursing & Midwifery roles”:
1.Top 10 Nurse Agencies by Spend:
a. Please provide a list of your top 10 nurse agencies by spend for the months of March, April, and May 2024.
b. For each agency, specify whether they are on-framework or off-framework.
c. Provide this information separately for “Band 2 HCAs” and “all other Nursing & Midwifery roles”.
2. On-Framework vs Off-Framework Spend:
a. Provide the total spend for the months of March, April, and May 2024.
b. Break down the spend into on-framework and off-framework categories.
c. Provide this information separately for “Band 2 HCAs” and “all other Nursing & Midwifery roles”.
3. Compliance with NHS England Rate Caps:
a. Specify the number of agency shifts in May 2024 that were compliant with NHS England Rate Caps.
b. Provide this information separately for “Band 2 HCAs” and “all other Nursing & Midwifery roles”.
4. Compliance with Agency Spend Ceiling:
a. Total agency spend (all staff groups, including Nursing & Midwifery (and HCAs), Medical and Dental, Non-Medical Non-Clinical, and any others) between 1st January and 31st May 2024.
b. What does this figure represent as a percentage of the Trust’s total pay bill for the same period.
Agency usage for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Radiography, Speech and Language Therapy and Sterile Services.220422.docx
1. Who is the head of procurement responsible for approving agency usage for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Radiography, Speech and Language Therapy and Sterile Services?
2. Who are the managers responsible for agency usage (on and off framework) for the following departments at all hospitals associated with the Trust:
(a) Physiotherapy
(b) Occupational Therapy
(c) Pharmacy
(d) Radiography
(e) Sterile Services
(d) Speech and Language Therapy
3. Please can you provide the contact number and email addresses for the managers listed in relation to question 1 and 2?
4. Have you used off-framework agency staff between March 2021 – March 2022 in the following departments:
(a) Physiotherapy
(b) Occupational Therapy
(c) Pharmacy
(d) Radiography
(e) Sterile Services
(d) Speech and Language Therapy
5. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between March 2021 – March 2022?
(a) Physiotherapy
(b) Occupational Therapy
(c) Pharmacy
(d) Radiography
(e) Sterile Services
(d) Speech and Language Therapy
6. How many unfilled agency roles did you have between March 2021 – March 2022 for each of the departments outlined in question 5?
Agency usage for the Decontamination department.200723.docx
1. Who is the person in charge for approving agency usage for the Decontamination department at your trust?
2. Who is responsible for agency usage (on and off framework) in the Decontamination department at all hospitals associated with the Trust?
3. If the decontamination service is not managed by the trust, please confirm which company runs your decontamination service.
4. Please can you provide the contact number and email address for the manager(s) in question 1 and 2.
5. Have you used off-framework agency staff between March 2022 – March 2023 in Decontamination and endoscopy?
6. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for Decontamination and Endoscopy from March 2022 – March 2023?
Agency usage for the Physiotherapy department.040823.docx
1. Who is the head of procurement responsible for approving agency usage for the Physiotherapy department?
2. Who is responsible for agency usage (on and off framework) in the Physiotherapy department at all hospitals associated with the Trust for the following areas within Physiotherapy?
– Musculoskeletal
– Community
– Rehabilitation
– Neurology
– Paediatrics
– Trauma and Orthopaedics
– Acute Medical/Surgical/inpatient
– Respiratory
3. Please can you provide the contact number and email address for the manager(s) in question 1 and 2.
4. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for Physiotherapy from June 2022-June2023
5. What agencies were providing the Off-Framework services.
Agency usage for the Sonography and Ultrasound department.310323.docx
1. Who is the head of procurement responsible for approving agency usage for the Sonography/Ultrasound department at your trust?
2. Who is responsible for agency usage (on and off framework) in the Sonography/Ultrasound department at all hospitals associated with the Trust? 3. Please can you provide the contact number and email address for the manager(s) in question 1 and 2. 4. Have you used off-framework agency staff between March 2022 – March 2023 in Sonography/Ultrasound?
5. How much was your Off-Framework agency spend for Sonography/Ultrasound from March 2022 – March 2023?
Agency usage for the Sonography and Ultrasound department.310323.docx
Agency Workforce Spend (January 1st -December 31st 2023).080524.docx
I am writing to request specific information regarding your trust’s agency workforce spend for the period of January 2023 to December 2023.
1. Please provide the agency workforce spend for the specified period, broken down into the following categories:
• Medical Staff
• Nursing Staff
• Allied Health Professionals (AHP)
2. Additionally, could you provide the percentage of the total workforce is agency in each of the mentioned categories?
Agency Workforce Spend (January 1st -December 31st 2023).080524.docx
Bank and agency costs.070324.docx
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I. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency doctors in each of the last 5 financial years (including 2023/24 so far)
II. The total amount spent by the Trust on bank and agency nurses in in each of the last 5 financial years (including 2023/24 so far)
III. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency nurse shift in 2023/24
IV. The largest amount spent by the Trust on a single agency doctor’s shift in 2023/24
Bank and Agency spend.050423.docx
Please disclose the information listed in the below table rows for each of the 4 staff groups in the table columns by return email within 20 days as per the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. Please provide agency spend for the staff group for the year 2022.
2. Please provide bank spend for the staff group for the year 2022.
3. Please confirm which model you have in place for managing the staff group: Email to preferred supplier List, a Master Vendor, a Neutral Vendor, or a Software cascade to a preferred supplier list.
4. If you have a master vendor or neutral vendor in place, please confirm who this contract is with and the date on which this contract expires.
5. Please confirm what percentage of bookings over the last 6 months have been within the NHSI/E agency caps (an approximation based on NHSI data submissions is fine).
6. Please confirm which provider manages your direct engagement process, the fee for the service and the date on which this contract expires (no this is not relevant for Nursing).
7. Please confirm what percentage of bookings are processed with a VAT savings by your direct engagement provider
8. Is your bank managed by an external bank provider (eg. NHS Professionals, Bank Partners) or in-house? Please confirm who is the external bank provider and when the contract expires if relevant.
9. Is your bank managed via software? If so, please confirm which software.
10. Please confirm what the percentage is on framework (for example, “£6,650,000 – 99% framework /20% off-framework”) for the year 2022.
11. Please confirm what percentage is off-framework (for example, “£6,650,000 – 99% framework /20% off-framework”) for the year 2022.
12. Please confirm the direct engagement- DE% uptake for the year 2022.
13. Please confirm the direct engagement- DE provider.
14. Please confirm the direct engagement- DE contract end date.
Bank and agency systems.080323.docx
1. Please confirm which model is in place for managing each staff group: preferred supplier list, master vendor or neutral vendor
Locum
Nurse
Allied Health Professionals
Non-medical/non-clinical
2. If you have a master vendor or neutral vendor in place, please confirm who this contract is with
3. Please confirm the contract end date with the provider
4. Is your bank managed by an external bank provider (e.g., NHS Professionals,
Bank Partners).
5. Please confirm who is the external bank provider and when the contract expires if relevant
6. Is your bank managed via software? If so, please confirm which software.
Bank and Rostering.170624.docx
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Rostering
For each of the staff group categories:
1 Does your Trust use an E-Rostering provider? (YES/NO)
2 What is the name of your current E-Rostering provider?
3 What is the contract start date for your e-rostering software? (dd/mm/yyyy)
4 What is the contract end date for your e-rostering software? (dd/mm/yyyy)
5 How many licenses is your contract for?
Bank
For each of the staff group categories:
1 Do you have an in- house temporary staffing team to manage your bank OR is this outsourced to a company? (In-house/Outsourced)
2 If outsourced, what is the name of this company?
3 What was the start date for the contract with this outsourced provider? (dd/mm/yyyy)
4 What is the expiry date for the contract with this outsourced provider? (dd/mm/yyyy)
For each of the staff group categories:
5 Does your organistion use digital technology/software to manage it’s staff bank? (YES/NO)
6 If the response was YES to question 1, what is the name of your digital staff bank technology (e.g. Allocate, Patchwork, Locum’s Nest)?
7 What was the contract start date for the provider you currently use for your Digital staff bank? (dd/mm/yyyy)
8 What is the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use for your Digital staff bank? (dd/mm/yyyy)
Bank Staff costs.101122.docx
1. Bank Spend – Total amount spent on bank staff for the year 2021/22 (April ’21 to March ‘22) and between 31/10/2021 and 31/10/2022 year split into the Trusts’ staff groups (E.g. Medical, Nursing, Admin, AHP etc.) and speciality/grade (E.g. Consultants, GP, ICU Nurse, Acute Nurse, Occupational therapists, Pharmacists, Health Care Assistants, etc.) depending on how this is reported within the Trust.
2. Confirmation on whether the trust bank is currently operated by the trust themselves or by a private provider. If the latter please confirm the name of the provider.
Cloud21. 120422.docx
We would like to understand how much money MTW have spent with Cloud21 Broken Down for each financial year
16/17
17/18
18/19
19/20
20/21
21/22
Cost of strike cover.120523.docx
Please could you tell me how much money your trust spent on bank and/or agency and/or locum staff – and/or non-contractual rates to consultants or other medical staff employed by the trust – to cover junior doctors’ shifts during industrial action by the British Medical Association on:
A) March 13-15 2023
and
B) April 11-15 2023
Please provide as much detail as possible on the staff category (i.e. agency or bank), department of the hospital and the day(s) of employment.
External management, business consultants and recruitment agency fees.060224.docx
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1) Since the beginning of the calendar year 2023, how much has the trust spent on external management/business consultants, including commitments that cover the rest of the calendar year?
2) Since the beginning the calendar year 2023, how much has the trust spent fees to recruitment agencies, including commitments that cover the rest of the calendar of the calendar year?
External management, business consultants and recruitment agency fees.060224.docx
HCA agency fees.180823.docx
Question 1 – For the timescale from the 1st April 2023 until 30th April 2023, details of the lowest, highest and average fee paid to agencies providing HCA’s for band 5, 6 and 7.
Question 2 – For the single week of the 16th July 2023 until 22nd July 2023, details only of the average fee paid to agencies providing HCA’s for band 5, 6 and 7.
Hiring of agency staff.301024.docx
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1. Please confirm the name and email address of the relevant contact within the trust who is responsible for agency hires for the following categories:
Facilities
Estates
Administrative / Clerical
Ambulance / Patient Transport
2. Please confirm whether the trust utilises a 3rd party vendor or tech system for the hiring of the following agency staff categories. If so, please confirm the name of the vendor / tech provider:
Facilities
Estates
Administrative / Clerical
Ambulance / Patient Transport
Locum agencies.010622.docx
1) Please could you confirm the names of the top 5 locum agencies you have the most spend with within AHP/HSS there at the trust from the calendar year of 2021?
2. Please could you state the utilisation rate for each agency that has been achieved? This should amount to the total value of AHP locum spend supplied by each agency during the 2021 calendar year as a percentage of total AHP locum spend in the same period.
3) Please can you breakdown the total spend on AHP/HSS agency staff during the calendar year of 2021?
4) Please can break down the total spend on AHP/HSS agency staffing during the calendar year 2021 for the specialisms below:
AHP
Sonographers
Radiographers
Radiotherapists
Clinical Physiologists
Physiotherapists
Occupational Therapists
Speech and Language Therapists
Audiologists
Dieticians
Podiatrists
Clinical Psychologists
Theatre Practitioners
HSS
Biomedical Scientists
Mortuary/Pathology Technicians
Pharmacy Services Staff
Orthoptists & Optometrists
Locum agency doctors.230823.docx
1. How many agencies are used to supply Locum agency doctors?
2. Of these agencies, how many are off framework?
3. What is your highest capped commission rates for each grade?
4. When is your PSL up for renewal?
5. Which Framework does your trust use for Locum Doctors?
6. How many Locum Bookings are paid over the framework or capped rates at your trust in the last 12 months?
7. Please confirm what percentage of bookings over the last 6 months have been within the NHSI agency caps (an approximation based on NHSI data submissions is fine)
8. Please confirm which provider manages your direct engagement process, the fee for the service and the date on which this contract expires
9. Is your bank managed by an external bank provider (e.g., NHS Professionals, Bank Partners) or in-house? Please confirm who is the external bank provider and when the contract expires if relevant
10. Please confirm what percentage of bookings are processed with a VAT savings by your direct engagement (DE) provider
11. Please confirm % of locums working non-Direct Engagement and % outside IR35
12. What is the grade & speciality of all locums paid outside IR35?
13. Please confirm which services in the hospital are currently utilising insourcing contacts, who is supplying the insourcing service and when the contract is up for renewal.
14. Does your Trust utilise a payment portal to process Locum Doctors Pay?
15. What grade & speciality is your highest paid Locum agency doctor, what is their speciality and their hourly charge?
16. What grade & speciality is your highest paid bank doctor, what is their speciality and their hourly charge?
17. Please outline you spend per agency, broken down by grade and speciality of doctor over the past 12 months?
18. Please outline spend per doctors’ specialty, broken down by grade and speciality of doctor over the past 12 months from your internal Bank?
19. What grade & speciality is your highest paid Locum agency doctor, what is their speciality and their hourly charge?
20. Please confirm the name, job title and email of the head of department & manager for the following services:
• General Surgery
• Urology Service
• Trauma and Orthopaedic Service
• Ear, Nose and Throat Service
• Ophthalmology Service
• Neurology Service
• Cardiology Service
• Cancer Services
• Endocrinology Service
• Respiratory Medicine
• Dermatology Service
• Gastroenterology
• Acute Medicine
• Geriatrics
• Stroke Medicine
• Palliative Care
• Radiology
• Anaesthetics
• Maxillofacial Surgery
• Pathology Services
Locum agency doctors.230823.docx
Locum and agency staff spend.271124.docx
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Could you please break down your spend on agency staff and locum doctors over the past three financial years (2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22)?
Please could you split the spend up into:
• Agency & locum nurses
• Agency & locum doctors
• Other agency staff (not doctors or nurses)
Locum doctors.290824.docx
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1. In the period 1st May 2024 to 31st July 2024 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
2. In the period 1st May 2024 to 31st July 2024 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
3. In the period 1st May 2024 to 31st July 2024 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
4. Please confirm your allocated budget for agency locum doctors for the period 1st May 2024 to 31st July 2024.
Locum shifts during industrial action.311023.docx
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how much was spent on locum and agency doctors during the walkouts held by both consultants and junior doctors over the past 12 months.
Please provide answers for each timeframe and separate each one clearly in your response.
These timeframes are:
(A) Junior doctor strike – 13, 14 and 15 March 2023
(B) Junior doctor strike – 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 April
(C) Junior doctor strike – 14, 15, 16 and 17 June
(D) Junior doctor strike – 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 July
(E) Junior doctor strike – 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 August
(F) Consultant strike – 20 and 21 July
(G) Consultant strike – 24, 25 and 26 August
For each given timeframe could you please provide the following information.
1. How many staff walked out as a result of industrial action over each period and what percentage of your junior doctor/consultant staff did this equate to. IE – 150 junior doctor staff walked out during 13, 14 and 15 March dates out of 200 junior doctor staff would be 75%.
2. How much did the trust spend on locum/agency workers during each period specifically as a result of industrial action. If this specific figure is not held, please provide the locum and agency spend for the previous year for each relevant timeframe. IE 13, 14 and 15 March 2023 vs 13, 14 and 15 March 2022.
3. Did the Trust allow doctors who were taking part in industrial action to take on locum shifts at the same trust during strike periods when they were not scheduled to work?
4. If the answer to the above question was yes, (a) How many doctors did this during each period and (b) How much did the Trust spend on paying its own doctors for these shifts during each period?
Medical Locum off-framework expenditure.260723.docx
Total spend for the LFY on off-framework supply?
Number of hours filled?
Broken down by grade/specialty?
Off-framework agencies used during this period including the total spend for each agency?
Highest off-framework charge rate (including detail of grade/specialty)?
Average off-framework charge rates per grade/specialty (if available)?
Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff.160823.docx
Please may you provide me with:
1. Confirmation if the trust works under, Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160 and the new CCS Non-Clinical Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277.
2. If the trust works under, these frameworks, please can you provide a list of agencies that have supplied you with non-clinical staff and a breakdown of agency spend by bands between May 2022 and April 2023.
3. Can you also please provide the contact details of the person/persons responsible for agreeing non-clinical staffing call-off contracts, for roles which would fall under Lot 2 (Corporate Functions) and Lot 6 (Estates, Facilities Management & Ancillary Staff).
4. Lastly please can you provide organisational charts with names and jobs titles for the Estates, Facilities Management and Corporate Functions departments.
Non-Framework and Clinical Services Insourcing. 280122.docx
Please provide the total agency spend on your Trust, for the last 8- month period (May to December 2021), for Non-Framework and Clinical Services Insourcing, for the following staff Categories.
1. Total hours Non-Framework
2. Total Spend Non-Framework
3. Total hours Clinical Services Insourcing
4. Total Spend Clinical Services Insourcing
Staffing Provision
a. General nursing
b. ITU
c. A&E
d. Theatres (Nursing)
e. Healthcare Assistants
f. RMN’s (where applicable)
g. Doctors all specialisms
h. Endoscopy
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Nursing agency usage.260822.docx
1.
(a) Who is the head of procurement at your trust responsible for approving Nursing agency usage?
(b)Secondly, who is the temporary / flexible staffing lead responsible for the management of this service.
2. Please can you provide the contact information in relation to both question 1 (a) and (b)
3. Please can you outline your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between Dec 2021 – May 2022:
(a) RGN’s
(b) RCN’s
(c) RN’s
(d) HealthCare Assistants
(e) RMN
(f) Specialist RN (ITU)
4. Following the same breakdown of staff groups in Question 3, how many Off-framework shifts have been unfilled between Dec 2021 – Present
5. Since the start of January 2022 – present, please provide the current charge rates from your Off Framework, Nursing providers, providing a clear breakdown between the workers pay rate and agency commission
6. Based on the above information, who are your current Nursing Off-Framework agencies and how many shifts have been booked for each month from January 2022 – Present
Nursing Agency Usage and Spend.151024.docx
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1. A list of nursing agencies currently utilized for nursing and care staff at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
2. Spend data for nursing and care agencies across all areas of the Trust for qualified staff for the period from April 2023 to April 2024.
3. Information on any off-framework agencies that supplied nursing staff between April 2023 and April 2024, along with the associated spend data.
Nursing and HCA agency staffing. 110122.docx
1. What has been the agency spend so far this year?
2. How much of this is for nursing/Health Care Assistants?
3. How much was spent on break-glass/off-framework nursing shifts?
4. How many break-glass/off-framework agencies have you used?
5. Which break-glass/off-framework agencies have you used?
6. How many unfilled shifts have you had?
7. Do you use agency to supply associate physicians?
8. If yes, what has the agency spend for associate physicians so far this year been?
9. Do you use agency to supply dental nurses?
10. If yes, what has the agency spend for dental nurses so far this year been?
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Nursing Temporary Staffing.080524.docx
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1. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and RGN’s from ON framework agencies?
2. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies October 2023 to date?
3. Who at director level is responsible for patient safety and staffing levels and could you provide me with their contact details?
4. Who at temporary staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide me with their contact details?
5. What is the temporary staffing generic email address?
Off-framework agencies.061023.docx
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1. A list of the OFF-framework agencies used by the trust in the past 12 months’
2. The average length of time a long-term agency placement is left vacant before being filled by the agencies who are ON framework in the past 12 months’
3. How many long-term bookings and individual shifts have been placed through OFF-framework agencies in the past 12 months’ (Please separate individual shifts and long-term placements)
4. Average cost per hour for Band 5, 6 and 7 agency workers paid to OFF-framework agencies in the past 12 months’
5. Who in the trust has authority to approve the use of off-framework agencies (name and job title)
6. If authority to use off-framework agencies in the trust lies with a specific department i.e., temporary staffing/staffing solutions/agency bookings/NHSP or equivalents, then who in the trust has the authority to override such decision made by that department (name and job title)
Off Framework Agencies. 080222.docx
1. What is the total Agency “Off Frame” spend from 27.01.2021 to date with your Trust?
2. The Names of the “Off Framework” agencies supplying to your Trust?
3. Which area within nurses has the highest spend, e.g. …RGN, Midwifery & A&E Nurses?
Off framework Agencies. 090222.docx
1.) What is the total Agency “Off Frame” spend from 27.01.2021 to date.
2.) The Names of the agencies supplying Off Frame
3.) Which area within nurses has the highest spend, e.g. …RGN, Midwifery & A&E Nurses.
Off Framework agencies.090323.docx
1. How many shifts has your trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for between 1st – 28th February 2023
2. Within this timeframe, please can you list the number of shifts filled by ward or department that Thornbury were used in.
3. Please name all other Off Framework agencies that were utilised within this timeframe (1st – 28th February 2023)
4. How many shifts were filled during this time frame by these agencies (1st – 28th February 2023)
5. Within this same timeframe, please list the number of shifts filled, by ward or department.
6. Please list all suppliers with a general band 5 day charge rate of £50 per hour
7. Please list all suppliers with a general band 5 night charge rate of £55 per hour.
Off-framework agencies.110823.docx
1. Who is responsible for managing the recruitment of temporary staff and what is their work email address
2. Could you please provide your total OFF-Framework agency spend between 1st of January 2022 to 31st of December 2022 for:
A) Nurses (all bands and specialties)
B) General Practitioners (please answer separately)
3. Could you please list individually which specialty of nurses hired through off-framework agencies that accumulated agency spend in excess of £100,000 between the 1st of January 2022 to 31st of December 2022.
Off framework agencies.120822.docx
Please could you answer the below questions in relation to the trusts off framework usage in financial year 2021-2022;
1) Which off framework agencies did the trust use for HCA and Nursing vacancies and what was the spend on these agencies?
2) What was the average charge for both HCA’s and Nurses from off framework agencies?
3) How many HCA shifts were sent out to off framework agencies?
4) How many of these were filled?
5) How many Nursing shifts were sent out to off framework agencies?
6) How many of these were filled?
Off Framework agencies.160823.docx
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1. From 1st April 2023- 15th May 2023 how many shifts has your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for?
2. Within this timeframe please list the number of shifts by ward or department that Thornbury was utilised in.
3. Please name all other ‘off contract agencies’ for nursing that were utilised by the Trust within this time frame. (01/04/2023- 15/05/2023) For the purpose of definition ‘off contract suppliers’ would be any non framework providers under Work Force Alliance or Health Trust Europe.
4. Within this same time frame please list all wards or departments that utilised these agencies.
5. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/04/2023- 15/05/2023)
6. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/04/2023- 15/05/2023)
Off-Framework agencies.220422.docx
1.
a) Who is the head of procurement at your Trust responsible for approving nursing healthcare workers agency use?
b) Who is the temporary/ flexible Staff only responsible for the management of this service?
2.
Please provide the contract information in relation to both question 1 a) and b)
3.
Please can you outline your Off-Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups between September 05 2019 to July 11, 2021?
a) RGNs (ward nurse) band 5
b) RCNs band 5
c) Healthcare assistance band 2
d) RMNs band 5
e) specialist ITU nurses band 5 and 6
f) CPNs band 6
g) Scrub nurses band 5 and band 6
h) ODP band 5 and band 6
i) Physiotherapist
j) Speech Therapist
k) Paramedic band 5
4.
Following the same breakdown of staff groups in question three how many of framework shifts have been unfilled between September 05 2019 to July 11, 2021?
5.
Since the start of January 2019 to present please provide the current charge rate from Off Framework agencies nursing / healthcare worker providers a clear breakdown of the workers’ pay rate and agency commission?
6.
Based on the above information
a. who are your current Off Framework agencies and
b. how many shifts have been booked for each month from September 05 2019 to July 11, 2021?
7.
Can you please provide the charge rates for the below nursing / healthcare worker levels that Off Framework have been charging you since September 05 2019 to July 11, 2021?
a) RGNs (ward nurse) band 5
b) RCNs band 5
c) Healthcare assistance band 2
d) RMNs band 5
e) specialist ITU nurses band 5 and 6
f) CPNs band 6
g) Scrub nurses band 5 and band 6
h) ODP band 5 and 6
i) Physiotherapist
j) Speech therapist
k) Paramedic band 5
Off framework agencies.300124.docx
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1. Which off framework agencies are used for non-clinical vacancies?
2. On a month by month basis what was your off-framework agency spend for the last 12 months for nurses
3. On a month by month basis what was your off-framework agency spend for the last 12 months for doctors
4. On a month by month basis what was your off-framework agency spend for the last 12 months for band 8s
5. On a month by month basis what was your off-framework agency spend for the last 12 months for band 9s
6. On a month by month basis what was your off-framework agency spend for the last 12 months for very senior managers?
7. Which off frame work agencies supplied nurses in 2020, 2021 and 2022
8. What is the average length of a contract for a band 8 placed through an off framework agency
9. What is the average length of a contract for a band 9 placed through an off framework agency
10. Total off framework spend in 2020, 2021, and 2022 Finance to answer
11. Total agency spend for band 8s in 2020, 2021 and 2022 through framework
12. Total agency spend for band 9s in 2020, 2021 and 2022 through framework
13. Total agency spend for VSMs in 2020, 2021 and 2022 through framework
14. Who is responsible for approving the use of agencies for agency staff? Please provide their email address and contact number
15. What was your off-framework agency spend for fixed term contracts (not ad-hoc shifts) in 2020, 2021, and 2022 split between clinical and non-clinical
16. What is the process for recruiting interim very senior managers? Who is responsible for that recruitment?
17. What was the agency spend for VSMs for 2020, 2021 and 2022 N/A
18. Do you have an off-framework audit pack?
19. What are the compliance requirements for off-framework agencies – split between clinical and non-clinical
Off Framework agencies.300823.docx
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1. From 1st October 2022 to 2nd December2022 how many shifts has your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for?
2. Within this timeframe please list the number of shifts by ward or department that Thornbury was utilised in.
3. Please name all other ‘off contract agencies’ for nursing that were utilised by the Trust within this time frame. (01/10/2022- 02/12/2022) For the purpose of definition ‘off contract suppliers’ would be any non framework providers under Work Force Alliance or Health Trust Europe.
4. Within this same time frame please list all wards or departments that utilised these agencies.
5. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/10/2022- 02/12/2022)
6. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/10/2022- 02/12/2022)
Off-framework agencies for Nursing and Care.080323.docx
1. Does your trust utilise off-framework agencies for Nursing or Care, if so which agencies?
2. How many hours have been covered by off-framework agencies for Nursing and Care AUG 22-PRESENT?
3. Who at director level is responsible for patient safety and staffing levels?
Off-framework agency details.160823 2.docx
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1. Do you currently use any off framework agencies for Nursing, if so please include agency name?
2. Do you currently use any off framework agecnies for HCA/support workers, if so please include agency name?
3. Since May 2023 till now, how many shifts have been booked with off framework agency for nursing?
4. Since May 2023 till now, how many shifts have been booked with off framework agency for healthcare assisant/support workers?
5. Do you have any off framework agencies who currently charge £50+ per hour for nursing staff, if so who may they be?
6. Do you have any off framework agencies who currently charge £24+ per hour for healthcare assitant/support workers, if so who may they be?
Off-framework agency details.160823 3.docx
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1. From 1s January 2023- 28th February 2023 how many shifts has your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for?
2. Within this timeframe please list the number of shifts by ward or department that Thornbury was utilised in.
3. Please name all other ‘off contract agencies’ for nursing that were utilised by the Trust within this time frame. (01/01/2023-28/02/2023) For the purpose of definition ‘off contract suppliers’ would be any non-framework providers under WorkForce Alliance or Health Trust Europe.
4. Within this same time frame please list all wards or departments that utilised these agencies.
5. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5-day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/01/2023-28/02/2023)
6. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5-night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/01/2023-28/02/2023)
Off-Framework Agency details.160823.docx
1.) What is the Agency spend for Off Framework” from 01.01.2022 to Present for your Trust ?
2.) What are the names of the “Off Framework” agencies supplying to your Trust?
3.) Which area in “ Off Framework” has the highest expenditure e.g…RGN, Midwife, & A&E including any other Nursing specialities?
Off-framework agency staffing. 070122.docx
1. Could you please provide your total OFF-Framework agency spend between 1st of March 2020 to 31st of March 2021 for A. Nurses (all bands and specialties)
& B. General Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners (all types/seniorities). Please answer A & B individually
2. Same question as above but for between April 1st 2021 to Present day
3. Please provide the hourly charge rate for the below Staff Groups/Specialties supplied to your hospital/trust by OFF-Framework recruitment agencies between the beginning of April 2021 to present day. Please answer individually and specify if the charge rate was for a Day, Night, Saturday or Sunday/Bank holiday shift.
A. Registered General Nurse (RGN)
B. Critical Care / ITU / ICU Nurses
C. A&E Nurses
D. Paediatric Nurses
E. Orthopaedic Nurses
F. Operating Department Practitioners (ODP)
G. Theatre Nurses
H. Midwives
I. Healthcare Assistant (HCA)
J. Registered Mental-Health Nurse (RMN)
K. Community Psychiatric Nurses (CPN)
L. General Practitioners (GP)
M. Nurse Practitioners / ANPs
4. Who is responsible for approving the use of Healthcare Recruitment agencies for temporary staff?
A. Please provide their work email address and work phone number (or extension if unable to provide a direct line)
5. Who is responsible for approving the use of Healthcare Recruitment agencies for permanent staff?
A. Please provide their work email address and work phone number (or extension if unable to provide a direct line)
6. Please can you confirm the total number of unfilled shifts between 1st of August 2020 to present day 2021 for:
A. Nurses (All Bands & Specialties)
B. Healthcare Assistants (HCA’s)
C. Doctors (All Bands & Specialties)
D. General Practitioners (GP’s), Advance Nurse Practitioners (ANP’s) & Nurse Practitioners
Download response Off-framework agency staffing. 070122.docx
Off Framework Nursing Agencies.090222.docx
1. How many RGN and HCA shifts have been filled using an “Off Framework” Agency between November 1st 2021 and January 31st 2022
2. Which “Off Framework” Nursing agencies have been used by the Trust between November 1st 2021 and January 31st 2022
3. Breakdown of shifts filled by each individual “Off Framework” Nursing Agencies between November 1st 2021 and January 31st 2022
4. Total Cost for each “Off Framework” Nursing Agency between November 1st 2021 and January 31st 2022
On and Off Framework Nursing agency usage.250424.docx
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1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
2. In the last 90 days which wards, or departments were these ON framework requests for?
3. Please can you confirm how many nursing shifts have been filled by ON framework agencies within the last 90 days?
4. How many long term lines of work or block bookings are currently being supplied by ON framework agencies?
5. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies year to date?
6. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to OFF framework agencies within the last 90 days?
7. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and RGN’s from ON framework agencies?
8. Who at Temporary Staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide their email address and contact number?
9. What is the generic Nurse bank email address for staff bank?
10. How many shifts were cascaded to Thornbury Nursing within the last 90 days?
ON framework agencies.261023.docx
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1. Please can you confirm how many shifts have been released/allocated to ON framework agencies within the last 60 days?
2. In the last 60 days which wards, or departments were these ON framework requests for?
3. Please can you confirm how many nursing shifts have been filled by ON framework agencies within the last 60 days?
4. How many long term lines of work or block bookings are currently being supplied by ON framework agencies?
5. Which ON framework agencies is the trust currently utilising for Nursing vacancies and what is the spend on these agencies year to date?
6. What is the average charge for both RMN’s and RGN’s from ON framework agencies?
7. Who at temporary staffing is responsible for onboarding new agencies and could you provide me with their contact details?
Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy locums. 080524.docx
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1. Who is the head of procurement responsible for approving agency usage for Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy locums?
2. Who are the managers responsible for agency usage (on and off framework) for the following departments at all hospitals associated with the Trust:
(a) Physiotherapy
(b) Occupational Therapy
3. Please can you provide the contact number and email addresses for the managers listed in relation to question 1 and 2.
4.. How much was your Framework agency spend for each of the following staff groups since January 2023 – present?
(a) Physiotherapy
(b) Occupational Therapy
5. Please provide the names of the agencies currently used by the Trust to supply Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists – please include the % of shifts filled by each agency since January 2023.
6. Do you use a direct engagement model to facilitate locum placements for Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, if so, which one?
7: What is the highest rate paid for Band 6 Physiotherapists and Band 6 Occupational Therapists since January 2023?
Psychiatry Agency Locums.201124.docx
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In relation to your supply of locum Psychiatrists for each grade and sub-specialty per month, please could you provide the answers to the requests below for the following periods?
i. Financial year 2022/2023
ii. Financial year 2023/2024
iii. April – September 2024
1. Please confirm the total number of vacancy requirements given out to framework and non-framework agencies for each agency
2. Please confirm the total number of shifts given out to framework and non-framework agencies for each agency
3. Please confirm the total number of agency locum doctors working per month, for each agency supplier divided between on and off framework.
4. Please confirm the total number of hours worked by agency locum doctors per month, for each agency supplier divided between on and off framework.
5. Please confirm the total number of unfilled vacancies (excluding locum filled posts) per month.
Recruitment agency spend.200824.docx
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In the last 12 months (the most recent that you have recorded):
1. Has your trust used agencies to recruit any of the AHP roles detailed below?
2. What was your monthly/quarterly agency spend on recruiting Radiographers?
3. What was your monthly/quarterly agency spend on recruiting Physiotherapists?
4. What was your monthly/quarterly agency spend on recruiting Occupational Therapists?
5. What was your monthly/quarterly agency spend on recruiting Speech and Language Therapists?
6. What was your monthly/quarterly agency spend on recruiting Biomedical Scientists?
7. What was your monthly/quarterly agency spend on recruiting Dieticians?
8. What was your monthly/quarterly agency spend on recruiting Podiatrists?
Recruitment consultants. 100822.docx
(i) How much money the Trust has spent on recruitment consultants in (a) 2021 and (b) in the year 2022 to date.
(ii) How much, if any, of this recruitment spending was related to recruitment for the new Integrated Care Boards
Resident Medical Officers [RMOs], Resident Doctors and or Senior House Officers [SHOs].210722.docx
1. Does the Trust use or has the Trust ever used RMOs supplied by agencies?
2. If so, how many are being used currently? If you can’t answer this, could you please tell us how many contracted hours do RMOs provide for the trust per month or per year?
3. How many hours would an RMO be working in any given week and any given month? What is their shift pattern?
4. What are the departments within the trust where RMOs work (for example orthopaedic, mental health, general medicine, surgery etc).
5. How much does the trust pay to NES Healthcare Ltd (or any other NES company within NES Holdings (UK) Limited group) per hour per RMO? Please ideally break this down by grade and if it’s not possible tell us the average rate.
6. If the trust receives RMOs from agencies other than NES Healthcare Ltd please tell us the names of those agencies and rates paid to each per RMO per hour.
7. What was the Trust’s total spend on RMOs in 2020, 2021 and 2022? Please break this down by agencies suppling RMOs.
Resident Medical Officers [RMOs], Resident Doctors and/or Senior House Officers [SHOs]
Resident Medical Officers [RMOs], Resident Doctors and or Senior House Officers [SHOs].210722.docx
Rostering, Bank and Vendor Management System.120822.docx
System: Rostering
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Does your Trust use an E-Rostering provider? (Yes/No – if No, have you previously tried to implement an e-rostering provider? Please name the provider).
2. What is the name of your E-Rostering provider?
3. When does the contract for the software you currently use for E-Rostering expire? (dd/mm/yyyy)
System: Bank
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Do you have a Digital staff bank provider?
2. What is the name of your Digital staff bank provider?
3. What is the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use for your Digital staff bank? (dd/mm/yyyy)
System: Vendor Management System (VMS) / Agency Management Software
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Do you use a VMS provider? (Yes/No/Not Applicable)
2. What is the name of your VMS Provider?
3. What is the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use? (dd/mm/yyyy)
Staff Bank and Direct Engagement services.270722.docx
1. Do you use external providers/3rd parties to manage any of your Staff Banks?
If you have answered yes, please also provide answers to the following questions, otherwise please stipulate ‘N/A’
a. Who is the provider? If different providers are used for different staffing groups, please state all, and indicate which staffing group each is used for
b. When is the contract due to end? (per staffing group if applicable)
c. Was this contract awarded as a result of a tender process or via a direct award?
2. Do you use a third-party to provide Direct Engagement services to any staff group?
If you have answered yes, please also provide answers to the following questions, otherwise please stipulate ‘N/A’
a. Who is your Direct Engagement provider? If different providers are used for different staffing groups, please state all, and indicate which staffing group they are used for
b. When is the contract due to end? (per staffing group if applicable)
c. Was this contract awarded as a result of a tender process or via a direct award?
Staffing system(s).300822.docx
System: Rostering
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Does you Trust use an E-Rostering provider? (Yes/No – if No, have you previously tried to implement an e-rostering provider? Please name the provider).
2. What is the name of your E-Rostering provider?
3. If the software provider is not in the list – Please type
4. When was the contract for the software you currently use for E-Rostering signed?
5. When does the contract for the software you currently use for E-Rostering expire?
6. Was the e-rostering software procured through a framework?
7. What is the name of the framework the e-rostering software was procured using?
8. What was the Trust’s total spend on E-Rostering fees in 2020 – not incl. Implementation?
9. How many workers were actively E-Rostered at your Trust in 2020?
10. Does the rostering system integrate to ESR?
11. Does the rostering system integrate to PAS?
12. What system do you use for rota planning? E.g. eRota
13. Who is the Senior Responsible Officer for E-Rostering?
System: Bank
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Do you have a staff bank provider? (Yes/No – if No, please provide more details).
2. What is the name of your staff bank provider?
3. If the software provider is not in the list – Please type
4. Was the bank software procured through a framework?
5. What is the name of the framework the bank provider was procured using?
6. What was the contract signed date for the provider you currently use for your staff bank?
7. What was the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use for your staff bank?
8. What was the Trust’s spend on bank staff wages in 2020?
9. What was the Trust’s spend on agency staff wages in 2020?
10. What was the Trust’s spend on its Staff Bank provider fees in 2020?
System: Collaborative Bank
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Is your Trust part of a collaborative Bank? (Yes/No)
2. Who is the technology provider for the collaborative bank?
3. If the software provider is not in the list – Please type
4. What was the contract signed date of Trust joining the Collaborative Bank?
5. When does the contract for the Collaborative Bank expire?
System: Managed Service
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Do you use a third-party managed service provider to manage your temporary staff bank? (yes/no)
2. What is the name of your third-party Managed Service provider?
3. What was the contract signed date for the provider you currently use for your managed service?
4. What was the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use for your managed service?
5. What was the Trust’s spend on its Managed Service provider fees in 2020?
System: VMS
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Do you use a VMS provider? (Yes/No/Not Applicable)
2. What is the name of your VMS Provider?
3. What was the contract signed date for the provider you currently use?
4. What is the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use?
5. What was the Trust’s spend on its VMS provider fees in 2020?
System: DE
For each of the staff group categories:
1. Do you use an On Payroll Service Provider (Direct Engagement)? (Yes/No)
2. What is the name of your DE Provider?
3. If the software provider is not in the list – Please type
4. What was the contract signed date for the provider you currently use?
5. What is the contract expiry date for the provider you currently use?
6. What was the Trust’s spend on its DE provider fees in 2020?
Temporary Agency Staffing.300823.docx
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1. Neutral Vend (NV) or Master Vend (MV) Agency Supplier:
i. Medical
– Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
– Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier?
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
– Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
– Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier
iii. Nursing
– Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
– Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
– Name of the NV or MV agency supplier
– Expiry date of contract with the NV or MV agency supplier
2. Direct Engagement (DE):
i. Medical
– Name of the DE provider
– Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
– % of DE currently achieved
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
– Name of the DE provider
– Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
– % of DE currently achieved
iii. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
– Name of the DE provider
– Expiry date of contract with the DE provider
– % of DE currently achieved
3. Financial Year 2022/2023 – spend figures on temporary agency staffing – (worker pay & agency commission only):
i. Medical
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
iii. Nursing
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
4. Financial Year 2022/2023 – number of hours worked by temporary agency workers:
i. Medical
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs)
iii. Nursing
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
5. Contact responsible for temporary agency staffing at the Trust:
i. Workforce Lead
– Name
– Job Title
ii. Procurement Lead
– Name
– Job Title
iii. Finance Lead
– Name
– Job Title
Temporary Agency Staffing in 2022.120423.docx
1. Do you currently receive a neutral vendor managed service, or master vendor managed service, for the supply of temporary agency staff?
Please provide the following information for each staffing group. If there is no service provider, please state this.
i. Medical / Dental
– Name of the managed service provider?
– Are they a neutral vendor or master vendor?
– Expiry date of contract with the managed service provider?
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) / Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical
– Name of the managed service provider?
– Are they a neutral vendor or master vendor?
– Expiry date of contract with the managed service provider?
iii. Nursing and Midwifery / Healthcare Assistants (HCAs)
– Name of the managed service provider?
– Are they a neutral vendor or master vendor?
– Expiry date of contract with the managed service provider?
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
– Name of the managed service provider?
– Are they a neutral vendor or master vendor?
– Expiry date of contract with the managed service provider?
2. Do you currently have a direct engagement (DE) provider in place, for VAT reclaim on agency spend?
Please provide the following information for each staffing group. If there is no service provider, please state this.
i. Medical / Dental
– Name of the DE provider?
– Expiry date of contract with the managed service provider?
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) / Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical
– Name of the DE provider?
– Expiry date of contract with the managed service provider?
iii. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
– Name of the DE provider?
– Expiry date of contract with the managed service provider?
3. Please can you provide 2022 full calendar year (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2022) spend figures on temporary agency staff (agency throughput)?
Please provide the following information for each staffing group. If there is no agency spend, please state this.
i. Medical / Dental
– 2022 spend on temporary agency staff (excluding VAT)?
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) / Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical
– 2022 spend on temporary agency staff (excluding VAT)?
iii. Nursing and Midwifery / Healthcare Assistants (HCAs)
– 2022 spend on temporary agency staff (excluding VAT)?
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
– 2022 spend on temporary agency staff (excluding VAT)?
4. Please can you provide the name of the person who looks after temporary agency staffing at the Trust?
Please provide the following information for each staffing group. If multiple people lead this from different departments, please give the details of each person.
i. Medical / Dental
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) / Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
iii. Nursing and Midwifery / Healthcare Assistants (HCAs)
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
5. Please can you provide the name of the person who leads temporary agency staffing at ICS level?
Please provide the following information for each staffing group. If multiple people lead this from different departments at ICS level, please give the details of each person.
i. Medical / Dental
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
ii. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) / Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
iii. Nursing and Midwifery / Healthcare Assistants (HCAs)
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
iv. Non-Medical, Non-Clinical (NMNC)
– Name
– Job Title
– Department
Temporary labour usage.040523.docx
Please can you provide me with the following information for the most recent complete fiscal year:
1. Total number of temporary workers engaged by your organization, broken down by department or function, if possible.
2. Total annual expenditure on temporary workers, including a breakdown of costs by department or function, if possible.
3. Total number of agency suppliers (Preferred Suppliers/non-Preferred Suppliers) in your organisation’s labour supply chain
Details of any existing Managed Service Programme or Provider (MSP) and/or Vendor Management System (VMS) used to manage temporary workers:
4. Name of the MSP and VMS.
5. Date the contract was awarded.
6. Date of contract expiration.
7. Name of the government procurement framework through which the MSP and VMS were procured.
Details of any upcoming retendering or renewal processes related to your MSP and VMS contracts:
8. Anticipated date for the retendering or renewal process to commence.
9. Name and contact information of the person responsible for overseeing the retendering or renewal process.
Temporary Staff Management.080524.docx
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Sourced Staffing Arrangements
1a. Do you have a master vendor (MV) or neutral vendor (NV) arrangement in place for sourcing agency staff? If so, please state which arrangement is in place
1b. What is the name of the MV/NV provider(s) and what staffing groups do they source? e.g. medical, nursing etc.
1c. As part of the arrangement, is any technology provided by the supplier to help manage the procurement of agency staff?
1d. Please provide the contract start and end date for the supplier (dd/mm/yy)
Direct Engagement
2a. Does the organisation use a third party to provide a Direct Engagement/Outsourced Employment Solution? (This is where the NHS organisation sources agency staff via a recruitment agency but hold a direct contract between the organisation and the worker – there is often VAT savings associated to this employment model)
2b. What is the name of the Direct Engagement (DE)/Outsourced Employment supplier (e.g 247Time/Allocate, PlusUs, Retinue, Liaison etc.)
2c. Under the DE/Outsourced Employment arrangement, which staffing groups are managed? For example; Medical, Admin, Scientific staff. Please list all applicable
2d. Please provide the contract start and end date for the DE supplier (dd/mm/yy)
2f. How much did the organisation pay the supplier in 22/23 (April 2022 to March 2023) for the provision of the direct engagement service?
Vendor Management System for Nurse Agency
3a. Does the organisation use a third-party Vendor Management System for the supply of nurse agency staff?
3b. Who supplies your Vendor Management System? E.g. Allocate, NHSP etc.
3c. Please provide the contract start and end date for this provider (dd/mm/yy)
Bank Management
4a. Please name the technology provider used to manage the supply of your bank staff, inclusive of any outsourced or managed arrangements (i.e. NHSP, Bank Partners, Allocate, Liaison, Patchwork, Locum’s Nest etc). If more than one supplier is used, please name all suppliers
4b. Please name the staffing group each provider is used for e.g. medical, nursing, AHPs, admin and clerical
4c. Please provide the contract start and end date for each bank supplier (dd/mm/yy)
4d. How much did the organisation pay the supplier(s) in 22/23 for the provision of the bank service?
Temporary staff management.100822.docx
Sourced Staffing Arrangements
1a. Do you have a master vendor (MV) or neutral vendor (NV) arrangement in place for sourcing agency staff? If so, please state which arrangement is in place
1b. What is the name of the MV/NV provider(s) and what staffing groups do they source? e.g. medical, nursing etc.
1c. As part of the arrangement, is any technology provided by the supplier to help manage the procurement of agency staff?
1d. Please provide the contract start and end date for the supplier (dd/mm/yy)
Direct Engagement
2a. Does the organisation use a third party to provide a Direct Engagement/Outsourced Employment Solution? (This is where the NHS organisation sources agency staff via a recruitment agency but hold a direct contract between the organisation and the worker – there is often VAT savings associated to this employment model)
2b. What is the name of the Direct Engagement (DE)/Outsourced Employment supplier (e.g 247Time/Allocate, PlusUs, Retinue, Liaison etc.)
2c. Under the DE/Outsourced Employment arrangement, which staffing groups are managed? For example; Medical, Admin, Scientific staff. Please list all applicable
2d. Please provide the contract start and end date for the DE supplier (dd/mm/yy)
2f. How much did the organisation pay the supplier in 21/22 (April 2021 to March 2022) for the provision of the direct engagement service?
Vendor Management System for Nurse Agency
3a. Does the organisation use a third-party Vendor Management System for the supply of nurse agency staff?
3b. Who supplies your Vendor Management System? E.g. Allocate, NHSP etc.
3c. Please provide the contract start and end date for this provider (dd/mm/yy)
Bank Management
4a. Please name the technology provider used to manage the supply of your bank staff, inclusive of any outsourced or managed arrangements (i.e. NHSP, Bank Partners, Allocate, Liaison, Patchwork, Locum’s Nest etc). If more than one supplier is used, please name all suppliers
4b. Please name the staffing group each provider is used for e.g. medical, nursing, AHPs, admin and clerical
4c. Please provide the contract start and end date for each bank supplier (dd/mm/yy)
4d. How much did the organisation pay the supplier(s) in 21/22 for the provision of the bank service?
Temporary staff management.100822.docx
Temporary Staff Spend 2022-2023.271023.docx
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1. How much did the organisation spend on agency (non-contract) staff and internal bank staff for the financial year 22/23 (April 2022 – March 2023)? Please fill in the spend in the table below for each staffing group and total.
2. How much did the organisation spend on Waiting List Initiative (WLI) and Overtime payments to staff (WLI payments refers to any sessional payments made for additional time worked under a system called the Waiting List Initiative, used by trusts to reduce waiting lists and meet government targets. Overtime payments are defined as any payment for additional time beyond the standard FTE for the grade). Please fill in the spend and number of sessions/hours in the below table for each staffing group and total.
Temporary staff spend.240824.docx
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1. How much did the organisation spend on agency (non-contract) staff and internal bank staff for the financial year 23/24 (April 2023 – March 2024)? Please fill in the spend in the table below for each staffing group and total.
2. How much did the organisation spend on Waiting List Initiative (WLI) and Overtime payments to staff (WLI payments refers to any sessional payments made for additional time worked under a system called the Waiting List Initiative, used by trusts to reduce waiting lists and meet government targets. Overtime payments are defined as any payment for additional time beyond the standard FTE for the grade). Please fill in the spend and number of sessions/hours in the below table for each staffing group and total.
Temporary staffing.271124.docx
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The name, email address, and contact number of the person(s) or department responsible for managing the supply of temporary staffing for Allied Health Professionals (AHP) and Health Science Services (HSS) within your trust.
Temporary staffing spend. 271124.docx
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Please disclose how much (total £) the trust has spent on on-framework agency, off-framework agency, and bank staff in the past four full financial years (2020/21; 2021/22; 2022/23; and 2023/24).
In this instance, “on-framework” refers to organisations on NHS England’s list of approved staffing providers. “Off-framework” refers to those who are not on this list but still provide services to trusts.
The figures should pertain to totals in each financial year and overall since 1 April 2020 (i.e., the start of the 2020/21 financial year). If possible, please also disclose:
1. A breakdown by total for all three (i.e., £2m on “on-framework”, £800k for “off-framework”, £1.2m for bank) in each of the four financial years; and
2. If available, the top three specialties by spend in each of the four financial years (e.g., gynaecology, dermatology, cardiology).
Thornbury and Nutrix nursing services. 081121.docx
1. From 31st July 2021 to 31st August 2021 how many shifts has your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services and Nutrix for?
2. Within this timeframe please list the number of shifts by ward or department that Thornbury and Nutrix was utilised in.
3. Please name all other ‘off contract agencies’ for nursing that were utilised by the Trust within this time frame. (31st July 2021 to 31st August 2021) For the purpose of definition ‘off contract suppliers’ would be any non-framework providers under Work Force Alliance or Health Trust Europe.
4. Within this same time frame please list all wards or departments that utilised these agencies and break the amount of shifts down per non framework supplier.
5. How many theatre shifts have been filled by all nursing agencies in the month of August 2021? Please break these down by agency (framework and non-framework)
6. What percentage of operations have been completed this year 31st July 2021 to 31st August 2021 compared to the same time frame last year.
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Thornbury Nursing Services.140324.docx
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Please confirm the amount of total hours utilised by the Trust for Thornbury Nursing Services on a month by month basis for every month from January 2023 to December 2024.
Thornbury Nursing Services.230323.docx
1. From 1st July 2022 to 3oth September 2022 how many shifts has your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for?
2. Within this timeframe please list the number of shifts by ward or department that Thornbury was utilised in.
3. Please name all other ‘off contract agencies’ for nursing that were utilised by the Trust within this time frame. (1/7/22- 30/9/22) For the purpose of definition ‘off contract suppliers’ would be any non framework providers under Work Force Alliance or Health Trust Europe.
4. Within this same time frame please list all wards or departments that utilised these agencies.
5. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (1/7/22- 30/9/22)
6. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (1/7/22-30/9/22)
Thornbury Nursing Services.250424.docx
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1) Over the past 3 months, how many shifts have Thornbury Nursing Services been utilised for supplying agency nurses to your trust?
2) Over the past 3 months, how many shift requests have been sent to Thornbury Nursing Services?
3) Over the past 3 months, which clinical areas have you requested shifts from Thornbury Nursing Services (ITU,A&E,PICU, NICU,WARD, Mental Health)? [Please break down numbered shift requests for each area.]
4) Over the past 3 months, how many nursing shifts were sent out to off-framework suppliers?
5) Which off Framework suppliers are currently supplying your Trust with agency nurses?
Thornbury Nursing services and agency suppliers.080524.docx
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1. From 1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024 how many shifts has your Trust or Health Board utilised Thornbury Nursing services for?
2. Within this same time frame (1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024) please list all wards or departments that utilised this agency and display the number of shifts in each.
3. Within this same time frame (1st January 2024 until 1st March 2024) please list all other off contract agencies utilised by the Trust or Health Board for nursing and break down a list of each ward or department and total number of shifts for each off contract agency.
4. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period (01/01/2024- 01/03/2024)
5. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5 night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust or Health Board in this time period (01/01/2024- 01/03/2024)
6. Please list any suppliers with a critical day rate charge (Band 5 or 6) ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £60 per hour that have been utilised in this time period
7. Please list any suppliers with a critical night rate charge (Band 5 or 6) ITU/A&E/Theatre or any other Speciality above the rate of £70 per hour that have been utilised in this time period
Thornbury Nursing Services and off-framework agencies.300823.docx
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1. From 1st May 2023- 31st July 2023 how many shifts have your Trust used Thornbury Nursing Services for?
2. Within this timeframe, please list the number of shifts by ward or department that Thornbury was utilised in.
3. Please name all other ‘off-contract agencies’ for nursing that were utilised by the Trust within this time frame. (01/05/2023-31/07/2023) For the purpose of definition ‘off-contract suppliers’ would be any non-framework providers under Workforce Alliance or Health Trust Europe.
4. Please list all wards or departments that utilised these agencies within this same time frame.
5. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5-day charge rate of over £50 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/05/2023-31/07/2023)
6. Please list any suppliers with a general Band 5-night charge above £60 per hour that have been booked for the Trust in this time period (01/05/2023-31/07/2023)
Thornbury Nursing Services and off-framework agencies.300823.docx
Vacancies and Agency Nursing.311023.docx
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1. What are the vacancies within the trust for:
a. Registered Nurses
b. Nursing associates
c. HCA’s
d. AHP’s
2. What is your agency spend within the trust from year to date (by month if possible please)?
3. How many failure to fill shifts did you have for nursing posts in August and September 2023?
4. Who is the current supplier for international nurse recruitment?
Workforce Agency Spend.150824.docx
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Query 1
Please provide the total agency workforce spend for the specified period, broken down into the following categories for the period of 1st of January 2024 – 31st of June 2024.
• Medical Staff
• Nursing Staff
• Allied Health Professionals (AHP)
Query 2
Please provide the total agency workforce spend for the period of 1st of January 2023 – 31st of December 2023 broken down into the following categories:
• Medical Staff
• Nursing Staff
• AHP Staff
Query 3
I would also like to request spend per agency, broken down by category (Medical, Nursing and AHP) if possible as above for the period of 1st of January 2024 until 31st of June 2024
Workforce Managed Service Provider, agency spend and staffing agencies.170624.docx
Workforce Managed Service Provider:
1. Do you have a workforce managed service provider (MSP) Including neutral or master vendor? If yes, please specify:
2. What services do they cover?
3. When does the contract with the MSP end?
4. What are the annual service fees for the MSP?
Agency Spend:
5. How much did your trust spend on agency staffing in the last financial year?
Bank Workforce:
6. How much did your trust spend on bank workforce staffing in the last financial year?
Temporary Staffing Agencies:
7. How many temporary staffing agencies does your trust currently use?
Workforce Managed Service Provider, agency spend and staffing agencies.170624.docx
Yearly staffing vacancy rates and spending on bank and agency staffing. 091221.docx
1. Please can you provide the average number of FTE vacancies for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for the following 3 specialties. Please can you also state what the vacancy rate was as a percentage of the total FTEs in each staffing category:
a. Consultant Anaesthetists
b. Consultant Obstetricians
c. Consultant Radiologist
2. Please provide the spend for your Trust for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for bank staffing for the following categories:
a. Consultant Anaesthetists
b. Consultant Obstetricians
c. Consultant Radiologist
3. Please provide the volume of bank staff for your Trust for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for the following categories:
a. Consultant Anaesthetists
b. Consultant Obstetricians
c. Consultant Radiologist
4. Please provide the spend for your Trust for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for agency staffing for the following staffing categories. If possible, please split between on-framework and off-framework agency staff spending:
a. Consultant Anaesthetists
b. Consultant Obstetricians
c. Consultant Radiologist
5. Please provide the volume of agency staff for your Trust for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for the following staffing categories. If possible, please split between on-framework and off-framework agency staff volume:
a. Consultant Anaesthetists
b. Consultant Obstetricians
c. Consultant Radiologist
Yearly staffing vacancy rates and spending on bank and agency staffing. 221121.docx
1. Please can you provide the average number of FTE vacancies for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for the following 4 specialties. Please can you also state what the vacancy rate was as a percentage of the total FTEs in each staffing category:
a. Anaesthetists
b. Mental Health nurses
c. Midwives
d. Obstetricians
2. Please provide the spend for your Trust for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for bank staffing for the following categories:
a. Anaesthetists
b. Mental Health nurses
c. Midwives
d. Obstetricians
3. Please provide the spend for your Trust for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for on-framework agency staffing for the following staffing categories:
a. Anaesthetists
b. Mental Health nurses
c. Midwives
d. Obstetricians
4. Please provide the spend for your Trust for each year from FY2016/17 to FY2020/21 for off-framework agency staffing for the following staffing categories:
a. Anaesthetists
b. Mental Health nurses
c. Midwives
d. Obstetricians
Assaults and violence
Adverse event due to an Electronic Patient Record System issue.100624.docx
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We seek to request that your trust shares any FOI responses where your organisation(s) indicated an adverse event due to an Electronic Patient Record System issue.
Adverse event due to an Electronic Patient Record System issue.100624.docx
Assaults on nursing staff.250624.docx
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Under the FOI Act I would like to request the amount of times nurses working for the trust were a) assaulted and b) sexually assaulted in each of the last three years (2021, 2022 and 2023).
Sexual Assault and Employment Tribunals.301023.docx
1. The amount of money ordered to be paid by an Employment Tribunal to victims of sexual assault at your NHS trust for each of the last three financial years?
2. The number of people sexually assaulted at your NHS trust for each of the last three financial years?
Sexual assaults.160823.docx
1) How many patients have reported being sexually assaulted by another patient to the Trust between 1 January 2018 and 30 June 2023?
Please can you break down the figure by year (i.e 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023).
2) How many patients have reported being sexually assaulted by a Trust staff member between 1 January 2018 and 30 June 2023.
Please can you break down the figure by year (i.e 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023).
Sexual safety incidents.081123.docx
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I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for the Trust’s official policy for a) reporting and b) recording of sexual safety incidents, including sexual abuse, sexual harassment or sexual assault through the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) or any other relevant system.
Sexual safety incidents.170924.docx
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Total sexual safety incidents
1. How many sexual safety incidents did the trust record? (This includes incidents by all alleged perpetrators against all alleged victims: staff, patients, visitors, members of the public)
1.1 in 2022/23 financial year
1.2 in 2023/24 financial year
Sexual safety incidents by staff against patients
2. How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by staff against patients did the trust record?
2.1 in 2022/23 financial year
2.2 in 2023/24 financial year
Sexual violence and misconduct by patients against other patients
3. How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by patients against other patients did the trust record?
3.1 in 2022/23 financial year
3.2 in 2023/24 financial year
Sexual safety incidents by patients against staff
4. How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by patients against staff did the trust record?
4.1 in 2022/23 financial year
4.2 in 2023/24 financial year
Sexual safety incidents by staff against other staff
5 How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by staff against other staff did the trust record?
5.1 in 2022/23 financial year
5.2 in 2023/24 financial year
Age of alleged victims
6. How many of the sexual safety incidents did the trust record where the victim was a patient:
6.1 Under 18 (this includes under 16 and under 13)
6.2 Under 16 (this includes under 13)
6.3 Under 13
Please provide figures for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 financial years.
7. How many incidents of physical violence perpetrated by patients against staff did the trust record?
7.1 in 2022/23 financial year
7.2 in 2023/24 financial year
Terminology:
Sexual safety incidents include any behaviour of a sexual nature that is unwanted, or makes another person feel uncomfortable or afraid. This covers:
• sexual assault: when a person is coerced or physically forced to engage in sexual activity against their will, or when a person (of any gender) touches another person sexually without their consent.
• sexual harassment: any behaviour that is characterised by inappropriate sexual remarks, gestures or physical advances which are unwanted and make a person feel uncomfortable, intimidated or degrade their dignity.
• Other sexual incidents: where an individual may have witnessed or experienced something of a sexual nature that does not fit in to the categories of sexual harassment or assault, and which made the person feel uncomfortable and/or sexually unsafe.
Bereavement and Mortuary Services
Mortuary data.250724.docx
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I would like to make another freedom of Information request to ask how many other people were frozen and if their families have been told that they were frozen as is your legal obligation. And if not why not?
Persons who have died with no known blood relative next of kin.241024.docx
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Please could you kindly send me any information you may hold relating to persons who have died with no known next of kin (*defined as blood relatives, this would include patients who have listed next of kin but where such persons are friends or non blood relatives) since 1/8/2024 to the day of your reply (or as close as possible).
I confirm that this is a new request for new data only.
Please include:
1. full names of deceased persons,
2. dates of death,
3. marital status,
4. maiden surnames of married or widowed females,
5. dates of birth or ages at death,
6. last known addresses,
7. estimated value of estates,
8. dates when the information was passed (or information that is about to be or likely to be passed) to any third party, if so to whom, or confirmation that this will not be happening and the reason why.
If your authority holds this information on your website, please confirm whether or not your website information is up to date and provide a link to this. If it is not please provide full details of any unpublished cases, as per the questions above.
Persons who have died with no known blood relative next of kin.241024.docx
Cancelled operations
Acute Medical Unit, A&E waits and cancelled elective operations.250624.docx
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1. Please state what percentage of your total discharges from the Acute Medical Unit are discharged home/to usual place of residence without support
2. For those patients, what was the average length of stay in the Acute Medical Unit?
3. Please state what percentage of all admitted patients from A&E waited more than 12 hours from decision to admit to actual admission (12hr+ trolley waits)
4. Please state what percentage of cancelled elective operations for non-clinical reasons were due to:
a. unavailable ward beds: b. unavailable surgeon
c. unavailable anaesthetist: d. unavailable theatre staff
Acute Medical Unit, A&E waits and cancelled elective operations.250624.docx
Cancelled cancer operations.061223.docx
1. How many cancer operations have been cancelled by your NHS Trust in each of the past four financial years:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
2. Please could you provide a breakdown for the reasons these operations were cancelled e.g. lack of staff, lack of beds, or equipment issues, again broken down by the financial years:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
Cancelled Cancer operations.290224.docx
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1. How many cancer operations have been cancelled by your NHS Trust in each of the past four financial years:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
2. The highest number of times a patient’s operation has been cancelled at your NHS Trust since the start of 2022.
3. Please could you provide a breakdown for the reasons these operations were cancelled e.g. lack of staff, lack of beds, or equipment issues.
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
Cancelled children’s operations.140323.docx
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1. The number of children (under 18s) who have an operation cancelled or delayed at your trust for non-clinical reasons, in each of the past five calendar years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018).
2. For each of these years, please could you provide figures broken down by the reason behind the cancellation or delay, e.g. lack of staff, lack of bed capacity, or lack of equipment.
3. Please could you provide figures on the five longest waits for an operation currently faced by under-18s at your trust, e.g. 118 days, 116 days, 113 days. For each of these waits, please could you provide a summary of the surgical procedure in question, e.g. heart surgery.
Cancelled elective procedures.270722.docx
Question 1
How many booked elective invasive procedures (this includes but is not limited to procedures being performed in operating theatres, interventional radiology or other radiology suites, cardiac catheter labs, endoscopy and any other site not mentioned involving an invasive procedure, whether under local anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, spinal or epidural anaesthetic, peripheral nerve block, or sedation) did your trust cancel in the calendar years:
a. 2017
b. 2018
c. 2019
d. 2020
e. 2021
Question 2
How many booked elective invasive procedures (this includes but is not limited to procedures being performed in operating theatres, interventional radiology or other radiology suites, cardiac catheter labs, endoscopy and any other site not mentioned involving an invasive procedure, whether under local anaesthetic, general anaesthetic, spinal or epidural anaesthetic, peripheral nerve block, or sedation) did your trust cancel at the date of this request in this calendar year?
Cancelled operations.021222.docx
a) How many elective operations were cancelled for a non-clinical reason at the Trust in 2021/22, broken down by reason for cancellation?
b) Of the total elective operations cancelled for a non-clinical reason at the Trust in 2021/22, how many were:
i. urgent surgery
ii. paediatric surgery
iii. surgical oncology
Cancelled operations.050624.docx
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Please can you provide me with information on medical equipment at your Trust.
The number of procedures that were cancelled by your NHS Trust due to issues with defective diagnostic equipment in each of the calendar years
a) 2019, b) 2020, c) 2021, d) 2022, e) 2023
Cancelled operations.080424.docx
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1. Please could you provide me with information for each of the financial years 2023/24, 2022/23
2. How many elective operations were cancelled last minute for non clinical reasons?
3. How many of those patients were not treated within 28 days of the last minute elective cancellation?
4. How many patients had their elective operation cancelled last minute on more than 5 occasions?
5. How many patients had their elective operation cancelled last minute on more than 10 occasions?
6. In the financial years above – what was the highest number of occasions that a patient had an elective operation cancelled at the last minute?
Cancelled operations. 131021.docx
1. Please can you tell me the number of last minute elective operations cancelled for non clinical reasons at your trust or board for each month of 2020 and 2021 to date.
2. Please can you tell me the number of urgent operations cancelled for non-medical reasons during each month.
If giving the full data requested would be likely to exceed the costs cap, please provide data for the most recent month and then as many months as possible working backwards until the limit is reached.
3. If possible, please let me know how many of the cancelled elective operations had still not been carried out 28 days later.
4. If possible, please let me know how many of the cancelled urgent operations had still not been carried out 28 days later.
Cancelled operations.140323.docx
1. The number of people who have had an operation cancelled or delayed at your trust for non-clinical reasons, in each of the past five calendar years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018).
2. For each of these years, please could you provide figures broken down by the reason behind the cancellation or delay, e.g. lack of staff, lack of bed capacity, or lack of equipment.
3. Please could you provide figures on the five longest waits for an operation currently faced by under-18s at your trust, e.g. 110 days, 98 days, 200 days. For each of these waits, please could you provide a summary of the surgical procedure in question, e.g. heart surgery.
Cancelled operations.2. 140323.docx
1. The number of elective operations scheduled. I would like this information for January 2022 to end of December 2022 broken down by week i.e. the total number of elective operations that were planned for Week 1, January 2022, Week 2 etc.
2. The number of elective operations performed. January 2022 to end of December 2022 broken down by week i.e. the total number of elective operations that were planned for Week 1, January 2022, Week 2, etc
3. The number of elective operations cancelled at the “last minute”, as defined by the NHS when providing data on cancelled elective operations. I would like this information for January 2022 to end of December 2022 broken down by week i.e. the total number of elective operations planned for Week 1, January 2022, Week 2 etc.
4. The total number of elective operations cancelled, regardless of how long cancellations were made before scheduled operation times, if this information is also collected. I would like this information for January 2022 to the end of December 2022 broken down by week i.e. the total number of elective operations planned for Week 1, January 2022, Week 2 etc.
Cancelled operations 2021-2022.110624.docx
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How many elective operations were cancelled for a non-clinical reason at the Trust in 2021/22, broken down by reason for cancellation?
Cancelled operations 2022-2023.110624.docx
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a) How many elective operations were cancelled for a non-clinical reason at the Trust in 2022/23, broken down by reason for cancellation?
Cancelled operations 2023-2024.110624.docx
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a) How many elective operations were cancelled for a non-clinical reason at the Trust in 2023/24, broken down by reason for cancellation?
Cancelled operations.280923.docx
1. Please can you provide figures on the total number of patients who have had their operation cancelled for a second time. I would like these figures broken down by year for each of the past five years:
a. 2022,
b. 2021,
c. 2020,
d. 2019,
e. 2018.
For context, I am looking for incidents where the surgery was cancelled for non-clinical reasons (i.e. staff shortages, equipment problems, lack of theatre capacity) and also not at the request of the patient.
2. In addition, please can you provide the largest number of times that a single patient has had their operation cancelled for non-clinical reasons, over the past five years.
a. Please could you name the operation in question (e.g. hip replacement),
b. The year that the last cancellation took place (e.g. 2022).
Cancer, Haematology & Radiotherapy
2-week urgent referral policy. 031121.docx
I have been looking on the MTW website for your “2 week urgent referral policy”. I have not been able to locate this or a leaflet. Would you please be able to email me a copy of this?
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Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).100524.docx
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Please see below a Freedom of Information request made by OPEN Health. Please answer the questions with regards to NHS patients, i.e., excluding patients that received treatment as part of clinical trials or private healthcare.
1. Do you treat patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in your Trust?
If yes, please proceed to Question 3, if no, please answer Question 2
2. Where do patients diagnosed with AML in your Trust receive treatment?
3. Please complete the table below with how many newly diagnosed patients with AML have started first-line treatment with each of the following therapies during the 6-month period October 2023 to March 2024?
• Azacitidine monotherapy
• Low dose cytarabine (LoDAC) monotherapy
• Venetoclax + azacitidine
• Venetoclax + LoDAC
• Ivosidenib
• Intensive chemotherapy-based regimen
o Examples include: cytarabine and daunorubicin, idarubicin, fludarabine, mitoxantrone, etoposide (VP-16), 6-thioguanine (6-TG), methotrexate (MTX) or 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP), gemtuzumab ozogamicin with daunorubicin cytarabine, or FLAG-Ida (fludarabine, cytarabine, granulocyte-colony stimulating factor and idarubicin)
• Best supportive care
• Other
o Do not include prophylactic therapies such as GCSF, anti-fungals, antihistamines, anti-nauseants
Note: this should only include patients with AML who have started first-line treatment during the 6-month window.
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).220824.docx
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1. Please complete the table below with how many newly diagnosed patients with AML have started first-line treatment with each of the following therapies during the 6-month period February 2024 to July 2024?
• Azacitidine monotherapy
• Low dose cytarabine (LoDAC) monotherapy
• Venetoclax + azacitidine
• Venetoclax + LoDAC
• Ivosidenib
• Intensive chemotherapy-based regimen
O Examples include: cytarabine and daunorubicin, idarubicin, fludarabine, mitoxantrone, etoposide (VP-16), 6-thioguanine (6-TG), methotrexate (MTX) or 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP), gemtuzumab ozogamicin with daunorubicin cytarabine, or FLAG-Ida (fludarabine, cytarabine, granulocyte-colony stimulating factor and idarubicin)
• Best supportive care
• Other
O Do not include prophylactic therapies such as GCSF, anti-fungals, antihistamines, anti-nauseants
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).171123.docx
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Patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
1. How many patients with AML, in total, have been treated with the following therapies during the last 6 months, irrespective of start date or line of therapy?
• Azacitidine monotherapy
• Low dose cytarabine (LoDAC) monotherapy
• Venetoclax + azacitidine
• Venetoclax + LoDAC
• Ivosidenib
• Intensive chemotherapy-based regimen
• Other
2. How many newly diagnosed patients with AML have started first-line treatment with the following therapies during the last 6 months?
• Azacitidine monotherapy
• Low dose cytarabine (LoDAC) monotherapy
• Venetoclax + azacitidine
• Venetoclax + LoDAC
• Ivosidenib
• Intensive chemotherapy-based regimen
• Other
3. (a) Of the patients with AML treated with venetoclax (venetoclax + azacitidine or venetoclax + LoDAC) in the last 6 months, how many are approved for treatment via Blueteq?
Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)
4. How many patients with CLL have received treatment with venetoclax in the past 6 months (including venetoclax monotherapy, venetoclax + rituximab, venetoclax + obinutuzumab or venetoclax + ibrutinib)?
5. How many patients with CLL who were new to all lines of treatment received venetoclax in the past 6 months (including venetoclax monotherapy, venetoclax + rituximab, venetoclax + obinutuzumab or venetoclax + ibrutinib)?
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).171123.docx
Adult Haematology services.190522.docx
Please note the questionnaire refers only to Adult Haematology services.
1) Does your Trust have a Clinical Haematology service for Adults?
Yes / No (delete as appropriate)
If No, please return the questionnaire at this stage – there are no further questions that need to be answered.
2) If Yes, please complete the staffing table below:
3) If you have Haematology Clinical Nurse Specialists, please advise on how their jobs are split, for example 1.0WTE Myeloma CNS, 0.8WTE BMT CNS etc.
4) Which of the below haematological services does your Haematology service cover?
5) In the last 3 years, how many ‘New’ patients were seen by your Clinical Haematology Team?
6) If you have a BMT service, how many patients do you treat on average per year?
Advanced breast cancer.041122.docx
1) In the past 3 months, how many advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients have the status of;
a) HR+ and HER2+ [Hormone receptor-positive and human epidermal growth factor 2-positive]
b) HR- and HER2+ [Hormone receptor-negative and human epidermal growth factor 2-positive]
2) In the past 3 months, how many breast cancer patients were treated with:
a. Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + aromatase inhibitor *
b. Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + Fulvestrant
c. (Faslodex) Alpelisib (Piqray) + Fulvestrant (Faslodex)
d. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)**
e. Bevacizumab (Avastin)
f. Eribulin (Halaven)
g. Everolimus (Afinitor) + Exemestane
h. Fulvestrant (Faslodex) as a single agent
i. Gemcitabine + paclitaxel
j. Lapatinib (Tyverb)
k. Neratinib (Nerlynx)
l. Olaparib (Lynparza)
m. Palbociclib (Ibrance) + aromatase inhibitor*
n. Pertuzumab (Perjeta) + trastuzumab + docetaxel
o. Ribociclib (Kisqali) + aromatase inhibitor*
p. Ribociclib (Kisqali) + Fulvestrant (Faslodex)
q. Talazoparib (Talzenna)
r. Trastuzumab + paclitaxel Trastuzumab as a single agent
s. Trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla)
t. Trastuzumab Deruxtecan (Enhertu)
u. Tucatinib + Trastuzumab + Capecitabine (Tukysa)
v. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy ** *aromatase inhibitor e.g. Anastrozole, Exemestane or Letrozole **e.g. docetaxel, vinorelbine or capecitabine as a single agent
Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (Stage 3b and 4).230522.docx
Q1. How many patients have been diagnosed with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (Stage 3b and 4) in the last 6 months?
Q2. How many hepatocellular carcinoma patients (any stage) have been treated in the last 6 months with the following treatments:
a. Lenvatinib
b. Sorafenib
c. Regorafenib
d. Atezolizumab + Bevacizumab
Q3. In the last 6 months, how many patients has your trust treated (for any condition) with the following treatments:
a. Avatrombopag
b. Eltrombopag
c. Fostamatinib
d. Romiplostim
Q4. In the last 6 months, how many patients has your trust treated for Immune thrombocytopenia (ICD10 code D69.3) ONLY with the following treatments:
a. Avatrombopag
b. Mycophenolate mofetil
c. Rituximab
d. Surgery (splenectomy)
Q5. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (Stage 3b and 4).230522.docx
ALK-positive lung cancer.150923.docx
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I should be grateful if you could inform me of the number of ALK-positive lung cancer patients that your Trust is currently treating. Would it be possible to separate out NHS and private patients?
Autoclaves.130223.docx
1. The number of Autoclaves commissioned and commissioned date.
2. The departments where Autoclaves are used.
Biliary Tract and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment.240424.docx
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I would be grateful if you could please provide the following information with regards to patients treated with Durvalumab (Imfinzi) and Nivolumab.
Where the specified Nov 23 – March 24 timeframe is not possible to provide, could you please provide the latest 5 months of data you have, and specify which timeframe this covers.
1. How many unique total patients were treated in the last 5 months (Nov 23 – March 24) with Durvalumab for the following indications?
A) Biliary Tract Cancer
B) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
2. How many unique total patients were treated in the last 5 months (Nov 23 – March 24) with Nivolumab for early stage (resectable) non-small cell lung cancer (Stages 1 – 3b).
3. How many unique total patients were treated last month (March 24) with Durvalumab for the following indications?
C) Biliary Tract Cancer
D) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
4. How many patients received their first treatment in the last 5 months (Nov 23 – March 24) with Durvalumab for the following indications?
E) Biliary Tract Cancer
F) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Biliary Tract and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment.240424.docx
Biliary tract cancer.281223.docx
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1. In the last 12 months, how many individual patients were treated for biliary tract cancer with the following Diagnosis Codes:
A) C22.1 Intrahepatic Bile Duct Cardinoma
B) C23 Malignant Neoplasm of Gallbladder
C) C24 Malignant Neoplasm of unspecified biliary tract (If possible, could this please be further split to C24.0 Extrahepatic bile duct, C24.8 Overlapping lesion of Biliary Tract, C24.9 Biloary Tract, Unspecified).
Could you please also provide a total unique patient number for all of the diagnosis codes above, in case they have been coded multiple times.
2. In the last 12 months, how many patients were treated for Oesophagus Oesophagogastric Junction Cancer? (C16.7)
Bladder cancer.081223.docx
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In the past three months, how many patients have been treated for Bladder cancer with the below:
a) Avelumab
b) Atezolizumab
c) Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
d) Carboplatin single or in any other combination
e) Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
f) Cisplatin single or in any other combination
g) Nivolumab
h) Pembrolizumab
i) Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
j) Palliative care only
Blood Gas Analysers.111022.docx
Please provide details of the type (manufacturer and model), quantity, department, site where they are located and age of all Blood Gas Analysers listed on your trust’s asset register (or equivalent).
Brain Cancer Treatment.051022.docx
1. How many patients have been treated for glioblastoma brain cancer in the last 12 months, in your trust/ health board?
2. Which consultant is the nominated medical lead for the treatment or referral of glioblastoma brain cancer?
3.Does your trust/ health board treat all referred glioblastoma brain cancer cases, or are they referred to different centre’s? If so, which treatment centre(s) are they referred to?
Breast cancer.021123.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Alpelisib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
e. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
f. Capecitabine as a single agent
g. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
h. Everolimus + Exemestane
i. Fulvestrant as a single agent
j. Lapatinib
k. Neratinib
l. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
m. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
n. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
o. Pembrolizumab
p. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
q. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
r. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
s. Sacituzumab Govitecan
t. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
u. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
v. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
w. Trastuzumab emtansine
x. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
y. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Breast Cancer.030723.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Alpelisib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
e. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
f. Capecitabine as a single agent
g. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
h. Everolimus + Exemestane
i. Fulvestrant as a single agent
j. Lapatinib
k. Neratinib
l. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
m. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
n. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
o. Pembrolizumab
p. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
q. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
r. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
s. Sacituzumab Govitecan
t. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
u. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
v. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
w. Trastuzumab emtansine
x. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
y. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of breast cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Breast cancer.090323.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Alpelisib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
e. Atezolizumab + Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
f. Capecitabine as a single agent
g. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
h. Everolimus + Exemestane
i. Fulvestrant as a single agent
j. Lapatinib
k. Neratinib
l. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
m. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
n. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
o. Pembrolizumab
p. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
q. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
r. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
s. Sacituzumab Govitecan
t. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
u. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
v. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
w. Trastuzumab emtansine
x. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
y. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. Of the patients treated for breast cancer with Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor in the past the 3 months, please provide the number of patients with:
a. early/locally advanced breast cancer (Stages 1 to 3B)
b. advanced/metastatic breast cancer (Stages 3C and 4)
Breast cancer.090922.docx
1. In the past 3 months, how many Breast Cancer patients (any stage) were treated with:
a. Abemaciclib monotherapy
b. Aromatase inhibitor monotherapy (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
c. Tamoxifen monotherapy
d. Abemaciclib + Tamoxifen
e. Abemaciclib + Tamoxifen + Goserelin
f. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole) + Goserelin
g. Aromatase inhibitor + Goserelin
h. Tamoxifen+ Goserelin
2. How many patients have been treated for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
b. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
c. Pembrolizumab
d. Sacituzumab Govitecan
e. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
f. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
g. Capecitabine as a single agent
h. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
i. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
j. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
k. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Breast Cancer.151223.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in total, regardless of diagnosis, with the following medicines in the 3 months between the start of June 2023 and end of August 2023?
Please provide data for the latest 3-month period, if Jun to Aug is not available yet
1.1 Abemaciclib (Verzenios)
1.2 Alpelisib (Piqray)
1.3 Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
1.4 Palbociclib (Ibrance)
1.5 Ribociclib (Kisqali)
Q2. How many patients received abemaciclib (Verzenios) for early breast cancer in the 3 months between the start of June 2023 and end of August 2023?
Please provide data for the latest 3-month period, if Jun to Aug is not available yet
Q3. How many patients received abemaciclib (Verzenios) as adjuvant treatment for early breast cancer in the 3 months between the start of June 2023 and end of August 2023?
Please provide data for the latest 3-month period, if Jun to Aug is not available yet
Q4. How many patients received abemaciclib (Verzenios) with the following treatment intent in the 3 months between the start of June 2023 and end of August 2023?
Please provide data for the latest 3-month period, if Jun to Aug is not available yet
4.1 Curative
4.2 Palliative
4.3 Not known / stated
Q5. How many patients were treated with the following medicines in combination in the 3 months between the start of June 2023 and end of August 2023?
Please provide data for the latest 3-month period, if Jun to Aug is not available yet
5.1 Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
5.2 Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + an aromatase inhibitor (anastrozole, letrozole or exemestane)
5.3 Abemaciclib (Verzenois) + tamoxifen
5.4 Abemaciclib monotherapy
5.5 Alpelisib (Piqray) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
5.6 Palbociclib (Ibrance) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
5.7 Palbociclib (Ibrance) + an aromatase inhibitor (anastrozole, letrozole or exemestane)
5.8 Ribociclib (Kisqali) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
5.9 Ribociclib (Kisqali) + an aromatase inhibitor (anastrozole, letrozole or exemestane)
Breast Cancer.181122.docx
1. In the past 3 months, how many Breast Cancer patients (at any stage) were treated with:
a. Abemaciclib monotherapy
b. Aromatase inhibitor monotherapy (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
c. Tamoxifen monotherapy
d. Abemaciclib + Tamoxifen
2. In the past 3 months, how many early/locally advanced Breast Cancer (Stages 1 to 3B) patients were treated with:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Taxane and/or Anthracycline (monotherapy or in combination)
c. Any other active systemic anti cancer therapy
3. How many patients have been treated for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti cancer therapies:
a. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
b. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
c. Pembrolizumab
d. Sacituzumab Govitecan
e. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
f. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
g. Capecitabine as a single agent
h. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
i. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
j. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
k. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Breast Cancer.231024.docx
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Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Alpelisib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) + Cyclophosphamide
e. Aromatase Inhibitor as a single agent
f. Atezolizumab
g. Capecitabine as a single agent
h. Carboplatin + Paclitaxel
i. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
j. Everolimus + Exemestane
k. Fulvestrant as a single agent
l. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
m. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
n. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
o. Pembrolizumab
p. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
q. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
r. Sacituzumab Govitecan
s. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
t. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
u. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
v. Trastuzumab emtansine
w. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for breast cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial, and the number of patients taking part.
Breast cancer. 251021.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the systemic anti-cancer therapies listed below?
a. Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole) as a single agent
b. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
c. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
e. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
f. Capecitabine as a single agent
g. Carboplatin or Cisplatin as a single agent
h. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
i. Everolimus + Exemestane
j. Fluorouracil
k. Fulvestrant as a single agent
l. Goserelin
m. Lapatinib
n. Neratinib
o. Olaparib
p. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
q. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
r. Pertuzumab + Trastuzumab + Docetaxel
s. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
t. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
u. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
v. Talazoparib
w. Tamoxifen
x. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
y. Transtuzumab as a single agent
z. Trastuzumab emtansine
aa. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
bb. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many early/locally advanced (Stages I to IIIc) breast cancer patients were treated with an Aromatase Inhibitor (anastrozole, exemestane, Letrozole) as a single agent?
Breast Cancer.270224.docx
Breast Cancer.
You asked: All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1) In the past 3 months, how many advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients have the status of;
a) HR+ and HER2+ [Hormone receptor-positive and human epidermal growth factor 2-positive]
b) HR- and HER2+ [Hormone receptor-negative and human epidermal growth factor 2-positive]
c) The total number of Metastatic breast cancer patients of any type.
2) In the past 3 months, how many metastatic breast cancer patients were treated with:
a) Trastuzumab + Pertuzumab + paclitaxel
b) Trastuzumab + paclitaxel Trastuzumab as a single agent
c) Trastuzumab emtansine
d) Trastuzumab Deruxtecan
e) Tucatinib + Trastuzumab + Capecitabine
Breast cancer.280224.docx
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Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Alpelisib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
e. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
f. Capecitabine as a single agent
g. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
h. Everolimus + Exemestane
i. Fulvestrant as a single agent
j. Lapatinib
k. Neratinib
l. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
m. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
n. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
o. Pembrolizumab
p. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
q. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
r. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
s. Sacituzumab Govitecan
t. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
u. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
v. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
w. Trastuzumab emtansine
x. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
y. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for breast cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial, and the number of patients taking part.
Breast Cancer.310323.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in total, regardless of diagnosis, with the following medicines in the latest three months for which you have data?
Name of medicine
1.1 Abemaciclib (Verzenios)
1.2 Alpelisib (Piqray)
1.3 Anastrozole (anastrozole or Arimidex)
1.4 Exemestane (exemestane or Aromasin)
1.5 Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
1.6 Letrozole (letrozole or Femara)
1.7 Palbociclib (Ibrance)
1.8 Ribociclib (Kisqali)
Q2. How many patients received abemaciclib (Verzenios) as adjuvant treatment for early breast cancer in the latest three months for which you have data?
If you do not have data on early breast cancer, please state how many patients received abemaciclib (Verzenios) as adjuvant treatment.
Q3. How many patients received abemaciclib in combination with an aromatase inhibitor (anastrozole or exemestane or letrozole) for early breast cancer and locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer in the latest three months for which you have data?
3.1 Abemaciclib + aromatase inhibitor (anastrozole or exemestane or letrozole)
3.2 Abemaciclib + aromatase inhibitor (anastrozole or exemestane or letrozole)
Q4. How many patients received Olaparib (Lynparza) as adjuvant treatment for early breast cancer in the latest three months for which you have data?
If you do not have data on early breast cancer, please state how many patients received Olaparib (Lynparza) as adjuvant treatment.
Q5. How many patients were treated with the following medicines in combination in the latest three months for which you have data?
Name of combination
4.1 Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
4.2 Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + Anastrozole (anastrozole or Arimidex)
4.3 Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + Exemestane (exemestane or Aromasin)
4.4 Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + Letrozole (letrozole or Femara)
4.7 Alpelisib (Piqray) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
4.8 Palbociclib (Ibrance) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
4.9 Palbociclib (Ibrance) + Anastrozole (anastrozole or Arimidex)
4.10 Palbociclib (Ibrance) + Exemestane (exemestane or Aromasin)
4.11 Palbociclib (Ibrance) + Letrozole (letrozole or Femara)
4.12 Ribociclib (Kisqali) + Fulvestrant (fulvestrant or Faslodex)
4.13 Ribociclib (Kisqali) + Anastrozole (anastrozole or Arimidex)
4.14 Ribociclib (Kisqali) + Exemestane (exemestane or Aromasin)
4.15 Ribociclib (Kisqali) + Letrozole (letrozole or Femara)
Q5. How many patients were treated with Olaparib (Lynparza) as monotherapy for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer in the latest three months for which you have data?
Q6. Which of these protocols does your Trust follow when issuing prescriptions for aromatase inhibitors (anastrozole or exemestane or letrozole) prescribed in combination with CDK4/6 inhibitors (abemaciclib or palbociclib or ribociclib)?
6.1 Aromatase inhibitors and CDK4/6 inhibitors are issued together To Take Out at the hospital
6.2 Aromatase inhibitors and CDK4/6 inhibitors are issued separately. The CDK4/6 inhibitors (abemaciclib or palbociclib or ribociclib) are issued To Take Out at the hospital. The aromatase inhibitors (anastrozole or exemestane or letrozole) are issued as an FP10 to the patient or a request is sent to the GP to issue in the community
6.3 Both protocols above
Breast cancer treatment.110722.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
d. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
e. Capecitabine as a single agent
f. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
g. Everolimus + Exemestane
h. Fulvestrant as a single agent
i. Lapatinib
j. Neratinib
k. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
l. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
m. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
n. Pembrolizumab
o. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
p. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
q. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
r. Sacituzumab Govitecan
s. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
t. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
u. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
v. Trastuzumab emtansine
w. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
x. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many early/locally advanced breast cancer (Stages 1 to 3B) patients were treated with:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Taxane and/or Anthracycline (monotherapy or in combination)
c. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Cancelled cancer operations.061223.docx
1. How many cancer operations have been cancelled by your NHS Trust in each of the past four financial years:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
2. Please could you provide a breakdown for the reasons these operations were cancelled e.g. lack of staff, lack of beds, or equipment issues, again broken down by the financial years:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
Cancelled Cancer operations.290224.docx
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1. How many cancer operations have been cancelled by your NHS Trust in each of the past four financial years:
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
2. The highest number of times a patient’s operation has been cancelled at your NHS Trust since the start of 2022.
3. Please could you provide a breakdown for the reasons these operations were cancelled e.g. lack of staff, lack of beds, or equipment issues.
a. 2022/23
b. 2021/22
c. 2020/21
d. 2019/20
Cancer appointments.081223.docx
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1. The number of (a) first consultant appointments after an urgent referral, (b) first definitive cancer treatments, and (c) subsequent cancer treatments, that were cancelled or rescheduled by your trust in financial year 2022/23:
(i) once
(b) twice
(c) three times or more
2. The most amount of times the date was changed on a single one of the above cancer appointments by your trust in FY 2022/23.
Cancer complaints. 021121.docx
1) How many PALS enquiries and official complaints your Trust has received from patients concerned about
a) the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and your Trust’s response on their or their family member’s access to cancer treatment
b) and access to cancer testing – including tests to find out whether their or their family member’s cancer has spread, returned or occurred for the first time
2) For the five most recent PALS enquiries/official complaints received, please provide me with
a) a summary of the complaint (e.g. a patient with stage 4 lung and breast cancer has contacted PALS to complain about their chemotherapy being postponed for a month)
b) the exact wording of the complaint, with redactions to remove potentially identifying information
c) what action the Trust took in response
Cancer diagnosis.190424.docx
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1. How many fatalities have been due to cancer wrong diagnosis or failure/delay diagnosis in the last three years (Between 2021-up to and including any data held for 2024)?
For example: The number of incidents where the Primary Cause is ‘Wrong Diagnosis’ or ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ and where both injury codes ‘Cancer’ and ‘Fatality’ are recorded?
Cancer diagnosis via A&E.190424.docx
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The number of patients diagnosed with cancer, broken down between 2018 and 2023, where:
o The source of referral for the cancer diagnosis was listed as ‘Following A&E Attendance’.
o Attendances at A&E where the presenting complaint indicated that the patient was already known to have cancer or was undergoing cancer treatment were excluded.
Cancer diagnostic tests.021123.docx
1. How many patients are currently on your trust’s waiting list for a cancer diagnostic test?
2. How many patients were on your trust’s waiting list for a cancer diagnostic test 12 months ago?
3. What is the longest time a patient has had to wait for a cancer diagnostic test in the last 12 months?
4. How many cancer diagnostic tests have been cancelled by your trust for non-clinical reasons in the last 12 months?
5. What is the highest number of times a cancer diagnostic test for one patient has been cancelled by your trust for non-clinical reasons in the last 12 months?
Cancer funding.140324.docx
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“The total amount of your Trusts budget in pounds-sterling (£) that is allocated for all cancer funding in each of the financial years a) 2023-2024, b) 2023-2022, c) 2022-2021, d) 2021-2020, e) 2020-2019
The percentage of your Trusts total budget that is allocated for all cancer funding in each of the financial years a) 2023-2024, b) 2023-2022, c) 2022-2021, d) 2021-2020, e) 2020-2019”
Cancer – Longest Wait.310823.docx
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1. The number of people at your trust currently receiving treatment for cancer?
2. The number of people at your trust currently waiting to receive treatment for cancer?
3. How long has the person who has waited the longest been waiting?
4. The number of people waiting to start cancer treatment, as measured from the date of urgent referral, who have waited longer than:
a. 62 days,
b. 3 months,
c. 4 months
d. 6 months,
e. 12 months.
5. The single longest wait to start cancer treatment, as measured from the date of the urgent referral, for each of the last three years?
Cancer pathway and treatment. 270821.docx
1. How many patients on the cancer pathway started treatment within the 62 days and over 62 days, from urgent GP referral to starting treatment in each month of 2020 and 2021.
2. How many patients referred under the 2 weeks wait pathway were seen within 14 days in each month of 2020 and 2021.
3. How many patients started cancer treatment in each month of:
a. 2019
b. 2020
c. 2021
Cancer services.180522.docx
1. Over all how many Cancer trackers are employed by your Trust (WTE)?
2. Over all how many cancer MDT co-ordinators are employed by your Trust (WTE)?
3. Please provide the split of cancer tracker WTE by each tumour site of responsibility
a. Lung
b. Breast
c. Head & Neck
d. Lower GI
e. Upper GI
f. Gynaelogical
g. Children’s
h. Acute leukaemia
i. Haematological malignancies (excluding acute leukaemia)
j. Testicular
k. Urological
4. Please provide the split of cancer MDT co-coordinators WTE by each tumour site of responsibility
a. Lung
b. Breast
c. Head & Neck
d. Lower GI
e. Upper GI
f. Gynaelogical
g. Children’s
h. Acute leukaemia
i. Haematological malignancies (excluding acute leukaemia)
j. Testicular
k. Urological
5. What cancer PAS system is used by your organisation? I.e. Somerset, Infoflex other. If other please specify.
Cancer Treatment.101023.docx
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1) Over the last 6 months, how many patients were treated with a combination of Dabrafenib + Trametinib for the following diseases:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Adjuvant Melanoma
C) BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
2) Over the last 6 months, how many patients were treated with a combination of Encorafenib (Braftovi) + Binimetnib (Mektovi) for the following diseases:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Colorectal Cancer
C) Any other indications
Cancer treatment using specified products.250624.docx
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1) In the past 6 months, what was the number of patients treated with a combination of Dabrafenib + Trametinib for the following conditions:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Adjuvant Melanoma
C) BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
2) In the past 6 months, what was the number of patients treated with a combination of Encorafenib (Braftovi) + Binimetnib (Mektovi) for the following conditions:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Colorectal Cancer
Cancer treatments. 051121.docx
1. Within your health trust, how many patients have been treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the following agents?
a. Carboplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
b. Cisplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
c. Cetuximab with/without chemotherapy
d. Cetuximab with radiotherapy
e. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
f. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
g. Nivolumab
h. Docetaxel (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
i. Fluorouracil (5FU)
j. Radiotherapy only
k. Other
2. For the patients treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the therapies listed in the first question, please provide:
a. Total number of head and neck cancer patients
b. Number of locally advanced head and neck cancer patients
c. Number of recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer patients
3. Within your health trust, how many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for colorectal cancer [CRC]?
a. Aflibercept
b. Bevacizumab
c. Capecitabine
d. CAPIRI
e. CAPOX (XELOX)
f. Cetuximab in combination with FOLFIRI
g. Cetuximab in combination with FOLFOX
h. Cetuximab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
i. Irinotecan only
j. FOLFIRI
k. FOLFOX
l. Fluorouracil (5FU) only
m. Oxaliplatin only
n. Panitumumab in combination with FOLFIRI
o. Panitumumab in combination with FOLFOX
p. Panitumumab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
q. Pembrolizumab
r. Nivolumab
s. Raltitrexed
t. Ramucirumab
u. Regorafenib
v. Sorafenib
w. Other SACT
Cancer treatments.270224.docx
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1) in the past 6 months, how many patients were treated with a combination of both Encorafenib (Braftovi) + Binimetnib (Mektovi) for the following diseases:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Colorectal Cancer
C) Any other indications
2) In the past 6 months, how many patients were treated with a combination of Dabrafenib + Trametinib for the following diseases:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Adjuvant Melanoma
C) BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
Cancer treatments.270923.docx
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I writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, the number of cancer treatments started at each cancer stage in each of the last five years in your trust.
Cancer two week wait referral.110822.docx
Please can you let me know what your success rate in meeting the cancer two week wait referral is? What % of patients referred are actually seen within the two weeks?
Cervical cancer and Endometrial cancer.171022.docx
Q1. Does your trust provide SACT (systemic anti-cancer therapy) treatments for the following conditions?
a. Cervical cancer
b. Endometrial cancer
In case you do not provide SACT treatments for either of the above conditions, which other trust do you refer patients to for these treatments?
Q2. How many patients were treated for cervical cancer in the past 6 months with the following treatments:
a. Paclitaxel in combination with Platinum and/or Bevacizumab
b. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum and/or Bevacizumab
c. Platinum standalone or in combination with Bevacizumab
d. Toptecan in combination with Platinum and/or Bevacizumab
e. Any other SACT
Q3. How many patients were treated for endometrial cancer in the past 6 months with the following treatments:
a. Dostarlimab
b. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Lenvatinib
d. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
e. Any other SACT
Q4. How many endometrial cancer patients received the following therapies as 1st Line treatment in the past 6 months:
a. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
b. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
c. Any other SACT
Q5. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of cervical cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Q6. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of endometrial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Chemotherapies and anything specific to carboplatin. 170322.docx
We are seeking information for both general advice relevant to all chemotherapies and anything specific to carboplatin.
As part of this guidance and information we are seeking data including but not limited to:
1. The % and number of patients having the kidney function tests before chemo has begun and after it has begun, with associated outcomes, including mortality rates, split by chemo cycle stage undertaken.
2. The % and number of patients whose GFR tests taken prior to chemo starting, have indicated their kidneys were not functioning sufficiently to enable progression of chemotherapy.
3. It would then be helpful to understand which of those patients guided chemo cannot be progressed, did not progress and those that did (going against doctors wishes if that is possible to do?) and their outcomes.
It needs to reflect a time pre covid that is representative of more ‘normal’ time in treatment of cancers patients and also post pandemic peak when hospitals have been ramping up recovery.
We’d therefore be looking at two periods of data 1) 12 rolling months, February 2018 to Feb 2019 and then 5 months May 2021 to September 2021.
In addition to our questions below we’d like:
4. The specific data on number of patients during those periods who did not have a kidney function test prior to the first chemo cycle e.g total patients given chemo and not given chemo and the numbers of those that had gfr test before and those that did not.
5. For those patients that did not, also confirm of any subsequent kidney failure experienced and at what stage of chemo it was experienced.
6. To make a fair comparison, we’d welcome data of those who experienced kidney failure from chemo and at what stage chemo this happened – who undertook a gfr test prior and whose kidneys were deemed fit enough to withstand chemo treatment.
Chemotherapies and anything specific to carboplatin. 170322.docx
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.251024.docx
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Please answer the questions with regards to NHS patients, i.e., excluding patients that received treatment as part of clinical trials or private healthcare.
1. How many newly diagnosed patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) have started first-line treatment in your Trust or Centre during the 6-month period February 2024 to July 2024?
2. How many of these newly diagnosed patients with CLL received chemoimmunotherapy (CIT) as first-line treatment?
CITs include fludarabine + cyclophosphamide + rituximab (FCR), fludarabine + rituximab (FR), bendamustine + rituximab (BR), bendamustine monotherapy, rituximab + cyclophosphamide + doxorubicin + vincristine + prednisolone (R-CHOP), obinutuzumab ± chlorambucil, rituximab + chlorambucil and ofatumumab
3. Please complete the table below with how many newly diagnosed patients with CLL have started first-line treatment with each of the following CITs during the 6-month period February 2024 to July 2024
a. FCR (fludarabine + cyclophosphamide + rituximab)
b. FR (fludarabine + rituximab)
c. BR (bendamustine + rituximab)
d. Bendamustine monotherapy
e. RCHOP (Rituximab + cyclophosphamide + doxorubicin + vincristine + prednisolone)
f. Obinutuzumab ± chlorambucil
g. Rituximab + chlorambucil
h. Ofatumumab
i. Other – please specify
Note: this should only include newly diagnosed patients with CLL who have started first-line treatment during the 6-month window
Clinical Imaging Equipment. 150322.docx
A list of the current medical imaging equipment held by the Trust across all hospital sites, providing the following information:
Q1: What is your overall spend on medical imaging products and services for the current year?
Q2: How much do you spend on each modality requested below for the current year:
a) Computed Tomography (CT)
b) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
c) Ultrasound
d) Fluoroscopy
e) Mammography
f) Nuclear
g) Mobile X-ray
h) Static X-ray
Q3: A list of the current equipment held by the Trust across all hospital sites for each of the following:
a) Supplier
b) Product
c) Contract start date
d) Contract expiry date
e) Number of devices
f) Age of product
Example Response: 3 x Siemens Acuson SC2000, Initial cost £ 29,000, Contract start date 10/02/2022 Contract end date 10/02/2026, 6 years old
Q4: Annual cost of maintenance of equipment
Q5: What percentage of your imaging equipment has an element of Artificial Intelligence?
Clinical Insourcing and Outsourcing. 111121.docx
1. Do you insource clinical services and if so, which ones?
2. Do you have any current contracts in place with a company for these insourced services, and if so which services?
3. How much have you spent on insourcing clinical services per annum for the past 3 years?
4. Do you outsource clinical services and if so, which ones?
5. Do you have any current contracts in place with a company for these outsourced services, and if so which services?
6. How much have you spent on outsourcing clinical services per annum for the past 3 years?
Download response Clinical Insourcing and Outsourcing. 111121.docx
Clinical Trials in Oncology.210324.docx
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Name of person completing out this form:
Full name of the hospital or NHS Trust (specify):
Your role at the hospital:
Your involvement in oncology clinical trials:
Is your hospital/ NHS Trust a Cancer Unit, Cancer Centre or Centre of Excellence in Cancer Care?
1.Ia What tumour groups do you treat with systemic anti-cancer therapy at your centre?
1.Ib Since 2010, for what tumour groups has your organisation had clinical trials involving systemic anti-cancer therapy? Select all that apply.
1.Ic In TOTAL, how many clinical trials (interventional Phase 0 – III) involving novel or novel combination or novel way of administering systemic anti-cancer therapies for solid cancers did you have in the Oncology department on 31 Dec in each year (provide a snapshot number) since 2010?
1.Id Of the total number of clinical trials you reported in 1.Ic, how many were solely funded by the NHS and NIHR (thus excluding trials funded by charity, government research councils like MRC, academic institutions and commercial companies)?
1.Ie Of the total number of clinical trials you reported in 1.Ic, how many were PHASE 1 trials?
1.If Of the total number of clinical trials you reported in 1.Ic, how many were PHASE 2 trials?
1.Ig Of the total number of clinical trials you reported in 1.Ic, how many were PHASE 3 trials?
1.Ih On a separate note, how many Phase IV trials did you conduct in each year at your hospital/ Trust?
1.Ii Of the total number of clinical trials you reported in 1.Ic, how many involved another procedure such as surgery or radiotherapy in combination with the trialled systemic anti-cancer therapy within the trial?
1.Ij Provide the total number of adult patients enrolled in phase I – III solid-cancer systemic anti-cancer therapy trials on 31 Dec of each year at your hospital/ Trust:
1.Ik In each year, how many new Phase I – III clinical trials did you open for recruitment?
2.I Post-BREXIT, what regulatory changes have had the greatest impact on the initiation of oncology trials at your centre?
2.II Post-BREXIT, what regulatory changes have had the greatest impact on the conduct/ continuation of oncology trials at your centre?
2.IIIa Post-BREXIT, have you observed any specific challenges related to regulatory compliance for initiating new oncology trials at your centre?
2.IIIb If yes, please specify the regulatory challenges encountered:
2.IVa Have there been any notable changes in the regulatory reporting requirements for ongoing oncology trials post-BREXIT?
2.IVb If yes, please elaborate on the changes and their impact on trial conduct:
2.Va Have there been any changes in the timeline for regulatory approvals post-BREXIT for initiating new oncology trials?
2.Vb If yes, please specify the nature of delays and their impact on trial initiation:
2.VI How has the communication and coordination with regulatory authorities changed post-BREXIT in the context of oncology trials?
2.VIa Have there been any new documentation or compliance requirements introduced post-BREXIT for ongoing oncology trials?
2.VIb If yes, please provide examples of the additional documentation or compliance measures introduced:
2.VII How has the training and education of clinical trial staff in your centre been impacted by regulatory changes post-BREXIT?
2.VIIIa Have there been any changes in the requirements for informed consent processes for oncology trials post-BREXIT?
2.VIIIb If yes, please specify the nature of changes and their impact on the informed consent process:
2.IX How has the interpretation and implementation of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines evolved post-BREXIT in your centre?
2.Xa Where staff updated or educated on regulatory changes post- BREXIT?
2.Xb If yes, explain how:
2.Xc If no, explain why not:
3.I In each year, how many Phase 0 – IV clinical trials did you have to discontinue due to a lack of funding? Comment on the funding sources affected:
3.II Name all organisations, including your own, that sponsored and/or funded solid- cancer systemic-anticancer therapy trials at your centre in each year:
3.III How has the funding landscape for oncology pharmaceutical trials at your centre changed post-BREXIT?
3.IV If there has been a change, please describe the main factors contributing to the shift in funding availability:
3.V How has the change in funding impacted the continuity of ongoing oncology pharmaceutical trials at your centre?
3.VI Are there specific types of trials more affected by funding challenges (e.g., Phase 1, investigator-initiated trials, certain types of systemic anti-cancer drugs, combination therapies, for certain tumour groups)?
3.VII How has the uncertainty surrounding BREXIT impacted the willingness of funding organisations to support oncology trials?
3.VIII Answering on behalf of your organisation, are there any specific policy changes that would enhance funding opportunities for oncology trials post-BREXIT?
3.IXa Have you explored alternative funding sources or strategies to mitigate potential funding challenges post-BREXIT?
3.IXb If yes, please share details of any successful strategies or approaches implemented:
3.X To what extent have patient advocacy groups played a role in supporting or influencing funding for oncology trials post-BREXIT in or for your organisation?
3.XIa Have there been any changes in the criteria or preferences of funding organisations when considering proposals for oncology trials post-BREXIT?
3.XIb If yes, please elaborate on the key changes in criteria or preferences:
4.I Comment on collaborative challenges that affected or caused disruptions in the initiation or running of solid-cancer systemic anti- cancer therapy drugs:
4.IIa Have there been challenges in maintaining international collaborations for oncology trials post-BREXIT?
4.IIb If yes, please identify the main collaborative challenges faced:
4.IIIa Have changes in regulatory requirements impacted international partnerships in oncology trials?
4.IIIb If yes, please elaborate on the specific regulatory aspects causing challenges:
4.IVa In your experience, have collaborative challenges affected the timeline and efficiency of oncology trials?
4.IVb If yes, please provide examples or instances where collaboration challenges led to disruptions in trial initiation or conduct:
4.Va At your current NHS hospital, have there been challenges in aligning international ethical standards and practices for oncology trials post-BREXIT?
4.Vb If yes, please elaborate on the specific ethical challenges faced and their impact on collaborative efforts:
4.VI How has the exchange of trial-related data and information with international partners been affected post-BREXIT?
4.VIIa In your organisation’s experience, have there been any challenges related to differences in patient populations across international sites in oncology trials?
4.VIIb If yes, please provide examples or instances where differences in patient populations posed challenges to collaborative efforts?
4.VIII How has the exchange of expertise and specialised resources with international collaborators been affected post-BREXIT?
4.IX From your organisation’s perspective, what strategies or initiatives could enhance international collaboration in oncology trials in the post-BREXIT era?
5.Ia Have you become aware of or experienced any challenges related to the alignment of data privacy and protection regulations in international oncology trials post-BREXIT?
5.Ib If yes, please elaborate on the specific challenges faced and any measures
Colonoscopies and colorectal cancer. 160322.docx
1. The total number of colonoscopies undertaken in Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust for the period
i) April 2019-March 2020
ii) April 2020-March 2021.
2. The total number of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer (or other clearly defined indications) within Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust for the period
i) April 2019-March 2020
ii) April 2020-March 2021.
3. The average adenoma detection rate (ADR) and post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer rate (PCCRC) for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust for the period
i) April 2019-March 2020
ii) April 2020-March 2021
4. The total number of cancers detected, against cancer stage (e.g. 1,2,3 or 4), against colonoscopies performed in the prior three years within Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in the period
i) April 2019-March 2020
ii) April 2020-March 2021
Colorectal Cancer.041223.docx
In the past 3 months, how many patients have been treated for Colorectal Cancer [CRC] with the following regimens? If possible, please also provide the split of metastatic vs non-metastatic patients for each regimen.
Regimens
a. Capecitabine
b. CAPIRI
c. CAPOX
d. Cetuximab with FOLFIRI
e. Cetuximab with FOLFOX
f. Cetuximab as a single agent
g. Cetuximab with Encorafenib
h. Irinotecan as a single agent
i. FOLFIRI
j. FOLFOX
k. Fluorouracil (5FU) as a single agent
l. Oxaliplatin as a single agent
m. Nivolumab with Ipilimumab
n. Panitumumab with FOLFIRI
o. Panitumumab with FOLFOX
p. Panitumumab as a single agent
q. Pembrolizumab
r. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
s. Palliative care only
Colorectal cancer [CRC].160922.docx
Q1. Within your health trust, how many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for colorectal cancer [CRC]?
a. Aflibercept
b. Bevacizumab
c. Capecitabine
d. CAPIRI
e. CAPOX (XELOX)
f. Cetuximab in combination with FOLFIRI
g. Cetuximab in combination with FOLFOX
h. Cetuximab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
i. Irinotecan only
j. FOLFIRI
k. FOLFOX
l. Fluorouracil (5FU) only
m. Oxaliplatin only
n. Panitumumab in combination with FOLFIRI
o. Panitumumab in combination with FOLFOX
p. Panitumumab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
q. Pembrolizumab
r. Nivolumab
s. Raltitrexed
t. Ramucirumab
u. Regorafenib
v. Sorafenib
w. Other SACT
Q2. In the last 3 months, how many patients has your trust treated (for any condition) with the following treatments
a. Avatrombopag
b. Eltrombopag
c. Fostamatinib
d. Romiplostim
Q3. In the last 3 months, how many patients has your trust treated for Immune thrombocytopenia (ICD10 code D69.3)?
Q4. In the last 3 months, how many patients has your trust treated for Immune thrombocytopenia (ICD10 code D69.3) ONLY with the following treatments:
a. Avatrombopag
b. Mycophenolate mofetil
c. Rituximab
d. Surgery (splenectomy)
Colorectal Cancer [CRC].180324.docx
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In the past 3 months, how many patients have been treated for Colorectal Cancer [CRC] with the following regimens? If possible, please also provide the split of metastatic vs non-metastatic patients for each regimen.
Regimens
Capecitabine
CAPIRI
CAPOX
Cetuximab with FOLFIRI
Cetuximab with FOLFOX
Cetuximab as a single agent
Cetuximab with Encorafenib
Irinotecan as a single agent
FOLFIRI
FOLFOX
Fluorouracil (5FU) as a single agent
Oxaliplatin as a single agent
Nivolumab with Ipilimumab
Panitumumab with FOLFIRI
Panitumumab with FOLFOX
Panitumumab as a single agent
Pembrolizumab
Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
Palliative care only
Colorectal Cancer [CRC].250724.docx
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In the past 3 months, how many patients have been treated for Colorectal Cancer [CRC] with the following regimens?
Can you please provide the total number of patients treated for CRC with each product and the total number of Metastatic patients treated with each product for CRC in the table below.
Aflibercept plus chemotherapy
Bevacizumab plus fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy
Capecitabine
CAPIRI
CAPOX
Cetuximab with FOLFIRI
Cetuximab with FOLFOX
Cetuximab as a single agent
Cetuximab with Encorafenib
Irinotecan as a single agent
FOLFIRI
FOLFOX
Fluorouracil (5FU) as a single agent
Oxaliplatin as a single agent
Nivolumab with Ipilimumab
Panitumumab with FOLFIRI
Panitumumab with FOLFOX
Panitumumab as a single agent
Pembrolizumab
Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
Palliative care only
Community Diagnostic Centre.080922.docx
Please could you provide me with a copy of the business case for the Trust’s Community Diagnostic Centre project, including the capital budget for the entire project.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) services.101022.docx
I am writing to obtain information, under the Freedom of Information Act, about your Trust’s funding of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) services they provided.
To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting:
1. How much the Trust has spent on CAM services for the following financial years:
a. 2019-20
b. 2020-21
c. 2021-22
This includes salaries for those employed to carry out these services, costs of medicine, equipment and any additional costs involved.
2. A list of all services provided under CAM.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) services.101022.docx
CT and MRI machines.310124.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
I kindly request that you provide the number of CT and MRI machines, categorised based on ownership (owned or rented) for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, along with details regarding the age of the owned machinery for the year 2023 only.
CT and MRI machines.311022.docx
1) How many of each of the following machines do you have in use:
i) CT
ii) MRI
iii) X-ray
2) How many of each of the following machines are you using that are older than ten years old:
i) CT
ii) MRI
iii) X-ray
3) How old is your oldest in-use machine for each of:
i) CT
ii) MRI
iii) X-ray
4) How many of each of the following machines have you purchased in the past year:
i) CT
ii) MRI
iii) X-ray
5) How much did you spend repairing CT, MRI and X-ray machines in each of the past three years?
CT, MRI and Ultrasound Scanners and X-Ray machines. 170921.docx
1) The number of CT scanners in your Trust, where relevant please provide a number for each hospital.
2) The number of MRI scanners in your Trust, where relevant please provide a number for each hospital.
3) The number of ultrasound scanners in your Trust, where relevant please provide a number for each hospital.
4) The number of x-ray machines in your Trust, where relevant please provide a number for each hospital.
5) For each of the items 1-4, please also provide the number of machines that are more than 10 years old and if available the year that the machine was purchased.
Download response CT, MRI and Ultrasound Scanners and X-Ray machines. 170921.docx
CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound clinical imaging equipment.130324.docx
Tab 1:
MES Contract
1. Supplier
2. Contract Start Date
3. Contract End Date
4. Initial Cost
5. Interest rates (%)
6. Consumables included?
7. Accessories included?
8. Maintenance included?
Tab 2:
Clinical Imaging Asset Details
1. Local Identifier
2. Modality
3. Equipment detail
4. Asset name
5. Manufacturer
6. Age
7. First in Service
8. Planned replacement date
9. Replacement schedule
10. Ownership structure
11. How is the ownership accounted for?
12. Capital purchase cost
13. Maintenance type (drop-down list)
14. Maintenance provider
15. Maintenance Service Contract Start Date
16. Maintenance Service Contract End Date
17. Maintenance Cost
Tab 3:
Clinical Imaging Accessories
1. Local Identifier
2. Modality
3. Equipment detail
4. Asset name
5. Manufacturer
6. Age
7. First in Service
8. Planned replacement date
9. Replacement schedule
10. Ownership structure
11. How is the ownership accounted for?
12. Capital purchase cost
13. Maintenance type (drop-down list)
14. Maintenance provider
15. Maintenance Service Contract Start Date
16. Maintenance Service Contract End Date
17. Maintenance Cost
CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound clinical imaging equipment.130324.docx
CTCL (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) treatment centres. 110322.docx
We are looking to produce a map of the CTCL (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) treatment centres in the UK.
To help with this, please could you provide the following:
1. Which centre/s in your NHS Trust offer treatment for CTCL, if any
2. The type of CTCL treatment these centres offer (TSEB or ECP)
3. A contact phone number for referrals for each centre
CTCL (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) treatment centres. 110322.docx
Dabrafenib + Trametinib.050722.docx
Please answer these questions relating to the usage of Dabrafenib + Trametinib in cancer treatment.
A) Over the previous 6 months, how many patients for the following diseases have been treated with a combination of Dabrafenib + Trametinib:
i) Metastatic Melanoma
ii) Adjuvant Melanoma
iii) BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
Dabrafenib + Trametinib.110423.docx
A) Over the previous 6 months, how many patients for the following diseases have been treated with a combination of Dabrafenib + Trametinib:
i) Metastatic Melanoma
ii) Adjuvant Melanoma
iii) BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
Diagnoses of cancer. 020822.docx
Please could you provide the figures for diagnoses of cancer within your hospital from January 2010 to date.
Please could you present these figures in a yearly format.
Diagnostic equipment spend.251023.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. How much has your trust spent on new diagnostic equipment in each of the past three financial years, e.g. x ray machines, CT scanners, MRIs etc?
2. How much has your trust spent on maintaining and repairing old equipment in the past three financial years?
3. How many diagnostic machines did you purchase in the last financial year?
Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL).06.08.24.docx
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Q1. In the last 6 months, how many patients have been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)?
Q1a. Of these patients, how many commenced treatment at your trust within the last 6 months?
Q2. In the last 6 months, how many patients have you treated for Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) with the following treatments:
a. R-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, vincristine and prednisolone)
b. R-mini-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, vincristine and prednisolone)
c. Pola-BR (polatuzumab vedotin with rituximab and bendamustine)
d. Pola-R-CHP (Polatuzumab vedotin with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, and prednisolone)
e. R-CODOX-M (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin and methotrexate)
f. R-IVAC (rituximab, ifosfamide, etoposide and cytarabine)
g. Axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta)
h. Tisagenlecleucel
i. Epcoritamab
j. Loncastuximab tesirine
k. Glofitamab
l. Any other SACT
m. Stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant (autologous or allogeneic)
Q3. In the last 6 months, how many patients have received the following 2nd line treatments for Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL):
a. Axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta)
b. Tisagenlecleucel
c. Pola-BR (polatuzumab vedotin with rituximab and bendamustine)
d. Stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant (autologous or allogeneic)
e. Any other treatments
Q4. In the last 6 months, how many patients have you referred to other trusts for the treatment of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) for the following treatments:
a. CAR-T Therapy (E.g. Axicabtagene ciloleucel)
b. Stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant (autologous or allogeneic)
c. Any other treatment
Q5. Do you participate in any active clinical trials for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part or enrolling?
Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL).270722.docx
Q1. Does your trust treat patients with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)? If not, then which trust do you refer DLBCL patients to?
Q2. In the last 6 months, how many patients have you treated for Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)?
Q3. In the last 6 months, how many patients have you treated for Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) with the following treatments:
a. R-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, vincristine and prednisolone)
b. R-mini-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, vincristine and prednisolone)
c. Other immuno-chemotherapy
d. Other chemotherapy
e. Stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant (autologous or allogeneic)
f. Pola-BR (polatuzumab vedotin with rituximab and bendamustine) – any line of treatment
g. Pola-BR (polatuzumab vedotin with rituximab and bendamustine) – third-line treatment only
h. Tisagenlecleucel
i. Axicabtegene ciloleucel
j. Lisocabtagene maraleucel
Q4. In the last 6 months, how many Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) patients have you referred to other trusts for:
a. Stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant (autologous or allogeneic)
b. CAR-T therapy (Tisagenlecleucel, Axicabtegene ciloleucel, Lisocabtagene maraleucel)
Q5. Do you participate in any active clinical trials for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
DXA Facilities Audit.020323.docx
Infrastructure:
1) Do you outsource your DXA scans? If Yes- please state the organisation providing this service and forward this FOI to your provider for completion (please continue to complete for any of the elements of the DXA pathway that are provided by your Trust/board)
2) In January 2023 how many DXA scanning machines did you have at your trust/board for clinical use?
a. n. Operational
b. n. not in use
c. n. accessible outside of Trust
3) What is the average weekly capacity for clinical scans? (N. of scans per week)
4) What was your average DNA rate over the last 3 months? (n. DNA/total n. scans booked)
5) What age range do you include in your clinical scans? Please tick all that apply
a. <20 years b. 20-40 years c. 40-60 years d. 60-75 years e. 75-80 years f. >80 years
6) What is the duration of your routine DXA appointment:
a. 15 minutes or less
b. 16-25 minutes
c. 26-30 minutes
d. >30 minutes
7) What was the average wait for clinical patients from referral to scan in January 2023?
a. <2 weeks (move to Q9) b. 2-6 weeks (move to Q9) c. 6-13 weeks d. >13 weeks
8) What are your perceived barriers to delivering DXA scans within 6 weeks from referral? Please tick all that apply
a. Scanner capacity (DXA equipment)
b. Clinical capacity (operator)
c. Other- please state
9) What was the average time from the scan to the report being available to the referrer in January 2023?
a. <3 weeks (move to Q11) b. 4-6 week c. 6-13 weeks d. >13 weeks
10) What are your perceived barriers to referrers receiving DXA scan reports within 3 weeks from scan? Please tick all that apply
a. Clerical- internal
b. Clinical- internal
c. Factors external to this service (please state)
d. Other (please state)
11) What hospital department is responsible for delivery of DXA scans:
a. Radiology
b. Medical physics
c. Nuclear medicine
d. Rheumatology
e. Other- please state
12) Which DXA examinations are included in routine protocols for the clinical service? Please tick all that apply
a. Lumbar spine
b. Proximal femur
c. Long femur (AFF assessment)
d. Total body
e. Vertebral fracture assessment (VFA)
f. Peripheral/forearm
13) What access facilities do you have available? Please tick all that apply
a. Overhead hoist
b. Portable hoist
c. Wheelchair transfers
d. Bed/trolley transfers
e. Changing room
f. Assistance for transfers
g. Other- please state
Workforce:
1)
i) What professional groups perform DXA scan measurements at your centre? (DXA operators)
a. Radiographer
b. DXA technician
c. Assistant practitioner
d. Clinical scientist
e. Nurse
f. Medical Dr- please state specialism
g. Other- please state
h. Unknown]
ii) Please indicate WTE for each group selected
2) What DXA-specific training (outside of professional training) have the DXA operators performing scans had?
a. In house
b. Manufacturers applications training
c. Recognized/accredited national training programme (please state the name of the training programme/provider)
d. Other- please state
e. Unknown
3) What professional groups report your DXA scans at your centre? ()
a. Radiographer – internal
b. Radiographer – external
c. DXA technician – internal
d. DXA technician – external
e. Assistant practitioner – internal
f. Assistant practitioner – external
g. Clinical scientist – internal
h. Clinical scientist – external
i. Nurse -internal
j. Nurse – external
k. Medical Dr – internal – please state specialism(s)
l. Medical Dr – external – please state specialism(s)
m. Other- please state
n. Reporting is outsourced
o. Unknown
4) What training (outside of professional training) have those reporting DXA scans had- specifically in DXA reporting?
a. In house
b. Manufacturers applications training
c. Recognized/accredited national training programme (please state the name of the training programme/provider)
d. Other- please state
e. Unknown
5) What professional group provides clinical leadership for your service?
a. Radiographer
b. DXA technician
c. Assistant practitioner
d. Clinical scientist
e. Nurse
f. Medical Dr- please state specialism(s)
g. Other- please state
h. Unknown
6) Please indicate how many (WTE) clinical vacancies in your DXA service do you have in January 2023? (Free text)
Quality:
1) Is your service accredited as part of a national programme?
a. ISAS
b. IOS
c. Other- please state
d. None
e. Unknown
2) What clinical audits do you routinely undertake? Please tick all that apply
a. DXA scan technique
b. Reporting (double reporting)
c. Reporting (clinical review)
d. Scanner QA review
e. Other- please state
f. Unknown
3) What IR(ME)R audits do you routinely undertake? Please tick all that apply
a. Patient pregnancy
b. DXA dose audit
c. Referrer entitlement
d. Scan justification
e. Other- please state
f. Unknown
4) What clinical protocols do you have in place? Please tick all that apply
a. Scan site
b. Scan mode
c. Reference data selection
d. Patient positioning
e. Scan analysis
f. Interpretation- T&Z-scores
g. Reporting
h. Other- please state
i. Unknown
5) Which of the following are routinely included in the DXA report issued to the PRIMARY CARE referrer? Please tick all that apply
A. Admin. details
i. Date of assessment
ii. Patient ID and demographics
iii. Reason for referral
iv. Reporter’s ID
B. BMD results for each measurement site
i. T score (after peak bone mass)
ii. Z score
iii. Rate of change for serial measurements
C. Comment on reliability of measurements
i. BMD results
ii. Documentation of excluded measurements eg. vertebrae
iii. Statistical significance of rate of change
iv. Clinical significance of rate of change
D. WHO diagnostic category (for adults after peak bone mass)
E. Results of additional investigations performed at DXA appointment
i. VFA
ii. X-ray or other imaging
iii. Laboratory tests
F. Summary of clinical risk factors for fracture
G. Summary of fracture history
H. Clinical interpretation to quantify absolute fracture risk
i. FRAX+BMD
ii. FRAX + TBS
iii. FRAX+BMD plus comment on additional adjustment
iv. Statement on level of risk based on clinical judgement (eg. low/moderate/high)
I. Management advice
i. Reference to national guideline (NICE/NOGG/ROS)
ii. Reference to local management guideline
iii. Individualised advice
J. Recommendations on:
i. Need for onward referral eg. falls assessment or additional investigation
ii. Timing of future scan
6) Which of the following are routinely included in the DXA report issued to the SECONDARY CARE referrer? Please tick all that apply
A. Admin. details
i. Date of assessment
ii. Patient ID and demographics
iii. Reason for referral
iv. Reporter’s ID
B. BMD results for each measurement site
i. T score (after peak bone mass)
ii. Z score
iii. Rate of change for serial measurements
C. Comment on reliability of measurements
i. BMD results
ii. Documentation of excluded measurements eg. vertebrae
iii. Statistical significance of rate of change
iv. Clinical significance of rate of change
D. WHO diagnostic category (for adults after peak bone mass)
E. Results of additional investigations performed at DXA appointment
i. VFA
ii. X-ray or other imaging
iii. Laboratory tests
F. Summary of clinical risk factors for fracture
G. Summary of fracture history
H. Clinical interpretation to quantify absolute fracture risk
i. FRAX+BMD
ii. FRAX + TBS
iii. FRAX+BMD plus comment on additional adjustment
iv. Statement on level of risk based on clinical judgement (eg. low/moderate/high)
I. Management advice
i. Reference to national guideline
ii. Reference to local management guideline
iii. Individualised advice
J. Recommendations on:
i. Need for onward referral eg. falls assessment or additional investigation
ii. Timing of future scan
K. The secondary care report is the same as the primary care report
Early Melanoma.020323.docx
Q1. I am researching the usage of Pembrolizumab for the treatment of Melanoma. How many patients have you treated with Pembrolizumab in the three months from October to December 2022 for:
a. Melanoma – any stage
b. Melanoma – Stage IIb/IIc
c. Melanoma – Stage III
d. Melanoma – Metastatic
Q2. How many Stage IIb/IIc melanoma patients were on a “Watch and Wait” strategy in the three months from October to December 2022? These would be patients where a decision has been made to wait before commencing any treatment.
Elective theatres and scans.300124.docx
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1. Which hospitals in your Trust open elective theatres at the weekend? (please list the name of the hospital followed by a Y/N as to whether elective theatres are open at the weekend)
2. How many of the following scans has your Trust carried out in the last year, broken down by daily activity?
a. CT Scans
b. MRI Scans
c. X Rays
Endometrial Cancer.020623.docx
1. Does your trust provide SACT (systemic anti-cancer therapy) treatments for endometrial cancer? If not, which other trust do you refer endometrial cancer patients to for SACT treatments?
2. How many patients were treated for endometrial cancer in the past 6 months with the following treatments:
a. Dostarlimab
b. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
c. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
d. Pembrolizumab in combination with Lenvatinib
e. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
f. Any other SACT
3. How many endometrial cancer patients received the following therapies as 1st Line treatment in the past 6 months:
a. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
b. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
c. Any other SACT
4. Of the patients treated for endometrial cancer in the past 6 months with any SACT regimen, how many patients had high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR)?
5. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of endometrial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Endometrial Cancer.140824.docx
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Q1. Does your trust provide SACT (systemic anti-cancer therapy) treatments for endometrial cancer? If not, which other trust do you refer endometrial cancer patients to for SACT treatments?
Q2. How many patients were treated for endometrial cancer (any stage) in the past three months with the following treatments:
a. Dostarlimab (Jemperli)
b. Dostarlimab (Jemperli) AND Chemotherapy
c. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
d. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) monotherapy
e. Lenvatinib + Pembrolizumab (Lenvima +Keytruda)
f. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
g. Any other SACT
Q3. In the past three months, how many patients were treated for recurrent endometrial cancer after having previously received platinum-based chemotherapy?
Q4. In the past three months, how many patients were treated for endometrial cancer with the following as first line treatments:
a. Dostarlimab (Jemperli) AND Chemotherapy
b. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
c. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
d. Any other SACT
Q5. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of endometrial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Endometrial cancer.291124.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. Does your trust provide SACT (systemic anti-cancer therapy) treatments for endometrial cancer? If not, which other trust do you refer endometrial cancer patients to for SACT treatments?
Q2. How many patients were treated for endometrial cancer (any stage) in the past three months with the following treatments:
a. Dostarlimab (Jemperli)
b. Dostarlimab (Jemperli) AND Chemotherapy
c. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
d. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) monotherapy
e. Lenvatinib + Pembrolizumab (Lenvima +Keytruda)
f. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
g. Any other SACT
h. Any other Chemotherapy
Q3. In the past three months, how many patients were treated for recurrent endometrial cancer after having previously received platinum-based chemotherapy?
Q4. In the past three months, how many patients were treated for endometrial cancer with the following as first line treatments:
a. Dostarlimab (Jemperli) AND Chemotherapy
b. Hormone therapy (Progesterone or Letrozole)
c. Platinum-based chemotherapy (monotherapy or combination with taxanes, anthracyclines, cyclophosphamide)
d. Any other SACT
e. Any other chemotherapy
Q5. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of endometrial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Ensuring MHRA Compliance.190422.docx
1. Please state what software/ systems the Trust utilises for managing medical equipment/ devices in order to be compliant with MHRA Guidance (see URL below) from the list below. If not listed, please specify:
a. EMAT
b. F2
c. RAM
d. e-Quip
e. Other – please specify
2. Please state the name and contact for the person responsible for ensuring compliance with the MHRA guidance quoted above.
Flushing and locking of intravenous catheters.010722.docx
Could you please tell me, do you have such services as ‘Flushing and locking of intravenous catheters’ in your clinic?
Gamma camera (Nuclear Medicine imaging system). 080422.docx
1 The manufacturer & model name of each gamma camera (Nuclear Medicine imaging system) installed in your Trust
2 The hospital name where each system is installed
3 The date that the current service/maintenance contract on each gamma camera started
4 The date that the current service/maintenance contract on each gamma camera expires
Gastric Oesophageal cancer and Ovarian cancer.161123.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Lonsurf (Trifluridine – tipiracil)
d. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
f. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
g. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for Oesophageal cancer (any stage) with:
a. Nivolumab monotherapy or combination with Ipilimumab
b. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
d. Platinum and Fluoropyrimidene based combination treatments (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin with 5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
f. Palliative care only
Q3. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for ovarian cancer (any stage) with:
a. Paclitaxel in combination with a platinum-based compound
b. Platinum-based therapy alone (cisplatin or carboplatin)
c. Bevacizumab in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin
d. Olaparib
e. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
f. Niraparib
g. Rucaparib
Q4. If data for HRD (homologous recombination deficiency) testing is available, please provide how many HRD positive ovarian cancer patients were treated in the last 3 months with:
a. Olaparib
b. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
c. Niraparib
d. Other treatments
Q5. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of ovarian cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part.
Haematology.281222.docx
I am researching the use of certain types of drugs used in haematology. Could you please provide the number of patients treated (for any disease in the past 3 months with:
1. Aragam
2. Berinert
3. Cinryze
4. Cutaquig
5. Cuvitru
6. Firazyr
7. Flebogamma DIF
8. Gammagard
9. Gammanorm
10. Gammaplex
11. Gamunex
12. Hizentra
13. Hyqvia
14. Intratect
15. Iqymune
16. Kiovig
17. Octagam
18. Orladeyo
19. Panzyga
20. Privigen
21. Ruconest
22. Subgam
23. Takhzyro
Head and neck and urothelial cancer.030822.docx
1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the following agents:
a. Carboplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
b. Cisplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
c. Cetuximab with/without chemotherapy
d. Cetuximab with radiotherapy
e. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
f. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
g. Nivolumab
h. Docetaxel (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
i. Fluorouracil (5FU)
j. Radiotherapy only
k. Other
2. For the patients treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the therapies listed in the first question, please provide:
a. Total number of head and neck cancer patients
b. Number of locally advanced head and neck cancer patients
c. Number of unresectable recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer patients
3. How many Urothelial cancer patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents:
a. Avelumab
b. Atezolizumab
c. Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
d. Carboplatin single or in any other combination
e. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
f. Cisplatin single or in any other combination
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Any other regimen including Paclitaxel
j. Any other chemotherapy regimen
k. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy [please state]
l. Palliative care only
4. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of head and neck cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Head and Neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) and Urothelial cancer. 140422.docx
1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the following agents:
a. Carboplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
b. Cisplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
c. Cetuximab with/without chemotherapy
d. Cetuximab with radiotherapy
e. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
f. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
g. Nivolumab
h. Docetaxel (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
i. Fluorouracil (5FU)
j. Radiotherapy only
k. Other
2. For the patients treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the therapies listed in the first question, please provide:
a. Total number of head and neck cancer patients
b. Number of locally advanced head and neck cancer patients
c. Number of recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer patients
3. How many Urothelial cancer patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents:
a. Atezolizumab
b. Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
c. Carboplatin single or in any other combination
d. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
e. Cisplatin single or in any other combination
f. Nivolumab
g. Pembrolizumab
h. Any other regimen including Paclitaxel
i. Any other chemotherapy regimen
j. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy [please state]
k. Palliative care only
4. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of urothelial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Head and Neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) and Urothelial cancer. 140422.docx
Head & neck and urothelial cancer.281122.docx
1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the following agents:
a. Carboplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
b. Cisplatin (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
c. Cetuximab with/without chemotherapy
d. Cetuximab with radiotherapy
e. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
f. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
g. Nivolumab
h. Docetaxel (monotherapy or in combination with 5-FU)
i. Fluorouracil (5FU)
j. Radiotherapy only
k. Other
2. For the patients treated in the past 3 months for head and neck cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) with the therapies listed in the first question, please provide:
a. Total number of head and neck cancer patients
b. Number of locally advanced head and neck cancer patients
c. Number of unresectable recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer patients
3. How many Urothelial cancer patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents:
a. Avelumab
b. Atezolizumab
c. Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
d. Carboplatin single or in any other combination
e. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
f. Cisplatin single or in any other combination
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Any other regimen including Paclitaxel
j. Any other chemotherapy regimen
k. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy [please state]
l. Palliative care only
4. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of head and neck cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
5. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of urothelial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Helium consumption.271022.docx
1. Could you detail the quantity of helium that has been purchased each year for the last 5 years?
2. What are the main uses for helium within the Trust?
3. Could you outline the various grades/types of helium purchased?
4. What has the cost of helium been for each of those 5 years?
5. Who are your suppliers of helium and can you provide a copy of the supply contracts?
6. Can you detail your procurement process for obtaining helium and send any tender documents relating to helium?
HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate) procedure.290524.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The number of patients that are currently on the waiting list for this operation at this hospital?
2. What is the average waiting time for the operation from referral to the actual date of the operation.
3. Do the hospitals arrange for NHS patients to undergo this operation at a private hospitals?
HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate) procedure.290524.docx
Imaging equipment. 230921.docx
1. Please can you provide the following information for each piece of MRI scanners within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Tesla – 0.5 to 1.4, 1.5, 3.0, 3.0 +
d. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
e. Mobile / Static
f. Department equipment is primarily used in
g. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
h. Initial cost of Equipment
i. Annual Maintenance cost
j. Acquisition Date
k. Planned Replacement Date
2. Please can you provide the following information for each CT scanners within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Slices – 8, 16, 64, 128, 264
d. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
e. Mobile / Static
f. Department equipment is primarily used in
g. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
h. Initial cost of Equipment
i. Annual Maintenance cost
j. Acquisition Date
k. Planned Replacement Date
3. Please can you provide the following information for each Ultrasound scanner within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
d. Department equipment is primarily used in
e. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
f. Initial cost of Equipment
g. Annual Maintenance cost
h. Acquisition Date
i. Planned Replacement Date
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).031122.docx
Q1. How many patients has your trust treated (for any disease) in the last 6 months (or the latest 6 months data you have available) with the following treatments:
a. Revolade (eltrombopag)
b. Nplate (romiplostim)
c. Doptelet (avatrombopag)
d. Tavlesse (fostamatinib)
Q2. In the last 6 months (or the latest 6 months data you have available), how many patients has your trust treated for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)?
Q3. Of the patients treated for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in the last 6 months (or the latest 6 months data you have available), how many were treated with:
a. rituximab
b. mycophenolate mofetil
c. surgery (splenectomy)
Q4. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Implementation of digital pathology in Histopathology. 240222.docx
1. Has your histopathology laboratory outsourced any cases for reporting in the past year?
2. If yes, approximately what percentage of your work is outsourced?
3. Does your histopathology laboratory use any form of digital pathology?
4. Can you name the supplier(s) of your digital pathology solution?
5. If the answer to question 3 is “no”, can you indicate if you are looking to procure a digital pathology solution in the next year?
6. How much funding does the Trust have to implement this?
7. What would you use digital pathology for?
a. Research
b. Training
c. Primary diagnosis
d. Second opinion
e. MDT preparation and review
(Tick all that apply)
8. What LIS does your department currently use?
9. How old is your current LIS?
10. Does your laboratory workflow incorporate a barcoded tracking system?
11. If yes, what tracking system do you use?
12. To reduce the initial capital outlay, would you favour a cost per scan pricing model?
13. Would you consider an insourcing model where the digital pathology solution is tailored to your needs with scanners placed on site and images stored and streamed to your consultant workforce for reporting on your LIS?
14. Would you use an outsourcing model where your slides are sent offsite for scanning and cases reported by an external consultant team with reports returned direct to your LIS?
15. Would you prefer to purchase your own scanners and IMS and work directly with a partner provider to handle, store, and report your own images?
Implementation of digital pathology in Histopathology. 240222.docx
Incidence and treatment of breast cancer.110322.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole) as a single agent
b. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
c. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
e. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
f. Capecitabine as a single agent
g. Carboplatin or Cisplatin as a single agent
h. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
i. Everolimus + Exemestane
j. Fulvestrant as a single agent
k. Lapatinib
l. Neratinib
m. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
n. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
o. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
p. Pembrolizumab
q. Pertuzumab + Trastuzumab + Docetaxel
r. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
s. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
t. Sacituzumab Govitecan
u. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
v. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
w. Trastuzumab emtansine
x. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
y. Vinorelbine as a single agent
z. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many early/locally advanced (Stages I to IIIc) breast cancer patients were treated with an Aromatase Inhibitor (anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole) as a single agent?
Incidence and treatment of breast cancer.311022.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a.Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Alpelisib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) as a single agent
e. Atezolizumab +Nab-paclitaxel/Paclitaxel
f. Capecitabine as a single agent
g. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
h. Everolimus + Exemestane
i. Fulvestrant as a single agent
j. Lapatinib
k. Neratinib
l. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
m. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
n. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
o. Pembrolizumab
p. Platinum (e.g. carboplatin or cisplatin) as a single agent
q. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. Anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole)
r. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
s. Sacituzumab Govitecan
t. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
u. Taxane and/or Anthracycline in combination
v. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
w. Trastuzumab emtansine
x. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
y. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for breast cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Incidents of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) and Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL).170622.docx
Q1. How many patients has your trust treated in the past 3 months for the following conditions:
a. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL)
b. Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
c. In case you do not treat either of the above conditions, please tell us which trust or hospital you refer patients to.
Q2. How many Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following:
a. BR (bendamustine + rituximab)
b. Calquence (acalabrutinib)
c. FCR (fludarabine + cyclophosphamide + rituximab)
d. Gazyva (obinutuzumab) + chlorambucil
e. Imbruvica (ibrutinib)
f. Venclexta (venetoclax)
g. Venclexta (venetoclax) + Gazyva (obinutuzumab)
h. Venclexta (venetoclax) + rituximab
i. Zydelig (idelalisib) + rituximab
j. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q3. How many Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following:
a. BR (bendamustine + rituximab)
b. Imbruvica (ibrutinib)
c. Imbruvica (ibrutinib) + rituximab
d. R-BAC (rituximab, bendamustine and cytarabine)
e. R-CHOP (rituximab + cyclophosphamide + doxorubicin + vincristine + prednisone)
f. Nordic Protocol (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, cytarabine & prednisolone)
g. Velcade (bortezomib) + chemotherapy
h. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
i. Stem cell transplant
j. Tecartus (CAR-T) – Autologous anti-CD19-transduced CD3+ cells
Q4. Does your trust currently participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL)? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Q5. Does your trust currently participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Incidents of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) and Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL).170622.docx
Interventional Radiology.031122.docx
1. Number and type of interventional radiology (IR) procedures performed by the radiology department (only) per each year in question.
2. Number of interventional radiologists currently in the unit.
3. Number of dedicated interventional Radiology nurses
4. What is the Consultant Interventional Radiology on call rota?
5. Are there interventional Radiology trainees in your units? If yes, how many?
6. Number of Interventional Radiology angiosuites?
7. Is there a day case unit in your radiology department and if so, how many beds?
8. Number of beds in the trust.
LINAC machines and SBRT or SABR.170322.docx
1. The year of purchase of every LINAC machine in operation at your trust?
2. How many patients received SBRT or SABR at your Trust in 2020 and until the latest available in 2021 and for what indications?
3. How many individual business cases have been raised for new or replacement linear accelerators in 2020 and 2021.
Local Treatment Guidelines Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.020823.docx
Question 1
Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local treatment guidelines/pathways/protocols/algorithms for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer?
Question 2
Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have protocols for the use of the following targeted drug therapies in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer?
a. Sotorasib (Lumykras)
b. Entrectinib (Rozlytrek)
c. Larotrectinib (Vitrakvi)
d. Dabrafenib (Tafinlar)
e. Trametinib (Mekinist)
f. Capmatinib (Tabrecta)
g. Tepotinib (Tepmetko)
h. Bevacizumab (Avastin)
i. Ramucirumab (Cyramza)
j. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)
k. Durvalumab (Imfinzi)
l. Cemiplimab- (Libtayo)
m. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
n. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
o. Ipilimumab (Yervoy)
p. Afatinib (Giotrif)
q. Dacomitinib (Vizimpro)
r. Erlotinib (Tarceva)
s. Gefitinib (Iressa)
t. Osimertinib (Tagrisso)
u. Amivantamab (Rybrevant)
v. Mobocertinib (Exkivity)
w. trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu)
x. Alectinib (Alecensa)
y. Brigatinib (Alunbrig)
z. Ceritinib (Zykadia)
aa. Crizotinib (Xalkori)
bb. Lorlatinib (Lorviqua)
cc. Entrectinib (Rozlytrek)
dd. Pralsetinib (Gavreto)
ee. Selpercatinib (Retsevmo)
ff. Nintedanib (Vargatef®)
Question 3
If a local protocol for the use of Sotorasib (Lumykras) for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer is available please could a copy be provided?
Question 4
Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local pathways/protocols/guidelines for the use of molecular biomarker testing in diagnosis/treatment of non-small cell lung cancer?
Question 5
Is Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust part of a Cancer alliance or network, if so which ones?
Local Treatment Guidelines Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.020823.docx
Longest cancer waits.170323.docx
1. What was the longest a patient at your Trust waited (in weeks/days) for –
a) a first consultant appointment, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;
b) being told they have cancer, or cancer being definitively excluded, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;
c) a first treatment for cancer, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;
d) a diagnostic test or procedure, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway
In each of the following calendar years – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022?
Longest Cancer Waits.210324.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The longest wait from an Urgent Suspected Cancer or Breast Symptomatic Referral, or Consultant Upgrade to a First Definitive Treatment for Cancer in the Trust in 2023/24 (so far)?
2. How many patients in your trust are currently waiting longer than 6 months (186 days) from an Urgent Suspected Cancer or Breast Symptomatic Referral, or Consultant Upgrade to a First Definitive Treatment for Cancer?
Longest wait time for scans and x-rays.270923.docx
1. Your Trusts longest wait time for a non-urgent X-ray in the past 12 months
2. Your Trusts longest wait time for a CT scan in the past 12 months
3. Your Trusts longest wait time for an MRI in the past 12 months
4. Your Trusts longest wait time for a PET scan in the past 12 months
5. Your Trusts longest wait time for an Ultrasound in the past 12 months
6. Your Trusts longest wait time for an Angiography in the past 12 months
7. Your Trusts longest wait time for an Electrocardiogram scan in the past 12 months
8. Your Trusts longest wait time for an Echocardiogram in the past 12 months
Lung cancer.201024.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. ALK Inhibitors (Alectinib, Brigatinib, Ceritinib, Crizotinib, Lorlatinib)
b. Amivantamab
c. Atezolizumab Monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab + Bevacizumab + Carboplatin + Paclitaxel
e. Atezolizumab subcutaneous
f. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
g. Docetaxel monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
h. Durvalumab
i. Gemcitabine
j. Nintedanib + Docetaxel
k. Nivolumab
l. Osimertinib
m. Other EGFR Inhibitors (Afatinib, Erlotinib, Gefitinib, Dacomitinib, Mobocertinib)
n. Paclitaxel
o. Pembrolizumab Monotherapy
p. Pembrolizumab + Paclitaxel + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
q. Pembrolizumab + Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
r. Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
s. RET Inhibitors (Pralsetinib, Selpercatinib)
t. Sotorasib
u. Tepotinib
v. Vinorelbine monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
w. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
x. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY in the past 3 months with:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Durvalumab
c. Gemcitabine
d. Nivolumab
e. Osimertinib
f. Pembrolizumab Monotherapy
g. Pembrolizumab + Paclitaxel + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
h. Paclitaxel
i. Vinorelbine monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
j. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
k. Palliative care only
Lung cancer.230623.docx
Q1 – How many patients has your Trust treated in the past 3 months for:
a. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – any treatment
b. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – surgical treatment
c. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – radiotherapy
d. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT)
Q2 – How many Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. ALK Inhibitors (Alectinib, Brigatinib, Ceritinib, Crizotinib, Lorlatinib)
b. Amivantamab
c. Atezolizumab monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
e. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
f. Durvalumab
g. Gemcitabine
h. Nitendanib + Docetaxel
i. Nivolumab
j. Osimertinib
k. Other EGFR Inhibitors (Afatinib, Erlotinib, Gefitinib, Dacomitinib, Mobocertinib)
l. Paclitaxel
m. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
n. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
o. Pemetrexed with carboplatin/cisplatin
p. RET Inhibitors (Pralsetinib, Selpercatinib)
q. Sotorasib
r. Tepotinib
s. Vinorelbine monotherapy or combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
t. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy [please state]
u. Palliative care only
Q3 – Of the NSCLC patients treated with Nivolumab in the past 3 months, how many patients received (surgery) or are scheduled to receive surgical treatment after commencement of the treatment with Nivolumab?
Lung cancer.250624.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. ALK Inhibitors (Alectinib, Brigatinib, Ceritinib, Crizotinib, Lorlatinib)
b. Amivantamab
c. Atezolizumab Monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab + Bevacizumab + Carboplatin + Paclitaxel
e. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
f. Docetaxel monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
g. Durvalumab
h. Gemcitabine
i. Nitedanib + Docetaxel
j. Nivolumab
k. Osimertinib
l. Other EGFR Inhibitors (Afatinib, Erlotinib, Gefitinib, Dacomitinib, Mobocertinib)
m. Paclitaxel
n. Pembrolizumab Monotherapy
o. Pembrolizumab + Paclitaxel + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
p. Pembrolizumab + Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
q. Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
r. RET Inhibitors (Pralsetinib, Selpercatinib)
s. Sotorasib
t. Tepotinib
u. Vinorelbine monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
v. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
w. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY in the past 3 months with:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Durvalumab
c. Gemcitabine
d. Nivolumab
e. Osimertinib
f. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Mono
g. Pembrolizumab + Paclitaxel + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
h. Paclitaxel
i. Vinorelbine monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
j. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
k. Palliative care only
Lung cancer.270622.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months, how many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with:
a. Afatinib
b. Alectinib
c. Amivantamab
d. Atezolizumab monotherapy
e. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
f. Brigatinib
g. Ceritinib
h. Crizotinib
i. Dacomitinib
j. Dabrafenib with Trametinib
k. Durvalumab
l. Erlotinib
m. Gefitinib
n. Lorlatinib
o. Mobocertinib
p. Nintedanib with Docetaxel
q. Nivolumab
r. Osimertinib
s. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
t. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
u. Pemetrexed with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
v. Sotorasib
w. Tepotinib
x. Vinorelbine with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
y. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
z. Palliative care only
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY with the following drugs:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
c. Durvalumab
d. Nivolumab
e. Osimertinib
f. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Mono
g. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with Chemotherapy
h. Tepotinib
i. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
j. Palliative care only
Lung cancer.271023.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. ALK Inhibitors (Alectinib, Brigatinib, Ceritinib, Crizotinib, Lorlatinib)
b. Amivantamab
c. Atezolizumab Monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab + Bevacizumab + Carboplatin + Paclitaxel
e. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
f. Docetaxel monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
g. Durvalumab
h. Gemcitabine
i. Nitedanib + Docetaxel
j. Nivolumab
k. Osimertinib
l. Other EGFR Inhibitors (Afatinib, Erlotinib, Gefitinib, Dacomitinib, Mobocertinib)
m. Paclitaxel
n. Pembrolizumab Monotherapy
o. Pembrolizumab + Paclitaxel + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
p. Pembrolizumab + Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
q. Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
r. RET Inhibitors (Pralsetinib, Selpercatinib)
s. Sotorasib
t. Tepotinib
u. Vinorelbine monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
v. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
w. Palliative care only
Q2. Of all the NSCLC patients treated with nivolumab in the past 3 months, how many patients received (surgery) or are scheduled to receive surgical treatment after commencement of the treatment with nivolumab?
Q3. Does your trust/health board participate in any clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)? If so, could you please provide the name of each active trial and the number of patients taking part.
Lung Cancer.280224.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. ALK Inhibitors (Alectinib, Brigatinib, Ceritinib, Crizotinib, Lorlatinib)
b. Amivantamab
c. Atezolizumab Monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab + Bevacizumab + Carboplatin + Paclitaxel
e. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
f. Docetaxel monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
g. Durvalumab
h. Gemcitabine
i. Nitedanib + Docetaxel
j. Nivolumab
k. Osimertinib
l. Other EGFR Inhibitors (Afatinib, Erlotinib, Gefitinib, Dacomitinib, Mobocertinib)
m. Paclitaxel
n. Pembrolizumab Monotherapy
o. Pembrolizumab + Paclitaxel + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
p. Pembrolizumab + Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
q. Pemetrexed + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
r. RET Inhibitors (Pralsetinib, Selpercatinib)
s. Sotorasib
t. Tepotinib
u. Vinorelbine monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
v. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
w. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY in the past 3 months with:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Durvalumab
c. Gemcitabine
d. Nivolumab
e. Osimertinib
f. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Mono
g. Pembrolizumab + Paclitaxel + Platinum (Carboplatin/Cisplatin)
h. Paclitaxel
i. Vinorelbine monotherapy or in combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
j. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
k. Palliative care only
Maintenance contract for the Trust’s surgical power tool inventory.181022.docx
1. Who provides the maintenance and/or repair of the Trust’s surgical power tool inventory? If more than one, please provide all.
2. When is the expiry date of the existing maintenance contract for the Trust’s surgical power tool inventory? If more than one, please provide all.
Maintenance contract for the Trust’s surgical power tool inventory.181022.docx
Maintenance contract on the GE Discovery 670 gamma camera systems.141122.docx
Could you please provide me with the name, telephone number & email address of whom we need to contact at the Trust to be considered for the maintenance contract on the GE Discovery 670 gamma camera systems when the current contracts expire in March 23?
Maintenance contract on the GE Discovery 670 gamma camera systems.141122.docx
Medical devices.021222.docx
1. Approximately how many medical devices/EBME devices does the trust own?
2. Approximately how many patient beds does the Trust have?
3. Does the trust subcontract the maintenance of medical/EBME devices to an outside provider(s) or does it maintain the devices using internal engineers?
3a. If an external provider(s) is used, what is the name of the company(s)?
3b. If an external provider(s) is used, what was the value of the contract when awarded?
3c. If an external provider(s) is used, what is the contract type – PPM/ Fully-Comprehensive / Ad-hoc support?
3d. If an external provider(s) is used, what is the contract renewal date(s)?
4. Please provide the name, email address of the role responsible for managing medical devices within the trust
5. If medical device maintenance is managed internally, how many clinical engineers are employed by the Trust?
6. What is the current % of assets ‘within service date’ – i.e., the date by which a device must be serviced has not expired? (This will be a standard KPI)
Medical Devices.050722.docx
1. The name of the person within your Trust that is responsible for Medical Devices e.g. Medical Device Manager.
2. The email address of the person that holds this responsibility.
3. The name of the person within your Trust that holds the job title EMBE Manager
4. The email address of the Trusts EBME Manager
Medical Imaging Equipment.110522.docx
A list of the current medical imaging equipment held by the Trust across all hospital sites, providing the following information:
Q1: What is the contract value for each imaging modality requested below:
a) Computed Tomography (CT)
b) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
c) Ultrasound
d) Fluoroscopy
e) Mammography
f) Nuclear
g) Mobile X-ray
h) Static X-ray
Q2: A list of the current modalities held by the Trust across all hospital sites for each of the following:
a) Supplier name
b) Product name
c) Contract start date
d) Contract expiry date
e) Number of devices
f) Age of product
Q3: What percentage of your imaging equipment has an element of Artificial Intelligence?
Melanoma.250624.docx
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Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage) :
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Denosumab
f. Encorafenib + Binimetinib
g. Ipilimumab monotherapy
h. Ipilimumab + Nivolumab
i. Nivolumab monotherapy
j. Nivolumab + Relatlimab
k. Pembrolizumab
l. Trametinib
m. Vemurafenib
n. Vemurafenib + Cobimetinib
o. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
p. Palliative care only
Q2. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Ipilimumab monotherapy
b. Ipilimumab + Nivolumab
c. Nivolumab monotherapy
d. Nivolumab + Relatlimab
e. Pembrolizumab
f. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
g. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
h. Palliative care only
Q3. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for melanoma?
a. Ipilimumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
c. Nivolumab AND Ipilimumab (combination)
d. Nivolumab AND Relatlimab
e. Pembrolizumab
f. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
g. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Melanoma.251024.docx
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Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage) :
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Denosumab
f. Encorafenib + Binimetinib
g. Ipilimumab monotherapy
h. Ipilimumab + Nivolumab
i. Nivolumab monotherapy
j. Nivolumab + Relatlimab
k. Pembrolizumab
l. Trametinib
m. Vemurafenib
n. Vemurafenib + Cobimetinib
o. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
p. Palliative care only
Q2. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Ipilimumab monotherapy
b. Ipilimumab + Nivolumab
c. Nivolumab monotherapy
d. Nivolumab + Relatlimab
e. Pembrolizumab
f. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
g. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
h. Palliative care only
Q3. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for melanoma?
a. Ipilimumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
c. Nivolumab AND Ipilimumab (combination)
d. Nivolumab AND Relatlimab
e. Pembrolizumab
f. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
g. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Melanoma.290922.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months (or the latest 3 months data you have available), how many melanoma patients were treated with:
a. Bevacizumab (Avastin)
b. Dacarbazine (DTIC)
c. Trametinib (Mekinist)
d. Dabrafenib (Tafinlar)
e. Ipilimumab (Yervoy)
f. Vemurafenib (Zelboraf)
g. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
h. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab (Opdivo + Yervoy)
i. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
j. Vemurafenib + cobimetinib (Zelboraf + Cotellic)
k. Dabrafenib + Trametinib (Tafinlar + Mekinist)
l. Braftovi (encorafenib) in combination with Mektovi (binimetinib) for BRAF V600 patients
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy [please state]
n. Palliative care only
Q2. In the past 3 months (or the latest 3 months data you have available), how many metastatic melanoma patients were treated with the following:
a. Ipilimumab
b. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
c. Nivolumab
d. Pembrolizumab
e. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
f. Any Other Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
g. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
h. Palliative care only
Melanoma.290922.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months (or the latest 3 months data you have available), how many melanoma patients were treated with:
a. Bevacizumab (Avastin)
b. Dacarbazine (DTIC)
c. Trametinib (Mekinist)
d. Dabrafenib (Tafinlar)
e. Ipilimumab (Yervoy)
f. Vemurafenib (Zelboraf)
g. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
h. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab (Opdivo + Yervoy)
i. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
j. Vemurafenib + cobimetinib (Zelboraf + Cotellic)
k. Dabrafenib + Trametinib (Tafinlar + Mekinist)
l. Braftovi (encorafenib) in combination with Mektovi (binimetinib) for BRAF V600 patients
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy [please state]
n. Palliative care only
Q2. In the past 3 months (or the latest 3 months data you have available), how many metastatic melanoma patients were treated with the following:
a. Ipilimumab
b. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
c. Nivolumab
d. Pembrolizumab
e. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
f. Any Other Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
g. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
h. Palliative care only
Melanoma Cancer Care Protocols and Patient Management Details.130324.docx
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1. Please detail the standard follow-up regime for newly diagnosed melanoma patients (Stages IA-IIB) within your Trust, indicating the frequency of appointments and duration of follow-up (1-5 years) as per your clinical protocols.
2. Which of the following Melanoma NICE guidelines do you currently implement at your Trust/Health Board/other:
a. Pre-27th July 2022 NICE guidelines titled ‘NG14: Melanoma: assessment and management’ Yes or No
b. Latest NICE guidelines title ‘NG14: Melanoma: assessment and management’ released on the 27th July 2022. Yes or No
c. Using own Melanoma guideline for the Trust. Yes or No
i. If yes, please provide document in PDF format.
3. What is your current waiting time for sentinel lymph node biopsy for those confirmed with any stage melanoma? Please provide measure (Weeks, months etc, but please identify..)
4. In the last 12 months for stage 2Bs melanoma only, what proportion of them had Pembrolizumab.
5. Is ultrasound used in any of the follow up pathways for the stages of Melanoma below for patients in your Trust, please answer Yes or No:
– IA Yes or No
– IB Yes or No
– IIA Yes or No
– IIB Yes or No
6. For the following NHS financial year dates, how many melanoma cases per year have been newly diagnosed in your Trust
a. 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23
7. Could you please confirm for your Trust in 2022/23 the following numbers of newly diagnosed Melanoma skin cancer patients and the number of these who have received a subsequent Sentinel Lymph Node biopsy by Melanoma Stage?
Melanoma Cancer Care Protocols and Patient Management Details.130324.docx
Melanoma Treatment.250823.docx
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Q1. How many patients have you treated with Pembrolizumab in the three months from May 2023 to July 2023 for:
• Melanoma – any stage
• Stage IIb/IIc Melanoma
• Stage III Melanoma
• Metastatic Melanoma
Q2. How many Stage IIb/IIc melanoma patients were on a “Watch and Wait” strategy in the three months from May 2023 to July 2023? These would be patients where a decision has been made to wait before commencing any treatment.
Metallic implants in MRI scans – 2022-23.310723.docx
Please tell me with respect to the financial year 2022/23:
1) How many incidents were reported by your Trust on the Datix incident reporting system under the category ‘MRI safety’?
2) How many of these MRI safety Datix incident reports were listed under the division, ‘MRI Non Declared Internal Passive Metallic Implant’?
3) How many of these MRI safety Datix incident reports were under the division ‘MRI Non Declared Internal Active Metallic Implant’?
For all of the incidents captured under 2 and 3 above in 2022/23, can you please provide a verbatim copy of the description of the adverse event?
Please do a search based on relevant words and then review to ensure they meet the criteria outlined above of non-declared passive and active metal implant incidents in MRI scans.
Another alternative, if your Trust lacks the Datix system, could be to search for safety incidents logged under the location ‘MRI’.
Metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).270422.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months (or the latest 3 months data you have available), how many metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with any of the following:
a. Afatinib
b. Alectinib
c. Atezolizumab monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab in combination
e. Bevacizumab
f. Brigatinib
g. Capmatenib
h. Ceritinib
i. Crizotinib
j. Dacomitinib
k. Dabrafenib with Trametinib
l. Docetaxel monotherapy
m. Durvalumab
n. Erlotinib
o. Gefitinib
p. Gemcitabine
q. Nintedanib with Docetaxel
r. Nivolumab
s. Osimertinib
t. Paclitaxel
u. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
v. Pembrolizumab in combination
w. Pemetrexed with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
x. Tepotinib
y. Vinorelbine with Cisplatin/Carboplatin
z. Any other SACT
aa. Palliative care only
Metastatic or advanced Breast cancer. 140422.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months (or the latest 3 months data you have available), how many Metastatic/advanced Breast cancer patients were treated with:
a. Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + aromatase inhibitor *
b. Abemaciclib (Verzenios) + Fulvestrant (Faslodex)
c. Alpelisib (Piqray) + Fulvestrant (Faslodex)
d. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)**
e. Bevacizumab (Avastin)
f. Eribulin (Halaven)
g. Everolimus (Afinitor) + Exemestane
h. Fulvestrant (Faslodex) as a single agent
i. Gemcitabine + paclitaxel
j. Herceptin (Trastuzumab) + paclitaxel
k. Herceptin (Trastuzumab) as a single agent
l. Lapatinib (Tyverb)
m. Neratinib (Nerlynx)
n. Olaparib (Lynparza)
o. Palbociclib (Ibrance) + aromatase inhibitor*
p. Palbociclib (Ibrance) + Fulvestrant (Faslodex)
q. Pertuzumab (Perjeta) + trastuzumab + docetaxel
r. Ribociclib (Kisqali) + aromatase inhibitor*
s. Ribociclib (Kisqali) + Fulvestrant (Faslodex)
t. Talazoparib (Talzenna)
u. Trastuzumab emtansine (Kadcyla)
v. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy **
*aromatase inhibitor e.g. Anastrozole, Exemestane or Letrozole
**e.g. docetaxel, vinorelbine or capecitabine as a single agent
Q2. For the above patients, how many of these received their first ever dose for each product line?
Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma.190424.docx
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1. Do you use IMDC (International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium) criteria for classifying Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma patients? (Yes or No)
2. If Yes, for the patients treated for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma during the time period January through to March 2024, how many patients were classified as:
a. Favourable risk
b. Intermediate risk
c. Poor risk
Mobile MRI and CT Contracts.070824.docx
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1. Details of the current mobile MRI and CT contracts held by your Trust, including:
a. Contract value(s)
b. Duration of the current contract(s)
c. Date(s) when the contract(s) are scheduled for renewal
2. Information on the frameworks through which these contracts were procured, including:
a. Name(s) of the framework(s) utilized
b. Any relevant framework reference numbers
3 – Contact details for the Radiology Managers and Procurement Managers responsible for overseeing these contracts, including:
a. Name(s)
b. Job title(s)
c. Trust Email address(es)
d. Trust Telephone number(s)
Mouth Cancer.260724.docx
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• The number of oral cancer referrals received by hospitals in your Trust between January 2017 and the most recent completed month that is available (most likely June 2024). I also request this data be presented as monthly figures.
MRI cardiovascular post-processing software. 160322.docx
1. Which Hospitals use post-processing Cardiac MRI software? Please discriminate per hospital and department. To help you identify whether any Cardiac MRI software (MRI cardiovascular post-processing software) is in use, please see some examples below (please note this is not a comprehensive list) and note that Cardiac MRI Software is a software that allows dedicated cardiac visualization, analysis, and reporting:
Based on Q1 can you please provide for each hospital the following:
2. Name of Supplier: Software provider for each contract?
3. The brand of the software: Actual name of the software. Please do not provide the supplier name again please provide the actual software name.
4. Description of the contract: Can you please provide detailed information about this contract and please state if upgrade, maintenance and support is included. Please also list the software modules included in these contracts.
5. What is the value of the contract? (please detail what the initial up-front cost of the software platform is, and detail annual or recurring costs in perpetuity i.e. support and maintenance, and professional services invoiced for, be it with the vendor directly and or a third-party)
6. Number of Users/Licenses: What is the total number of user/licenses for this contract?
7. Contract Duration: What is the duration of the contract please include any available extensions within the contract.
8. 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.
9. Contract Expiry: What is the expiry date of this contract? Please include month and year of the contract. DD-MM-YY or MM-YY.
10. Contact Details: Contact details of the person within the organisation responsible for this particular software contract (name, job title, email, contact number).
MRI imaging.300124.docx
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1. For the calendar year of 2023, please could you tell me how many individual MRI examinations were performed overall?
2. For the calendar year of 2023, please could you give a breakdown of the individual MRI examinations performed into body part/area? For instance, how many brain scans, spine scans etc. I am happy with whichever body part description is input in the PACS system.
3. As of the start of 2024, what would the waiting time be (in weeks) for a routine MRI scan (for example how long would a patient have to wait if they were referred for a routine MRI scan of their knee)?
4. How much money was paid to private companies during the calendar year 2023 for the outsourcing of MRI either to mobile MRI units, private hospitals or private companies staffing hospital scanners to scan NHS patients?
5. From question 4 which companies were used and how many patients were scanned?
6. How many MRI scanners does the Trust own?
7. From question 6 could I please have the manufacturer, model, and date of install of the MRI scanners?
MRI safety and helium supply.281022.docx
Please tell me in the financial years a) 2020/21 and b) 2021/22
1) How many incidents were reported by your Trust on the Datix incident reporting system under the category ‘MRI safety’?
2) How many of these MRI safety Datix incident reports were listed under the division, ‘MRI Non Declared Internal Passive Metallic Implant’?
3) How many of these MRI safety Datix incident reports were under the division ‘MRI Non Declared Internal Active Metallic Implant’?
For all of the incidents captured under 2 and 3 above in 2020/21 and 2021/22, can you please provide a verbatim copy of the description of the adverse event? To avoid running into Section 40 exemptions, please redact any person identifiable information.
Note: The above is based on the understanding of MRI reporting procedures I derived from reading the following webpage: https://www.mriphysics.scot.nhs.uk/reporting-incidents-and-near-misses/. If the terminology used by your Trust is slightly different, please give me the nearest equivalent.
4a) Finally, can you please tell me if MRI scanner(s) at your Trust have at any point needed to be temporarily left out of service due to supply chain issues impacting access to helium in 2021/22? If the answer to this question is YES, please also tell me
4b) How many machines were affected by the helium shortage?
4c) In which hospitals/buildings do those machine(s) operate?
4d) How long were the machine(s) out of action as a result of the helium shortage?
4e) How many patients were affected by the MRI scanner outage?
MRI services.240222.docx
1. For the calendar year of 2021, please could you tell me how many individual MRI examinations were performed overall?
2. For the calendar year of 2021, please could you give a breakdown of the individual MRI examinations performed into body part/area? For instance, how many brain scans, spine scans etc. I am happy with whichever body part description is input in the PACS system.
3. As of the start of 2022, what would the waiting time be (in weeks) for a routine MRI scan (for example how long would a patient have to wait if they were referred for a routine MRI scan of their knee)?
4. How much money was paid to private companies during the calendar year 2021 for the outsourcing of MRI either to mobile MRI units, private hospitals or private companies staffing hospital scanners to scan NHS patients?
5. From question 4 which companies were used and how many patients were scanned?
6. How many MRI scanners does the Trust own?
7. From question 6 could I please have the manufacturer, model, and date of install of the MRI scanners?
Multiple Myeloma. 140322.docx
I am investigating the use of targeted therapies in blood-related cancers.
1. Could you please tell me how many patients have you treated in the last 3 months for Multiple Myeloma?
2. Further, how many have received the following treatments?
Treatment:
Bortezomib [Velcade] and Dexamethasone
Bortezomib [Velcade], Thalidomide and Dexamethasone [known as VTD]
Bortezomib [Velcade], Cyclophosphamide/Melphalan and Dexamethasone/Prednisolone [known as VCD or VMP]
Lenalidomide [Revlimid] monotherapy
Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and Dexamethasone
Lenalidomide [Revlimid], Bortezomib [Velcade] and Dexamethasone
Lenalidomide [Revlimid], Melphalan and Prednisolone
Thalidomide, Cyclophosphamide/Melphalan, and Dexamethasone/Prednisolone [known as MPT or CTD]
Bortezomib [Velcade] monotherapy
Carfilzomib [Kyprolis] and Dexamethasone
Carfilzomib [Kyprolis], Lenalidomide [Revlimid], and Dexamethasone [known as KRD]
Daratumumab [Darzalex], Velcade [Bortezomib] and Dexamethasone [known as DVD]
Daratumumab [Darzalex], Velcade [Botezomib], Thalidomide and Dexamethasone [known as Dara-VTd]
Daratumumab [Darzalex], Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and Dexamethasone
Daratumumab [Darzalex], Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and Dexamethasone (DaraPd)
Daratumumab [Darzalex] monotherapy
Isatuximab [Sarclisa], Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and Dexamethasone [known as IsaPd]
Isatuximab [Sarclisa], Carfilzomib [Kyprolis] and Dexamethasone [known as IsaKd]
Ixazomib [Ninlaro], Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and Dexamethasone [known as IRD]
Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and Dexamethasone
Panobinostat [Farydak], Bortezomib [Velcade] and Dexamethasone
Any other systemic anti-cancer treatment
Multiple Myeloma.200723.docx
Q1. Over the past 6 months, how many adult multiple myeloma [MM] patients have you treated? If you refer your multiple myeloma patients to another centre, please state which.
Q2. Of the multiple myeloma patients over the past 6 months, how many were treated with the following:
a. Belantamab Mafodotin [Blenrep]
b. Bortezomib [Velcade] monotherapy or with dexamethasone
c. Bortezomib, thalidomide and dexamethasone [VTD]
d. Bortezomib [Velcade], Melphalan/Cyclophosphamide and prednisolone/dexamethasone (VMp or VCd)
e. Carfilzomib [Kyprolis] and dexamethasone
f. Carfilzomib [Kyprolis], Lenalidomide [Revlmid] and dexamethasone
g. Daratumumab [Darzalex] monotherapy
h. Daratumumab [Darzalex], Bortezomib [Velcade] and dexamethasone (known as DVd or DBd)
i. Daratumumab [Darzalex], Bortezomib [Velcade], thalidomide and dexamethasone (known as Dara-VTd)
j. Elranatamab
k. Idecabtagene vicleucel [Abecma]
l. Isatuximab [Sarclisa], Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and dexamethasone (known as IsaPd)
m. Ixazomib [Ninlaro], Lenalidomide [Revlmid] and dexamethasone (known as IRd)
n. Lenalidomide [Revlmid] monotherapy
o. Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and dexamethasone
p. Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and dexamethasone
q. Selinexor and dexamethasone
r. Talquetamab
s. Teclistamab [Tecvayli]
t. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
Multiple Myeloma.240424.docx
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Q1. Over the past 6 months, how many adult multiple myeloma [MM] patients have you treated? If you refer your multiple myeloma patients to another centre, please state which.
Q2. Of the multiple myeloma patients over the past 6 months, how many were treated with the following:
a. Belantamab Mafodotin [Blenrep]
b. Bortezomib [Velcade] monotherapy or with dexamethasone
c. Bortezomib, thalidomide and dexamethasone [VTD]
d. Bortezomib [Velcade], Melphalan/Cyclophosphamide and prednisolone/dexamethasone (VMp or VCd)
e. Carfilzomib [Kyprolis] and dexamethasone
f. Carfilzomib [Kyprolis], Lenalidomide [Revlmid] and dexamethasone
g. Daratumumab [Darzalex] monotherapy
h. Daratumumab [Darzalex], Bortezomib [Velcade] and dexamethasone (known as DVd or DBd)
i. Daratumumab [Darzalex], Bortezomib [Velcade], thalidomide and dexamethasone (known as Dara-VTd)
j. Daratamumab [Darzalex] with Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and dexamethasone
k. Elranatamab
l. Idecabtagene vicleucel [Abecma]
m. Isatuximab [Sarclisa], Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and dexamethasone (known as IsaPd)
n. Ixazomib [Ninlaro], Lenalidomide [Revlmid] and dexamethasone (known as IRd)
o. Lenalidomide [Revlmid] monotherapy
p. Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and dexamethasone
q. Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and dexamethasone
r. Selinexor and dexamethasone
s. Talquetamab
t. Teclistamab [Tecvayli]
u. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
Multiple myeloma [MM].221124.docx
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Q1. Over the past 6 months, how many adult multiple myeloma [MM] patients have you treated? If you refer your multiple myeloma patients to another centre, please state which.
Q2. Of the multiple myeloma patients over the past 6 month, how many were treated with the following:
a. Bortezomib [Velcade], Melphalan/Cyclophosphamide and prednisolone/dexamethasone (VMp or VCd)
b. Bortezomib, thalidomide and dexamethasone [VTD]
c. Daratamumab [Darzalex] with Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and dexamethasone
d. Daratumumab [Darzalex], Bortezomib [Velcade], thalidomide and dexamethasone (known as Dara-VTd)
e. Selinexor, Bortexomiv [Velcade] and dexamethasone
f. Carfilzomib [Kyprolis] and dexamethasone
g. Bortezomib [Velcade] monotherapy or with dexamethasone
h. Daratumumab [Darzalex], Bortezomib [Velcade] and dexamethasone (known as DVd or DBd)
i. Carfilzomib [Kyprolis], Lenalidomide [Revlmid] and dexamethasone
j. Belantamab Mafodotin [Blenrep]
k. Idecabtagene vicleucel [Abecma]
l. Isatuximab [Sarclisa], Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and dexamethasone (known as IsaPd)
m. Elranatamab
n. Daratumumab [Darzalex] monotherapy
o. Ixazomib [Ninlaro], Lenalidomide [Revlmid] and dexamethasone (known as IRd)
p. Lenalidomide [Revlimid] and dexamethasone
q. Lenalidomide [Revlmid] monotherapy
r. Pomalidomide [Imnovid] and dexamethasone
s. Selinexor and dexamethasone
t. Talquetamab
u. Teclistamab [Tecvayli]
v. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
New medical device policy.101022.docx
1. Could you please provide a copy of the Trusts/entity “New Medical Device policy?”
2. Could you please provide a copy of the Trusts/entity “Medical Devices and Procurement Review Group policy?”
3. Could you please provide a copy of the Trusts/entity “Business case template for new medical devices or technology” for new medical/diagnostic device approval?
4. Could you please provide a list of all approved medical devices in your Trusts/entity? Excel format, word or PDF is fine.
5. Could you please provide a copy of the policy which supports “medical devices on trial requirements”.
6. Could you please provide the policy for including a new pathology test within the Trusts/entity?
7. Could you please provide the policy for the “New medical Product Selection Group”
8. Could you please confirm how often new medical device review meetings take place?
9. Could you please provide me the name of the staff member responsible for finances of new medical devices and their email address.
10. Could you please provide me the name of the staff member responsible for procurement of new medical devices and their email address.
11. Lastly, could you please supply a copy of the last 3 ‘New Medical Device meeting’ minutes and also the location of where they are published on your website?
Nivolumab.020823.docx
Q1. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for the treatment of melanoma?
a. Ipilimumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
c. Nivolumab AND Ipilimumab (combination)
d. Pembrolizumab
e. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
f. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q2. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma?
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
c. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
d. Avelumab + Axitinib
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q3. In the past 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for the treatment of gastric, gastro-oesophageal junction or oesophageal cancer:
a. Nivolumab monotherapy or in combination with Ipilimumab
b. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Nivolumab.170423.docx
Q1. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for the treatment of melanoma?
a. Ipilimumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
c. Nivolumab AND Ipilimumab (combination)
d. Pembrolizumab
e. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
f. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q2. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for the treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma?
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
c. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
d. Avelumab + Axitinib
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q3. In the past 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment of Oesophageal Cancer:
a. Nivolumab monotherapy or in combination with Ipilimumab
b. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Nivolumab.271223.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for the treatment of melanoma?
a. Ipilimumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
c. Nivolumab AND Ipilimumab (combination)
d. Pembrolizumab
e. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
f. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q2. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for the treatment of Renal cell carcinoma?
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
c. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
d. Avelumab + Axitinib
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q3. In the past 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for Advanced/Metastatic Oesophageal Cancer:
a. Nivolumab monotherapy or in combination with Ipilimumab
b. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Non-small cell lung cancer.280723.docx
In the past 3 months, how many early-stage (non-metastatic or Stages 1-3) Non-small cell lung cancer patients received the following treatments:
1. Atezolizumab
2. Durvalumab
3. Nivolumab
4. Pembrolizumab
5. Chemotherapy (Platinum, Taxane, Vinorelbine, Gemcitabine, Pemetrexed) only
6. Radiotherapy only
7. Chemotherapy + radiotherapy
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).020323.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months, how many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with:
a. Afatinib
b. Alectinib
c. Amivantamab
d. Atezolizumab monotherapy
e. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
f. Brigatinib
g. Ceritinib
h. Crizotinib
i. Dacomitinib
j. Dabrafenib with Trametinib
k. Durvalumab
l. Erlotinib
m. Gefitinib
n. Lorlatinib
o. Mobocertinib
p. Nintedanib with Docetaxel
q. Nivolumab
r. Osimertinib
s. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
t. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
u. Pemetrexed with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
v. Pralsetinib
w. Selpercatinib
x. Sotorasib
y. Tepotinib
z. Vinorelbine with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
aa. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
bb. Palliative care only
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY with the following drugs:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
c. Durvalumab
d. Nivolumab
e. Osimertinib
f. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Mono
g. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with Chemotherapy
h. Tepotinib
i. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
j. Palliative care only
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).020323.docx
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). 041121.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months, how many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with:
a. Afatinib
b. Alectinib
c. Atezolizumab monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
e. Bevacizumab
f. Brigatinib
g. Ceritinib
h. Crizotinib
i. Dacomitinib
j. Dabrafenib with Trametinib
k. Docetaxel monotherapy or combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
l. Durvalumab
m. Erlotinib
n. Gefitinib
o. Gemcitabine
p. Lorlatinib
q. Nintedanib with Docetaxel
r. Nivolumab
s. Osimertinib
t. Paclitaxel
u. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
v. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
w. Pemetrexed with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
x. Vinorelbine with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
y. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
z. Palliative care only
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY with the following drugs:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
c. Durvalumab
d. Gemcitabine
e. Nivolumab
f. Osimertinib
g. Paclitaxel
h. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Mono
i. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with Chemotherapy
j. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
k. Palliative care only
Q3. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
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Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). 220222.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months, how many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with:
a. Afatinib
b. Alectinib
c. Atezolizumab monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
e. Bevacizumab
f. Brigatinib
g. Ceritinib
h. Crizotinib
i. Dacomitinib
j. Dabrafenib with Trametinib
k. Docetaxel monotherapy or combination with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
l. Durvalumab
m. Erlotinib
n. Gefitinib
o. Gemcitabine
p. Lorlatinib
q. Nintedanib with Docetaxel
r. Nivolumab
s. Osimertinib
t. Paclitaxel
u. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
v. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
w. Pemetrexed with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
x. Tepotinib
y. Vinorelbine with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
z. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
aa. Palliative care only
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY with the following drugs:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
c. Durvalumab
d. Gemcitabine
e. Nivolumab
f. Osimertinib
g. Paclitaxel
h. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Mono
i. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with Chemotherapy
j. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
k. Palliative care only
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).311022.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months, how many non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with:
a. Afatinib
b. Alectinib
c. Amivantamab
d. Atezolizumab monotherapy
e. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
f. Brigatinib
g. Ceritinib
h. Crizotinib
i. Dacomitinib
j. Dabrafenib with Trametinib
k. Durvalumab
l. Erlotinib
m. Gefitinib
n. Lorlatinib
o. Mobocertinib
p. Nintedanib with Docetaxel
q. Nivolumab
r. Osimertinib
s. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
t. Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy
u. Pemetrexed with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
v. Pralsetinib
w. Selpercatinib
x. Sotorasib
y. Tepotinib
z. Vinorelbine with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
aa. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
bb. Palliative care only
Q2. In the past 3 months, how many patients were treated for Squamous non-small cell lung cancer (Sq NSCLC) ONLY with the following drugs:
a. Atezolizumab monotherapy
b. Atezolizumab with chemotherapy
c. Durvalumab
d. Nivolumab
e. Osimertinib
f. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) Mono
g. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with Chemotherapy
h. Tepotinib
i. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
j. Palliative care only
Q3. Do you participate in any clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)? If so, could you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer.210422.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
d. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
e. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for Oesophageal cancer (any stage) with:
a. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
b. Platinum and Fluoropyrimidine based combination treatments (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin with 5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Nivolumab monotherapy
d. Nivolumab and Ipilimumab
e. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
f. Palliative care only
Q3. Does your trust participate in any active clinical trials for the treatment of gastric cancer or cancer of the gastro-oesophageal junction? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Q4. Does your trust participate in any active clinical trials for the treatment of oesophageal cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer.251122.docx
Q1. Please provide the total number of patients treated in the last 3 months with any systemic anti-cancer therapy for:
a. Oesophageal cancer (any type or stage)
b. Oesophageal adenocarcinoma (any stage)
c. Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (any stage)
d. Gastric cancer (any type or stage)
e. Cancer of the gastro-oesophageal junction (any stage)
Q2. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Lonsurf (Trifluridine – tipiracil)
d. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
f. Palliative care only
Q3. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for Oesophageal cancer (any stage) with:
a. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
b. Platinum and Fluoropyrimidene based combination treatments (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin with 5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Nivolumab monotherapy
d. Nivolumab and Ipilimumab
e. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
f. Palliative care only
Oesophageal and gastric cancer.260723.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Lonsurf (Trifluridine – tipiracil)
d. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
f. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
g. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for Oesophageal cancer (any stage) with:
a. Nivolumab monotherapy or combination with Ipilimumab
b. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
d. Platinum and Fluoropyrimidene based combination treatments (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin with 5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
f. Palliative care only
Q3. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for advanced/metastatic resected oesophageal cancer ONLY with:
a. Nivolumab monotherapy or combination with Ipilimumab
b. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
d. Platinum and Fluoropyrimidene based combination treatments (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin with 5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
f. Palliative care only
Q4. In the past 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for gastric, gastro-oesophageal junction or Oesophageal cancer:
a. Nivolumab monotherapy or in combination with Ipilimumab
b. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q5. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for gastric cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Q6. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for oesophageal cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Oesophageal and gastric cancer.260723.docx
Oesophageal and Gastric cancer.270323.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Lonsurf (Trifluridine – tipiracil)
d. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
f. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
g. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for Oesophageal cancer (any stage) with:
a. Platinum and Fluoropyrimidene based combination treatments (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin with 5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
b. Nivolumab monotherapy
c. Nivolumab and Ipilimumab
d. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
f. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
g. Palliative care only
Q3. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for gastric cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Q4. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for oesophageal cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial and the number of patients taking part.
Oesophageal and Gastric cancer.270722.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
d. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
e. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for Oesophageal cancer (any stage) with:
a. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
b. Platinum and Fluoropyrimidene based combination treatments (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin with 5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
c. Nivolumab monotherapy
d. Nivolumab and Ipilimumab
e. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
f. Palliative care only
Q3. Please provide the total number of patients treated in the last 3 months with any systemic anti-cancer therapy for:
a. Oesophageal cancer (any type or stage)
b. Oesophageal adenocarcinoma (any stage)
c. Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (any stage)
d. Gastric cancer (any type or stage)
e. Cancer of the gastro-oesophageal junction (any stage)
Oncology Breast Cancer.240624.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many patients have been treated for breast cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a. Abemaciclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
b. Abemaciclib + Fulvestrant
c. Alpelisib + Fulvestrant
d. Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin or epirubicin) + Cyclophosphamide
e. Aromatase Inhibitor as a single agent
f. Atezolizumab
g. Capecitabine as a single agent
h. Carboplatin + Paclitaxel
i. Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
j. Everolimus + Exemestane
k. Fulvestrant as a single agent
l. Palbociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
m. Palbociclib + Fulvestrant
n. Parp Inhibitors (Olaparib/Talazoparib)
o. Pembrolizumab
p. Ribociclib + Aromatase Inhibitor (e.g. anastrazole, exemestane, letrozole)
q. Ribociclib + Fulvestrant
r. Sacituzumab Govitecan
s. Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
t. Transtuzumab deruxtecan
u. Trastuzumab as a single agent or in combination
v. Trastuzumab emtansine
w. Any other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. If breast cancer is not treated at or within the Trust, where are patients referred?
Oncology Harm Review.300524.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The number of oncology patients awaiting a Harm Review from the trust.
2. Does the trust have a dedicated IT system to support the harm review process?
a. If so, what is the name of this system?
b. When was this system implemented?
Oncology treatments.180324.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Lonsurf (Trifluridine – tipiracil)
d. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
f. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
g. Palliative care only
Q2. How many early-stage (non-metastatic or Stages 1-3) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)
b. Durvalumab (Imfinzi)
c. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
d. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
e. Chemotherapy
f. Radiotherapy
g. Chemotherapy AND Radiotherapy
Q3. In the past three months, how many advanced renal cell carcinoma patients received the following first-line treatments:
a. Avelumab + Axitinib (Bavencio + Inlyta)
b. Cabozantinib (Cometriq)
c. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
d. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib (Opdivo + Cometriq)
e. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab (Opdivo + Yervoy)
f. Pembrolizumab + Lenvatinib (Keytruda + Kisplyx)
Oncotype use for breast cancer.250822.docx
Please could you provide an answer to the question below.
Are node positive breast cancer patients in your trust undergoing Oncotype testing?
A yes/no response is fine, so this query should only use a few moments of your oncology team’s time.
Open MRI scans.030724.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The number of referrals for Open MRIs for patient size (not claustrophobia) authorised by your Trust in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and until June 1, 2024.
2. Total remuneration for open MRI scans for patient size including staffing and MFF for the same time frame as above.
3. A single total figure for how much the Trust has spent on specialist bariatric equipment for the same time frame as above.
Oral cancer referrals.290922.docx
The number of oral cancer referrals received by hospitals in your Trust between January 2017 and the most recent completed month that is available (most likely July or August 2022). I also request this data be presented as monthly figures.
Outsourced Diagnostic Imaging.070923.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. Please provide information for the following financial years, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/, for the respective diagnostic imaging data:
a. Volumes of CT, MRI and PET CT scans, split by scan type performed
b. The volume MRI, CT and PET CT scans, split by scan type and which providers you outsource the scans too
c. Please provide outsourcing price per scan split by CT, MRI and PET CT
2. Can you please provide details of all the current CT, MRI and PET CT outsourcing contracts you currently have in place, can you please include the following data where possible:
a. Scan modality
b. Contract length
c. Agreed pricing and volumes
d. KPI or performance metrics and any data on how they are performing
Outsourced Radiology Reporting Services.181122.docx
Split into each hospital within the Trust:
1. Does the Trust make use of outsourced tele-radiology reporting services for routine radiology reporting?
2. If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting, please provide the names of the providers of each service (on-call and elective separately please)?
3. If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting services, please provide the annual volumes for both 2021 and for 2022 sent to each provider, broken into the following:
a. Overnight on-call
b. Elective Reporting (MRI, CT)
c. Plain Film Reporting
4. Start date, duration and end date of any contracts with tele-radiology providers?
5. Was the contract procured via a framework (direct award, which framework?), mini-tender, or ITT procurement process?
6. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract?
7. Who is the non-clinical manager/service manager that is responsible for this contract?
Outsourced teleradiology reporting services.141122.docx
1. Does the Trust use outsourced teleradiology reporting services for any of the following?
i. Overnight on-call (/urgent)
ii. Elective reporting (MRI/CT)
iii. Plain film/X-ray reporting
2. Please provide the names of the teleradiology providers you use for each service (on-call and elective separately, if applicable) (e.g. Medica, Everlight, 4ways, TMC)
3. What is the start date, duration and end date of any current contracts with teleradiology providers?
4. What is the annual spend on teleradiology providers in financial years 2019, 2020 and 2021 (or as available) by each provider?
i. Medica
ii. Everlight
iii. 4ways
iv. TMC
v. Other
5. Please provide the annual volumes sent to teleradiology providers for full financial year 2019, 2020, 2021, and year to date 2022 (or as available) sent to each provider split by the following
i. Overnight on-call (/urgent)
ii. Elective reporting (MRI/CT)
iii. Plain film/X-ray reporting
6. Please provide the annual total scans performed by the trust full financial year 2019, 2020, 2021, and year to date 2022 (or as available) by the following
i. Overnight on-call (/urgent)
ii. Elective reporting (MRI/CT)
iii. Plain film/X-ray reporting
7. How does the trust expect its usage of teleradiology services to change in the next three years (please select one)?
a. Increase
b. Stay the same
c. Decrease
8. Does the trust have any strategic plans to invest in technologies to enhance productivity of radiology reporting (e.g. Artificial Intelligence) (please select one)?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Unsure
Ovarian cancer.230623.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated for advanced (FIGO Stages III and IV) ovarian (epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal) cancer over the last 3 months? If none, do you refer advanced ovarian cancer patients to another trust, and if so which one?
Q2. How many ovarian cancer patients (any stage) have been treated in the last 3 months with:
a. Paclitaxel in combination with a platinum-based compound
b. Platinum-based therapy alone (cisplatin or carboplatin)
c. Bevacizumab in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin
d. Olaparib
e. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
f. Niraparib
g. Rucaparib
Q3. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of ovarian cancer? If so, please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part.
Q4. If data for HRD (homologous recombination deficiency) testing is available, please provide how many HRD positive patients were treated in the last 3 months with:
a. Olaparib
b. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
c. Niraparib
d. Other treatments
Q5. If data for HRD (homologous recombination deficiency) and BRCA testing is available, please provide how many HRD positive BRCA mutated patients were treated in the last 3 months with:
a. Olaparib
b. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
c. Niraparib
d. Other treatments
Ovarian cancer. 311221.docx
1. How many patients have been treated for advanced (FIGO Stages III and IV) high-grade ovarian (epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal) cancer over the last 3 months? If none, do you refer ovarian cancer patients to another trust, if so which one?
2. How many ovarian cancer patients (any stage) have been treated in the last 3 months with:
a. Paclitaxel in combination with a platinum-based compound
b. Platinum-based therapy alone (cisplatin or carboplatin)
c. Bevacizumab in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin
d. Olaparib
e. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
f. Niraparib
g. Rucaparib
3. Of the ovarian cancer patients (any stage) treated over the last 3 months, how many patients:
a. Received HRD (homologous recombination deficiency) testing
b. Received BRCA testing
c. Tested HRD positive
d. Tested BRCA positive (BRCAm)
4. If data for HRD testing is available, please provide how many HRD positive patients were treated in the last 3 months with:
a. Olaparib
b. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
c. Niraparib
d. Other treatments
5. If data for HRD and BRCA testing is available, please provide how many HRD positive-BRCA positive patients were treated in the last 3 months with:
a. Olaparib
b. Olaparib + Bevacizumab
c. Niraparib
d. Other treatments
Pancreatic cancer. 130422.docx
The number of diagnoses for pancreatic cancer at your hospital trust.
I would like this information for each of the last 5 calendar years as follows: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
Parking for Children and Young People with Cancer.200623.docx
1. A copy of the Trust’s parking policy
2. Details of the price of car parking per hospital site within the Trust
3. Confirmation of how the Trust has implemented both the mandatory and voluntary elements of the “NHS car parking guidance 2022 for NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts”, including;
a. whether parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer are offered free parking/parking exemptions
b. whether parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer are offered parking concessions and details of the financial value of these
c. whether young people (17-25) with cancer are offered free parking/parking exemptions
d. whether young people (17-25) with cancer are offered parking concessions and details of the financial value of these
e. whether any free parking/parking exemptions or concessions apply to inpatient/active treatment visits, visits to attend follow-up appointments (i.e. not undergoing active treatment), or both
4. If yes to any items in point 3, how many parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer and/or young people (17-25) with cancer have been offered free parking/parking exemptions or concessions, provided per category (free parking/exemption, concession);
a. per financial year since 2017 (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23 to date)
b. per hospital site within the Trust
5. Details of how the Trust shares, communicates and displays information about free parking/parking exemptions and/or concessions, their eligibility, how to access them and their financial value
6. Confirmation whether car parking within the Trust is owned and managed by the Trust or is owned and managed by a private company, and if so what company
7. Details of how many complaints the Trust has received from parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer and/or young people (17-25) with cancer regarding car parking charges or regarding the information the Trust provides about car parking charges;
a. per financial year since 2017 (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23 to date)
b. per hospital site within the NHS Trust or NHS Foundation Trust
8. Details of any other travel-related support provided by the Trust which is available to parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer and/or young people with cancer, including;
a. how children and young people and their parents or carers are informed of the support that is available to them
b. how the support is accessed/applied for
c. the financial value of the support and whether this is provided up-front or requires a claim to be paid back to the recipient
d. the duration of the support and type of care this applies to (e.g. inpatient/active treatment, follow-up/outpatient etc.)
Parking for Children and Young People with Cancer.200623.docx
Patient treatment with Nivolumab. 130422.docx
Q1. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for melanoma?
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab AND Ipilimumab (combination)
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q2. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for Renal Cell Carcinoma?
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
c. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
d. Avelumab + Axitinib
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q3. In the past 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for Advanced/Metastatic Oesophageal Cancer:
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidene (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Patients who died while on the cancer waiting list.251023.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
The number of patients who died whilst on your trusts waiting list to start cancer treatment for each of the years a) 2019, b) 2020, c) 2021, d) 2022, e) 2023 so far.
Please could you provide this information by email, preferably in a spreadsheet.
Patients who died while on the cancer waiting list.251023.docx
PET-CT Access. 131021.docx
1. Does your trust/HB have access to PET-CT for the investigation of suspected biochemical recurrence in prostate cancer patients?
a. Yes
b. Not on site, but we refer patients elsewhere (please state the trust/HB patients are referred to, if possible:)
c. No
2. If you answered “No” to question 1. Would you use PET-CT for the investigation of suspected biochemical recurrence in prostate cancer patients if it were available?
a. Yes
b. No
c. N/A – We already have access to PET-CT.
3. In 2020-21, how many patients do you estimate were investigated for suspected biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer at your trust/HB?
4. What percentage of patients with suspected biochemical recurrence do you estimate are referred for PET-CT at your trust/HB?
5. Of patients with suspected biochemical recurrence referred for PET-CT, what % of scans do you estimate use a PSMA tracer (either Ga-PSMA or F-PSMA)?
6. Are there any exclusion criteria for referral for PET-CT for suspected biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer? If so, what are they? E.g. Upper and lower PSA limits, age, life expectancy, ECOG score.
7. What do you estimate is the average waiting time for the PET-CT scans for investigation of suspected biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer?
8. What do you estimate is the average time it takes to report PET-CT scans for investigation of suspected biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer?
PET CT scans.170423.docx
1. Please provide information for the following financial years (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23) for the following:
a. How many PET CT scans in total were performed each year?
b. How many of the PET CT scans performed were outsourced to a third party provider? Please can you split volumes by each provider if you use more than one.
c. The average price per PET CT scan for each year
Prostate Cancer.
1. In the most recent 12 months of data which you have access to, how many patients have been diagnosed with the following stages of prostate cancer:
A) Stage 1 and stage 2 – localised prostate cancer
B) Stage 3 cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body – locally advanced prostate cancer
C) Stage 4 cancer which has spread to other parts of the body – metastatic prostate cancer.
2. In reference to the answer for question 1:
A) what number, for each stage, received novel imaging?
B) what was the average, for each stage, time post diagnosis for them to receive the novel imaging?
3. In the most recent 12 months of data which you have access to, how many patients in total initially sat within the urology department, but were referred to the oncology department before they develop metastases?
4. In reference to the answer for question 3, what number of these patients developed metastases prior to being referred to the oncology department.
5. For all patients who have received darolutamide, what is the average duration of treatment?
Prostate cancer. 130422.docx
I’d like to request data of the following for the last 5 years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, however if this exceeds the FOI time limit please provide the data for 2021 only:
1) How many people were diagnosed with prostate cancer within your trust
2) How many people that were diagnosed with prostate cancer had Brachytherapy
3) The average cost of undergoing Brachytherapy
Prostate Cancer.210422.docx
1. Please provide the total number of patients treated in the last 3 months with any systemic anti-cancer treatment for:
a. Prostate cancer (any stage)
b. Metastatic prostate cancer
2. How many patients were treated for prostate cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with:
a. Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) standalone
b. Abiraterone (Zytiga) in combination with any ADT
c. Abiraterone (Zytiga) – no ADT
d. Enzalutamide (Xtandi) in combination with any ADT
e. Enzalutamide (Xtandi) – no ADT
f. Apalutamide (Erleada) in combination with any ADT
g. Darolutamide (Nubeqa) in combination with any ADT
h. Cabazitaxel (Jevtana)
i. Docetaxel in combination with any ADT
j. Docetaxel – no ADT
k. Degarelix (Firmagon)
l. Olaparib (Lynparza)
3. How many metastatic prostate cancer patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) standalone
b. Apalutamide (Erleada) in combination with any ADT
c. Docetaxel in combination with any ADT
d. Docetaxel – no ADT
Protocols in place for patient selection for thrombectomy beyond 6 hours by using CT perfusion imaging to look for salvageable brain tissue, applicable in July 2020. 311221.docx
We should be grateful if you could provide us with a copy of the protocols in place for patient selection for thrombectomy beyond 6 hours by using CT perfusion imaging to look for salvageable brain tissue, applicable in July 2020.
PSFU pathway for primary breast cancer patients.241024.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. Does your Trust have a Standard Operating Procedure – also referred to as a PSFU Protocol – that covers the PSFU pathway for breast cancer?
If yes, please share your current, or most recent, version of this Standard Operating Procedure/PSFU Protocol.
2. Are all hospitals that form part of your Trust following the processes set out in the Standard Operating Procedure/PFSU Protocol for breast cancer?
If no, please send the breast cancer related Standard Operating Procedure/PSFU Protocol of each hospital in the Trust
3. At the end of hospital-based treatment do you provide primary breast cancer patients with information about the signs and symptoms of primary breast cancer?
If yes- please provide a copy of the information provided or a link to the information if it is available online. If this information is part of a longer document please provide the full document.
4. At the end of hospital-based treatment, do you provide primary breast cancer patients with information about the signs and symptoms of secondary breast cancer?
If yes- please provide a copy of the information provided or a link to the information if it is available online. If this information is part of a longer document please provide the full document.
5. How many patients did you treat for primary breast cancer that finished their hospital-based treatment in each of the Financial Years 2022-23 and 2023- 2024?
6. For each of the Financial Years 2022-23 and 2023-24, of the primary breast cancer patients that completed hospital-based treatment, please provide an estimate of what proportion were stratified to each follow up pathway?
a) A PIFU pathway
b) A Routine Follow Up pathway
If you can provide the figures spilt between the age under 45 category and age 45 and over category that would be useful but if the information is not readily available by age, please provide for all ages combined.
% of patients
2022-2023 2023-24
Under 45
45 and over
All ages
PIFU
Routine Follow Up
7. At the end of hospital-based treatment, is there a set period of time during which all patients in the Trust receive Routine Follow Up, with the decision between a Routine Follow Up pathway and a PIFU pathway being taken at a later date?
If yes, which hospitals offer this and for each hospital how long is the set period of time?
Description of the pathway
8. If a patient wants to raise a concern about a breast cancer sign or symptom (either primary breast cancer or secondary breast cancer) while on a PIFU pathway, what are the options for them to do so (please tick all that apply):
A telephone service
Email contact
Drop in clinics
Other- please detail
9. Are all breast cancer patients on a PIFU pathway logged and tracked on the organisation’s IT system?
All are logged
All are logged and tracked
Some are logged
Some are logged and tracked
No
10. Is there a standard time limit on how long PSFU pathways are available to breast cancer patients e.g. 5 years?
If yes, what is the standard time limit?
If yes, how frequently is the standard time limit applied?
Always Most of the time
Sometimes
Rarely
If any patients have a difference to the standard time limit, please detail and explain in what circumstances this occurs and the range of time limits?
11. When it is time for a breast cancer patient to be discharged from PSFU, do they receive any notification of this, e.g. by letter or phone call?
If yes, please explain how they receive this notification and provide a copy of the standardised information they would receive at that point, if it is in written form.
We are keen to discuss in more detail the answers to this FOI with a small number of Trusts. If this is something you would consider, please let us know and we will follow up if needed.
If yes, the person to contact is:
Radiology.011122.docx
1. Which CM is and volume is used for brain imaging within MRI and is a power injector used for this?
2. Which CM and volume is used for Prostate within MRI and is a power injector used for this?
3. Which CM and volume is used for Breast within MRI and is a power injector used for this?
4. Which CM and volume is used for Liver within MRI and is a power injector used for this?
5. What CM and volume is used for Gynaecological scans within MRI at both hospitals and is a power injector used for this?
6. Are you able to provide the number of neuro scans performed with contrast media within MRI at both hospitals and in 2021?
7. Are you able to provide the number of Prostate scans performed with contrast media within MRI at both hospitals and in 2021 (MPLVPC, MPELVC)?
8. Are you able to provide the number of breast scans performed with contrast media within MRI at both hospitals in 2021?
9. Are you able to provide the annual figure of liver scans performed with contrast media within MRI at both hospitals and in 2021 (Codes MLIVEC, MLIVHC, MABDOC)?
10. Are you able to provide the annual figure of Gynaecological scans performed with contrast media within MRI at both hospitals and in 2021 (Code MPELVC)?
Radiology.151222.docx
Could you please let me know the patient numbers for the following procedure codes and where applicable the hospital within your trust that carries them out?
Please also break these down for 2020, 2021 and ytd 2022 or by months should that be simpler.
Procedure code Description
XCEMB Contrast enhanced spectral mammography Both
XCEML Contrast enhanced spectral mammography Lt
XCEMR Contrast enhanced spectral mammography Rt
Radiotherapy.190624.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System
1. Does your Trust use Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System?
2. If so, what is the cost of this service per annum? Ideally, for the last 3 financial years
3. What Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System do you utilise?
Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy
4. Does your Trust use any artificial intelligence software in Radiotherapy?
5. If so, what is the cost of this service per annum?
6. What Radiotherapy Artificial Intelligence Software do you utilise?
Contact
7. Please provide names and contact details for the trust’s
a. Lead for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System
b. Radiotherapy Artificial Intelligence Lead
Radiotherapy machines.140923.docx
I made a request to the integrated care board about the ages of the Radiotherapy machines in use in the Maidstone and Tonbridge Wells NHS Cancer department.
Renal cell carcinoma. 171024.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma (any stage) :
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvatinib + Everolimus
f. Lenvatinib + Pembrolizumab
g. Nivolumab monotherapy
h. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
i. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
j. Pazopanib
k. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
l. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
m. Radiotherapy only
n. Sunitinib
o. Temsirolimus
p. Tivozanib
q. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
r. Palliative care only
Q2. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3,M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
Q3. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for Renal Cell Carcinoma?
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
c. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
d. Avelumab + Axitinib
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q4. Does you trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma? If so please provide the name of each trial and number of patients that are taking part?
Renal cell carcinoma.260624.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma (any stage):
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvatinib + Everolimus
f. Lenvatinib + Pembrolizumab
g. Nivolumab monotherapy
h. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
i. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
j. Pazopanib
k. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
l. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
m. Radiotherapy only
n. Sunitinib
o. Temsirolimus
p. Tivozanib
q. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
r. Palliative care only
Q2. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3,M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
Q3. In the last 3 months, how many patients have been initiated* on the following agents for treatment for Renal Cell Carcinoma?
a. Nivolumab (monotherapy)
b. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
c. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
d. Lenvatinib + Pembrolizumab
e. Avelumab + Axitinib
*Patients are considered initiated if they have not been treated in the previous 6 months with any of the drugs that are part of the named regimen.
Q4. Does your trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma? If so please provide the name of each trial and number of patients that are taking part?
Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma.020323.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma:
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvatinib + Everolimus
f. Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
h. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
i. Pazopanib
j. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
k. Pembrolizumab + Lenvatinib
l. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
m. Radiotherapy only
n. Sunitinib
o. Temsirolimus
p. Tivozanib
q. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
r. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage):
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
f. Ipilimumab
g. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
h. Nivolumab
i. Pembrolizumab
j. Trametinib
k. Vemurafenib
l. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
n. Palliative care only
Q3. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
f. Ipilimumab
g. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
h. Nivolumab
i. Pembrolizumab
j. Trametinib
k. Vemurafenib
l. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
n. Palliative care only
Q4. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3, M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma. 081121.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma:
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvantinib + Everolimus
f. Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
h. Pazopanib
i. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
j. Sunitinib
k. Temsirolimus
l. Tivozanib
m. Other
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage):
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
e. Ipilimumab
f. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Trametinib
j. Vemurafenib
k. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
l. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
m. Palliative care only
Q3. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
e. Ipilimumab
f. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Trametinib
j. Vemurafenib
k. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
l. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
m. Palliative care only
Q4. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3, M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
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Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma.110722.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma:
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvatinib + Everolimus
f. Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
h. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
i. Pazopanib
j. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
k. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
l. Pembrolizumab + Lenvatinib
m. Sunitinib
n. Temsirolimus
o. Tivozanib
p. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage):
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
f. Ipilimumab
g. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
h. Nivolumab
i. Pembrolizumab
j. Trametinib
k. Vemurafenib
l. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
n. Palliative care only
Q3. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
e. Ipilimumab
f. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Trametinib
j. Vemurafenib
k. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
l. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
m. Palliative care only
Q4. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3, M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma. 140422.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma:
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvantinib + Everolimus
f. Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
h. Pazopanib
i. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
j. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
k. Sunitinib
l. Temsirolimus
m. Tivozanib
n. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage):
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
e. Ipilimumab
f. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Trametinib
j. Vemurafenib
k. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
l. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
m. Palliative care only
Q3. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
e. Ipilimumab
f. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Trametinib
j. Vemurafenib
k. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
l. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
m. Palliative care only
Q4. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3, M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma.271023.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma (any stage):
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvantinib + Everolimus
f. Nivolumab monotherapy
g. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
h. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
i. Pazopanib
j. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
k. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
l. Pembrolizumab + Lenvatinib
m. Radiotherapy only
n. Sunitinib
o. Temsirolimus
p. Tivozanib
q. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
r. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage) :
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Denosumab
f. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
g. Ipilimumab
h. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
i. Nivolumab
j. Pembrolizumab
k. Trametinib
l. Vemurafenib
m. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
n. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
o. Palliative care only
Q3. Does you trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma? If so please provide the name of each trial and number of patients that are taking part?
Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma.280224.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma (any stage):
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvantinib + Everolimus
f. Nivolumab monotherapy
g. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
h. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
i. Pazopanib
j. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
k. Pembrolizumab + Lenvatinib
l. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
m. Radiotherapy only
n. Sunitinib
o. Temsirolimus
p. Tivozanib
q. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
r. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage):
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib + Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Denosumab
f. Encorafenib + Binimetinib
g. Ipilimumab monotherapy
h. Ipilimumab + Nivolumab
i. Nivolumab monotherapy
j. Nivolumab + Relatlimab
k. Pembrolizumab
l. Trametinib
m. Vemurafenib
n. Vemurafenib + Cobimetinib
o. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
p. Palliative care only
Q3. Does you trust participate in any clinical trials for the treatment of melanoma? If so please provide the name of each trial and number of patients that are taking part?
Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma.300623.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma:
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Ipilimumab montherapy
f. Lenvantinib + Everolimus
g. Nivolumab monotherapy
h. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
i. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
j. Pazopanib
k. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
l. Pembrolizumab + Lenvatinib
m. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
n. Radiotherapy only
o. Sunitinib
p. Temsirolimus
q. Tivozanib
r. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
s. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage):
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
f. Ipilimumab
g. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
h. Nivolumab
i. Pembrolizumab
j. Trametinib
k. Vemurafenib
l. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
n. Palliative care only
Q3. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Ipilimumab
b. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
c. Nivolumab
d. Pembrolizumab
e. Any Targeted Therapy (Dabrafenib /Dabrafenib AND Trametinib /Encorafenib AND Binimetinib /Trametinib /Vemurafenib /Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib)
f. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
g. Palliative care only
Q4. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3, M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
Renal cell carcinoma and melanoma.311022.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for renal cell carcinoma:
a. Avelumab + Axitinib
b. Axinitib
c. Cabozantinib
d. Everolimus
e. Lenvatinib + Everolimus
f. Nivolumab
g. Nivolumab + Cabozantinib
h. Nivolumab + Ipilimumab
i. Pazopanib
j. Pembrolizumab + Axitinib
k. Pembrolizumab + Lenvatinib
l. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
m. Radiotherapy only
n. Sunitinib
o. Temsirolimus
p. Tivozanib
q. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
r. Palliative care only
Q2. How many patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for melanoma (any stage):
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
f. Ipilimumab
g. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
h. Nivolumab
i. Pembrolizumab
j. Trametinib
k. Vemurafenib
l. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
n. Palliative care only
Q3. If possible, could you please provide the patients treated in the past 3 months with the following agents for metastatic melanoma ONLY:
a. Cobimetinib
b. Dabrafenib
c. Dabrafenib AND Trametinib
d. Dacarbazine
e. Encorafenib AND Binimetinib
f. Ipilimumab
g. Ipilimumab AND Nivolumab
h. Nivolumab
i. Pembrolizumab
j. Trametinib
k. Vemurafenib
l. Vemurafenib AND Cobimetinib
m. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
n. Palliative care only
Q4. In the last 3 months, how many patients have undergone full or partial nephrectomy (any of the following OPCS codes M02.1, M02.2, M02.3, M02.4, M02.5, M03.1, M03.9, M04.2, M10.1 or M10.4)?
Sentinel Lymph Node biopsies undertaken in the 2023 calendar year.231024.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Please can you confirm the number of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsies undertaken in the 2023 calendar year?
Sentinel Lymph Node biopsies undertaken in the 2023 calendar year.231024.docx
Single Chamber and Double Chamber CRM devices.150722.docx
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from NAME OF TRUST, separated by the hospitals within your trust:
• A list of Single Chamber and Double Chamber CRM devices purchased in 2021
Skin Cancer Pathway Management.270223.docx
1. What are your current skin cancer patient clinical pathway guidelines e.g., from initial patient symptoms in a GP setting to specialist referral as well as treatment and follow-up procedures and protocol.
2. Does your skin cancer pathway include remote patient-clinic interactions (as opposed to face-to-face interactions), Yes or No and if yes, elaborate what they are and what stage in the pathway they’re used e.g., teledermatology (the use of digital photography to assess patient lesions) at the GP stage.
3. What were your latest skin cancer pathway guidelines in 2019/2020 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (announced as a pandemic by WHO on 11 March 2020).
Skin cancer treatment times.240524.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The number of patients who were on a waiting list at your Trust to start treatment following an urgent referral for any type of skin cancer for the each of the following financial years a) 2019/2020, b) 2020/21, c) 2021/22, d) 2022/2023 e) 2023/24
2. The number of patients who were on a waiting list at your Trust following an urgent referral for any type of skin cancer who waited longer than i) 62-days, ii) six-months, iii) 12-months to start treatment for the each of the following financial years a) 2019/2020, b) 2020/21, c) 2021/22, d) 2022/2023 e) 2023/24
3. The longest a patient waited who was on a waiting list at your Trust following an urgent referral for any type of skin cancer to start treatment in the financial year 2023/24
Skin MDT.310123.docx
I am researching Skin MDTs with regards to how they run, their efficacy and costs across the UK.
I am writing to your team for the following information by FOI request:
1. Venue
2. All staff present based on attendance records
3. Time spent by each team member in preparing for the SSMDT meeting
4. Time spent by team coordinator preparing for and disseminating SSMDT outcome
5. Running time in minutes of the SSMDT
6. Overheads as a percentage of total operating costs from the most recent financial year
7. Number of new cases discussed
8. Number of re-discussions discussed (re-discussion defined as any patient discussed at the same point in their pathway but following an additional test or any patient brought back to MDT for re-discussion of the same test results)
9. Were any videoconferencing facilities used across sites?
Staffing in Chemotherapy Units. 011121.docx
Please note the questionnaire refers only to day patient chemotherapy units treating ADULTS with cancer. Please exclude answers for any units only treating children or non-cancer conditions.
1) Does your trust host one or more day patient chemotherapy unit (s)?
Yes / No (delete as appropriate)
If No, please return the questionnaire at this stage – no further questions need to be answered.
If Yes, how many day patient chemotherapy units does your trust host, and on how many sites?
i) Number of day patient chemotherapy units = (insert here)
ii) Number of different hospital sites within the trust that provide day patient chemotherapy = (insert here)
For each separate chemotherapy unit (service), please answer the following questions about the CURRENT situation at your Trust (please copy the template in order to respond for each unit separately):
2. For each chemotherapy unit please indicate the following:
a) Is it a static or mobile unit? (delete as appropriate) Mobile / Static
b) How many treatment chairs are there in the unit? (insert number)
c) What are the opening hours of the unit for patients (insert NA if not applicable)?
d) How many registered nurses are rostered to be on duty each day? (insert target number of staff per shift- fill in as appropriate for unit’s shift pattern)
e) How many Clinical Support Workers are rostered to be on duty each day? (insert target number of staff- fill in as appropriate for unit’s shift pattern)
f) How many patients have received SACT (chemotherapy and biological therapy) in the 12 month period to 31st August 2021?
3. For each chemotherapy unit, how many Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) members of staff are currently employed SPECIFICALLY in the chemotherapy unit in the following roles (please exclude any vacant positions from the number of WTE but include the number in vacancies column)?
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Staffing in Chemotherapy Units. 121021.docx
Please note the questionnaire refers only to day patient chemotherapy units treating ADULTS with cancer. Please exclude answers for any units only treating children or non-cancer conditions.
1) Does your trust host one or more day patient chemotherapy unit (s)?
Yes / No (delete as appropriate)
If No, please return the questionnaire at this stage – no further questions need to be answered.
If Yes, how many day patient chemotherapy units does your trust host, and on how many sites?
i) Number of day patient chemotherapy units =
ii) Number of different hospital sites within the trust that provide day patient chemotherapy =
For each separate chemotherapy unit (service), please answer the following questions about the CURRENT situation at your trust
2. For each chemotherapy unit please indicate the following:
a) Is it a static or mobile unit? (delete as appropriate) Mobile / Static
b) How many treatment chairs are there in the unit? (insert number)
c) What are the opening hours of the unit for patients (insert NA if not applicable)?
d) What services are provided within the unit? (delete as appropriate)
i) Group introductory sessions
ii) Individual introductory sessions
iii) Pre-chemotherapy assessments
iv) Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) insertion clinic
v) Phlebotomy
vi) Central line flush
vii) Non-medical or medical prescribing
viii) Supportive therapies (e.g. blood transfusions, IV fluids, bisphosphonates etc.)
ix) External chemotherapy administration services (e.g. homecare)
x) Clinical trial management
xi) Other services (please describe any additional services provided in the day unit by its staff)
e) How many registered nurses are rostered to be on duty each day? (insert target number of staff per shift- as appropriate for unit)
f) How many Clinical Support Workers are rostered to be on duty each day? (insert target number of staff)
g) How many patients have received SACT (chemotherapy and biological therapy) in the 12-month period to 31st August 2021?
h) How many SACT appointments were attended in the 12-month period to 31st August 2021?
3. For each chemotherapy unit, how many Working Time Equivalent (WTE) members of staff are currently employed SPECIFICALLY in the chemotherapy unit in the following roles (please exclude any vacant positions from the number of WTE but include the number of vacancies in brackets afterwards)?
Staff type
Registered nursing
Registered nursing associate
Clinical support staff
Medical staff
Operational management (non-nursing) (please describe)
Administration support (e.g. receptionist, scheduling) (please describe)
Pharmacist (please describe)
Non-clinical support staff (please describe)
Other (please describe)
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Surgical power tool inventory. 240222.docx
1. What is the name of the manufacturer of the Trust’s surgical power tool inventory? If more than one, please provide all.
2. Please provide the name of the maintenance and/or repair provider of the Trust’s surgical power tool inventory? If more than one, please provide all.
3. Please provide the expiry date of the existing maintenance contract for the Trust’s surgical power tool inventory? If more than one, please provide all.
Teleradiology.160823.docx
Teleradiology.
You asked: All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. Please provide the names of the providers of each service (on-call and elective separately please)?
2. Start date, duration and end date of any contracts with teleradiology providers?
3. Can the contract be extended and how long for?
4. When do you start looking at the contract before expires?
5. Which framework do you use for teleradiology services?
o NHS supply chain
o Shared Business Services (SBS)
o Health Trust Europe (HTE)
o East of England NHS CPH (EOECPH)
o North of England CPC
o Other
6. What is the usual procurement process for teleradiology services, and is it typically carried out as part of an Integrated Care System (ICS) or through the respective Trust?
7. Who deals with the procurement of contracts for teleradiology?
8. Please provide the name and contact details of the Clinical Director for Radiology
9. Please provide the name and contact details of the General Manager for Radiology
10. Please provide the name and contact details of the Service manager for Radiology
Transfusion policy and cell salvage machines. 120422.docx
1. We would be grateful if you could send me a copy of the most recent Transfusion policy document for the Maidstone Trust.
2. Also would you be so kind to confirm whether the trust has operating cell salvage machines and have trained personnel familiar with it?
Treatment of blood disorders. 281021.docx
Q1. How many patients has your trust treated (for any disease) in the last 6 months with the following treatments:
a. Doptelet (avatrombopag)
b. Jakavi (ruxolitinib)
c. Nplate (romiplostim)
d. Revolade (eltrombopag)
e. Tavlesse (fostamatinib)
f. Hydroxycarbamide
Q2. In the last 6 months, how many patients has your trust treated for:
a. Immune thrombocytopenia (ICD10 code D69.3)
b. Myelofibrosis (ICD10 code D47.4)
c. Myelofibrosis (ICD10 code D47.4) – patients over the age 65
Q3. Of the patients treated for immune thrombocytopenia (ICD10 code D69.3) in the last 6 months, how many were treated with:
a. Mycophenolate mofetil
b. Rituximab
c. Surgery (splenectomy)
Q4. How many myelofibrosis (ICD10 code D47.4) patients has your trust diagnosed in the past 3 years?
a. Of the myelofibrosis patients diagnosed in the last 3 years, how many were treated in the past 6 months with Hydroxycarbamide?
b. Of the myelofibrosis patients diagnosed in the last 3 years, how many have received no active treatment in the past 6 months?
Q5. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Q6. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for myelofibrosis? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Treatment of Cancer using a Specific Combination of Drugs.251024.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1) In the past 6 months, at your trust how many patients were treated with a combination of Dabrafenib + Trametinib for the following conditions:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Adjuvant Melanoma
C) BRAF mutated Lung Cancer
2) In the past 6 months, at your trust how many patients were treated with a combination of Encorafenib (Braftovi) + Binimetnib (Mektovi) for the following conditions:
A) Metastatic Melanoma
B) Colorectal Cancer
Treatment of Cancer using a Specific Combination of Drugs.251024.docx
Treatment of certain types of cancer. 291124.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many early-stage (non-metastatic or Stages 1-3) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)
b. Durvalumab (Imfinzi)
c. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
d. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
e. Chemotherapy
f. Radiotherapy
g. Chemotherapy AND Radiotherapy
h. Osimertinib
Q2. How many patients were treated in the past 3 months for gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer (any stage) with:
a. CAPOX (Capecitabine with Oxaliplatin)
b. FOLFOX (Folinic acid, Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin)
c. Lonsurf (Trifluridine – tipiracil)
d. Nivolumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
e. Pembrolizumab in combination with Platinum (Cisplatin or Oxaliplatin) and Fluoropyrimidine (5-Fluorouracil or Capecitabine)
f. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
g. Palliative care only
h. Zolbetuximab (Vyloy)
Treatment of HR+ adjuvant breast cancer.091222.docx
Over the latest 12 months of data that you have access to, how many patients who were diagnosed with HR+ adjuvant breast cancer received trastuzumab monotherapy?
Treatments for Lung Cancer.080922.docx
Q1. In the past 3 months (or the latest 3 months data you have available), how many metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated with any of the following:
a. Afatinib
b. Alectinib
c. Atezolizumab monotherapy
d. Atezolizumab in combination
e. Bevacizumab
f. Brigatinib
g. Capmatenib
h. Ceritinib
i. Crizotinib
j. Dacomitinib
k. Dabrafenib with Trametinib
l. Docetaxel monotherapy
m. Durvalumab
n. Erlotinib
o. Gefitinib
p. Gemcitabine
q. Nintedanib with Docetaxel
r. Nivolumab
s. Osimertinib
t. Paclitaxel
u. Pembrolizumab monotherapy
v. Pembrolizumab in combination
w. Pemetrexed with Carboplatin/Cisplatin
x. Tepotinib
y. Vinorelbine with Cisplatin/Carboplatin
z. Any other SACT
aa. Palliative care only
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. 261021.docx
Question 1 – In the past three months, how many patients were treated for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer with the following:
a) Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin) as a single agent
b) Atezolizumab + nab-paclitaxel or paclitaxel
c) Capecitabine as a single agent
d) Eribulin as a single agent
e) Eribulin + other chemotherapy
f) PARP inhibitor (e.g. Olaparib)
g) Platinum (e.g. carboplatin, cisplatin) as a single agent
h) Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
i) Other single agent chemotherapy
j) Other chemotherapy combination
k) Other immunotherapy containing regimen
l) Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Question 2 – How many of these Triple-Negative Breast Cancer patients treated in the last three months received treatment that was:
a) Privately funded
b) Part of clinical trial
c) Part of an early access scheme
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Triple-Negative (ER negative, PR negative and HER2 negative) breast cancer. 110322.docx
Could you please tell me how many patients you have treated for Triple Negative breast cancer in the last 3 months with the following systemic anti-cancer therapies:
a) Anthracycline (e.g. doxorubicin) as single agent
b) Atezolizumab + nab-paclitaxel or paclitaxel
c) Capecitabine as a single agent
d) Eribulin as a single agent or in combination
e) PARP inhibitor (e.g. Olaparib)
f) Pembrolizumab + chemotherapy
g) Platinum (e.g. carboplatin, cisplatin) as a single agent
h) Taxane (e.g. docetaxel, paclitaxel, nab-paclitaxel) as a single agent
i) Taxane + Anthracycline based combinations
j) Vinorelbine as a single agent
k) Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
Triple-Negative (ER negative, PR negative and HER2 negative) breast cancer. 110322.docx
Trophon machines. 011221.docx
1. Would you be able to clarify what devices are used within the Trophon machines?
2. In what areas the machines are located?
3. What product(s) are currently being used to pre-clean and high level disinfect the cable/plug?
Urological cancer referrals. 130422.docx
1. Please can you provide the most recent data available that details the total number of urological cancer referrals in 2021
2. Please can you provide data showing the total number of urological cancer referrals in 2020
3. Please can you provide data showing the total number of urological cancer referrals in 2019
4. Please can you provide data showing the total number of urological cancer referrals in 2018
5. Please can you provide data showing the total number of urological cancer referrals in 2017
Urothelial and Colorectal Cancer.270723.docx
1. In the past 3 months, how many patients have been treated for urothelial cancer with the following agents?
a. Avelumab
b. Atezolizumab
c. Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
d. Carboplatin single or in any other combination
e. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
f. Cisplatin single or in any other combination
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
j. Palliative care only
2. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of urothelial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
3. In the past 3 months, how many patients have been treated for colorectal cancer [CRC] with the following agents?
a. Aflibercept
b. Bevacizumab
c. Capecitabine
d. CAPIRI
e. CAPOX (XELOX)
f. Cetuximab in combination with FOLFIRI/FOLFOX
g. Cetuximab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
h. Irinotecan only
i. FOLFIRI
j. FOLFOX
k. Fluorouracil (5FU) only
l. Oxaliplatin only
m. Nivolumab
n. Panitumumab in combination with FOLFIRI/FOLFOX
o. Panitumumab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
p. Pembrolizumab
q. Raltitrexed
r. Ramucirumab
s. Regorafenib
t. Tegafur + Uracil
u. Any other systemic anti-cancer therapy
v. Palliative care only
Urothelial and Colorectal Cancer.280323.docx
Q1. How many urothelial cancer patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents:
a. Avelumab
b. Atezolizumab
c. Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
d. Carboplatin single or in any other combination
e. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
f. Cisplatin single or in any other combination
g. Nivolumab
h. Pembrolizumab
i. Any other regimen including Paclitaxel
j. Any other chemotherapy regimen
k. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
l. Palliative care only
Q2. How many colorectal cancer [CRC] patients have been treated in the past 3 months with the following agents:
a. Aflibercept
b. Bevacizumab
c. Capecitabine
d. CAPIRI
e. CAPOX (XELOX)
f. Cetuximab in combination with FOLFIRI
g. Cetuximab in combination with FOLFOX
h. Cetuximab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
i. Irinotecan only
j. FOLFIRI
k. FOLFOX
l. Fluorouracil (5FU) only
m. Oxaliplatin only
n. Panitumumab in combination with FOLFIRI
o. Panitumumab in combination with FOLFOX
p. Panitumumab not in combination with FOLFIRI or FOLFOX
q. Pembrolizumab
r. Nivolumab
s. Raltitrexed
t. Ramucirumab
u. Regorafenib
v. Sorafenib
w. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
x. Palliative care only
Urothelial cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).160824.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. Do you treat patients for Urothelial cancer (Yes or No)? If No, where do you refer patients for treatment
Q2. How many patients were treated for Urothelial cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following treatments:
a. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)
b. Avelumab (Bavencio)
c. Carboplatin single agent or in any other combination
d. Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
e. Carboplatin with Paclitaxel
f. Cisplatin single agent or in any other combination
g. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
h. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine + Nivolumab (Opdivo)
i. Enfortumab Vedotin + Pembrolizumab (Padcev + Keytruda)
j. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
k. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
l. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
m. Palliative care only
Q3. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of urothelial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Q4. How many early-stage (non-metastatic or Stages 1-3) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients were treated in the past 3 months with:
a. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)
b. Durvalumab (Imfinzi)
c. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
d. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
e. Chemotherapy
f. Radiotherapy
g. Chemotherapy AND Radiotherapy
Urothelial cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).160824.docx
Urothelial cancer (any stage).201124.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. How many patients were treated for Urothelial cancer (any stage) in the past 3 months with the following treatments:
a. Atezolizumab (Tecentriq)
b. Avelumab (Bavencio)
c. Carboplatin single agent or in any other combination
d. Carboplatin with Gemcitabine
e. Carboplatin with Paclitaxel
f. Cisplatin single agent or in any other combination
g. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine
h. Cisplatin with Gemcitabine + Nivolumab (Opdivo)
i. Enfortumab Vedotin + Pembrolizumab (Padcev + Keytruda)
j. Nivolumab (Opdivo)
k. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)
l. Other active systemic anti-cancer therapy
m. Palliative care only
2. Does your trust participate in any ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of urothelial cancer? If so, can you please provide the name of each trial along with the number of patients taking part?
Virtual wards.260423.docx
1. Do you have a Virtual Ward?
If yes,
a. For what specialities and care pathway have you implemented Virtual Wards?
b. How many Virtual Ward beds do you have?
c. Do you know how many Virtual Ward beds you need? If so, how many?
d. Who is your Virtual ward provider(s)?
If no,
e. Do you intend to implement a Virtual Ward?
f. If yes, have you identified and engaged a Virtual Ward provider?
g. Do you know how many Virtual Ward beds you need? If so, how many?
h. Do you have an internal Virtual Ward lead?
VNA Systems query (Vendor Neutral Archive – A picture archiving and communications system is used for diagnostic images.)270723.docx
Please enter ‘No System Installed’ or ‘No Department’ under supplier name if your trust does not use the system or have the department:
1. System type – Vendor Neutral Archive
2. Supplier name
3. System name –
4. Date installed –
5. Contract expiration –
6. Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No
7. Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No
8. Procurement framework –
9. Other systems it integrates with? –
10. Total value of contract (£) –
11. Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
Waiting list for scans and X-rays.060224.docx
1. Your Trusts current waiting list for a non-urgent x-ray and the waiting list for a non-urgent X-ray in July 2022
2. Your Trusts current waiting list for a CT scan and the waiting list for a CT scan in July 2022
3. Your Trusts current waiting list for an MRI and the waiting list for an MRI in July 2022
4. Your Trusts current waiting list for a PET scan and the waiting list for a PET scan in July 2022
5. Your Trusts current waiting list for an Ultrasound and the waiting list for an Ultrasound scan in July 2022
6. Your Trusts current waiting list for an Angiography and the waiting list for an Angiography scan in July 2022
7. Your Trusts current waiting list for an Electrocardiogram and the waiting list for an Electrocardiogram in July 2022
8. Your Trusts current waiting list for an Echocardiogram scan and the waiting list for an Echocardiogram in July 2022
X-ray equipment. 131021.docx
1. Please can you provide the following information for each Mobile X-ray Systems within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
d. Department equipment is primarily used in
e. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
f. Initial cost of Equipment
g. Annual Maintenance cost
h. Acquisition Date
i. Planned Replacement Date
2. Please can you provide the following information for each Fixed X-ray Rooms within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Digital / Analogue
d. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
e. Department equipment is primarily used in
f. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
g. Initial cost of Equipment
h. Annual Maintenance cost
i. Acquisition Date
j. Planned Replacement Date
3. Please can you provide the following information for each Mammography system within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Screening / Symptomatic
d. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
e. Mobile / Static
f. Department equipment is primarily used in (e.g. Radiology, Surgery, A&E)
g. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
h. Initial cost of Equipment
i. Annual Maintenance cost
j. Acquisition Date
k. Planned Replacement Date
FOI Imaging Equipment Request
4. Please can you provide the following information for each Dental / OPG X-ray equipment within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Digital / Analogue
d. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
e. Department equipment is primarily used in
f. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
g. Initial cost of Equipment
h. Annual Maintenance cost
i. Acquisition Date
j. Planned Replacement Date
5. Please can you provide the following information for each Cone Beam CT X-ray equipment within the Trust or associated sites? (Please complete the attached spreadsheet)
a. Manufacturer
b. Model
c. Digital / Analogue
d. Location – Hospital Name or Site Name
e. Department equipment is primarily used in
f. Method of Finance at Procurement – Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI
g. Initial cost of Equipment
h. Annual Maintenance cost
i. Acquisition Date
j. Planned Replacement Date
Car parking
Car park management contract.140923.docx
1. What are the contractual performance KPI’s for this contract?
2. Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages
3. Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date
4. Start date & duration of framework/contract?
5. Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?
6. Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension?
7. Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?
8. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract?
Car parking.110324.docx
Based on your latest available data,
1. How many fines have been handed out to members of staff at your Trust over the past five years for issues related to car parking? This could include parking in the wrong area, not having a permit etc.
2. How many staff does your Trust currently have
3. How many of these currently have a car parking permit?
4. How many are on the waiting list to receive a permit?
If possible, please provide data broken down by year by calendar year. Spreadsheet format preferred if possible.
Car parking.140224.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. a list of all of the measurements you record to understand parking demand and availability
2. the data for those measurements for the past 5 years.
3. a copy of the any plans you have in respect of parking improvement
Car parking.270624.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1) How much money the trust made from car parking charges in 2022/23 (i.e the year ending March 2023) and in 2023/24 (i.e. the year ending March 2024).
For both years, could you please give:
a) the overall total
b) if possible, separate figures for staff and visitor/patient parking
2) How much money was made from car parking fines in 2022/23 and 2023/24.
For both years, could you please give:
a) the overall total
b) if possible, separate figures for staff and visitor/patient parking
3a) Did you increase the cost of parking in your car parks from 2022/23 to 2023/24?
b) If yes, please provide a breakdown of the increase(s)
4) Did you charge for disabled parking in 2023/24?
5a) Were any of your car parks managed by a private firm in 2023/24?
b) If yes, what proportion of revenue from parking income did the firm take?
c) What proportion of revenue from parking fines did the firm take?
Car parking contract. 051021.docx
Can you please confirm if you planning to extend the current contract with APCOA or extend, if so could you please confirm for how long?
Car parking facilities.180123.docx
1. Could you please advise me if you manage the car parking facilities on your own, or do you employ a private operator/contractor to manage the facilities for you i.e., ANPR, POFs and PCNs etc?
2. If you use a private operator/contractor, can you please advise me who they are and when their existing contract with yourselves expires?
Financial Details and Operations of Private Parking Arrangements for NHS Staff.050624.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. Financial Revenue and Distribution:
How much revenue was generated from parking fees charged to NHS staff for the last financial year?
a. Of this revenue, what percentage or amount was paid to private parking management companies?
2. Private Companies Profiting:
Can you provide a list of the private parking companies that have benefited from these arrangements within the last financial year?
3. Revenue Breakdown:
Please provide a breakdown of the revenue generated from parking fees and fines, per hospital or area within your trust, for the last financial year.
Financial Details and Operations of Private Parking Arrangements for NHS Staff.050624.docx
Free NHS Staff Parking.220722.docx
1. Do you provide free parking for NHS staff and/or patients?
2. If not, how much do you charge staff to park?
3. how long does it take for staff to be issued a permit when joining your trust?
Hospital parking.050924.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The total number of parking charge notices issued within the last 2 calendar years (2022 and 2023) and the year-to-date for 2024 at all hospitals operated by your NHS Trust.
2. The total revenue generated from these parking charge notices for the last 2 calendar years (2022 and 2023) and the year-to-date for 2024, broken down by each individual hospital operated by your NHS Trust.
3. The current pricing structure for parking at each hospital operated by your NHS Trust, including the cost for different lengths of stay (e.g. 0-1 hour, 1-2 hours, 2-3 hours, daily rate, etc.).
Parking at Maidstone Hospital.120224.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Please could I be given any information the hospital has on plans to improve the parking at the hospital? (Either though price scheme – or to build more capacity)
Parking charges.150722.docx
1. How much money was generated by your hospital trust through parking charges in the hospital car parks during 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23 to date?
2. Can you please break this down – revenue generated through public parking and revenue generated through staff parking?
3. How many parking fines were issued for parking infringements in the car parks during the years stated above?
4. How many parking fines were written off during the years stated above?
Parking complaints for Tunbridge Wells Hospital.270223.docx
Please confirm how many complaints you have received regarding the number of spaces, over the last 3 years, on a monthly basis. Please regard that as a request under the freedom of information act.
Parking operations, impact, and parking charge notices.110823.docx
1. Who currently manages the car parks run for/by the trust?
2. Do you outsource the parking management to a 3rd party. If so, to who?
3. How many parking related complaints have you received over the last 12 months, split per hospital within the trust?
4. Do you use Automatic Number Plate Recognition for parking enforcement at any of the hospitals, and if so, at which ones?
5. How much money was raised through people paying to park at the trust, split per hospital over the last 12 months?
6. When were the existing payment machines installed, and can people pay using a credit/debit card at all machines?
7. Can users pay to park using a mobile phone-based APP, if so, which one?
8. How many parking charge notices (PCN’s) were issued during the last 12-month period?
9. How much money was generated for the trust by people paying enforcement notices, split per hospital over the last 12 months?
Parking operations, impact, and parking charge notices.110823.docx
Parking services management arrangements.180523.docx
1. Who is responsible for the parking management? (Job title)
2. Do you outsource your current parking services management?
1. If you DO outsource:
1. What is the total size of the contract in terms of costs paid? (If this is broken down into smaller parts of the contract, please provide details)
2. What contract type do you currently have? Management (i.e. site is owned by you but managed by a third-party) or Concession (site is owned and managed by third-party)
1. What services are required as part of the contract? (e.g. wardens/revenue collection, security staff, backend services)
2. Is there future potential for capacity increase or the addition of further services?
3. Who is your current parking provider?
4. Which other providers have you used in the last 20 years, if any? (Please provide details of recent contracts and providers, with dates)
5. When did your current contract start? When does the contract end? Is there an extension period, and if so how long is it?
1. When going out to tender, do you use a framework or is it an open tender?
2. Do you usually engage with the market before the tender? If so, how?
2. If you DO NOT outsource:
1. Would you consider outsourcing the parking asset management to an external provider in the future?
2. If so, in what circumstances would you do this?
Staff parking charges.190123.docx
1. How much is an annual parking permit for a full-time member of nursing staff?
2. How much is a monthly parking permit for a full-time member of nursing staff?
3. If there is more than one hospital site at your trust, are the permit charges the same for each site? If they differ, please specify.
4. How much does it cost for a member of staff without a permit to park at the trust for 12 hours? How much to park beyond 12 hours?
5. Is the annual/monthly cost of a parking permit the same price for all members of staff, or determined by pay band?
6. Are nursing students on placements able to apply for a permit? Or are they exempt from parking charges?
7. Does the trust supply its own parking services or is it contracted out to a company? If so, who?
Children's Services
Accident and emergency delays for children.170724.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The longest time it took for a person aged 18 and under to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
2. The number of people aged 18 and under waiting more than four hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
3. The number of people under the aged 18 and under waiting more than twelve hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
4. The number of people aged 18 and under seen by your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far.
Accident and emergency delays for children.170724.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. The longest time it took for a person aged 18 and under to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
2. The number of people aged 18 and under waiting more than four hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
3. The number of people under the aged 18 and under waiting more than twelve hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
4. The number of people aged 18 and under seen by your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far.
ASD waiting times.230522.docx
QUESTION 1
A. How many children are currently waiting to receive a first assessment appointment?
B. What is the average wait time for these children, starting from the point of initial referral?
C. How many of these children have been waiting longer than 13 weeks?
D. What are the longest three wait times for these children?
QUESTION 2
A. How many children are currently waiting to receive a second assessment appointment?
B. What is the average wait time for these children to receive a second appointment, since their first appointment?
C. What are the longest three wait times for these children, since their first appointment?
QUESTION 3
A. How many children are currently waiting to receive a diagnosis (ie. waiting for an assessment outcome to find out whether they do or do not have ASD)?
B. What is the average wait time, since the point of initial referral?
C. What are the longest three wait times for these children, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 4
A. In the year up to 31 March 2022, how many children with suspected autism received a first assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a first assessment appointment, since their initial referral?
C. What were the longest three wait times for these children to receive a first diagnostic appointment, since their initial referral??
QUESTION 5
A. In the year up to 31 March 2022, how many children with suspected autism received a second assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a second diagnostic appointment, since their first appointment?
C. What were the longest three wait times for these children to receive a second assessment appointment, since their first appointment?
QUESTION 6
A. In the year up to 31 March 2022, how many children with suspected autism received an ASD diagnosis?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive an ASD diagnosis, since their initial referral?
C. What were the longest three wait times for these children to receive an ASD diagnosis, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 7
A. In the year up to 31 March 2021, how many children with suspected autism received a first assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a first assessment appointment, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 8
A. In the year up to 31 March 2021, how many children with suspected autism received a second assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a second diagnostic appointment, since their first appointment?
QUESTION 9
A. In the year up to 31 March 2021, how many children with suspected autism received an ASD diagnosis?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive an ASD diagnosis, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 10
A. In the year up to 31 March 2020, how many children with suspected autism received a first assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a first assessment appointment, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 11
A. In the year up to 31 March 2020, how many children with suspected autism received a second assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a second diagnostic appointment, since their first appointment?
QUESTION 12
A. In the year up to 31 March 2019, how many children with suspected autism received an ASD diagnosis?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive an ASD diagnosis, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 13
A. In the year up to 31 March 2020, how many children with suspected autism received an ASD diagnosis?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive an ASD diagnosis, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 14
A. In the year up to 31 March 2019, how many children with suspected autism received a first assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a first assessment appointment, since their initial referral?
QUESTION 15
A. In the year up to 31 March 2019, how many children with suspected autism received a second assessment appointment?
B. What was the average wait time for these children to receive a second diagnostic appointment, since their first appointment?
Births and deaths.100223.docx
For the time period 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022, if you do not have figures available for the whole period, please provide the most up-to-date figures and state the period they cover.
LIVE BIRTHS
1. How many live births were there at your hospital Trust in the following periods?
(Please exclude home births from this number and detail them separately in brackets.)
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
STILL BIRTHS
2a. How many stillbirths were there at your hospital Trust in the same periods?
Stillbirth is defined as occurring when a baby is born dead after 24 completed weeks of pregnancy.
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
2b. Of these stillbirths (in answer 2a) how many were Intrapartum stillbirths?
Intrapartum stillbirth is defined as when a baby was thought to be alive at the start of labour but was born, beyond 37 weeks of gestation, with no signs of life.
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
2c. Of the Intrapartum stillbirths (in answer 2b) how many were referred to HSIB?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
2d. Of the Intrapartum stillbirths referred to HSIB (in answer 2c), how many did HSIB investigate?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
NEONATAL DEATHS
3a. In the same periods, how many Neonatal deaths were there at your hospital Trust?
Neonatal deaths are defined as a baby that dies within 28 days of birth of any cause or, for the purposes of this process, a baby who dies that has not left hospital since birth.
If a baby was born at your hospital Trust and was transferred to another hospital and died at another hospital Trust, please exclude them from these numbers and specify the number separately in brackets.
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
3b. Of these Neonatal deaths (in answer 3a) how many were ‘early Neonatal deaths’?
Early Neonatal deaths are defined as a baby that dies within the first week of life (0-6 days) of any cause.
If a baby was born at your hospital Trust and was transferred to another hospital and died at another hospital Trust, please exclude them from these numbers and specify the number separately in brackets.
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
4a. Of the Neonatal deaths (in answer 3a) at your hospital Trust, in how many cases was the medical cause identified?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
4b. Of the Early Neonatal deaths (in answer 3b) at your hospital Trust, in how many cases was the medical cause identified?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
5a. Of the Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, where the medical cause was identified (in answer 4a), how many were referred to the Coroner?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
5b. Of the Early Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, where the medical cause was identified (in answer 4b), how many were referred to the Coroner?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
6a. Of the Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, in how many cases was the medical cause not identified?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
6b. Of the Early Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, in how many cases was the medical cause not identified?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
7a. Of the Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, where the medical cause was not identified, how many were referred to the Coroner?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
7b. Of the Early Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, where the medical cause was not identified, how many were referred to the Coroner?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
8a. Of the Early Neonatal deaths (in answer 3b) at your hospital Trust, how many were referred to HSIB?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
8b Of the Early Neonatal deaths referred to HSIB (in answer 8a), how many did HSIB investigate?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY
9a. Of the Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, in how many cases was the cause of death recorded as Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
9b. Of the Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, where the cause of death was recorded as Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, how many were referred to the coroner?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
9c. Of the Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, where the cause of death was recorded as Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (in answer 9a), how many were referred to HSIB?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
9d. Of the Neonatal deaths at your hospital Trust, where the cause of death was recorded as Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (in answer 9c), how many did HSIB investigate?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
Please provide a copy of your hospital Trust’s current policy in respect of referring Neonatal deaths to a coroner and advise the date it was last updated.
MATERNAL DEATHS
10a. How many maternal deaths were there at your hospital Trust in the same periods?
Maternal deaths are defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of the pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, and not from accidental or incidental causes. Excludes death by suicide.
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
10b. In how many cases of maternal death was a Neonatal death also recorded?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
10c. In how many cases of maternal death where a Neonatal death also recorded, was the death an Early Neonatal death?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
11. Of the maternal deaths at your hospital Trust (in answer 10a), how many were referred to HSIB?
• 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020?
• 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021?
• 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022?
• 1 April 2022 to 31 December 2022?
Breast milk.100823.docx
Please provide the number of cases where breast milk of a new mother was given to a child who is not her own at all maternity wards in your Trust.
For clarity, I am asking you to please provide the number of instances where a child on a maternity ward was given breast milk from a person who was not their mother.
Please provide annual figures for how many times this happened at your Trust for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and so far in 2023.
Please also give the number of times disciplinary action was taken on a member of staff over these instances. Please provide a breakdown of the outcome of any disciplinary action: How many were cautioned, suspended, terminated etc as a direct result of the mistake.
Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). 051021.docx
1. The number of low secure Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and medium secure CAMHS beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
2. The number of low secure CAMHS beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
3. The number of medium secure CAMHS Service beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
4. The number of welfare social care secure beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
5. The number of forensic secure beds within your Authority or Trust and how many of those are currently available for new admissions.
Further, please could you kindly provide details of:
6. The number of young people within your Authority area or Trust area who have been assessed as requiring a CAMHS Tier 4 mental health bed but have not been admitted due to a shortage in resource (we do not require personal details or reasons for the conclusion reached, just numbers).
7. The number of young people within your Authority area or Trust area who have been assessed as requiring a CAMHS low secure mental health bed but have not been admitted due to a shortage in resource.
8. The number of children accommodated within your Authority area or Trust area in unapproved, unregulated settings.
Download response Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). 051021.docx
Children attending A&E due to mental health. 120422.docx
1. Number of children attending A&E per month, since Jan 2019 due to a mental health related issue.
2. The top 10 longest stays in A&E of a child who is presenting a mental health issue over the last 12 months.
Congenital cytomegalovirus screening and treatment practices and data.300124.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
The purpose of this FOI request is to ascertain your Trust’s approach to screening for and treating congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV).
The questions have been designed so that they can be answered within the limits (on time, cost, type of information etc.) set out in the Freedom of Information Act and the Information Commissioner’s Guidelines. If it is not possible to provide the exact information requested, please supply the underlying information in narrative form or whichever format you have available.
Definitions of acronyms and terms used in the FOI request:
CMV: cytomegalovirus
cCMV: congenital cytomegalovirus
SNHL: sensorineural hearing loss
‘Practices’ refers to any standard operating procedures or clinical protocols, guidelines, practices or pathways.
‘Information’ refers to any recorded information required to be disclosed in response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
If different hospitals or services within your Trust have different Practices or data availability, please provide separate Information or data for each hospital or service (indicating clearly which hospital or service the Information relates to).
Q1. Please provide copies of any Information containing or evidencing Practices used within your Trust whereby newborns who are referred to audiology following their newborn hearing screening test, or newborns/children who demonstrate abnormal hearing at a later stage, are tested for cCMV. Such Practices could include, but are not limited to, early cCMV detection pathways whereby newborns are tested at point of referral to audiology from the newborn hearing screening programme. Please include details about the intended timescales for testing, carrying out tests and returning test results, if this information is recorded.
Q2. If your Trust does employ Practices whereby newborns/children with abnormal hearing are tested for cCMV, please indicate at which stage samples are taken (you may select more than one):
❏ By the newborn hearing screener at the point of referral ❏ By the audiologist at the first appointment after babies have been referred from the newborn hearing screen ❏ By the audiologist at detection of SNHL in a baby referred from the newborn hearing screen ❏ By another healthcare professional (not an audiologist) following detection of SNHL in a baby referred from the newborn hearing screen ❏ At detection of SNHL in older babies and children (i.e. after the newborn hearing screening and testing period) ❏ Unknown ❏ Other, please provide details:
Q3. If your Trust does employ Practices whereby newborns/children with abnormal hearing are tested for cCMV, please indicate what type of sample is taken (you may select more than one):
❏ Saliva swab
❏ Urine
❏ Blood test for the infant
❏ Blood test for the mother
❏ Infant blood spot (Guthrie) card testing ❏ Unknown ❏ Other, please provide details:
Q4. Please provide copies of any Information containing or evidencing Practices used within your Trust whereby children are tested for cCMV as part of investigations of symptoms (in either the mother or child) that are unrelated to hearing. These could include:
Maternal symptoms of CMV (flu-like symptoms) Symptoms of congenital infection identified before or after birth, such as:
• Antenatal abnormalities e.g. on ultrasound scan
• Characteristic rashes caused by cCMV (petechiae or blueberry muffin rash)
• Intrauterine Growth Restriction
• Microcephaly
• Jaundice
• Hepatosplenomegaly
• Neonatal visual signs/symptoms
• Neonatal seizures
Symptoms of congenital infection in older children, such as:
• Neurodevelopmental delays
• Special educational needs and disabilities (e.g. autism, ADHD)
• Cerebral palsy
• Seizures
• Visual or sensory impairment
Q5. Please provide copies of any Information containing or evidencing Practices used within your Trust following a diagnosis of cCMV in a child. This could include, but is not limited to:
• Information about any Practices involving the prescribing of antiviral treatments
• Details of the department(s) that the child would be referred to
Questions 6-9 relate to the provision of data for a specific five-year period. If you do not hold data for this time period, please supply data for any period for which you have available data (preferably a recent five-year period) and specify the beginning and end dates. If the answer to any question is between 1 and 5 (and therefore the true figure cannot be shared in accordance with Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act), please indicate this by giving the answer “<5”. Please also indicate if the relevant hospitals or services within your Trust have changed during this period.
Q6. Between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2022, how many children were diagnosed with cCMV within 28 days of birth, within your Trust? This should include children born outside of your Trust who were diagnosed by services within your Trust.
Q7. Of the children who were diagnosed with cCMV within 28 days of birth in this time period (Q6), how many:
a. Previously had a newborn hearing screening test
b. Had been referred to audiology following their newborn hearing screening test
c. Were given antiviral treatment for cCMV following diagnosis
Q8. Between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2022, how many children were diagnosed with cCMV between 28 days and 18 years of age, within your Trust? This should include children born outside of your Trust who were diagnosed by services within your Trust.
Q9. Of the children who were diagnosed with cCMV between 28 days and 18 years of age in this time period (Q8), how many:
a. Previously had a newborn hearing screening test
b. Had been referred to audiology following their newborn hearing screening test
c. Were given antiviral treatment for cCMV following diagnosis
Congenital cytomegalovirus screening and treatment practices and data.300124.docx
Cord clamping. 011121.docx
Please provide under the FOI act, the figures for each of the last 5 years (please provide data for each calendar year data 2015-2020)
Please provide the following figures per calendar year:
1. How many live births occurred in your organisation (please break this down to premature and term babies)
2. How many of these live births had cord clamping as being recorded at being at or after one minute? (please break this down to premature and term babies)
3. Please provide the numbers where cord clamping occurred before one minute (please break this down to premature and term babies)
4. How many times this was not documented (please break this down to premature and term babies)
5. Please provide any audits in the last 5 years on cord clamping times.
6. Is it mandatory to record the cord clamping time on any of your systems?
Disorders of Sex Development in Children. 150222.docx
We seek information about the evaluation and care given to those with Disorders of Sex Development. In particular, we would like to know more about the number of international referral requests received by your trust from Malta.
We have put together a list of questions, which we would be grateful if you could answer in this order:
1) Since 2015, how many children receiving diagnostic tests and/or treatment for DSDs have been referred to this trust from Malta?
2) Of these children, how many are government-sponsored patients?
a. How many pay privately?
3) Of these referrals, how many have undergone genital surgeries?
4) Which specific DSDs have been referred from Malta? (e.g. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Turners Syndrome). If possible, please list them.
5) Are there specific legal or ethical guidelines tailored for Maltese patients?
Each Baby Counts. 140322.docx
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists ran an initiative called Each Baby Counts aimed at reducing the number of intrapartum stillbirths, early neo-natal deaths and babies born with severe brain injuries. Please provide the total number of notifiable cases reported to the initiative by your organisation and the time period the data relates to, e.g. 1 January 2015 – 31 December 2019.
FGM in England and Wales.300124.docx
Please provide the following for the last five years, from Jan 1 2019 until December 31 2023.
Please break each of the following down by year (i.e. January 1 2023-December 31 2023; January 1 2022- December 31 2022, etc), and only include each case once (i.e. not the number of occasions one individual attempts to access services):
1. How many cases or suspected cases of FGM have been identified?
2. How many of these cases were identified of children under 18?
3. Of the cases identified in children under 18, how many cases were referred to the police?
4. Of all the cases recorded, how many cases were referred to the police?
5. Of the cases identified, how many individuals requested reconstructive surgery via the NHS? Please include the type of reconstructive surgery.
6. How many of these individuals underwent reconstructive surgery via the NHS? Please include the type of reconstructive surgery.
7. Where this data is recorded, please provide the number of individuals who underwent reconstructive surgery out of the NHS.
8. How many of the people identified as victims of, or likely victims of, FGM were referred to psychological or mental health support services?
9. How many people were referred to specialist FGM support clinics?
Again, please provide all the above for the last 5 years (from Jan 1 2019-Dec 31 2023), broken down by each year.
General anaesthesia (GA) paediatric dental waiting times.140223.docx
1. Total number of children currently on your waiting lists and for each of the past five years.
2. The average waiting time from referral to treatment by year for each of the past five years.
3. The total number of children currently on the waiting list who have waited more than a) six months b) one year c) 18 months
3. The five longest waits faced by people currently on the waiting list in days.
4. The number of children (under 18s) who have a surgical procedure cancelled or delayed at your trust, in each of the past five calendar years (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018).
General anaesthesia (GA) paediatric dental waiting times.140223.docx
Heart defects and-or tube feeding issues in children.110724.docx
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I am conducting research on the prevalence of at-home support for children with specific medical needs. Specifically, I am interested in understanding the situation of children living with:
• Heart defects
• Tube feeding issues
The requested data would be as follows:
1. The estimated number of children currently living with heart defects and/or tube feeding issues.
2. The number of children with these conditions who have received at-home support services in the last five years (broken down by year).
3. The number of children with these conditions currently awaiting at-home support services (broken down by year for the last five years).
4. The number of children with these conditions who have requested at-home support services in the last five years (broken down by year).
5. The number of children with these conditions who are currently in receipt of at-home support services (broken down by year for the last five years).
6. The estimated number of children with these conditions who are eligible for at-home support services (broken down by year for the last five years).
7. Additionally, I would appreciate any insights into the challenges associated with finding or extrapolating this data, such as variations in assessments/criteria or inconsistencies in data tagging of patients.
Heart defects and-or tube feeding issues in children.110724.docx
Infant feeding.300623.docx
Request 1
Please confirm or deny if Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has a specific policy on provision of support for all forms of infant feeding, specifically breastfeeding, formula feeding, and combination feeding.
If confirm, please provide a copy of this policy.
Request 2
Please confirm or deny if Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust holds information on the number of infants breastfed, formula fed, and combination fed.
If confirm, please release this data.
Request 3
Please confirm or deny if Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust provides information on all forms of infant feeding (including breastfeeding, formula feeding, and combination feeding) at the 28-week antenatal appointment as outlined in the NICE guideline NG201, post-birth before the family has been discharged and at any other times.
If confirm, please provide a copy of the information on infant feeding that is provided and confirm how as well as when it is delivered.
Request 4
Please confirm or deny if Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust requires mothers to sign a consent form before any information or advice is given on formula feeding OR before an infant receives formula milk in the hospital instead of or alongside breastmilk.
If confirm, please publish a copy of the associated policy and corresponding form.
Request 5
Please confirm or deny if Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust holds information on the number of infants admitted with malnutrition every year, over the last 5 years.
If confirm, please release this data and please publish the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust policy for addressing infant malnutrition.
Infant skincare advice.031022.docx
1. What antenatal advice does the trust routinely give to mothers about infant skincare including the bathing of babies?
2. What postpartum advice does the trust routinely give to mothers about infant skincare including the bathing of babies?
Insulin Patch Pumps for both Adult and Paediatric Patients.290322.docx
Please can you provide me with the following information regarding the initiation of the following Insulin Patch Pumps for both Adult and Paediatric Patients at Maidstone Hospital, Pembury Hospital, Tunbridge and Abbey Court
2019 – 2020: Number of Omnipod Patch Pump Users
Number of Medtrum TouchCare Nano Patch Pump Users
2020 – 2021: Number of Omnipod Patch Pump Users
Number of Medtrum TouchCare Nano Patch Pump Users
2021 – 2022: Number of Omnipod Patch Pump Users
Number of Medtrum TouchCare Nano Patch Pump Users
Insulin Patch Pumps for both Adult and Paediatric Patients.290322.docx
Nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes in babies and infants under the age of 12 months.020623.docx
I would be grateful if you could provide copies of any pathways/protocols that relate to the use of Nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes within your trust.
In particular please advise if there is a pathway/protocol relating to the removal of/weaning off of the NG feeding.
Nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes in babies and infants under the age of 12 months.020623.docx
Neonatal sepsis guidance.270323.docx
A. Is your trust involved in the medical care of infants in the first 72 hours of life?
If no please answer only the above question and respond to this request
B. If yes, I would be grateful if you could also answer the following:
1. Do you have a guideline for the investigation and treatment of early onset infection/sepsis in neonates (names will vary)?
2. Does your guideline use NICE or Kaiser Permanente criteria for assessment of infants at risk of early onset neonatal sepsis?
3. Within your early onset neonatal sepsis guideline what are the indications for lumbar puncture?
4. How many lumbar punctures has your trust carried out in infants under 72 hours of age in the last 12 months?
5. How many of these had positive CSF cultures (not including bacterial PCR)?
6. How many infants under 72 hours of age were diagnosed with meningitis in the last 12 months in your trust?
7. How many infants between 72 hours of age and 7 days of age were diagnosed with meningitis in your trust?
NHS IVF funding policy. 291221.docx
I am trying to seek clarification on the NHS IVF funding policy for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells.
If you are eligible for two full NHS funded cycles of IVF and you have had a live birth from the first and only transfer, are you still eligible to complete your second funded cycle?
Any clarification on the extent of the IVF funding policy would be very much appreciated.
Paediatric antibiotic guideline. 280122.docx
I would like to make a freedom of information request for the paediatric antibiotic guideline currently in use at your trust
Download response Paediatric antibiotic guideline. 280122.docx
Paediatric audiology 2022.180522.docx
Please base your answers on the service provided as of 31 March 2022.
Section 1: About your service
Please answer the questions below based on the situation as of 31 March 2022.
1. Please provide the following information:
2. Name of person completing survey:
3. Please give the name of your audiology service/s. If you provide services on behalf of another Trust/s please provide details of all the Trusts that you provide services for below. Please write names in full and expand acronyms:
4. If you provide the services for another Trust/s, do these include diagnostic hearing assessments and hearing aid provision for children in any of these locations? Please put a cross next to the relevant answer.
If you selected Yes, we understand that your responses to the questions below may differ for each Trust. Please contact us on campaigns@ndcs.org.uk for an additional form/s.
5. We have included below, the locations where previously you, or a commissioner for your area, have told us that paediatric audiology services are provided. Please complete the table by:
Section 2: Your caseload
6. How many deaf children are there within your case load?
7. Number of births per annum your service covers
8. Age group your service covers (e.g. 0 – 18 years)
9. Number of children with permanent deafness (PCHI) on your caseload as of 31/3/22 – see definition below *
10. Number of children with glue ear likely to be persistent and require ongoing management**
11. Number of children with PCHI referred to your service from the Newborn Hearing Screen from 1/4/21- 31/3/22
12. Number of children assessed in your service and subsequently referred for CIs 1/4/21- 31/3/22
13. Total number of children with temporary deafness on your caseload as of 31/3/22 who are fitted with hearing aids
14. Total number of children with ANSD
Section 3: What services do you provide?
Please answer the questions in this section based on the situation as of 31 March 2022. Please put a cross next to the relevant answer/s.
15. What options do you have for assessing the hearing of complex/difficult to test children? Select all that apply:
16. What options are included in the current management pathway in your service for temporary conductive hearing loss? Select all that apply:
17. Are there any groups of children that you don’t currently provide hearing aids for? Select all that apply and, where applicable, explain why hearing aids are not provided to this group:
18. Do you currently provide free batteries for children’s hearing aids? Please select one answer:
19. Do you currently provide a choice of coloured or patterned moulds to children at no extra charge? Please select one answer:
20. What additional/non-“standard” paediatric services do you offer? If you have indicated no, please specify if your service refers children elsewhere for this.
21. What flexibility for appointments do you offer? Please select all that apply:
22. Which of the following forms of communication are available to patients for making bookings and enquiries? Please select all that apply:
Section 4: Waiting times
23. In the last quarter, (1 January – 31 March 2022) how many days on average did patients wait for the following? If you are not sure please estimate.
Section 5: Quality assurance and improvement
24. Has your service gained Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation this year? Please select one answer:
25. What methods do you use for quality assurance and improvement in addition to/ or as an alternative to IQIPS? Please select all that apply.
Section 6: Staffing and training
26. How many full-time equivalent Clinical staff does your children’s audiology service have at the following levels as on 31 March 2022?
27. If there has been a reduction in the number or skill level of staff compared to last year, what are the reasons for this?
28. What steps have you taken to address any staffing issues? Please describe briefly:
29. Were all staff able to access the CPD required to meet their personal development needs in the last year?
30. What are the reasons if staff were not able to access external CPD?
31. Please indicate what roles the different members of the team can have at each grade in paediatrics. (Please select all that apply)
32. How many staff working in your paediatric service have qualifications/training at the following levels as on 31 March 2022? (Please select all that apply)
33. Which children do you refer to the local specialist education service for deaf children in your area? (Please put a cross next to all that are applicable)
34. Are you able to routinely refer directly to the following non-audiology/ external professionals?
35. Does the Children’s Hearing Services Working Group (CHSWG) in your area include a representative from the following groups?
Section 8: Assistive technology
36. As of 31 March 2022, which organisation provides the following technology?
Please put a cross in the relevant boxes to select your answers.
37. Are there any plans to stop or significantly reduce the provision of hearing equipment or accessories for hearing equipment in 2022/23? Please select one answer:
Section 9: Patient engagement
Please answer the questions in this section based on the situation as of 31 March 2022. Please put a cross next to the relevant answer/s.
38. How do you prepare young people for transition to adult services? Please select all that apply.
39. How many appointments were classed as ‘Was not Brought (WNB)’ or ‘Did Not Attend (DNA)’ in the 2021/22 financial year?
40. What strategies are used to reduce missed appointments?
Section 10: Funding and commissioning
41. How is your funding provided? Please select all that apply.
42. If you run a joint paediatric and adult service, are your budgets shared? Please select one answer:
43. Was your audiology service for deaf children commissioned differently in the 2021/22 financial year when compared to the 2020/21 financial year? (e.g. competitive tendering, any qualified provider, etc.)
44. Is your audiology service being commissioned differently or reviewed in 2022/23? (e.g. competitive tendering, any qualified provider, etc.)
Section 11: Pandemic recovery
45. Are there any areas where there has been an increase in demand following the pandemic?
46. Has your service introduced any new ways of working or changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic that you anticipate will be retained as the impact of the pandemic recedes? Please outline what these changes are (e.g. introduction of remote appointments, changes to care pathways, etc.).
Section 12: NDCS Support for services
The next questions are optional.
47. We are keen to promote and share good practice. Please let us know if there is any good practice or an innovative solution in your service that you would like us to be aware of.
Alternatively, please indicate if you would like us to contact you to discuss sharing your areas of good practice.
48. Are there any challenges to your service now, or potential future threats which you would like to discuss with NDCS to discuss how we can support you?
Paediatric Audiology Services.210324.docx
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Audiology Services, Paediatric services only:
1. Are you a Tier 2 or Tier 3 service?
2. When you triage referrals, what do you class as a “Diagnostic” and an “Assessment” referral? Do you have any guidance that you can share?
3. When a child does not attend an appointment, how do you record these?
a. Unable to attend
b. Did not attend
c. Other (please specify)
4. Do you send a “Referral received – Please contact the service for an appointment” letter to parents?
a. If yes – Is this all referrals or only certain referrals? Please specify.
b. If no, do you offer an appointment to children via another method, such as online booking portal, etc. Do you send out blanket appointments? Please specify.
5. If you do send a “Referral received – Please contact the service for an appointment” letter, how do you manage Safeguarding concerns? Do you have a process that you could share?
Paediatric-Child Head Injury Advice Leaflet and-or Concussion Advice Leaflet.040722.docx
I would like to make a FOI request for a copy of your Paediatric/Child Head Injury Advice Leaflet and/or Concussion Advice Leaflet (both may exist, or just one). This would typically be given out from the Emergency Department following discharge of a child following a head injury.
Paediatric-Child Head Injury Advice Leaflet and-or Concussion Advice Leaflet.040722.docx
Paediatric Diabetes service. 191021.docx
1. Number of Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) Paediatric Diabetes consultant posts in place for your Paediatric Diabetes service.
2. Number of WTE nursing posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service.
3. Number of WTE HCA posts currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service.
4. Number of WTE Psychologist posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service.
5. Number of WTE Dietician posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service.
6. Number of WTE Social Worker posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service.
7. Number of WTE Family Support Worker posts, and their bands, currently in place specifically for your Paediatric Diabetes service.
8. Any other staffing roles within your Paediatric Diabetes service? What are they? What are the whole-time equivalents? and what benefits do you feel they provide to the patients?
9. Does your Paediatric service use Dendrite or Twinkle software, or both, to capture patient data?
10. What methods of accessibility to you have for patients whose first language is not English?
Paediatric Mental Health admissions.240523.docx
Please provide me with the following data for the years: 2019, 2020, 2021,2022, 2023 (to date):
1. The total number of under-18s admitted with a primary diagnosis of mental health disorder to a paediatric bed
2. The total number of under-18 admitted with a primary diagnosis of eating disorder to a paediatric bed
3. Average length of stay for under 18s admitted with a primary diagnosis of mental health disorder to a paediatric bed
4. Longest recorded length of stay for under 18s admitted with a primary diagnosis of mental health disorder to a paediatric bed
5. Total moderate and severe serious incidents reported on paediatric wards related to under 18s with a diagnosis of mental disorder
Paediatric services.300622.docx
I wanted to check facilities in nearby hospitals for my kids (8Y and ~1Y). Can we get emergency services in hospital free? Can we consult on weekends as well?
Paediatrics.081124.docx
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1. Does your Paediatric department manage young people aged 16 years to 17 years and 364 days for acute medical, surgical or mental health issues ?
(Please note this does not include CYP already under your care for on-going treatment of related condition/s).
2. If yes, would you be able to share your SOP for this cohort of patients (aged between 16 years and 17 years 364 days only ) ?
Parking for Children and Young People with Cancer.200623.docx
1. A copy of the Trust’s parking policy
2. Details of the price of car parking per hospital site within the Trust
3. Confirmation of how the Trust has implemented both the mandatory and voluntary elements of the “NHS car parking guidance 2022 for NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts”, including;
a. whether parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer are offered free parking/parking exemptions
b. whether parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer are offered parking concessions and details of the financial value of these
c. whether young people (17-25) with cancer are offered free parking/parking exemptions
d. whether young people (17-25) with cancer are offered parking concessions and details of the financial value of these
e. whether any free parking/parking exemptions or concessions apply to inpatient/active treatment visits, visits to attend follow-up appointments (i.e. not undergoing active treatment), or both
4. If yes to any items in point 3, how many parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer and/or young people (17-25) with cancer have been offered free parking/parking exemptions or concessions, provided per category (free parking/exemption, concession);
a. per financial year since 2017 (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23 to date)
b. per hospital site within the Trust
5. Details of how the Trust shares, communicates and displays information about free parking/parking exemptions and/or concessions, their eligibility, how to access them and their financial value
6. Confirmation whether car parking within the Trust is owned and managed by the Trust or is owned and managed by a private company, and if so what company
7. Details of how many complaints the Trust has received from parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer and/or young people (17-25) with cancer regarding car parking charges or regarding the information the Trust provides about car parking charges;
a. per financial year since 2017 (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23 to date)
b. per hospital site within the NHS Trust or NHS Foundation Trust
8. Details of any other travel-related support provided by the Trust which is available to parents and/or carers of children and young people (up to age 25) with cancer and/or young people with cancer, including;
a. how children and young people and their parents or carers are informed of the support that is available to them
b. how the support is accessed/applied for
c. the financial value of the support and whether this is provided up-front or requires a claim to be paid back to the recipient
d. the duration of the support and type of care this applies to (e.g. inpatient/active treatment, follow-up/outpatient etc.)
Parking for Children and Young People with Cancer.200623.docx
Play teams.141122.docx
I would like to know for each hospital in your Trust, including the following departments:
· Accident and Emergency
· Outpatient
· Diagnostic
· Phlebotomy
· Day case
· Surgical Units
· Inpatient Units
· Neonatal Units
Between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022, for each hospital:
1. The name of the hospital and their wards/departments that provide services to 0–17-year-olds
2. The number of admissions for 0–17-year-olds
3. A breakdown of the ethnicity, gender, and deprivation percentiles of 0–17-year-olds admitted
4. The number of 0–17-year-olds treated on an adult ward/bed and reason (e.g., patient choice, bed shortages etc.)
I would also like to know for each hospital:
5. Which Directorate(s) does the Play Team(s) sit in?
6. The number of the following roles, salary band, and approximately how many hours do they work per week?
7. Does the Play Team lead(s)/manager(s), if you have them, hold a Foundation Degree in Healthcare Play Specialism?
8. If any, how many of your health play specialists are registered with the Healthcare Play Specialist Education Trust (HPSET)?
9. How many hours do your play team typically work during one shift?
10. Which shifts do the Play Team typically work? (Select all that are applicable)
11. Do you have any of the following in each of the specified hospitals? If yes, please specify where these provisions are located (e.g., department/ward name):
a. Playful ‘non-play team’ staff (staff create opportunities for children to play but are not health play specialists nor play workers)
12. Is there an annual budget for the delivery of play (e.g., toys, staffing, etc.) in your hospital(s)? If yes, for each individual hospital:
a. What is the overall annual budget?
b. How much of the budget is for staffing?
c. How much of the budget is spent on resources and materials for play (e.g., toys)?
13. Is there a budget available for training and development that play staff can access?
a. If yes, how much is this?
14. Do you have a guidance/policy on how Play should be delivered? If yes, please can you attach a copy of this or a link where it can be accessed
Portable Bilirubin (jaundice) meters.201222.docx
Would it be possible to forward me the following information regarding your Community Midwife medical equipment?
1. What (if any) portable bilirubin meters they currently use to assess possible jaundice in babies? (Jaundice Meters)
2. When were they purchased?
3. How many were purchased?
4. When will they be renewed or when does the current contract expire?
5. Would it also be possible to obtain the contact details of the person dealing with managing the Bilirubin Meters (Jaundice meters) that the community midwife use?
Restraint used on children.130623.docx
1. The occasions when children, who attended A&E with their chief complaint being mental health related, were restrained by staff, broken down by financial year, since 2010.
2. The total number of children, who attend A&E with their chief complaint being mental health related, broken down by financial year, since 2010.
School Aged Immunisation Service team.031023.docx
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We are trying to identify the School Aged Immunisation Service team/Screening and Immunisation Teams.
I would appreciate it if you could provide me with:
• Confirmation of the immunisation or screening service
• Location of the screening or immunisation service
• Named individuals of the teams and their roles
o Immunisation Team Operational Manager
o Immunisation Lead Nurse
o Immunisation Lead
o Programme Lead
o Immunisation Programme Lead
o School Nurse
o Immunisation Coordinator
o Lead Nurse for SIT Team
o Principal Screening & Immunisation Lead
o Local Area Lead
o Place Based Lead
o Programme Manager
o Principal Screening & Immunisation Manager
• What type of vaccines are being offered
Speech therapy for stammering children of service personnel.200824.docx
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I am writing to enquire if you have any data or information pertaining to children of service personnel who experience stammering.
I believe that any data or insights you might have could significantly contribute to understanding and supporting these children better. If available, I would appreciate any statistics, reports, or anecdotal/ qualitative evidence you could share.
If you do not have the information I am looking for but can direct me to any other services or sources of information that might be of assistance, this would be greatly appreciated.
Speech therapy for stammering children of service personnel.200824.docx
Stillbirth and Infant deaths.030223.docx
1. Number of stillbirths in total for the period Jan 1 – June 30 2022
2. Of those stillbirths, how many of the mothers had received the Covid 19 vaccination?
(a) 1 dose
(b) 2 doses
(c) 2 doses and the booster
3. Of those stillbirths, how many burials/cremations were conducted or handled by the NHS Trust?
4. What was the main cause of death among the stillbirths?
5. Of those stillbirths, how many cremations too place on the NHS Trust’s grounds?
6. Total number of infant deaths where the infant was aged 0-3mths at the time of death during the period 1 Jan – 30 June 2022.
7. With regards the infant deaths for the 0-3mth age group, how many of the mothers had received the Covid 19 vaccination?
(a) 1 dose
(b) 2 doses
(c) 2 doses and the booster
8. With regards the infant deaths for the 0-3mth age group, how many burials/cremations were conducted/handled by the NHS Trust?
9. With regards the infant deaths for the 0-3mth old age group, how many cremations took place on the NHS Trust’s grounds?
10. What was the main cause of death for the infant deaths in the 0-3mth age group?
11. Total number of infant deaths where the infant was aged 3-6mths at the time of death during the period 1 Jan – 30 June 2022.
12. With regards the infant deaths for the 3-6mth age group, how many of the mothers had received the Covid 19 vaccination?
(a) 1 dose
(b) 2 doses
(c) 2 doses and the booster
13. With regards the infant deaths for the 3-6mth age group, how many burials/cremations were conducted/handled by the NHS Trust?
14. With regards the infant deaths for the 3-6mth old age group, how many cremations took place on the NHS Trust’s grounds?
15. What was the main cause of death for the infant deaths in the 3-6mth age group?
Stillbirth data.080822.docx
1. Annual stillbirth rates since 2010, finishing with the most recent data (per 100,000 and in real numbers if possible; i.e.: 55 stillbirths in 2021)
2. Annual perinatal mortality rates since 2010, finishing with the most recent data (per 100,000 and in real numbers if possible; i.e.: 55 perinatal deaths in 2021) Does the trust use the GAP protocol?
3. Finally, please indicate in your response which of the categories below best describes the facilities at your trust:
a. Level 3 NICU and neonatal surgery
b. Level 3 NICU
c. 4,000 or more births
d. 3,000 or more births
e. Less than 2,000 births
Surrogacy policy. 241221.docx
1. Can I have a copy of your Surrogacy Policy for patients?
2. When is this policy up for review?
3. Please can you list the name and email address of the Head of Midwifery, in the event we have any queries related to the policy.
Tongue Tie.300622.docx
1. What is your name and role within the trust?
2. What is the name of your NHS trust?
3. How many babies were born in your trust in 2021?
4. Is there currently an NHS tongue-tie division in your trust?
5. If there is no tongue-tie division service in your Trust, do you have a
referral pathway to a service (e.g. which may be private or located in another Trust)?
6. How many referrals were made to this service in 2021?
(or a recent 12-month period)?
7. How many babies were referred for possible division?
8. How many babies actually had an NHS tongue tie division in your Trust in 2021?
Any comment to add?
9. Who is the service run by?
10. For funding purposes what is the tongue tie release coded as?
11. Do you accept out-of-area referrals?
12. What are the criteria for referral? (Please tick as many as apply)
13. Do you accept referrals for formula fed babies?
14. Does your service divide tongue-ties described as posterior/sub-mucosal?
15. What is the usual waiting time between referral and appointment with the tongue-tie service?
16. What is the maximum age for babies to be referred to the service?
17. Does your service use any specific assessment tool? (Please tick as many as apply)
18. Is specialist breastfeeding support available for mothers and babies immediately after a tongue-tie division?
19. What follow up do the mothers and babies have after division?
20. When does that review occur?
21. What aftercare is recommended? Please tick as many as apply)
22. In comparison to pre-COVID (March 2020) have the number of tongue tie referrals?
23. In comparison to pre-COVID (March 2020) has your waiting list?
24. In comparison to pre-COVID (March 2020) have your criteria for referral changed?
25. Has COVID had any other impact on your service?
26. If you would be happy to be contacted for further details about the tongue tie
services in your area, please give your email address.
27. If you have any further comments relating to this survey or tongue tie services
generally, please use the box below:
28. Would you like a copy of the report when it is finished?
Tongue tie in babies.090823.docx
Please see below a request for the following information relating to tongue tie in babies aged 0-12 months.
1. How many babies were born within your trust between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
2. How many babies were diagnosed with ankyloglossia (tongue tie) between Jan1st 2022 and December 31 2022 at your trust?
3. On average how many days after birth was a tongue tie diagnosis made between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
4. How many babies diagnosed with tongue tie were referred for a frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
5. Is the frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) available to babies who are fully formula fed?
6. How many frenotomy procedures (tongue tie division) were carried out on babies at your trust between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
7. What was the average waiting time in days between diagnosis/ referral and a frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
8. How many women had to wait 3 weeks or longer after a referral for a frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) or their baby between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
9. How many women waited more than 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks and 16 weeks or longer for a frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) for their baby between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
10. What is the longest amount of time a woman had to wait after a referral for a frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) for their baby between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
11. If there is no tongue tie division service in your trust how many referrals were made to an alternative NHS Service for tongue toe division?
12. How many women declined the offer of a frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) within the NHS between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022?
13. Of the women who declined the offer of a frenotomy procedure (tongue tie division) within the NHS between Jan 1st 2022 and December 31st 2022 are you aware how many sought treatment privately instead?
Upper and lower UTI, urinary sepsis and PBS in children. 050422.docx
1.The number of children attending A and E (ED) with upper and lower urinary tract infections also referred to as bladder infection, kidney infection, pyelonephritis and cystitis
2. The number of children admitted into hospital with upper and lower urinary tract infections also referred to as bladder infection, kidney infection, pyelonephritis and cystitis
3. The number of children diagnosed with urinary sepsis.
4. The number of deaths of children from sepsis as a result of a kidney or urinary tract infection, pyelonephritis or urinary sepsis.
5. The number of children suffering from PBS (painful bladder syndrome) or IC (interstitial cystitis).
For the years 2014- 2021, for children age 17 and under.
Upper and lower UTI, urinary sepsis and PBS in children. 050422.docx
Complaints, PALS and Legal Services
Allegations of sexual misconduct.040123.docx
1. Between 1 September 2018 and 1 September 2022, how many complaints of sexual misconduct were made by patients, visitors and Trust employees against staff members in your NHS Trust.
2. How many of the complaints were upheld?
3. What was the outcome of the upheld complaints? Outcomes can include but are not limited to verbal warning, written warning, suspension, or dismissal
If it does not push the request over the cost limit, please can you also include:
4. The nature of the allegation
5. The gender of the complainant
6. The gender of the staff member
Compensation pay outs and court costs.010422.docx
1. Between January 2018 and February 2022 how much in total did the Trust spend on compensation pay outs, including court costs
2. Could you also provide the number of claims by category and the total amount of compensation for this category since 2018? e.g. ‘inadequate nursing care’ or ‘maternity
Complaints.220323.docx
I am seeking information about the number of complaints received by your hospital trust in the past five years for the following specialties: neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and vascular surgery.
Specifically, I would like to request the following information for each specialty:
1. The total number of complaints received for each specialty in each of the past five years;
2. The nature of the complaint;
3. The outcome of the complaint, including any actions taken by the hospital trust to address the issue;
I did have a quick question as to whether I could incorporate two further questions into my request. This would put any complaint data you able to provide into an appropriate context (e.g. to contextualise 10 complaints with the fact 1,000 operations were performed):
4. Number of operations performed in the past five calendar years for the following specialties: neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and vascular surgery;
5. Number of reportable / recordable patient safety incidents in the past five calendar years for the following specialties: neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and vascular surgery
a. Breakdown by incident category (if available);
Complaints.220323.docx
Complaints.241123.docx
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Between 1st September 2022 and 31st August 2023 (inclusive). Specifically, I would like to know:
How many women inpatients complained that a trans woman inpatient was being cared for in the same ward as the complainant?
For the avoidance of doubt, it may be helpful for me to note that my question is in reference to written complaints (which may have been originally made orally and subsequently recorded in writing) received by the Trust.
Complaints about EDI Policies.160524.docx
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1. Have you implemented any EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) policies/initiatives on race in your trust?
2. Have you received any complaints, either from staff or the general public, about these policies/initiatives?
3. If so, please provide details of the total number of complaints you have received, reasons given for the complaint/s and any actions taken.
Complaints against consultants.270422.docx
I would like to know how many complaints/issues have been lodged or raised in any way about this/these consultants.
Complaints and Claims.131023.docx
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1. How many complaints has the trust received from July 2022 to July 2023?
2. How many of these complaints are related to poor or substandard care?
3. How many medical negligence claims were lodged against the trust in the same period?
4. How much compensation has the trust paid out in medical negligence claims in the past 12 months irrespective of when the claim was made?
Complaints made regarding communication.201222.docx
1. In your trust, in each of the last 5 calendar years, how many formal patient/family complaints were made regarding communication?
2. How many of these complaints were regarding lack of updates to Next of kin or patient families?
3. In your trust in the last 5 years, what were the top 5 categories for complaints? For example, ‘communication’ or ‘clinical care’ may be examples
Complaints reported by members of staff (including locums, agency workers or casual staff) against other members of staff. 030322.docx
Q1.) For each of the past five years please state the number of complaints reported by members of staff (including locums, agency workers or casual staff) against other members of staff received of:
2016 2017 2018 2019 2021
a) Sexual Misconduct
b) Sexual Harassment
c) Sexual Assault
d) Rape Allegation
Q2.) By year for each of the complaints recorded above can you state the outcome following each allegation:
a) Complaint withdrawn
b) Insufficient evidence to make a finding of fact.
c) Perpetrator cautioned – or similar note made on their employment file
d) Disciplinary action
e) Sacked
Q3.) By year can you state in each category in the table how many of the complaints were referred to the police?
Q4.) By year, please state the number of settlement/compromise agreements which contain non-disclosure clauses your organisation made with current or former staff which involve or relate to sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape. For each of these, please state the number and financial value of the settlements.
Discrimination complaints.130524.docx
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1. How many complaints of each of the following types of discrimination were reported to your organisation in 2021, 2022 and 2023:
a) Disability discrimination
b) Race or ethnicity discrimination
c) Sexual orientation discrimination
2. How many complaints were reported to your organisation about discrimination related to a person’s HIV status in:
a) 2021
b) 2022
c) 2023
3. If HIV-related discrimination complaints were reported to your organisation, how many of the following incidents were reported?
(a) Refusal of a service after HIV status was shared.
(b) Failure to make reasonable adjustments for a person’s HIV status.
(c) Harassment related to a person’s HIV status.
(d) Use of an organisational policy that discriminated against a person based on their HIV status.
(e) Another kind of HIV discrimination incident.
4. If HIV-related discrimination complaints were reported to your organisation, were they reported by?
(a) Members of the public.
(b) Employees of your organisation
5. If HIV-related discrimination complaints were reported to your organisation, how many complaints were upheld?
6. Does your organisation have a policy to deal with incidents of HIV discrimination reported to them at a strategic level? If so, could you explain what the policy is or attach a copy of said policy?
Employees accused of Child Sexual Abuse.150724.docx
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1. A list of the number of all employees accused or arrested on charges of child sexual abuse from January 1, 2019, until the day this request is fulfilled.
Please consider the timeframe listed in request (1) above for all subsequent requests below.
2. A breakdown of the different crimes reported: rape, grooming, groping, lewd acts, anal or vaginal penetration, and other examples listed as crime by the Home Office.
3. All disciplinary files or records of employees investigated for child sexual abuse. This request relates to employees whose names have already been released into the public domain and as such, Section 40 of the Act which exempts sensitive information on the identity of these employees cannot be applied to this request.
4. An annual summary from 2019 of all legal costs, settlements, or restitution paid to affected families of these children.
Employment tribunal claims and costs.081123.docx
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I am requesting information from the following financial years: 2018/19; 2019/20; 2020/21; 2021/22; 2022/23; and 2023/24 to the present day.
Please disclose the following:
1. How many employment tribunal (ET1) claims have been made against the organisation since 2018/19;
If possible, please break this down by type (e.g., public interest disclosure, unfair dismissal, discrimination). If this breakdown takes too long to respond to the FOI then please omit it.
2. Of those ET1 claims, how many have been defended against by the organisation since 2018/19;
Again, continue with a breakdown by type. If this exceeds the time limit then please omit it from the FOI request.
3. The outcomes from each claim (e.g., 12 were in favour of the claimant, 24 were in favour of the respondent, 53 were discontinued/settled out of court);
4. How much (£) has the organisation spent on defending claims since 2018/19; and
If possible, please provide total figures based on case outcomes (e.g., £200,000 where the tribunal favoured claimant, £120,000 where the tribunal favoured respondent).
If this takes too much time, please provide the total figure for each financial year (e.g., £500,000 in 2018/19, £250,000 in 2019/20).
5. Of the cases defended, how many led to an employment tribunal ruling the organisation must pay costs to the claimant;
If possible, please provide figures for each individual case alongside the total. If this takes too much time, please provide the total figure for each financial year (e.g., £500,000 in 2018/19, £250,000 in 2019/20).
Please also break this down by case type. However, as with above, if this takes too long then please omit it from the FOI.
If question 5 takes too long to answer alongside questions 1-4, then please omit it from the FOI request.
Ethnicity or national identity of the perpetrators and the victims in cases of sexual misconduct and violence.060723.docx
In the recent BBC health news, published on 23rd May 2023, suggesting that more than 35,000 incidents of sexual misconduct and sexual violence were recorded on NHS premises between 2017 to 2023.
I seek information regarding the ethnicity or national identity of the perpetrators and the victims in cases of sexual misconduct and violence in your Trust.
External law firm services. 161121.docx
1. What is your spend with external law firms
2. Do you use eBilling technology to manage your law firms billing (e.g. systems such as Legal Tracker, Brightflag, Apperio, CT Tymetrix, Mitratech etc.)
3. Who is your head of legal / general counsel
4. Do you have a law firm panel / preferred supplier list / use a framework to buy your external law firm services
External Law Firms.030124.docx
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1. What is your spend with external law firms (please provide for the last 4 financial years)?
2. Do you use eBilling technology to manage your law firms billing (e.g. systems such as Legal Tracker, Brightflag, Apperio, CT Tymetrix, Mitratech etc.)?
3. Who is your head of legal / general counsel (please provide email address)?
4. Do you have a law firm panel / preferred supplier list / use a framework to buy your external law firm services? Please provide details where possible.
Fat shaming 2021.270522.docx
1) How many official complaints and PALS concerns your Trust received from patients alleging they had been discriminated against or badly treated by a member of staff because of their being overweight or obese
2) Can you select the first five such complaints from 2021 and provide me with the following details:
a. What type of staff member was the complaint levelled against? E.g. healthcare assistant, junior doctor, consultant, cleaner, kitchen staff
b. Please quote the words allegedly used by the hospital staff or summarise the offending action
c. Please tell me what, if any, action was taken by your trust in response to these five sample complaints from the beginning of 2021
Formal Grievances.080923.docx
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1. The number of Formal Grievances lodged by employees at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust since the 1st January 2015.
2. The number of occasions on which the Trust employed the use of a protected conversation in their handling of a Formal Grievance by an employee in the same time period.
3. The number of those protected conversations which went on to lose their legal protection as a result of improper behaviour on behalf of the Trust’s representative. Improper conduct includes but is not limited to:
• all forms of harassment, bullying and intimidation, including through the use of offensive words or aggressive behaviour;
• physical assault or the threat of physical assault and other criminal behaviour;
• all forms of victimisation;
• discrimination because of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, transgender, pregnancy and maternity and marriage or civil partnership; and
• putting undue pressure on a party
Grievances and bullying and harassment complaints.141222.docx
1. Please can you detail the number of grievances & bullying and harassment complaints that have been raised in the last 5 years.
1st April 2018 – 31st March 2019
1st April 2019 – 31st March 2020
1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021
1st April 2021 – 31st March 2022
1st April 2022 – 31st November 2022
2. How many of the above cases remain unresolved as of 31st November 2022.
3. What number of employees, who have raised a grievance or B&H complaint since 1st April 2018, remained at the Trust, in their same role, one year after their complaint was concluded?
4. What number of respondents* involved in grievance or B&H complaints since 1st April 2018, remained at the Trust, in their same role, one year after their complaint was concluded?
*respondent refers to the person who is the subject of the grievance or bullying and harassment complaint.
Grievances and bullying and harassment complaints.141222.docx
Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB). 220921.docx
I understand the HSIB have written a “letter of concern” to MTW about maternity services (particularly about Crowborough Birthing Centre).
Under the FOI, could I see a copy of their correspondence please and the Trust’s response.
Download response Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB). 220921.docx
Lost, stolen or damaged property.250523.docx
1. How much did your Trust have to pay to patients to replace lost, stolen or damaged property in the period July 1st 2021 to July 1st 2022 inclusive?
2. How many reports of lost, stolen or damaged property were there in total during this period?
3. How much did your Trust have to pay to patients to replace lost, stolen or damaged property in the period July 1st 2015 to July 1st 2016 inclusive?
4. How many reports of lost, stolen or damaged property were there in total during this period July 1st 2015 to July 1st 2016 inclusive in total?
Maternity claims.120623.docx
1. Please can you provide the total amount of compensation you have paid out to maternity claims in 2022/23.
a. Can you please provide the highest amount of compensation paid out to a single maternity claim in 2022/23?
b. Please could you split the 2022/23 figure on maternity claims into how much was spent on compensation and how much was spent on legal and other costs?
Maternity complaints.210324.docx
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I would like to request data on the number of written complaints at Pembury maternity services between January 2020 and December 2023 with a breakdown of the complaints for each month and the nature of the complaint.
Maternity unit complaints – 2020-21 and 2021-22.111022.docx
1. If you have a maternity unit within your trust, how many patients or members of the public made a complaint relating to the maternity unit in the (i) 2020/21 financial year, and (ii) 2021/22?
2. How many of these complaints in relation to the period 2021/22 made reference to (i) equipment shortage or failure, (ii) a lack of adequate staff and (iii) staff attitude or performance?
Please note that a complaint identified in Q.1 may give rise to being a complaint about one, two or all three items in Q.2 and should be recorded separately in each category.
3. For each complaint identified in Q.2 please provide a summary of the circumstances. Please use the attached spreadsheet as the level of detail I would like.
Neonatal care unit access complaints, Covid-19 220921.docx
Could you please tell me, between March 1st 2020 and the date of this email (02/09/2021)?
1) How many comments through the patient advice and liaison system (PALS)*, as well as official complaints, has your Trust received from patients complaining about limited access to neonatal care units as a result of COVID-19 restrictions?
Please do this by searching for complaints containing any of the words “neonatal”, “covid”, “covid-19”, “coronavirus”, “incubator”, “baby”.
2) Can you select the five most recent complaints and provide me with the following details:
a) a summary of the complaint (e.g., a couple whose baby spent two weeks in an incubator following premature birth complained about not being allowed to enter the neonatal care unit together and for only a limited number of hours per day)
b) the exact wording of the complaint, with redactions to remove potentially identifying information
c) what action the Trust took in response
Download response Neonatal care unit access complaints, Covid-19 220921.docx
NHS sexual violence and misconduct.130123.docx
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide me with the following information about incidents of sexual misconduct and sexual violence, including but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape, at the trust. (See after the question for clarification on these definitions.)
In order to assist you, I understand that some, if not all of this information should be recorded in the trust’s safety incident reporting system, (e.g. Datix, NRLS or similar) or it may be recorded by your HR team.
N.B. For each question, please provide the data for each of the following years, and the five-year total. Please use the attached spreadsheet to provide your answers:
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
Total
If you only have information for some of the above years, please provide what you have and explain the gaps in your data.
Sexual violence and misconduct by staff against patients
1. Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by staff against patients has the trust recorded?
1.1 Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual misconduct allegedly perpetrated by staff against patients has the trust recorded?
1.2 Over the past five years, how many staff have been formally disciplined for sexual violence and/or sexual misconduct against patients?
Sexual violence and misconduct by patients against other patients
2. Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by patients against other patients has the trust recorded?
2.1 Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual misconduct allegedly perpetrated by patients against other patients has the trust recorded?
Sexual violence and misconduct by patients against staff
3. Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by patients against staff has the trust recorded?
3.1 Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual misconduct allegedly perpetrated by patients against staff has the trust recorded?
Sexual violence and misconduct by staff against other staff
4. Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by staff against other staff has the trust recorded?
4.1 Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual misconduct allegedly perpetrated by staff against other staff has the trust recorded?
4.2 Over the past five years, how many staff have been formally disciplined for sexual misconduct and/or sexual violence against other staff?
Sexual violence and misconduct by visitors against patients
5. Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by visitors against patients has the trust recorded?
5.1 Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual misconduct allegedly perpetrated by visitors against patients has the trust recorded?
Sexual violence and misconduct by visitors against staff
6. Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual violence allegedly perpetrated by visitors against staff has the trust recorded?
6.1 Over the past five years, how many incidents of sexual misconduct allegedly perpetrated by visitors against staff has the trust recorded?
Terminology:
Sexual misconduct covers a broad range of inappropriate, unwanted sexual behaviour. From the most severe forms of sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault, it also extends across to sexual harassment, stalking, and abusive or degrading remarks.
The NHS definition of sexual violence describes it as any sexual act that a person did not consent to, or is forced into against their will, including rape, sexual assault, unwanted sexual touching, forced kissing, child sexual abuse, sexual torture and other sexual offences.
N.B. If you require any clarification, please contact me under your Section 16 duty to provide advice and assistance.
Please use the spreadsheet below to provide your answers, following the Court of Appeal decision in Innes vs Information Commissioner and Buckinghamshire County Council (2014) GIA/3436/2011 regarding the format of the response, i.e. you should provide the response in the format requested.
If the decision is made to withhold some of this data using exemptions in the Data Protection Act, please inform me of that fact and cite the exemptions used.
PALS and Complaints.221222.docx
1. MTW PALS and Complaints Policy (RWF-OPPPCS-NC-CG31)
2. PALS and Complaints Annual report (most recent)
3. PALS and Complaints reports presented to the Quality Committee (last 12 months)
4. CLIPAM Group minutes and reports (last 12 months)
PALs and Complaints.301023.docx
1. Total, amount in £s that is spent on PALs services across the Trust for the year 2022-23 (or latest available), a breakdown by hospital is preferable
2. Total amount in £s that is spent on complaints handling and operations in Complaints for the year 2022-23 (or latest available), a breakdown by hospital is preferable
3. Total amount in £s that is spent on personnel making up complaints and PALs across the trust for the year 2022-23 (or latest available), a breakdown by hospital is preferable
4. Total number of employed individuals on complaints and customer experience teams, a breakdown by hospital is preferable
5. Total amount in £s that is spent on Datix software across the trust, by hospital
Parking complaints for Tunbridge Wells Hospital.270223.docx
Please confirm how many complaints you have received regarding the number of spaces, over the last 3 years, on a monthly basis. Please regard that as a request under the freedom of information act.
Personal injury and workplace accident claims from staff.270123.docx
For each question, could I please ask for responses to be categorised into the most recent five financial years as below.
1. 2022/23
2. 2020/21
3. 2019/20
4. 2018/19
5. 2017/18
I appreciate the final financial year is not yet complete, so please provide data for the period up to today’s date (January 17, 2023).
1. How many workplace accidents or personal injury claims the trust received from NHS staff for each of these years? If possible, could you please clarify the claims by type of role – ie, doctor, dentist or admin staff.
2. If the cost limit has not yet been reached, could you please provide the total figure in (£) for how much the NHS had paid out to staff for workplace accident or personal injury claims for each of the five given financial years.
3. If the cost limit has not yet been reached, could you please provide the number of cases bought forward by NHS staff over each of the five given financial years for the categories below. Please contact me if the names of the categories these are recorded under differ significantly at your trust.
(a) Needlestick injuries
(b) Slips, trips and falls
(c) Muscular injuries
(d) Faulty equipment
(e) Injuries/illnesses caused by inadequate PPE
(f) Assault in the workplace
(g) Bullying and harassment in the workplace
4. If the cost limit has not yet been reached, could you please provide the total figure in (£) of money paid out to NHS staff who have bought these kind of claims over each of the five given financial years for the categories below. Please contact me if the names of the categories these are recorded under differ significantly at your trust.
(h) Needlestick injuries
(i) Slips, trips and falls
(j) Muscular injuries
(k) Faulty equipment
(l) Injuries/illnesses caused by inadequate PPE
(m) Assault in the workplace
(n) Bullying and harassment in the workplace
5. If the cost limit has not yet been reached, could you please categorise the answers given for question one into cases (a) won by claimant (b) won by the trust/employer (c) settled.
6. If the cost limit has not yet been reached, please provide the (a) average payout for successful claims of this kind and (b) the highest individual payout awarded for each of the five years,
Personal injury and workplace accident claims from staff.270123.docx
Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) employment dispute costs.251023.docx
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This request relates to employment tribunals/disputes defended by your Trust relating to claims made under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (i.e., where claimants allege to have suffered detriment, including unfair dismissal, as a result of making a ‘protected disclosure’ or ‘public interest disclosure’ or ‘whistleblowing disclosure’) since the start of the 2012/13 tax year.
Question 1:
a) Please state the total number of employment tribunals/disputes brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act defended by your Trust since April 2012.
b) If possible without triggering s40 of the FOIA, please provide a yearly breakdown in tax years (2012/13-2022/23) of question 1.a.
Question 2:
a) Please state the total paid out in legal fees (including legal advice) by your Trust defending employment tribunals/disputes brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act since April 2012.
b) If possible without triggering s40 of the FOIA, please provide a yearly breakdown in tax years (2012/13-2022/23) of question 2.a.
Question 3:
a) Please state the total amount spent on the individual employment tribunal/dispute brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act defended by your Trust, which cost your Trust the highest sum in legal fees, since April 2012.
Question 4:
a) Please state the total number of employment tribunals/disputes brought under the Public Interest Disclosure Act defended by your Trust, which resulted in the use of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (‘NDA’ or ‘confidentially clause’), since April 2012.
b) If possible without triggering s40 of the FOIA, please provide a yearly breakdown in tax years (2012/13-2022/23) of question 4.a.
Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) employment dispute costs.251023.docx
Serious Incident Reports.300124.docx
How long would it take you to search one report for the key terms I have set out in my request? You have a legal obligation to answer this question.
Sexual assault.030223.docx
Please can you tell me how many sexual abuse incidents and rapes (separately if you measure these separately, combined if you do not) have been recorded within your trust in the years: 2017/8, 2018/19, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23 so far.
If possible, could you also inform me of what the trust’s response was to each of these incidents.
Sexual Assault Allegations. 180322.docx
Please provide this data for the last three years, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date.
1. Please provide the number of allegations reported within your trust, clinical commissioning group or other care setting as defined, of
a) Rape
b) Sexual assault
c) Sexual harassment
d) Sexual misconduct
2. Please advise the location of these offences and or alleged offences broken down by location Mental Health Unit, Hospital, Other Hospital Setting to be clearly defined.
3. Please provide a month by month and location
4. Please identify if these allegations are
a) On Staff carried out by a staff Member
b) On Staff carried out by a patient or visitor
c) By Staff on a Patient
d) By Staff on a visitor
e) On Staff carried out by a visitor
5. For each of these allegations please advise if a suspect was identified and or arrested
6. If a suspect was identified and the suspect was identified as a member or staff or a contractor to the trust, CCG or group. What was the outcome? Was the suspect subsequently arrested, charged or convicted? Was the suspect subsequently investigated, suspended or dismissed from the Trust.
Sexual assaults.060224.docx
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The number of a) sexual assaults, b) rapes and c) sexual harassment/abuse offences reported at your trust, for the calendar years 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Please list: the number of
1. sexual assaults,
2. rapes (including gang rapes – please specify) and
3. sexual harassment/abuse offences reported per year
of those, please specify:
a. how many were reported to the police
b. how many had staff listed as a suspect
c. how many had staff listed as a victim
d. how many had a patient(s) listed as a suspect
e. how many had a patient(s) listed as a victim
f. please also specify report outcomes, i.e. how many resulted in police action, without any identifiers
4. Please also provide a copy of your sexual safety policy.
Coronavirus COVID-19
Bed capacity and hospital admissions.110722.docx
“1) Bed Capacity – last 5 years: Please provide average bed capacity for the previous five years as follows:
Total Bed Capacity (all wards).
Covid-19 Bed Capacity
2) Bed Capacity for 2021: Please provide bed capacity for the current year so far. For comparative purposes please use the following period each month: The first Wednesday of every month between the hours of 12noon and 4.00pm.
Total Bed Capacity (all wards)
Covid-19 Bed Capacity
3) Hospital Admissions – last 5 years: Please provide number of Admissions (all causes) for the previous five years as follows:
All Admissions
Admissions – where the patient has received 1 or more dose of an authorised Covid-19 Vaccination
Admissions – where the patient has NOT received any Covid-19 vaccination
4) Hospital Admissions for 2021: Please provide total number of admissions (for all causes) by month for the current year so far, split by Covid-19 vaccinated and unvaccinated.
All Admissions
Admissions – where the patient has received 1 or more dose of an authorised Covid-19 Vaccination
Admissions – where the patient has NOT received any Covid-19 vaccination
5) PCR Result of Hospital Admissions: Please provide breakdown of number of patients testing positive/negative with a Covid-19 PCR Test 2019 and 2020
Number of Patients testing positive with a Covid-19 PCR Test
Number of Patients testing negative with a Covid-19 PCR Test
6) PCR Result of Hospital Admissions for 2021: Please provide breakdown of number of patients testing positive/negative with a PCR test for the current year
At the time of Admission
No of Patients testing positive
No of patients testing Negative
7) Covid-19 Specific Admissions: Please provide total number of patients admitted where the primary reason for treatment was Covid-19 in 2019 and 2020.
Total number of Admissions where the primary treatment was for Covid-19
8) Covid-19 Admissions for 2021: Please provide number of Covid-19 admissions for 2021 where the primary reason for treatment was Covid-19
Total number of patients admitted where the primary reason for treatment was Covid-19”
Completely unvaccinated Covid-19 admissions and those who have had one or more vaccinations. 170322.docx
Could I please ask for an honest breakdown of your covid admissions? A surgeon in your employment has shared the above information and I’d just like to know how many are completely unvaccinated and who have had one or more vaccinations.
Covid-19 deaths.200522.docx
All questions pertain to the following dates: 01/12/2019 to 30/11/2021. I would like to know the following:
1.a) How many people have died in your hospitals within 28 days of testing positive for COVID-19?
1.b) Of those people, how many had underlying health conditions / co-morbidities and how many did not? Please provide absolute numbers and percentages.
1.c) Please also state the top 5 underlying health conditions / co-morbidities of those people.
1.d) Please state how many of those people were vaccinated and how many were not. Please provide absolute numbers and percentages. For vaccinated people, please break down the response in the following way: i) received one dose, ii) received two or more doses.
2.a) How many people have died in your hospitals purely and only due to COVID-19?
2.b) Of those people, how many had underlying health conditions / co-morbidities and how many did not? Please provide absolute numbers and percentages.
2.c) Please also state the top 5 underlying health conditions / co-morbidities of those people.
2.d) Please state how many of those people were vaccinated and how many were not. Please provide absolute numbers and percentages. For vaccinated people, please break down the response in the following way: i) received one dose, ii) received two or more doses.
Please keep the numbers/figures/percentages/etc. provided in response to questions 2.a-d separate from the numbers/figures/percentages/etc. provided in response to questions 1.a-d. If that is not possible, please clearly indicate which numbers are combined.
Covid-19 deaths. 221221.docx
I am requesting that within the dates of 01/03/2020 – 01/11/2021 can you supply the total number of deaths from COVID-19 alone, not within 28 days of a positive test, from all the hospitals in your trust.
Covid-19 deaths and still births. 041021.docx
Please could you send me the figures for all hospitals covered under the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
1. How many pregnant ladies have died of covid with no pre-existing medical conditions in 2020 and 2021.
2. How many new born babies with no medical conditions have died of covid in 2020 and 2021.
3. How many still births you have had as a result of a pregnant mother having covid in 2020 and 2021.
4. The total number of still births for the last 5 years per year.
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Covid 19 Local guidelines. 140422.docx
Could you please reply to this email attaching a copy of your hospital’s full local guidelines on the following topics?
1. Current local guidelines for the treatment and management of Covid 19.
2. Current local infection control guidelines regarding testing and quarantining/isolation of Covid positive patients
Covid-19 PCRs, treatments and deaths.130622.docx
1) Is your hospital still running the PCR tests for SARS-Cov-2 at 40-45ct cycles?
2) Is the NHS still classifying any death as a Covid death for anyone who has tested positive with a PCR test within the past 28 days, as previously stated in the March 2020 update on the NHS website about dealing with excess deaths?
3) Is the NHS aware that the PCR is a non-diagnostic test and becomes 100% unreliable after 27ct cycles?
4) How does the NHS testing system determine which variant a patient has and is this via the PCR tests?
I am aware of the online statistics site where a lot of information can be found, however i would like some more detailed information regarding specifics so my following questions are;
5.a) How many people have died in your hospital from Covid alone since February 1st 2020 to December12th 2021 without any other underlying conditions or possible causes of death?
b) How many of these patients were prescribed Midazolam?
6) What are the annual numbers of prescriptions of Midazolam for the past 10 years within your hospital?
7) What are the annual numbers of DNR’s issued in the past 10 years at your hospital?
8) Have the following viruses/strains, to your knowledge, been isolated or purified;
-SARS-Cov-2?
-Kent variant B117?
-Delta variant?
-Omicron variant?
9.a) How many patients have been admitted to your hospital for Covid and were vaccinated against it since December 5th 2020?
b) How many died while in your care?
10.a) How many patients have been admitted to your hospital for Covid and were unvaccinated against it since December 5th 2020?
b) How many of them died while in your care?
11) What are the annual numbers of patients diagnosed with myocarditis for the past 10 years within your hospital?
12) What are the annual numbers of blood clot related deaths for the past 10 years within your hospital?
13) What are the annual numbers of miscarriages for the past 10 years within your hospital?
14) What percentage of your beds are allocated for Covid patients?
Covid-19 related admissions, deaths and vaccinations. 070122.docx
1) Please provide the number of patients admitted to any hospitals within your trust between 1st January 2021 and 21st December 2021, where the reason for hospitalisation is solely COVID-19 or any complication of this and not due to any other underlying issues. Please exclude from this number any patients who have had any complications or adverse reactions following the COVID-19 vaccine.
2) Please provide a breakdown of how many of those patients, during the period between 1st January 2021 and 21st December 2021, have been admitted after receiving one dose of the COVID vaccination, 2 doses, 3 doses and how many have not been vaccinated at all.
In order that there is no room for misunderstanding here about vaccination status, please use the following definitions in your reply:
• Unvaccinated means the patient has had no COVID-19 jab/vaccine/injection
• 1st Dose solely means a patient has been injected once against COVID-19, regardless of how many days have passed since the intervention or how many subsequent doses are available. (i.e., a single dose when a second one is available does not render them unvaccinated for the purpose of this FOI request)
• 2nd Dose solely means a patient has been injected twice against COVID-19, regardless of how many days have passed since the interventions or how many subsequent doses are available. (i.e., a double dose when a third one is available does not render them unvaccinated for the purpose of this FOI request)
3) Please provide the number of patients who have died at any hospital in your trust between 1st January 2021 and 21st December 2021 that are solely as a result of COVID-19 or any complications thereof and not due to other underlying health issues. Please also exclude any patients who have died as a complication of the COVID-19 vaccine.
4) Please provide the number of patients, for the same period mentioned above, who have died as a result of reactions or complications from the COVID-19 vaccine.
5) Please provide the number of patients who have died at any hospital in your trust from complications or adverse reactions arising from the COVID-19 vaccine.
6) Please note that for all the above questions, any reference to a patient with COVID-19 is a patient that has been confirmed as someone who has tested positive to a PCR test or Lateral Flow Test.
7) When there is confirmation of a positive test, please include whether it was through PCR or LFT and the number of cycles of amplification used when processing the results.
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Covid-19 vaccinated and unvaccinated deaths. 270821.docx
1. Please can you provide me with all admissions in Maidstone hospital in the past 5 Years 2016-2020 with the current year so far?
2. Of those who died of any cause this year, how many had received the Covid -19 vaccine and how many were unvaccinated?
3. Out of those admitted in 2021 how many of them had got the vaccine?
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Covid-19 vaccination status of Trust staff. 220222.docx
1) What percentage of Trust all staff have had a) one dose b) two doses c) three doses of the Covid-19 vaccine
2) What percentage of each the following staff members have had two or more doses- Medical and dental, nursing and midwifery, healthcare scientists, pharmacists, admin and clerical, estates and ancillary, allied health professionals, students, additional professional scientific and technical, additional clinical services.
Covid-19, vaccinations and Healthcare acquired infection (HCAI). 081221.docx
1. How many NHS staff currently working at your trust remain unvaccinated with a Covid19 vaccine? Including bank/agency workers.
2. What percentage of your overall staff does this equate to?
3. Since the start of the pandemic (01/03/20), with your data from staff absence due to Covid19, contact tracing and Healthcare acquired infection (HCAI), what percentage of HCAI is directly attributable to Covid19 infection in an NHS frontline worker?
4. Since the vaccination programme has started (Approx. Dec 2020), what is the breakdown of this being from
a. a covid 19 vaccinated NHS worker
b. unvaccinated NHS worker?
5. If not directly attributable, what is the rate of your patients in non Covid19 wards/area getting a HCAI and becoming infected with Covid19 within a set time frame (~10days) of an NHS worker in that ward/area testing positive for Covid 19?
6. What is the breakdown of this being
a. a Covid19 vaccinated NHS worker
b. non-vaccinated NHS worker?
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Covid Booster Informed Consent.131022.docx
What steps you and your organisation will be taking to fulfil your ethical and legal obligations to ensure patient and staff submission to Covid vaccination is given with free, voluntary, and fully informed consent.
Covid cycle testing for vaccinated and unvaccinated people.221122.docx
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i would like all latest data on covid cycle testing for vaccinated and unvaccinated people i am aware there will be 2 separate test cycles of amplification thank you.
Your response is in correct.i asked what are the current test cycle to date for omnicrom variant you have a base number for cycle amplification that you start with .you dont get a cycle numbed AFTER the test ,you have a start point and that is the data i am asking for. The starting amplification cycle number for un vaccinated people and the cycle start number for vaccinated.thank you..this will be fact checked by my associates thank you.
Covid cycle testing for vaccinated and unvaccinated people.221122.docx
Covid, vaccination and deaths 280122.docx
1. Please confirm how many of the 1367 patients admitted from 1 January to 21 December 2021 were admitted where the sole reason for hospitalisation was COVID-19 or any complication of this, who were then confirmed by positive PCR test within 8 days. Please exclude from this figure any patients who were admitted due to other reasons who tested positive within 8 days, as well as any patients who may have been admitted due to adverse reactions following the COVID-19 vaccine.
2. According to your breakdown below, the grand total of patients who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine was 651. Since you claim 1367 patients were admitted during the stated period who tested positive within 8 days, this would render 716 patients who were unvaccinated.
2a. The 10th column on your table stated 267 patients had no vaccine. Can you please confirm this is the case and also explain why these 267 patients have a category of “no vaccine” on their own and why the other 716 patients (total admissions – grand total provided by you) have not been included in this category?
2b. Can you confirm that the 716 patients, that is, the total admissions of patients who tested positive within 8 days (1367) minus the grand total of patients on your table (651) had not received any COVID-19 injection or booster? Just to clear and avoid misunderstandings, I am asking you to use the word unvaccinated to mean somebody who has not had any vaccine injected in their body at any time and conversely, vaccinated means someone who has had a vaccine irrespective of how long it has been since they had received it or the number of vaccines they have received.
3. Your answer to my third question was “Total number of patients admitted within 8 days of a positive swab from 1 January to 21 December 2021 who died – 149”.
Similarly, to question 1, this may include patients who had died due to complications of other issues such as cancer, a road traffic accident or a heart attack who had tested positive within 8 days of admission.
3a. Please confirm how many of the 149 patients you stated died solely due to COVID-19 or any complication thereof and exclude from this number any patient who died due to other medical conditions, including complications from taking a COVID-19 vaccine.
4. Your reply to my last question was “Confirmation of Sars CoV2 is by PCR testing. Cut off for positive is 28 CT”.
4a. Can you please confirm that all 1367 patients who were admitted to hospital between 1st January 2021 and 21st December 2021 had tested positive by returning a positive PCR test result at 28 CT?
4b. Has the CT cut off benchmark varied within the period in question? If so, please provide a breakdown of any periods where the cut off benchmark has been altered.
Covid vaccine wastage. 110122.docx
1. Between 8 December 2020 and 31 December 2021, how many doses of the Pfizer Covid vaccine were administered at each of your vaccination centres/hospital sites?
2. Between 8 December 2020 and 31 December 2021, how many doses of the Pfizer Covid vaccine were destroyed/discarded/thrown away at each of your vaccination centres/hospital sites? Do you have a weekly/monthly breakdown of these figures? If so, can I be sent these please?
3. Between 4 January 2021 and 31 December 2021, how many doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine were administered at each of your vaccination centres/hospital sites?
4. Between 4 January 2021 and 31 December 2021, how many doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine were destroyed/discarded/thrown away at each of your vaccination centres/hospital sites? Do you have a weekly/monthly breakdown of these figures? If so, can I be sent these please?
5. Between 7 April 2021 and 31 December 2021, how many doses of the Moderna Covid vaccine were administered at each of your vaccination centres/hospital sites?
6. Between 7 April 2021 and 31 December 2021, how many doses of the Moderna Covid vaccine were destroyed/discarded/thrown away at each of your vaccination centres/hospital sites? Do you have a weekly/monthly breakdown of these figures? If so, can I be sent these please?
7. In those instances where doses of the Pfizer/AstraZeneca/Moderna vaccines were destroyed/discarded/thrown away, what reasons were given for staff not being able to administer them to patients?
Covid Visiting Policies. 070122.docx
1) In the period 1 February 2020 to 31 October 2021 what is the total number of complaints that your Trust has received from the public including service users (i.e. complaints on any issue)?
2) In the period 1 February 2020 to 31 October 2021 how many complaints from the public including service users has your Trust received about (or that include mention of) restrictions to patient visiting or patient visiting policies?
3) In the period 1 February 2020 to 31 October 2021 how many incident reports (including Datix, Ulysses or other internal reporting system) have been raised by staff regarding abuse received from the public including service users that include mention of restrictions to patient visiting or patient visiting policies (i.e. where visiting restrictions may have contributed to the cause of the abuse)?
4) Does your Trust know what circumstances, or have a set of defined criteria, under which it would revert patient visiting policy back to what it was before the emergence of Covid 19?
Cycle threshold in PCR tests for patients and staff. 040122.docx
which cycle threshold(ct) are you using in your hospital in PCR test for patient and staff since the declaration of the pandemic in 2020.
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Guidelines on the treatment of COVID-19.291024.docx
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Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local treatment guidelines, pathways or protocols for treatment of COVID-19 infection?
Guidelines on the treatment of COVID-19.291024.docx
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Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local treatment guidelines, pathways or protocols for treatment of COVID-19 infection?
Hospital acquired Covid-19.120522.docx
1. The number of people who were infected with Covid-19 inside your hospitals – so the patients who tested positive for Covid-19 after testing negative when they were first admitted. Please may I have the figures broken down for the number of hospital-acquired infections for each individual hospital.
2. The number of people who after being infected with Covid inside the hospital, then died of or with the virus, whilst in hospital, or after discharge. Please may I also have these figures broken down for the number of deaths for each individual hospital.
Hospital acquired Covid-19. 270821.docx
1. Please can you tell me how many cases of hospital-acquired Covid-19 the Trust has had since 1st March 2020 to the present day. Please break this down by probable and definite nosocomial infections if this data is available.
2. Please also give me the number of deaths from hospital acquired infections (probable and definite cases).
3. If you are able, in each case, please could you state whether you have informed the patient’s relative that it was a hospital acquired infection.
Hospital-acquired Covid infections.280422.docx
For all the information below please could you provide data from between the dates 01/12/2021 to 25/03/2022, and could you please provide the figures for each individual month. An Excel form has been included for this information to be easily filed.
1) The monthly number of probable hospital-acquired Covid-19 infections (8-14 days after admission)
2) The monthly number of definite hospital-acquired Covid-19 infections (>14 days)
3) The monthly number of patients who died in hospital after acquiring a ‘probable’ hospital-acquired Covid-19 infection
4) The monthly number of patients who died in hospital after acquiring a ‘definite’ hospital-acquired Covid-19 infection
Long Covid.160622.docx
The number of staff members, if any, that have been made redundant due to ill health by Long Covid.
Long COVID.290322.docx
1. How many passwords have been generated for the Your COVID Recovery App in 2020, 2021 and 2022?
2. How many patients have been referred to the Nuffield Health long COVID recovery programme from the Trust in 2020, 2021 and 2022?
Long Covid clinics.110424.docx
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1. Do you have a specialist service for long Covid patients within your trust? Please name the clinic/service
2. How many patients in your local NHS area have been referred to the clinic/service to date? Please break down by year to date i.e. 12 months to this date in 2024 and then each of the previous 12 months back to the start of the service
3. Is the service physician-led?
4. Please provide figures for how many patients referred to the clinic/service received the following type of treatment in-house:
a. physical rehabilitation – please give details
b. Graded exercise therapy
c. CBT or other psychological intervention – please state whether this is to cope with symptoms or with a view to improving/treating them
d. Advice on pacing
e. A brain retraining or Neuro Linguistic Programming-based course such as the Lightning Process, Gupta Programme or Nuffield programme (please specify which)
f. drug treatment
g. other, please specify
5. Does the service have the ability to prescribe medications to long Covid patients for symptoms where appropriate?
6. If so, please list the 3 most common drugs prescribed for long Covid patients by the clinic, with numbers of prescriptions if possible
7. Does the service have the ability to order diagnostic tests and scans?
8. If so please list the 3 most commonly ordered tests/scans/diagnostic questionnaires for long Covid patients by the clinic
9. If not provided in-house, which of the following types of services does the clinic/service refer patients onto or recommend?
a. physical rehabilitation – please give details
b. Graded exercise therapy
c. CBT or other psychological intervention – please state whether this is to cope with symptoms or with a view to improving/treating them
d. Advice on pacing
e. A brain retraining or Neuro Linguistic Programming-based course such as the Lightning Process, Gupta Programme or Nuffield programme (please specify which)
f. drug treatment
g. other, please specify
10. How many staff do you have working in the service FTE (full time equivalent) broken down by job title of:
a. doctor
b. nurse
c. physiotherapist
d. occupational therapist
e. clinical psychologist/ CBT practitioner / psychotherapist/counsellor
f. other, please specify
11. For any doctors employed, please specify their specialism e.g. GP, cardiologist, neurologist, psychiatrist
11. Is the clinic expected to continue running after 2025?
Long Covid clinics.160822.docx
1. Please state the name of your Health Trust
2. Please state how many Long COVID Clinics cover patients in your Health Trust, and please name them all.
3. How many Long COVID patients have had an initial consultation with a Long COVID Clinic in your Trust, and please break down how this was done
a) By Phone or video call
b) In person
4. How many Long COVID patients went onto have a follow up appointment with a Long COVID Clinic in your Trust, and please break down how this was done.
a) By Phone or video call
b) In person
For questions 3 & 4, If possible, please state if the initial appointment, then follow up appointment was by phone or in person and vice versa.
5. How many Long COVID patients were screened for blood clots or micro clots at a Long COVID Clinic within your Trust
6. How many Long COVID Patients have died with a blood or micro clot since being under a Long COVID clinic within your Trust
7. Of those who died were they identified as having a blood or micro clot?
Long covid clinics.281024.docx
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1. How many Long Covid Clinics for Adults are there within your Trust?
2. How many Long Covid Clinics for Children are there within your Trust?
3. Can you list each Long Covid Clinic for Adults within your Trust?
4. Can you list each Long Covid Clinic for Children within your Trust?
5. If you have no Long Covid Clinics for Adults within your Trust, what services do you provide for Adults?
6. If you have no Long Covid Clinics for Children within your Trust, what services do you provide for Children?
Medical staff who have died from Covid-19. 211021.docx
1. How many members of medical staff employed by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust died from Covid 19 in 2020? Can the information be broken down by job description and calendar month?
2. How many members of medical staff employed by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have died from Covid 19 so far in 2021? Can the information be broken down by job description and calendar month?
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Overall ICU capacity and Covid-19 patients.230522.docx
On 6 January 2022:
1. In terms of the total number of beds, what was the overall ICU capacity?
2. How many beds were occupied?
3. How many beds were occupied by covid patients?
4. Expressed as a percentage, how many of those covid patients had received 1, 2, 3 and no doses of the covid vaccines?
Policies relating to resource prioritisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.171022.docx
1. Policies (communicated in policy documentation, guidance, internal staff communications and similar) which relate to prioritisation of patients to receive your organisation’s resources during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, I am seeking documentation you hold which sets out criteria or factors to be taken into account when selecting patients for:
a. Admission to hospital for non-elective treatment;
b. Escalation of inpatients to Critical Care or Intensive Care (ICU/ITU) wards; and/or
c. Provision of respiratory support using positive airway pressure devices (CPAP/BIPAP) or ventilation.
2. Please include the policies issued by your organisation and any policies issued by third parties (such as Government bodies or medical professional organisations) in force within your organisation.
3. Please only supply policies which were issued or updated between 1 January 2020 and 30 June 2021 (inclusive)
Policies relating to resource prioritisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.171022.docx
Post COVID (long COVID) assessment service.120123.docx
1. When did your post COVID (long COVID) assessment service become operational?
2. A copy of the operational policy for your post COVID (long COVID) assessment service
3. The titles of the rows and columns of your central database/ spreadsheet on the referrals received, patients seen and outcomes of assessments
4. What information do you hold on the occupations of people referred with post COVID (long COVID) syndrome?
5. Do you record how many of the people referred are current or former NHS workers?
6. What data do you submit to NHS England and or other central bodies about the work of your service and the characteristics of the patients who you treat?
7. To where are patients referred if assessment concludes that they need rehabilitation for post COVID (long COVID) syndrome?
Post-Covid syndrome.120800.docx
You asked:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I’m requesting the following information on employees with post-Covid syndrome.
1) How many employees at your trust have an ongoing absence from work owing to illness from COVID-19 that has been ongoing for 12 weeks or more as of 11 March 2022?
2) How many employees at your trust have had an absence from work owing to illness from COVID-19 that lasted for 12 weeks or more between 30 January 2020 and 11 March 2022?
3) How many RIDDOR reports has your trust submitted to HSE since 30 January 2020 relating to:
a. accidents or incidents at work which have, or could have, led to the release or escape of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (dangerous occurrences)?
b. a person at work (a worker) having been diagnosed as having COVID-19 attributed to an occupational exposure to coronavirus (a case of disease)?
c. the death of a worker as a result of occupational exposure to coronavirus (a work-related death due to exposure to a biological agent)?
Probable hospital acquired Covid-19.200522.docx
Can I request data for probable infections in hospital (positive swab was 8+ days from admission)? The dates used are March 2020 to May 11 2022.
Referral prioritisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.151222.docx
We write under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request details of the emergency Guidance that was in place at your organisation because of Covid-19 to assist in the prioritisation of referrals between July 2020 and March 2021.
Please do confirm how and what referrals were prioritised during the time period above.
Referral prioritisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.151222.docx
RIDDOR Reporting of COVID-19. 060921.docx
1. accidents or incidents at work which have, or could have, led to the release or escape of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (dangerous occurrences).
2. a person at work (a worker) having been diagnosed as having COVID-19 attributed to an occupational exposure to coronavirus (a case of disease).
3. the death of a worker as a result of occupational exposure to coronavirus (a work-related death due to exposure to a biological agent).
SARScoV2. 051121.docx
1. I would like to know the number of cycles you have been using on the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test as standard and if that number has ever been changed at any time for whatever reason.
2. I would also like to know how many children under the age of 16 have been logged as a death from SARSCoV2 without any underlying health issues.
3. And can you also tell me if you have any records of SARScoV2 going through Koch’s Postulates.
Urgent care patients and Covid-19.310522.docx
1. The latest information on the Coronavirus on the Trust website lists five bullet points. Beyond the five bullets it lists what undisclosed measures therefore also apply that aren’t mentioned there?
Since 24 February 2022 or since the official symptoms list was expanded recently or since 1 April 2022.
2. Are any records kept, for either Maidstone Hospital or Tunbridge Wells Hospital or for both, regarding people who have required urgent care and disclosed to you that they have Covid-19 symptoms?
3. What proportions of urgent care patients have Covid-19 and how many do not?
4. Any special procedures (if so what?) regarding patients coming to urgent care with Covid or around patients who have done so?
5. Do most of these people or many of them, ring in to tell the hospital of the Covid symptoms first and then arrive for urgent care?
6. Please disclose, whatever information you have about numbers/proportions coming into Hospital for urgent care
a. with Covid-19 symptoms
b. with no Covid-19 symptoms
7. Are there any temperature checks on entry to the hospital or any checks that might then reclass the urgent patient to a Covid-19 entry?
Vaccination status of Covid patients. 170322.docx
There are currently 45 people in Maidstone Hospital 18th January 2022 with Covid, I would like to know under the freedom of information act, how many of these 45 patients are vaccinated, I would like you to break it down and tell me how many had 1 jab or 2 jabs or 3 jabs, thank you
Vaccination status of patients. 240522.docx
For the month of November 2021 please can I request (under the freedom of information act) the following:
1. The proportion of all Covid positive patients who were in hospital as an inpatient for something other than Covid
2. The proportion of patients in ICU who tested positive for Covid but who were in ICU for a different reason
3. The proportion of people who were in ICU BECAUSE of Covid who were:
(i) Unvaccinated
(ii) Vaccinated with one dose
(iii) Vaccinated with two doses
(iv) Vaccinated with two doses plus a booster
Corporate & Trust Management
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.110520.docx
Please release all reports resulting from an “invited review” by any Academy of Medical Royal Colleges member in the last five years.
Black Alerts. 041121.docx
How many days were your trust hospitals under black alert for the years of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 (up to most recent records)?
If data is held, please state which hospitals were affected and how long each hospital was affected?
Board composition of NHS organisations. 210222.docx
1. Please could you kindly send via email, pdf copies of your annual reports for each financial year from 2012/13.
2. Please could you also provide the number of Board voting members including Executive and Non-Executive Directors, Chief Executive Officers, Chairs and Lay Members for each of the categories as listed in the table below for each financial year (April – Mar) from 2012/13.
Year
Male
Female
White
BAME, Mixed ethnicity, Other ethnicity
Has a disability/impairment
Board of Directors.050424.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
• The names and positions of all individuals who have been a member of the Board of Directors at some point from January 2008 up to the present day. For executive directors, then please provide their executive position. For non-executive directors, then please simply state whether they are the Chairperson or any other non-executive director.
• The corresponding start and end date of these individuals’ period of membership of the Board.
Board portal solution.220824.docx
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– How do you manage the documents and agendas for your meetings?
– Do you have a solution in place or are you considering a board portal solution?
– If you do have a board portal solution in place, which one and when does it renew?
– What is your annual budget for board portals?
– Who is the contact person for board portals at your organization?
– Who is your IT Systems Manager or IT Manager who may look at IT Systems/Apps in your organization?
CCTV emails. 110422.docx
1. Please provide me with the contents of any email messages sent or received by Mr Mark Holland (General Manager, Pathology) via his NHS/Trust email account between 01/01/19 and 31/12/19 which contains the word/phrase ‘CCTV’ either in the subject line or in the body text of the message.
2. Please provide me with the contents of any email messages sent or received by Dr Dominic Chambers (HTA designated individual) via his NHS/Trust email account between 01/01/19 and 31/12/19 which contains the word/phrase ‘CCTV’ either in the subject line or in the body text of the message.
CCTV emails. 110422.docx
Chief Executive Officers.131023.docx
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1. Please provide the number of Chief Executive Officers your Trust has had since 2010.
2. Please provide the shortest amount of time a Chief Executive Officer has served at your Trust since 2010 (or since you started recording this).
Chief People Officer details.290524.docx
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The name and best contact details for your Chief People Officer:
1. Contact name
2. Email address
3. Best contact number
Clinical negligence claims in the maternity sector.041022.docx
Please provide me with an annual breakdown of the total number successful clinical negligence claims made against the trust in the maternity sector and the total value of the damages paid out in the maternity sector, broken down at a site-level.
I am specifically requesting the information at a site-level, not at the trust-level. That means the data you provide should be broken down by individual sites – e.g. separate data for a hospital the trust manages, as well as a midwife-led unit.
Please indicate if a site is a midwife-led unit i.e. freestanding from a hospital.
Please provide this data for the latest five years for which it is available.
Clinical negligence claims in the maternity sector.041022.docx
Collaboration with Chinese organisations.141122.docx
1. Please provide me with details of any placements, secondments or other work, training or study-related collaboration undertaken at your organisation in the last five years with organisations based in China.
2. Please provide the date the collaboration started and ended, the name of the organisation, which department the collaboration was related to and (if applicable) the names of any of the Chinese organisation’s staff members who worked/undertook training/took part in secondments etc at your organisation for any period of time.
Commercial clinical trials. 170322.docx
Specifically, can you tell me how many commercial clinical trials have been taking place in this hospital trust during 2021?
This could be completed trials, or trials that are ongoing. When I say “commercial trials”, I mean trials that are funded or sponsored by a commercial company such as a pharmaceutical company.
Commercial clinical trials.170323.docx
Specifically, can you tell me how many commercial clinical trials have been taking place in this hospital trust during the calendar year of 2022?
This could be completed trials, or trials that are ongoing. When I say “commercial trials”, I mean trials that are funded or sponsored by a commercial company such as a pharmaceutical company.
Committee Meeting Minutes.171022.docx
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding the latest Meeting Minutes of your 5 different committees.
Could you please provide the latest meeting minutes for;
1) Quality Committee,
2) The Drugs, Therapeutics and Medicines Management Committee,
3) Medicines Optimisation Group,
4) Medication Safety Group,
5) Non-Medical Prescribing and Patient Group Direction Group at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust?
Communications. 080422.docx
How many patients in total is your trust responsible for
1. What is the total number of letters you post a year
2. Which Postal carrier(s) do you use?
a. Royal Mail Yes / No
b. Whistl Yes / No
c. UKMail Yes / No
d. Other (please specify)
a. What percentage of your patient letters are sent 1st Class?
b. What percentage of your patient letters are sent 2nd Class (or equivalent)?
4. Do you still use franking machines? Yes/No
a. If Yes, who is the manufacturer of your franking machines?
b. Pitney Bowes Yes/No
c. Quadient Yes/No
d. Other (please specify)?
5. Do you use Hybrid mail to send patient letters
If Yes,
a. What percentage of your total postal volumes (question 1) are sent via hybrid mail?
b. what is the name of your hybrid mail supplier?
c. What framework did you use to procure hybrid mail?
d. When was the contract signed?
e. What is the duration (Term) of the contract?
6. Do you currently use a Patient portal or App for some or all of your patient communications?
a. If Yes, who is the supplier of your web portal or App technology?
b. When did you first implement your patient portal or App technology (Year/Month)?
c. How many patients have registered to use your patient portal or App?
d. How many letters a year are currently being sent via your web portal or App?
7. Do you currently use Email to communicate with your patients?
a. If yes, who supplies your email service?
b. How many emails do you send to patients a year?
c. What is the cost of each email communication?
8. Do you currently use SMS to communicate with your Patients?
a. If yes, who supplies your email service?
b. How many emails do you send to patients a year?
c. What is the cost of each email communication?
9. Who has responsibility for digital transformation in your organisation?
Name:
Email Address:
10. Who is responsible for your post room (i.e. who is your post room manager?
Name:
Email Address:
11. Who is the Director of IT in your organisation?
Name:
Email Address:
12. Who is the procurement manager responsible for print and post solutions in your organisation?
Name:
Email Address:
Communications and Public Relations Spend.210324.docx
Please provide your total spend on communications and public relations for the last three financial year’s (20/21,21/22,22/23). For each year I would like a breakdown containing the following information:
1. Spend on communications and public relations activities.
2. Total number of communications and public relations employees.
3. Total salary cost for all communications and public relations employees
Corporate Risk Register.290923.docx
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I’m working on a health data story looking at risks in hospitals, and I wondered if you could help me out with a quick request.
I’ve been searching on your website for your trust’s risk register but can’t seem to find it – it’s supposed to be a publicly available document – it’s probably up there somewhere but it would be great if you could send me over the latest version if possible!
Cost Improvement Programme (CIP). 031121.docx
We are trying to seek the figures for the CIPs that were delivered for 2020-21.
Download response Cost Improvement Programme (CIP). 031121.docx
Data Protection Officer.130622.docx
1. Do you have a post at your organisation that is entitled or encompasses roles associated with a Data Protection Officer?
2. If yes, please could you provide a current job description for that role.
3. If you are an NHS organisation, please could you also provide the detailed ‘Agenda for Change’ evaluation match analysis that supports the job description.
Database of trusts’ leaders. 180122.docx
Please could you provide us with details for the below leadership roles.
1. Confirm whether the individuals mentioned in the table are correct in their specific roles.
2. Provide details for the missing ones. In case if the position is vacant please mention so.
3. If you have a very similar role but not the exact job title, please include details of the very similar role and individual. If you don’t have this role at all, please state N/A or “Don’t have the job title”.
Deed of trust.090922.docx
Please send to me by return a copy of the deed of trust for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Deed of trust for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.230922.docx
As an artificial person, a term which defines Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in law, it must have an internal constitution. In a private limited liability company this would be its Articles of Association. As Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust I would have expected the legal document setting out what it can and cannot do in law to be described as its Deed Of Trust. You have stated in writing that Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust does not have a deed of trust. The obligation is therefore on Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to stop playing games and to send to me by return the legal documents setting out the internal governance of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Deed of trust for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.230922.docx
Designated emergency and disaster management coordinator.090622.docx
With regard to a designated emergency and disaster management coordinator:
1. I am requesting any record of whether a specific staff member (such as an EPRR manager) is currently designated as having responsibility for emergency and disaster management. (Can be answered yes / no.)
2. If a specific staff member is currently designated as having responsibility for emergency and disaster management then what whole time equivalent of their time is devoted to emergency and disaster management? (Can be answered with a whole time equivalent.)
Designated emergency and disaster management coordinator.090622.docx
Employment tribunals and non-disclosure agreements.080823.docx
Between 2017 and 2023 (or the latest available date), please provide yearly figures for the below:
1) The number of employment tribunal claims made by members of staff against the trust each year.
2) The number of employment tribunal claims in which the trust was the losing party.
3) How much the trust has paid in compensation each year following employment tribunals.
4) The number of non-disclosure agreements (to also include terms such as settlement agreements, confidentiality agreements, etc.) between the trust and members of staff each year, including full- and part-time employees, agency, interim and contracted staff.
5) How much has been spent on non-disclosure agreements (to also include terms such as settlement agreements, confidentiality agreements, etc.) between the trust and members of staff each year, including full- and part-time employees, agency, interim and contracted staff.
Employment tribunals and non-disclosure agreements.080823.docx
EPPR contact details.220223.docx
I am writing to request a contact e-mail address for the Trust’s Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response staff in order that I can discuss seeking further information for my study from them.
EPRR Coordination of emergency and disaster management activities.300522.docx
Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request the following information. This information relates to the NHS England Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Framework in general and section 10, “Cycle of preparedness”, section 13, “Concepts of command and control” and section 14, “NHS command and control”, in particular.
Please note that the much of the information requested is only the records of the existence of committee membership, a meeting, training and responsibilities, and activities, list(s), procedures, mechanisms, arrangements and exercises and not the contents of the membership, meeting, training, responsibilities, activities, list(s), procedures, mechanisms, arrangements and exercises themselves.
Given the potentially sensitive nature of this information, I ask you to redact any exempt information instead of refusing disclosure. This would be in accordance with guidance on best practice from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
If you do not hold some of this information then I ask you to confirm explicitly that you do not hold it.
Coordination of emergency and disaster management activities
Hospital Emergency / Disaster Committee
Any record of the current existence of a multi-departmental and multidisciplinary committee to coordinate EPRR measures. If such a committee exists then any record of which departments and disciplines are represented on it and the date the committee most recently met.
Committee member responsibilities and training
If such a committee above exists then any record that committee members have received training for their role on the committee and any record that committee members have been assigned specific responsibilities.
Designated emergency and disaster management coordinator
Any record of the current existence of a hospital emergency / disaster management coordinator. If such a co-ordinator exists then any record of what whole time equivalent of their time is devoted to emergency and disaster management.
Preparedness programme for strengthening emergency and disaster response and recovery
Any record that activities to strengthen EPRR have been implemented in the past 12 months.
Hospital incident management system
Any record of the current existence of list(s) of key personnel roles in a hospital incident management system for the command, control and coordination in an emergency or disaster response. If such list(s) exists then any record of the existence of corresponding key personnel role action procedure documents.
Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
Any record of the current existence of a designated Incident Coordination Centre. If such an Incident Coordination Centre exists then any record of whether it has full immediate operational capacity in an emergency.
Coordination mechanisms and cooperative arrangements with local emergency / disaster management agencies
Any record of the existence of current formal co-ordination or co-operation mechanisms or arrangements between the Trust and emergency/disaster management agencies (e.g. local authorities, police services, fire and rescue services, civil society organisations) in order to support Trust functions in time of emergency or disaster.
If such mechanisms or arrangements above exist then any record of the most recent exercise(s) to test them, including date(s) of exercise(s).
Coordination mechanisms and cooperative arrangements with the healthcare network
Any record of the existence of current formal co-ordination or co-operation mechanisms or arrangements between the Trust and other healthcare providers in order to support Trust functions in time of emergency or disaster.
If such mechanisms or arrangements above exist then any record of the most recent exercise(s) to test them, including date(s) of exercise(s).
EPRR Coordination of emergency and disaster management activities.300522.docx
EPRR Exercise dates.250624.docx
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1. The date of the Trust’s own most recent communications systems exercise. I am not requesting the date of any communications systems exercise initiated by another organisation.
2. The date of the most recent table-top exercise.
3. The date of the most recent live play exercise. I am aware the NHS EPRR Framework states that if an organisation activates its plan then this replaces the need to run a live exercise “providing lessons are identified and logged and an action plan developed”. Nevertheless I request the date of the most recent live play exercise, not activation of the plan.
4. The date of the most recent command post exercise. I am aware the NHS EPRR Framework states that if an organisation activates its Incident Coordination Centre then this replaces the need to run command post exercise “providing lessons are identified and logged and an action plan developed”. Nevertheless I request the date of the most recent command post exercise, not activation of the ICC.
5. The date of the most recent Incident Coordination Centre equipment test.
EPRR Human Resources.111122.docx
Human resources
Staff contact list
1. Any record of the existence of a current contact list of all hospital personnel which is available and is accessible to hospital administrators and staff of any Incident Coordination Centre. (Can be answered yes / no.)
2. The date(s) of the most recent update(s) of such a contact list. (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
Mobilization and recruitment of personnel during an emergency or disaster
3. Any record of the existence of procedure(s) for the mobilization of existing on-duty and off-duty staff to meet surge capacity needs of clinical and support services in response to emergencies or disasters. (Can be answered yes / no.)
4. Any record of the existence of procedure(s) for recruitment and training of extra personnel and volunteers to meet surge capacity needs of clinical and support services in response to emergencies or disasters. (Can be answered yes / no.)
5. Any record of the existence of emergency rosters of staff who can be mobilised to meet surge capacity needs of clinical and support services in response to emergencies or disasters. (Can be answered yes / no.)
Duties assigned to personnel for emergency or disaster response and recovery
6. Any record of whether all key personnel in any hospital incident management system for command, control and coordination in an emergency or disaster response have received training in incident management. (Can be answered yes / no.)
7. If such training is received then any record of whether training or an exercise has been conducted for all such key personnel at least annually. (Can be answered yes / no.)
Well-being of hospital personnel during an emergency or disaster
8. Any record of the existence of designated spaces and available measures for hospital personnel to rest, sleep, eat, drink, observe faith-based practices and meet personal needs during an emergency. (Can be answered yes / no.)
9. Any record of for how long these measures can be sustained. (Can be answered in hours or days.)
EPRR Logistics.191222.docx
Logistics
Agreements with local suppliers and vendors for emergencies and disasters
1. Any record of agreements (e.g. memoranda of understanding, mutual aid agreements) with local suppliers, vendors and utility companies / agencies to ensure procurement and delivery of essential medications, equipment and supplies during times of shortage or increased demand, as in the case of emergencies and disasters. (Can be answered yes / no.)
EPRR Planning.250822.docx
Hospital emergency and disaster response and recovery planning
Hospital emergency or disaster response plan
1. Any record of how the plan(s) is to be accessed in an emergency.
2. The date(s) of the most recent review(s) or update(s) of the plan(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
Hospital hazard-specific subplans (for example CBRN)
3. Any record of the existence of current documented hazard-specific response subplans for the most likely external and internal emergency scenarios. (Can be answered yes / no.)
4. Any record of how the plans are to be accessed.
5. The date(s) of the most recent review(s) or update(s) of the plan(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
Procedures to activate and deactivate plans
6. Any record of the existence of current procedures for when, how and by whom emergency response plan(s) are activated and de-activated. (Can be answered yes / no.)
7. Any record that staff who can activate or de-activate the emergency response plan(s) have been trained in this. (Can be answered yes / no.)
8. The date(s) of the most recent test(s) of the above procedures. (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
Hospital emergency and disaster response plan exercises, evaluation and corrective actions
9. The date(s) of the most recent test(s) of the emergency response plan(s), including date(s) of test(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
10. Any record that the emergency response plan(s) have been updated because of the results of tests. (Can be answered yes / no.)
Hospital recovery plan
11. Any record of the existence of a current documented all-hazards hospital recovery plan or plans that define(s) actions to be taken to recover normal functions of the hospital after an emergency or disaster. (Can be answered yes / no.)
12. Any record of how the plan(s) is to be accessed.
13. The date of the most recent review(s) or update(s) of the plan(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
Events organised by the staff networks.130123.docx
Please include the information for the current financial year, 2022/23 (to the present)
1. A list of the events organised by the staff networks
2. Full details of each event, including which network ran/hosted the event, the start and end time, the date, whether it was held online or in-person, the length, the topic and/or title, the number of attendees (if held) and the speaker (if possible)
Finished consultant episodes.261023.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
I am requesting data for the number of cases (finished consultant episodes) comprising both, inpatient admissions and day cases (including Maternity and Adult Critical Care where applicable) for each hospital in your trust. Please note this data should be supplied for each individual hospital and not amalgamated at trust level.
Please supply this data by year for the past 5 years (preferably in calendar years rather than financial years 2022, 2021,2020,2019,2018).
Please format the data as follows:
1.Hospital name and its Postcode, Year, all ICD 10 codes from A-Q inclusive (primary diagnosis codes, one primary diagnosis per finished consultant episode) each listed individually to 4 characters (letter followed by 3 numbers) with its corresponding number of cases.
2.Hospital name and its Postcode, Year, all OPCS codes (main operation and procedure codes) each listed individually to 4 characters (letter followed by 3 numbers) with its corresponding number of cases.
In case of zero cases corresponding lines for ICD 10 and OPCS codes can be omitted.
Supplied data should obey small numbers policy (cases below 5 are marked with an Asterix or ≤), be non-sensitive and anonymised.
Freshwater communications agency.211223.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
I would like to request the amount paid to Freshwater (the communications agency) for work related to the David Fuller case.
Please give the dates of first and last payments, and indicate whether such payments are expected to continue.
Guardian of Safe Working.080822.docx
I’m writing to request the name and contact email address of your Trust’s Guardian of Safe Working (or similar).
Head of Mental Health and HR Exec Director.300322.docx
“A) Name and Email address of the current Head / Lead Mental Health Commissioner for the Public (this is the person who is in charge of providing mental Health Support to the public).
B) Name and Email for HR’s Executive Director ”
Hospital emergency or disaster response plan.230922.docx
The questions on your original request to be reviewed are as follows:
Hospital emergency or disaster response plan
1. How the plan(s) is to be accessed in an emergency. (Can be answered with locations in general terms such as wards, departments, laboratories etc but I am not requesting any information that would prejudice security or the prevention of crime. To date over 50 NHS acute Trusts have provided locations in general terms in reply to similar requests.)
Hospital hazard-specific subplans (for example CBRN)
4. How the subplans are to be accessed in an emergency. (Can be answered with locations in general terms such as wards, departments, laboratories etc but I am not requesting any information that would prejudice security or the prevention of crime. To date over 50 NHS acute Trusts have provided locations in general terms in reply to similar requests.)
Hospital emergency and disaster response plan exercises, evaluation and corrective actions
9. The date(s) of the most recent test(s) of the emergency response plan(s). (Can be answered with a date or dates.)
Hospital recovery plan
12. How the plan(s) is to be accessed. (Can be answered with locations in general terms such as wards, departments, laboratories etc but I am not requesting any information that would prejudice security or the prevention of crime. To date over 50 NHS acute Trusts have provided locations in general terms in reply to similar requests.)
Hospital level data.030223.docx
1. Number of Trust Staff (FTE)
Per month – 2021
Average – 2021
2. Patients / Attendances
Per quarter 2021/2022
Daily Ave 2021/2022
Monthly Ave 2021/2022
3. Bed Numbers
Per quarter 2021/2022
Ave 2021/2022
Impact of industrial action.070823.docx
I am writing to the request, under the Freedom of Information Act, a copy of any analysis your trust has made of the impact that industrial action this year has had, or is likely to have, of the trusts ability to meets its elective recovery targets.
Infection Prevention and Control Team.170322.docx
1. Structure of acute Infection Prevention and Control Team
2. Management structure of acute Infection Prevention and Control Team.
3. Agenda for Change bandings and roles of acute Infection Prevention and Control Team
4. Operational hours, out of hours provision and on-call arrangements of the acute Infection Prevention and Control Service.
5. Daily staffing numbers e.g. sample rota to show daily staffing levels of Infection Prevention and Control Team.
InPhase Oversight DPIA.220323.docx
Please provide me with a copy of the Trust’s InPhase Oversight data protection impact assessment.
Please provide this redacted as required if you believe releasing security related information may fall under an FOI exemption.
Internal magazines at the Trust.160522.docx
This is an information request relating to internal magazines at the Trust.
Please include the information for each of the following periods; 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22:
1. Any expenditure on any internal magazine produced by the Trust. Please breakdown expenditure by year
2. Copies of the magazine
3. Any income received from the production of the magazine, for example through advertising
Leadership details.021122.docx
Please could you provide us with leader’s name for the below leadership roles.
• If you have a very similar role but not the exact job title, please include details of the very similar role and individual. If you don’t have this role at all, please state N/A or “Don’t have the job title”.
• Also, please you include the names and job titles of any of the board members that are not listed below.
Trust Name
Profile Type
Organisation Code
Job title
Chair
Chief executive
Director of Finance & Information
Medical director
Director of Nursing
Chief operating officer
Director of communications and marketing
Director of HR and OD
Chief people officer
Director of strategy and planning
Chief pharmacist
Director of Corporate Governance/Company Secretary/Board Secretary
Head of legal services
Lead director for procurement (procurement director)
PA to chief executive
Chief clinical information officer
Director of infection control
Head of estates
Chief information officers/IT director
Head of hotel services
Head of private patients
Head of sterile services
Head of facilities management
Leadership role staff details.220324.docx
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Please could you provide us with the leader’s name for the below leadership roles.
If you have a very similar role but not the exact job title, please include details of the very similar role and individual. If you don’t have this role at all, please state N/A or “Don’t have the job title”.
Also, please include the names and job titles of any of the board members that are not listed below.
Job title
Chair
Chief executive
Director of Finance & Information
Medical director
Director of Nursing
Chief operating officer
Director of communications and marketing
Director of HR and OD
Chief people officer
Director of strategy and planning
Chief pharmacist
Director of Corporate Governance/Company Secretary/Board Secretary
Head of legal services
Lead director for procurement (procurement director)
PA to chief executive
Chief clinical information officer
Director of infection control
Head of estates
Chief information officers/IT director
Head of hotel services
Head of private patients
Head of sterile services
Head of facilities management
LLP, Wholly owned subsidiary and PFI.100524.docx
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1. Do you have a LLP / Wholly owned subsidiary / PFI?
2. If yes, what is the name of the partnership? Please detail each, if more than one
3. When was this established? Please detail for each one
4. How long is this in place for? Please detail for each one
5. Is there a website for this organisation?
6. Is it a renewable arrangement and if so, what extension terms are agreed
7. What services are provided by this contract/LLP/subsidiary?
8. If there an agreed profit return back to the NHS?
9. As an NHS Trust, do you provide services back to the LLP? If so, what are these?
Minutes of Board of Director Meetings and Declarations of Interests (DoI) statements.010623.docx
1. Minutes of Board of Director Meetings
2. Declarations of Interests (DoI) statements for members of the Board of Directors
for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust – and all predecessor NHS Trusts that have merged into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust – going back to January 2008, or the earliest date for which electronic copies of this information are available if this date is later than January 2008. There is no need to provide copies of Minutes or Declarations of Interests that are provided on the website of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Minutes of Board of Director Meetings and Declarations of Interests (DoI) statements.010623.docx
Natural Insights Ltd. 100522.docx
Please could you provide the fees paid to Natural Insights Ltd (inclusive of
VAT) with respects to the commissions awarded to this company for the following by MTW Trust
1. The Trust Security review & staff interviews
2. The Trust Estates Culture Interviews / report / statements
3. Please could you confirm if Natural Insights Ltd are registered on an NHS SBS Framework.
Natural Insights Ltd. 100522.docx
Never Events.031122.docx
I’m writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act,
(1) the number of “never events” that occurred at the Trust in the year 2021
(2) the number of each type of “never event” that occurred at the Trust in 2021.
Oath of office.220823.docx
Please could you confirm in writing:
The oath of office of every employee paid by the people to serve the people.
The name of your Public Liability Insurer and associated Bond numbers.
Silence is acquiescence, aiding, abetting, default, dishonesty and deceit.
OPEL 3 or 4. 201021.docx
For each day of the past 24 months, how many days has your hospital trust declared an OPEL 3 or 4.
Organisational chart.071022.docx
Please can you reply with an organisational chart including the names, job titles and contact details (email or direct line) of all the divisional clinical managers/directors, deputies and general managers within the organisation.
Organisational Structure Chart.161123.docx
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Please provide me with an up-to-date Organisational Structure chart showing Team Managers and Service Managers and their email addresses for General Nursing, Primary Care, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Psychological Therapies across your trust,
Patient information leaflets and e-consent systems.061124.docx
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1) Does the Trust use a third-party provider to create/write, manage or track patient information leaflets?
If so, could you please provide the following information (if the Trust uses multiple third-party solutions, please provide details for all of these):
a. The current supplier(s)
b. Contract value(s) (per annum)
c. Contract(s) renewal date(s)
d. When did the Trust first start using this third-party?
2) Does the Trust have a software solution to manage patient e-consent? If yes, is this a standalone solution, or part of a wider electronic patient records system?
3) For the Trust’s patient e-consent system(s), could you please provide the following information (if the Trust uses multiple third-party solutions, please provide details for all of these):
a. The current supplier(s)
b. Contract value(s) (per annum)
c. Contract(s) renewal date(s)
d. When did the Trust first start using this third-party?
4) Please could you indicate which solutions are used by each department in the Trust:
Patient information leaflets and e-consent systems.061124.docx
Planned new facilities.271124.docx
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1. Please can you confirm if there are any plans for new bedspaces to be created within your trust in the next five years? This can be either proposed at a discussion point or a more formal stage of the decision process. I would like to capture new treatment areas or areas that would offer both day or overnight bed spaces. If so, please could you record the proposed site and an estimated number of additional beds to be added per year. Any example response would be as follows
2025 – example general hospital 20 bed
2026 – example wing 45 beds
2027 – example new site 30 beds
2. Please can you confirm if there are any proposed new theatres planned to be created within your trust in the next five years. Please use the example format highlighted in Q1.
3. Please can you confirm if any of your current bed spaces or theatres are planned to be moved into a new building or area in the next 5 years. Please use the example format highlighted in Q1
4. If questions 1-3 have highlighted a response that confirms new facilities, please could you confirm which organisation has been authorised to lead on the work if the project has reached the stage of awarding.
Policies and procedures.110324.docx
1. Who holds trust wide responsibility for the maintenance of procedures and policies?
2. What digital tools does the trust use for the staff to reference these procedures and policies i.e. – intranet?
3. How does the trust record that staff have read and comply with the procedures and policies?
4. Which tools are used for on-boarding new staff in relation to reading procedures and policies?
5. How do the heads of department monitor that clinical and non-clinical staff have read/understood mandatory procedural updates?
Policies relating to resource prioritisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.171022.docx
1. Policies (communicated in policy documentation, guidance, internal staff communications and similar) which relate to prioritisation of patients to receive your organisation’s resources during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, I am seeking documentation you hold which sets out criteria or factors to be taken into account when selecting patients for:
a. Admission to hospital for non-elective treatment;
b. Escalation of inpatients to Critical Care or Intensive Care (ICU/ITU) wards; and/or
c. Provision of respiratory support using positive airway pressure devices (CPAP/BIPAP) or ventilation.
2. Please include the policies issued by your organisation and any policies issued by third parties (such as Government bodies or medical professional organisations) in force within your organisation.
3. Please only supply policies which were issued or updated between 1 January 2020 and 30 June 2021 (inclusive)
Policies relating to resource prioritisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.171022.docx
Pride month.090623.docx
1. Whether any events have been organised for Pride month. If so please provide the date, start and end time, and title/topic of the event
2. Whether any LGBT themed merchandise has been purchased for Pride month. i.e. since the beginning of the 2023/24 financial year. If so please provide me with information on what has been purchased and the cost
3. Whether the organisation has sponsored any Pride events. If so which events and please provide details of the nature of the sponsorship (particularly the financial value)
Provider Collaboratives. 100222.docx
1. Is your Acute trust part of an acute care provider collaborative?
1a. If yes, could you please provide the name of the acute care provider collaborative that you are a part of?
1b. Could you please provide the name of the lead trust in the acute care provider collaborative that you are a part of?
1c. Could you please provide the name of the person (people) who represent your organisation at the acute care provider collaborative?
2. Is your Acute trust a member of a place-based collaborative?
2a. If yes, could you please provide the name of the place-based collaborative that you are a part of?
2b. Could you please provide the name of the person (people) who represents your organisation at the place-based collaborative?
Rainbow Badge Accreditation Report.230124.docx
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I understand Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust took part in the 2022/2023 phase of the Rainbow Badge accreditation scheme for the Rainbow Badge project.
Please could you supply the final report of the assessment done by the organisation administering the accreditation scheme which I understand is the LGBT Foundation.
Please include all recommendations for change and improvements needed to achieve Rainbow Badge status that may have been made by the accreditation body.
Risk register.060824.docx
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Please could you provide any information as to whether fatigue is on your risk register?
Role of Director, Chief or Lead of AHPs. 110422.docx
The role of Director/Chief/Lead of AHPs is commonly described as “Providing Workforce Leadership for Allied Health Professions, map the current AHP workforce across the trust, work with other trust AHP Directors and develop a strategic workforce plan for recruitment and retention of Allied Health Professions within the trust.”
Section 1. Within your Trust, do you have a role that meets the above description?
If the answer is “Yes” answer section 2 only, and if the answer is “No” answer Section 3 only.
Section 2
2.1. What is title?
2.2 When was the role of Director/Chief/Lead AHP or its equivalent first created within the Trust?
2.3. Is there someone currently in this post?
If no, why not?
2.4. If yes, are they registered as an allied health professional (AHP)?
2.5 If yes, which profession?
2.6. If they are not registered as an AHP, what is their professional background?
2.7. Does this individual have a position on the Trust board?
2.8. Which Allied Healthcare professions are employed by your Trust?
(Please complete the table below)
Section 3.
It has been shown that “there are benefits to improvement activity, as well as to the visibility and influence of the AHP workforce on the Trust’s priorities when there is a designated AHP lead”, and that these roles should be put in place in each Trust1,2.
3.1. Do you expect to advertise/create a job role meeting the above description within the next 6 months?
3.2. If no, are you planning to advertise/create this role in the long term 12-24 months?
3.3 If no, what has been the main barrier/s that are preventing a job role meeting the above description from being created in the long term (12-24months)?
3.4. Is your Trust aware of the NHS England and NHS Improvement strategy (2019 Investing in chief allied health professionals: insights from trust executives.) to have designated AHP leads?
Roles and Banding. 150222.docx
1. How many Trust Executives do you have within the trust?
2. A list of the Trust Executive level roles, with their banding
3. Which is the highest-earning role within the trust?
4. How many different nursing roles do you have within the trust?
5. A list of all the nursing roles, with their banding
Royal College invited reviews.130924.docx
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Since April 2020, have you commissioned or received any Royal College invited reviews into your services? Please list service involved, Royal College involved, date commissioned and date delivered.
For each of the reviews
1. Were any patient safety issues raised by the invited review?
2. If so, did you inform your regulator/s? Which ones and when?
3. If patient safety issue was identified, was this discussed by the board, either in public or private? When was this and can you include a link to the relevant board papers?
4. If a patient safety issue was identified, did you publish a summary of the report – its conclusions, recommendations, terms of reference and actions taken by you? Please include a link showing where it can be seen.
5. If a patient safety issue was identified, did you exercise duty of candour to those patients affected? How many and when were they contacted?
Please attach all invited reviews commissioned or received since April 2020. We appreciate certain details which identify individuals may need to be redacted. However, please state what exemption you are planning to use if you do not send reports.
Senior leadership team details.060423.docx
Please can you provide me the names of your senior leadership team for the below titles:
CIO
Director of IT
Head of IT
Digital Programme Director
IT Programme Manager
Head of IT Infrastructure
Head of Digital Transformation
Head of EPR
Head of Information/ BI
Director of information/ BI
Staff details.140922.docx
1. The name and email address of the Director of Clinical Audit
2. The name and email address of the Clinical Audit Manager
3. The name and email address of The Director of Nursing
4. The name and email address of the Director of Quality
5. The name and email address of the Director of Medicine
6. The name and email address of the Director of Pharmacy
7. The name and email address of the Director of Governance.
Stonewall. 091221.docx
1. In respect of each of the years 2015-2021, please confirm what funding has been provided to Stonewall by:
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
2. Please specify whether the funding in 1 above has been in the form of:
(a) direct grants for unlimited purposes;
(b) direct grants for limited purposes (in that event, stating the purpose);
(c) payment for goods or services (specifying the relevant goods and services).
3. Where the funding in 1 above has been by way of payment for goods or services, please specify:
(a) what analysis has been conducted to ascertain whether these goods or services meet contractual and/or legal requirements;
(b) what contractual or other recourse exists to reclaim in respect of goods or services that are defective, substandard or delivered in contravention of the law;
(c) what steps are being taken to seek recourse for any such contractual or legal shortfalls.
4. In respect of the payments referred to in 1 above, please state:
(a) What criteria were applied in deciding to make payments by way of direct grants;
(b) What tendering process was conducted with regard to provision of goods or services;
(c) What alternative suppliers of goods or services were considered.
Stonewall and diversity and equality schemes.300124.docx
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1. Is your trust a current member of the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme?
2. Is your trust a current member of the Stonewall Workplace Equality scheme? If so, please provide a copy of the most recent employer feedback report. An example published under FOI can be found here https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk/media/7336/20220803-foi-ref-244-2223-2-of-4.pdf
3. Has your trust been assessed as part of phase 2 of the NHS Rainbow Badge scheme? If the answer is no, you may disregard the subsequent questions.
4. What overall level was the trust awarded – bronze, silver, gold or initial stage?
5. Please provide a copy of the final assessment report received. An example published under FOI can be found here https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/982461/response/2335279/attach/4/Royal%20United%20Hospital%20Bath%20final%20Assessment%20report.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1
6. If your trust produced an action plan in response to the assessment report, please provide a copy of that
Stonewall, gendered intelligence, GIRES and the diversity trust, employers network of equality and inclusion (ENEI), NHS rainbow badge scheme.300124.docx
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Please can you tell me
Within the last 2 years [December 2021 -December 2023] 1. what correspondence ( direct written communication via email or post ) you have had with Stonewall or /and gendered intelligence, GIRES and the diversity trust, employers network of equality and inclusion (ENEI), NHS rainbow badge scheme.
2.Please can you supply copies of any correspondence,that you have had with Stonewall or/and gendered intelligence, GIRES and the diversity trust. employers network of equality and inclusion( ENEI), NHS rainbow badge scheme.
Stonewall UK.260124.docx
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1. Was your organisation a member of the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme in the financial year 2022-23?
2. What was the membership fee given to Stonewall as part of their Diversity Champions programme in 2022-23 by your organisation?
3. Is your organisation currently a member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme?
4. What additional monies have been given to Stonewall in 2022-23? Specifically, this incorporates:
Events/conferences (where, for example, your organisation has purchased tickets to attend or entered raffles or auctions organised by Stonewall). Please name any events/conferences that your organisation attended and the date attended. Other programmes (such as LGBT Leadership programme, LGBT Role Model programme, Ally and/or Trans Ally programmes, as well as Train the Trainer programmes etc).
Subject Access Requests (SARs) and Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs).210323.docx
1, What system(s) do you use to log & process:
a. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
b. Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs)
2, What case management software(s) do you use?
a. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
b. Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs)
3, How much was spent on the purchasing of the system/software used in questions 1 & 2?
a. Subject Access Requests (SARs)
b. Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs)
4, How many SARs have been made to the Trust within the last 6 months?
5, How many SARs have gone over the deadline (including 30, 60 & 90 day cases) within the last 6 months?
6, How many FOIs have been made to the Trust within the last 6 months?
7, How many staff do you have that log & process SARs/FOIs?
a. Subject Access Requests (SARs) –
b. Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs)
8, What software do you use for redactions (please include the software version) for SARs? –
Subject Access Requests (SARs) and Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs).210323.docx
Sustainability Contracts.080223.docx
I am emailing you regarding your Sustainability Contracts currently within your organisation. Could you please inform me on current spend and usage. Also please a breakdown of your Sustainability Org Chart and those managing the Sustainability Contracts.
Trust Capital spend.241123.docx
1. Please provide information on the Trust Capital spend in the following format for all years
2. For the following spend categories, please provide a best estimate of the total % spent replacing existing equipment as opposed to investing in additional capacity.
3. Are ICS’s having an impact on ability to spend capital funds on new equipment? If yes please describe operational challenges and expected timeline to be resolved
Trust funding.160822.docx
1. The total amount of funding each hospital within your trust has received between 2017-present. I would like this broken down by financial year
Of this, how much funding has come directly from the CCG.
2. For each hospital/hospital setting within your trust, how much funding between 2017-present was allocated to the following services (defined by the remit of the CQC). I would like this broken down for each hospital by financial year.
a. Urgent care and emergency services
b. Medical care
c. Surgery
d. Critical care
e. Maternity services
f. Services for children and young people
g. End of life care
h. Outpatient services and diagnostic imaging
i. Mental health services.
Trust policy and guidance on incident reporting, Health and Safety and Clinical Governance.270522.docx
I would like to request documents detailing Trust policy and guidance on incident reporting, Health and Safety and Clinical Governance.
Trust procedures and reports to MHRA yellow card.191022.docx
1. MHRA Yellow Card Training given to hospital staff
Please provide copy of the Trust’s MHRA Yellow Card Staff Training Policy (or similar internal document) outlining the Training which has been provided to nursing staff regarding how to report suspected or confirmed Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Events to the MHRA Yellow Card System.
2. Trust Hospital Procedures for identifying and reporting Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries/deaths (suspected or confirmed) to the MHRA Yellow Card Adverse Events Reporting System
Please provide copy of the policy and/or written procedures/flowchart showing the steps medical staff take to diagnose cause of injury/death when a patient is first admitted.
3. Process for Reporting Instances of injury/death to MHRA Yellow Card System for Covid-19 Vaccinations
What is the process for reporting suspected/confirmed Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Reactions/deaths to the Government’s MHRA Yellow Card System.
4. Number of unique reports to MHRA Yellow Card Reports made by the Trust for Covid-19 Vaccinations
How many reports has the Trust submitted to the MHRA Yellow Card System relating to COVID-19 Vaccinations:
Number of unique Reports made to MHRA Yellow Card System relating to Covid-19 Vaccinations
November 2020
December 2020
January 2021
February 2021
March 2021
April 2021
May 2021
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
Trust procedures and reports to MHRA yellow card.191022.docx
Trust Senior Leadership. 051021.docx
I write to you with a Freedom of Information request regarding the demographics, diversity and experience of high-level and senior leadership of the Trust. This FOI includes gathering information regarding the demographics I.e. marital status, race, gender and leadership experience of the senior leaders within your trust.
The link to the survey is here as shown:
I would appreciate it if the survey could be filled out as a Freedom of Information request by the senior members of the Trust Leadership. This includes: Medical Director, Clinical Director, Senior Director and all members of the Executive Team I.e. CEO, CFO, CTO. If this is not possible, I kindly request that the survey be filled out on their behalf.
Trust website. 230222.docx
1. What software are you currently using for your website?
2. What team/individual is responsible for maintaining your website?
3. Do you work with an external supplier to maintain your website, if so when does your contract expire?
4. When did you last conduct an accessibility audit against your public website?
5. What team/individual is responsible for digital accessibility across your public facing services?
6. What is your budget for digital accessibility?
7. What is your annual marketing/communications budget for creating content for residents?
8. Do you work with external marketing/communications suppliers to create content for your public facing services?
9. When was the last time you conducted a content audit on your website to remove outdated content?
Trust Website.300123.docx
Public Facing NHS Trust Website
1. What CMS/software and version does your public facing NHS Trust website use? (e.g. In-house, Sharepoint, Jadu, Drupal 7)
2. Is your public facing NHS Trust website hosted and supported by a third party IT partner or on-premise? If a third party, when does your current contract expire?
3. When was your public facing NHS Trust website launched?
4. What are your separate budgets for hosting/supporting and development for your public facing NHS Trust website?
5. Which team/department/individual is responsible for maintaining your public facing NHS Trust website?
Digital Accessibility
1. When was your public facing NHS Trust website last audited for accessibility compliance?
2. Which team/department/individual is responsible for maintaining accessibility compliance across your public facing websites?
Website Content
1. Do you work with external marketing/communications suppliers to create content for your public facing services?
2. When was the last time you conducted a content audit on your website to remove outdated content?
Trust’s smoking policy.291024.docx
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1. Total cost of all signage at all sites for the Trust
2. The total cost at each site
3. A breakdown for each type of sign (e.g. 6 X £100)
4. The total number of signs at each site and number of each design
5. The dates that the signs were erected
6. Since the signs were erected, how many people have been asked to leave each site, when found smoking on site
7. How many staff have been disciplined for smoking on site
University Governors.161123.docx
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How many organisations are compliant with the UHA guidance which states that:
“If any of a foundation trust’s hospitals have a formal relationship with a medical or dental school provided by a university, at least one member of the council of governors must be appointed by that university”.
Could I ask that you therefore send me the number of governors you have from a University .
Violence policy and trust self-assessment.120824.docx
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Please may you provide me with:
1. Copies of all trust policies related to violence by patients and/or their visitors against staff. Please include all policies related to the following:
• Any physical, verbal, or sexual aggression, assault, or stalking.
• Violence both experienced and witnessed by staff.
• Any separate policies for different types of violence, different staff groups, or different phases of violence, e.g. during and following the event.
2. Copies of all trust policies/procedures related to the following post-violence measures, if not included within the above (1):
• Immediate sanctions for aggressor(s) (e.g. discharge)
• Processes for incident reporting
• Processes for debrief with staff member(s) and/or aggressor(s)
• Follow-up with aggressor(s) (e.g. accountability letter, behaviour contract)
• Counselling or similar longer-term psychological support for staff member(s)
• Incident investigation (e.g. root cause analysis) and feedback to relevant parties
• Longer-term sanctions for aggressor(s) (e.g. card system)
• Examples of processes for tailored management plans for patients with a known history of aggressive behaviour (including use of a flag/alert system)
• Staff sickness absence and/or returning to work following work-related injury
3. The trust’s most recent self-assessment against the NHS Violence Prevention and Reduction (VPR) Standard, including evidence showing the criteria have been met for each indicator. The compliance assessment template can be found in the VPR Standard published by NHS England, available here (template on pages 7-14): https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/violenc e-prevention-and-reduction-standard/
Virtual wards.231024.docx
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1. What is the current reported virtual wards beds capacity?
2. Out of this capacity, what number/percentage are enabled for remote patient monitoring?
3. What is the current utilisation percentage specifically for the virtual ward beds that are enabled for remote patient monitoring (rather the overall utilisation including used for face-to-face consultations)?
4. Does the utilisation of the remote patient monitoring-enabled virtual ward beds fluctuate over time? If so, could you provide an average percentage or a breakdown of utilisation across different time periods?
5. If you are unable to provide the utilisation percentage(s), could you explain the process used to capture and measure the utilisation of the remote patient monitoring-enabled virtual beds?
Winter power cuts.231122.docx
1. Prior to October 2022, did you have a written plan in the event of a loss of power for the hospital(s) overseen by the trust? What did this entail?
2. How long can the hospital(s) run on back-up power?
3. Have you re-examined those plans and / or made any alterations for this winter?
4. What have you changed?
5. What are your plans for hospitals if there are regular three-hour power cuts with advanced warning this winter, as warned by the National Grid?
6. Under what scenario would the hospital(s) be forced to close as a result of power outages this winter?
7. What would your advice to hospitals be in the event of a power outage with advance warning?
8. What would your advice to hospitals be in the event of a sudden loss of power?
9. In the event of a sustained nationwide loss of power, have you contacted any other organisations to see if you can draw on their backup generation?
Critical Care
Acquired brain injuries (ABI).030724.docx
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I would like to request a breakdown of the different types of beds available for ABI patients (split by level from level 1 – level 4) as well as neuropsychiatry patients across the hospitals in your trust.
Could you please provide and specify the number of beds for each sub-category that are listed in the Excel attached from columns D-H, split by the following information:
1.) Name of each hospital in your trust
2.) Gender split (M/F/Mix)
Acute venous thromboembolism (VTE).170322.docx
Acute management of Venous thromboembolism:
1. Confirm whether the Trust routinely prescribes direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in preference to low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and warfarin for the management of standard acute venous thromboembolism (VTE)?
2. Please provide a copy of the Trusts’ management policy on management of acute venous thromboembolism (VTE).
3. Does the Trust provide all patients with an unprovoked VTE a medical opinion from a thrombosis physician?
4. Does the Trust definition of an ‘unprovoked VTE’ include women using the combined oral contraceptive pill or hormone replacement therapy (HRT)?
5. Do investigations after an unprovoked VTE follow NICE guidance?
6. Per week, how many clinics are devoted to seeing patients with VTE in the Trust?
7. How many full-time equivalents are employed by the Trust to provide thromboprophylaxis and care of thrombosis patients from?
a) Nursing
b) Pharmacists
c) Medical
Thromboprophylaxis
8. Does the Trust routinely meet the 95% VTE Risk Assessment level required by NHS England?
9. Please provide the monthly percentage (admissions numbers/VTE risk assessments carried out) for VTE risk assessments carried across the Trust between 1st October 2021 – 31 December 2022.
10. Does the Trust have dedicated funding for a team ensuring VTE prevention occurs?
COVID-19
11. Please provide a copy of the Trust’s thromboprophylaxis protocols used to treat in-patients with COVID- 19 pneumonia.
Psychological care
12. Do VTE patients within the Trust have access to clinical psychological support?
13. How many sessions per week are provided by the Trust for VTE clinical psychological support?
Cancer-associated VTE
14. Does the Trust have a dedicated clinical lead for cancer associated thrombosis (CAT)?
15. Does a protocol exist for managing VTE in those with cancer?
16. Please provide a copy of the Trusts’ protocol for managing VTE in those with cancer.
VTE prevention and management in the community
17. Please provide copies of VTE care pathways developed to support community clinicians with regards to:
(i) Anticoagulation medication changes
(ii) Anticoagulation dosing.
18. Does the Trust have specific VTE guidance for:
(i) System wide protocols?
(ii) E-consultation facilities?
(iii) On call clinician to discuss problems and seek advice from?
19. Please provide copies of the Trust’s protocol documents for VTE prevention and management in
(i) System wide protocols
(ii) E-consultation facilities
(iii) On call clinician to discuss problems and seek advice from
Adult Level three Critical Care beds.240522.docx
1. How many Adult Level three Critical Care beds do you currently have with an invasive ventilator?
2. How many of these are currently staffed and therefore available for use (either vacant or occupied)?
3. When considering relevant guidelines concerning these beds, how many have Carbon Dioxide (CO2) monitoring available for Invasively ventilated patients?
4. Thinking about the new (January 2022) NICE Guidelines concerning inhaled sedation, how many of your Level three beds have inhaled anaesthetic gas monitoring available?
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) machine. 070921.docx
I’m seeking potential solutions for a customer to replace their existing Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) machine.
The machine must be capable of offering both CVVH (Continuous Veno-Venous Hemofiltration) and CVVHDF (Continuous Veno-Venous Hemodiafiltration).
Also, of equal importance is for the machine to use volumetric rather than gravimetric (weights and balances) technology to ensure accurate and safe fluid loss.
This system will not be used in a hospital environment, so it cannot use weights and balances for its accuracy.
Download response Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) machine. 070921.docx
Intra-operative cell salvage procedures.030522.docx
Q1: Which sites within the trust perform intra-operative cell salvage procedures?
Q2: Which sites within the trust perform post-operative cell salvage procedures?
Q3: What is the name, contact details and the job title of the lead for cell salvage within either the trust or at each site within the trust if no single person has such responsibility?
Q4: How many cell salvage procedures were performed in 2021?
Q5: Which cell salvage apparatus (make, model and quantities and location) are currently used in sites performing cell salvage within the trust?
Q6: Which surgical specialties perform cell salvage (e.g. cardiac, orthopaedics etc)?
Sedation monitoring in Intensive Care Units (ICU).071024.docx
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1. What is the percentage of beds occupied by mechanically ventilated patients, for the period April 2023-April 2024?
2. What is the percentage of patients sedated with propofol when mechanically ventilated, for the period April 2023-April 2024?
3. How frequently do you assess sedation level in a mechanically ventilated patient (average number of times per day)? (please can you provide a copy of your trust protocol)
4. How frequently do you undertake sedation hold in a mechanically ventilated patient (average number of times per day)?
5. Do you have a recommended daily sedation target / sedation depth target / optimum sedation target for mechanically ventilated patient?
6. If yes, what measures are put in place to meet this target?
7. What is the incidence of delirium in mechanically ventilated patients?
8. How many times has the ICU reached critical capacity and elective activity has been impacted and had to be cancelled, for the period April 2023-April 2024?
9. What is the percentage / number of registered ICU nurse(s) from bank/agency on any one shift?
10. What is the average monthly spend on bank / agency ICU registered nurse(s), for the period April 2023-April 2024?
Sedation monitoring in Intensive Care Units (ICU).071024.docx
Ventilators. 140921.docx
I’m writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to request information on the usage of certain types of Ventilator within your Trust, based on the models acquired during the ventilator challenge specifically relating to:
a. The Penlon ventilators,
b. The Breas Ventilators,
c. The Smiths Medical Ventilators,
d. The CPAP non-invasive units.
I’d like to know, if possible:
1. How many of the various invasive models were used within your trust vs how many were ordered (the Penlon units being the most important with regards to this).
2. The cost per unit breakdown.
3. The survival / rates of recovery for those ventilated.
4. Has there been an uptake in the non-invasive units for the second wave of battling the pandemic.
Delayed discharge
Delayed discharges.040724.docx
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1. How many delayed discharges from inpatient wards were recorded by your trust during the following date ranges (please break down the data into the date ranges specified below):
1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023
1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022
1st January 2021 to 31st December 2021
2. What was the total amount of time spent by delayed discharge patients in hospital wards managed by your trust, between patients being ready for transfer and the patients being fully discharged from hospital, during the following date ranges (please break down the data into the date ranges specified below. Please use whichever time measurement is used by default by your trust):
1st January 2023 to 31st December 2023
1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022
1st January 2021 to 31st December 2021
3. What is the average cost per day to your trust, of a patient staying in hospital, excluding costs specific to their medical condition? (i.e. the basic cost of providing a bed, food and care but excluding condition specific drugs, care or medical procedures)
4. Does your trust currently have a plan in place to reduce the delayed discharge of patients in the future and if so, could you please tell me what that is?
5. Can you please send a copy of your Trusts ‘Patient Discharge Policy’
Delayed transfer of care
Delayed discharges.070722.docx
1) the total number of patients in hospital on 30 November whose discharge was delayed because they were awaiting residential home placement or availability, awaiting nursing home placement or availability, or awaiting a care package in their own home.
2) For each of the last 12 months (starting with November 2020 and ending with November 2021), can you please provide the number of hospital patients whose discharge was delayed because they were awaiting residential home placement or availability, awaiting nursing home placement or availability, or awaiting a care package in their own home.
Delayed discharges.130922.docx
Please can I get data on all of the patients discharged in August 2022, broken down by the number of days by which their discharges were delayed.
Delayed transfers of care. 041121.docx
1. For each month in 2021 for which data is held, please state the number of ‘delayed days’ in acute care that month due to delayed transfers of care
2. Please provide any breakdown the Trust holds of the question 1 data by reason for the delay (e.g. awaiting care package in own home, patient or family choice etc)
3. For each month in 2021 for which data is held, please state the number of ‘delayed days’ in non-acute care that month due to delayed transfers of care
4. Please provide any breakdown the Trust holds of the question 3 data by reason for the delay (e.g. awaiting care package in own home, patient or family choice etc)
5. For each month in 2021 for which data is held, please state the number of ‘DTOC beds’ in acute care that month
6. For each month in 2021 for which data is held, please state the number of ‘DTOC beds’ in non-acute care that month
Delayed transfers of care.150523.docx
1. (FOI TO ALL NHS PROVIDERS – DELAYED TRANSFERS OF CARE)
Under the FOI Act please provide me with the information below.
Please confirm receipt of this request as soon as possible.
The number of inpatients who are currently medically fit to leave hospital in your area, but still reside there.
Please provide this as a series of data points for the last calendar year and the year to date, broken down by day. For each day, please break the data into further categories which detail the reason behind the delayed discharge.
Emergency and Medical Services
24 hour waits at A&E.130524.docx
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1. How many patients in A&E waited 24 hours or more from time of arrival until admission in each of the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
2. Of these patients, how many were aged a) under 18 and b) over 65. Please can you break this information down again by the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
4-hour A&E target.140324.docx
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I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, a copy of any communication received by your Trust from NHS England in the last 6 months, which instructs or suggests that the trust focuses its energy on patients in emergency departments who do not need to be admitted to a ward, in order to improve the Trust’s performance against the 4-hour A&E target.
Accident and emergency delays for children.170724.docx
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1. The longest time it took for a person aged 18 and under to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
2. The number of people aged 18 and under waiting more than four hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
3. The number of people under the aged 18 and under waiting more than twelve hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
4. The number of people aged 18 and under seen by your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far.
Accident and emergency delays for children.170724.docx
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1. The longest time it took for a person aged 18 and under to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
2. The number of people aged 18 and under waiting more than four hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
3. The number of people under the aged 18 and under waiting more than twelve hours to be seen after arriving at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
4. The number of people aged 18 and under seen by your Trust’s Accident and Emergency department broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far.
Accident and emergency departments.190822.docx
You asked:
1. How many patients were triaged at your accident and emergency (ED) departments between 1st January 2016 and 30th June 2022?
2. How many patients arrived by ambulance at your accident and emergency departments between 1st January 2016 and 30th June 2022?
Accident and Emergency Diagnosis Code. 091221.docx
1. (a) With regard to the following Accident and Emergency Diagnosis Code (and/or treatment Code; whichever is applicable): ‘8582’ what is the specific name of the respective coding database/data set and the corresponding version and the applicable date range when the Trust used this code?
(b) What is the corresponding full diagnosis descriptor and/or if relevant, treatment descriptor?
(c) Please provide the corresponding word descriptor for each of the numbers within the code “8582”.
2. (a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor: ‘Other Soft Tis Inj. Neck,’ what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
3. (a) With regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor: ‘Other Soft Tis Inj. Neck, Not applicable’ what is the specific name of the respective database/data set used in 2012 and the corresponding version and applicable date range in which the above diagnosis descriptor was used by the Trust?
(b) What is the corresponding Accident and Emergency diagnosis code relevant to the above diagnosis descriptor within the same database/dataset which was used within patient records by the Trust at the time?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data in 2012?
4(a) With regard to the Accident and Emergency Investigation descriptor: ‘X-ray or Blood tests’ what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when this Investigation descriptor was used by the Trust?
(b) What is the corresponding code relevant to the above Investigation descriptor within the same database/dataset?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
5(a) With regard to the Accident and Emergency Investigation descriptor: ‘X-ray plain film’ what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the above Investigation descriptor was used by the Trust?
(b) What is the corresponding code relevant to the above Investigation descriptor within the same database/dataset?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data;
6(a) with regard to the possible Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor: ‘Other Soft Tis Inj. Shoulder,’
If this is a historically identified diagnosis descriptor, please confirm whether the Trust has ever used this and if so, what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) If applicable, what is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) If applicable, what was the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data from April 2012 onwards?
7(a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor: ‘Acute limb injury*, leg,’ *ALI what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
8(a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor: ‘Whiplash’ what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
9(a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor: ‘Acute torticollis,’ what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
Additional questions:
2. Please confirm, so that I know I have understood the Trust’s response to question 14(a) correctly, that the software system which was in use by the Trust in December 2020, in respect of onsite storage, retrieval and printing of historical patient records was ‘eNotes’.
3. In respect of the Trust’s response to question 14(b), please clarify whether the ‘eNotes’ system which the Trust response refers to, accesses historical April 2012 patient letters, and whilst processing them, modifies elements of the original document data automatically, and if so, please specify which fields and how and why these fields are modified.
4. Please indicate if a patient’s original historical letter can be modified on ‘eNotes’ in real time by an individual Trust software user and then be printed off subsequently.
5. In respect of the ‘eNotes’ system that the Trust refers to, please specify the software company who supplies the Trust.
6. With regard to the Trust’s comments relating to software (see Appendix 5), although it is stated that the Trust migrated to Sunrise in July 2021, was this software ever utilised in conjunction with historical patient records, before July 2021?
7. What specific date range did the Trust use the Symphony system provided by EMIS?
8. What specific date range did the Trust use the Symphony system provided by Footman-Walker?
9. Would patient records have been processed by Symphony EMIS or Symphony Footman-Walker at the time in April 2012?
10. Although the A & E response explains that further diagnoses were hand written in the CAS card and scanned in following attendance, it is not clear from the response whether the further diagnoses which were hand written in the CAS card were the same as those original further diagnoses which would have been included in real time (April 2012) within the A & E record ‘Diagnosis Comments’ field’ (which I referred to in my FOI question (b), copied above).
Please provide precise and direct clarification on this point
i.e. was the further diagnoses data entered into both the A & E ‘Diagnosis Comments’ field in real time in April 2012, as well as being hand written subsequently in the CAS card?
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Accident and Emergency Diagnosis Coding and Descriptions. 131021.docx
1. (a)With regard to the following Accident and Emergency Diagnosis Code (and/or treatment Code; whichever is applicable): ‘8582’ what is the specific name of the respective coding database/data set and the corresponding version and the applicable date range when the Trust used this code?
(b) What is the corresponding full diagnosis descriptor and/or if relevant, treatment descriptor?
(c) Please provide the corresponding word descriptor for each of the numbers within the code “8582”.
2. (a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor:
‘Other Soft Tis Inj. Neck,’
what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
3. (a) With regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor:
‘Other Soft Tis Inj. Neck, Not applicable’
what is the specific name of the respective database/data set used in 2012 and the corresponding version and applicable date range in which the above diagnosis descriptor was used by the Trust?
(b) What is the corresponding Accident and Emergency diagnosis code relevant to the above diagnosis descriptor within the same database/dataset which was used within patient records by the Trust at the time?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data in 2012?
4(a) With regard to the Accident and Emergency Investigation descriptor:
‘X-ray or Blood tests’
what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when this Investigation descriptor was used by the Trust?
(b) What is the corresponding code relevant to the above Investigation descriptor within the same database/dataset?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
5(a) With regard to the Accident and Emergency Investigation descriptor:
‘X-ray plain film’
what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the above Investigation descriptor was used by the Trust?
(b) What is the corresponding code relevant to the above Investigation descriptor within the same database/dataset?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data;
6(a) with regard to the possible Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor:
‘Other Soft Tis Inj. Shoulder,’
If this is a historically identified diagnosis descriptor, please confirm whether the Trust has ever used this and if so, what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) If applicable, what is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) If applicable, what was the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data from April 2012 onwards?
7(a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor:
‘Acute limb injury*, leg,’ *ALI what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
8(a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor:
‘Whiplash’ what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
9(a) with regard to the Accident and Emergency diagnosis descriptor:
‘Acute torticollis,’
what is the specific name of the database/data set and the corresponding version and applicable date range when the Trust used this diagnosis descriptor?
(b) What is the corresponding code used within the Trust’s patient records?
(c) What is the corresponding code used within Trust information reported to the Secondary Use Service (SUS) and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data?
10.(a) What is the corresponding descriptor for Code 19153 (which may be a LOCAL SUB-SPECIALTY CODE within CDS Trust use only?
11. Who, within the Trust, is responsible for the following?
(a) updating accident and emergency data bases
(b) managing and accessing archived data bases/sets
12. (a) who has authorised access to* historical individual patient records stored on the Trust’s onsite systems?
*including the facility to amend historical patient personal data
13. Who within the Trust is currently responsible for:
(a) investigating alleged breaches of the data legislation?
(b) rectifying inaccurate and incomplete personal data?
14. (a) What software system was in use by the Trust in December 2020, in respect of onsite storage, retrieval and printing of historical patient records?
(b) In what data format are historical patient records, which are held onsite, accessed, processed and printed off?
15. (a) Were all Accident & Emergency recorded patient diagnoses reported as diagnostic codes to the Secondary Use Service (and when applicable, the Hospital Episode Statistics) from April 2012 onwards?
(b) Within the Trust’s Accident and Emergency computer system used in April 2012, was there only the facility to record the ‘Primary Diagnosis’ and ‘Diagnosis Comments’, and no facility within the software to record specific secondary and third diagnoses when inputting the data in real time, other than within the ‘Diagnosis Comments’ field?
16. How many historical patient letters*, when copied and sent to patients under a Subject Access Request (SAR) or FOI Request, have been reported to the Trust as containing a different or missing diagnosis descriptor, and/or a different investigation descriptor, to that contained within the corresponding original letter?
*(which were originally written pre-2017 data changes).
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Accident and emergency (ED) departments.300822.docx
1. How many patients were triaged at your accident and emergency (ED) departments between 1st January 2016 and 30th June 2022? Could you please provide a year-on-year breakdown?
2. How many patients arrived by ambulance at your accident and emergency departments between 1st January 2016 and 30th June 2022? Again, could I have a year-on-year breakdown.
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).100124.docx
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I am currently researching the cost of care for conditions relating to Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) conditions for patients in a level-3 neuro-rehab facility who are occupying an in-patient bed. I am looking to obtain and explains the care type and funding condition for which I want to gather the information. The funding conditions are as follows:
Spot Purchase Price – In Area – This is classified as the prevailing (latest 2023) daily fee charged by you to the ICS for providing care to an individual who is from your ICS region and is occupying a bed under an immediate requirement and is not contracted for and is made ‘on the spot’.
Spot Purchase Price – Out of Area – This is classified as the prevailing (latest 2023) daily fee charged by you to the ICS for providing care to an individual who is an out-of-area patient from another ICS and is occupying a bed in your trust but is paid for by their home ICS, under an immediate requirement and is not contracted for and is made ‘on the spot’.
Block contract – This is classified as the average amount spent per individual under a contract that you agree upon as a trust with your home ICS to provide care for an individual needing an inpatient bed for an acquired brain injury treatment in a level-3 neuro-rehab facility.
If the data is unavailable in the format requested, please provide the information in the following format.
Overall Average (in £) – The overall average cost of a patient that occupies a bed in a level-3 neuro-rehab facility.
Acute Medical Unit, A&E waits and cancelled elective operations.250624.docx
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1. Please state what percentage of your total discharges from the Acute Medical Unit are discharged home/to usual place of residence without support
2. For those patients, what was the average length of stay in the Acute Medical Unit?
3. Please state what percentage of all admitted patients from A&E waited more than 12 hours from decision to admit to actual admission (12hr+ trolley waits)
4. Please state what percentage of cancelled elective operations for non-clinical reasons were due to:
a. unavailable ward beds: b. unavailable surgeon
c. unavailable anaesthetist: d. unavailable theatre staff
Acute Medical Unit, A&E waits and cancelled elective operations.250624.docx
ADHD and ASD diagnosis.260224.docx
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1) Does your trust deal with any of the following: (A yes/no is sufficient)
a) Adult ADHD diagnosis
b) Child and/or Adolescent ADHD diagnosis
c) Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis
d) Child and/or Adolescent Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis
If Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust does deal with any of these diagnosis pathways, for all that apply, please provide:
i) average wait-time from referral to first appointment
ii) average wait-time from referral to decision on diagnosis/discharge from diagnostic service
iii) Number of individuals on the wait list as of 31 December 2023 (or nearest available date)
iv) average wait-time from first appointment to decision on diagnosis/discharge from diagnostic service
ADHD and ASD services.220824.docx
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1. Does your organisation commission or provide (please specify) referral, diagnosis or treatment services for the following?
a. ASD in children
b. ASD in adults
c. ADHD in children
d. ADHD in adults
2. Please provide an overview of the current digital and physical care pathways, from referral for assessment to diagnosis and long-term treatment, for each of the following.
a. ASD in children
b. ASD in adults
c. ADHD in children
d. ADHD in adults
3. Please provide each of the following, for each of the following financial years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24, split by ASD in Children, ASD in adults, ADHD in children and ADHD in adults.
a. Number of:
i. People referred for diagnosis assessment
ii. People screened/triaged and subsequently not assessed
iii. Diagnosis assessments completed
iv. People subsequently diagnosed with the relevant condition
b. Average (mean) waiting time from referral to assessment (in weeks)
4. What was the total expenditure by your organisation on mental health services, for each of the following financial years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24?
5. Please provide each of the following expenditures by your organisation, for each of the following financial years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24, split by ASD in Children, ASD in adults, ADHD in children and ADHD in adults.
a. Total expenditure
b. Split of expenditure by:
i. Screening/triage of referrals
ii. Diagnosis assessments
iii. Post-diagnosis treatment (including medication)
iv. Post-diagnosis follow-up
v. Other expenditures (please specify)
6. For all providers used since 2021/22 for the provision of ASD in Children, ASD in adults, ADHD in children or ADHD in adults services, please provide the following information:
a. Name of provider
b. NHS or independent provider
c. Categories of patients served (children ASD, adult ASD, children ADHD, adult ADHD)
d. Services provided for your organisation (e.g. screening/triage, diagnostic assessment, treatment, long-term follow-up)
e. Total expenditure by your organisation on their services for each of the following financial years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24
f. Number of people accessing their services commissioned by your organisation for each of the following financial years 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24
ADHD assessments.260224.docx
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1. How many people are currently on your waiting list for ADHD assessments?
Please break this down between children and adults.
2. How many assessments have you carried out every calendar year between 2018 and 2023?
If possible, please break this down between children and adults.
3. How many ADHD referrals did you receive each calendar year between 2018 and 2023?
Please break this down between children and adults.
4. How many ADHD referrals did you accept each calendar year between 2018 and 2023?
Please break this down between children and adults.
5. What is the (mean) average time patients wait between referral and an assessment for ADHD for each calendar year between 2018 and 2023?
If possible, please break this down between children and adults.
Adult cardiac arrest team.290824.docx
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“Please may you provide me with:
The composition of your (adult) cardiac arrest team with the following:
• Job title of teams members / grade or seniority (if known) / expected role
For example,
• Medical Registrar / ST3 / Team Leadership
• Anaesthetist / Senior Registrar / Airway support”
Adult elective patient pre-operative nil by mouth (or fasting or fluids and feeding) guideline. 150921.docx
Please would it be possible for you to share a copy of your trusts adult elective patient pre-operative nil by mouth (or fasting or fluids and feeding) guideline.
A&E alcohol related admissions.311023.docx
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“For the financial years 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20, , 2018-19
How many patients attended A&E for alcohol related problems – for each of the years above?
Can you please break down the figures by age categories – 18-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, 81+
How many patients attended were under the age of 18 – for each of the years above?”
A&E and Mental Health.280722.docx
For each financial year in the period 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-2020, 2021-22, please provide figures for:
The number of adults (aged 18 and over) attending your A&E department for mental health related issues. Please breakdown the figure according to:
i.) How many were treated/seen by a doctor within 4 hours;
ii.) How many waited longer than 4 hours to be treated – please provide a breakdown for how long those people were waiting by hour e.g. five hours, six hours etc:
2. Please detail the longest period of time an adult attending your A&E department for mental health related issues waited to be treated/seen by a doctor in the years stated above?
3. The number of children attending your A&E department for mental health related issues. Please breakdown the figure according to:
i.) How many were treated/seen by a doctor within 4 hours;
ii.) How many waited longer than 4 hours to be treated – please provide a breakdown for how long those people were waiting by hour e.g. five hours, six hours etc:
4. Please detail the longest period of time a child attending your A&E department for mental health related issues waited to be treated/seen by a doctor in the years stated above?
A&E coding and diagnosis descriptions. 201021.docx
Within your FOI response letter dated 13 October 2021, you state:
“15.(b) I have been unable to get a response for this question. Please contact me again if you wish me to continue to chase a response.”
The above relates to my following FOI request question:
“(b) Within the Trust’s Accident and Emergency computer system used in April 2012, was there only the facility to record the ‘Primary Diagnosis’ and ‘Diagnosis Comments’, and no facility within the software to record specific secondary and third diagnoses when inputting the data in real time, other than within the ‘Diagnosis Comments’ field?”
I confirm that I would like you to continue to chase for the full and direct response to this question (i.e. not a generalised response).
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A&E Dental attendances.310524.docx
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1. Since 20.11.22, how many people been admitted to A&E at hospitals within your trust with tooth decay or other dental conditions?
2. Of these, how many resulted in an operation for tooth extraction?
A&E for alcohol related problems. 280122.docx
For the calendar years 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016:
1. How many patients attended A&E for alcohol related problems – for each of the years above?
2. Can you please break down the figures by age categories – 18-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, 81+
3. How many patients attended were under the age of 18 – for each of the years above?
4. What age was the youngest patient who attended?
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A&E procedures for spiking admissions.170924.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Procedures for Toxicological Screening:
1. What are the standard procedures for conducting screenings for individuals who believe they might have been administered a substance without their consent upon presenting to A&E?
2. Are there specific protocols for these situations, and if so, what are they?
3. If there is a document, flow chart or any other materials, pertaining to these procedures, please can these be attached to your reply.
Information Provided to Patients:
4. What information is given to patients regarding the utility and limitations of testing conducted in your A&E setting, including the context of potential law enforcement or justice processes, if any?
5. Does this information make clear whether or not tests conducted in A&E are admissible in court? If so, what does it state?
6. What advice or support is provided to individuals during and after the screening process?
7. Are there any follow-up procedures or referrals to other support services offered to these individuals?
8. If there is a document, flow chart or any other materials, provided to patients, please can these be attached to your reply.
Scope of Toxicological Testing:
9. What is the scope of screening conducted in your A&E? If available, what type of testing is used.
10. Are any specific drugs or substances prioritised or given special attention during these screenings?
Training:
11. Have A&E staff had specific and dedicated training about spiking? If so, please provide details of this training.
A&E statistics.100424.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. Please provide figures the three longest stays in the trust’s A&E department in for the year 2023/24 to date. If possible, please specify the month they each occurred and if there was a specific reason.
2. Please tell me the three longest stays in the trust’s A&E department in 2022/23. If possible, please specify the month they each occurred and if there was a specific reason.
3. Please tell me how many patients were in the trust’s A&E department for 24 hours or more before being admitted or discharged in 2023/24 to date.
4. Please tell me how many patients were in the trust’s A&E department for 24 hours or more before being admitted or discharged in 2022/23.
5. Please tell me whether patients are ever cared for in non clinically designated areas during times of high demand in the A&E department? If yes, please could you specify where these areas are for example corridors, waiting rooms or relatives rooms.
A&E waiting times. 070921.docx
1. What is the longest period of time a single patient waited in A&E to be seen, treated, and admitted/discharged during calendar years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 (Year to Date)? Please provide any details concerning why the patient waited this length of time and what their ailment/s were?
2. What are the top 10 longest periods of time a single patient waited to start consultant-led treatment from referral for non-urgent conditions during calendar years 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 (Year to Date)? Please provide any details concerning why the patient waited this length of time and what their ailment/s were.
A&E waits.251023.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Since the beginning of 2021/22 until the end of August 2023/24, could you tell us
For admitted patients only:
1. How many patients in A&E waited between six and eight hours from time of arrival until admission?(between 6 hrs 00 mins 00 secs and 7 hours 59 mins 59 secs)
2. How many patients in A&E waited between eight and 12 hours from time of arrival until admission?(between 8 hrs 00 mins 00 secs and 11 hours 59 mins 59 secs)
3. How many patients in A&E waited more than 12 hours from time of arrival until admission?
4. How many patients in A&E waited 24 hours or more from time of arrival until admission?
Please split this data by quarter (so Q2 23/24 until end of August)
Air pollution exposure.220424.docx
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1. The number of hospital admissions over the last five years (including 2024, where possible) where air pollution has contributed to the admission. For example, asthma or COPD induced or worsened by air pollution exposure.
2. The number of deaths recorded over the last five years (including 2024, where possible) where air pollution is related to the cause of death. For example, when a patient has died as a result of acute or chronic respiratory failure, a severe asthma attack or COPD which was worsened by air pollution exposure.
Allergic reactions to medications in Hospital. 270122.docx
1. Which staff members may administer medication?
2. Are all medication administering staff trained in spotting allergic reactions to the medications they are administering?
3. What is the allergic reaction checklist the administering staff should use to tell if someone is having an allergic reaction?
4. Once a patient suffers an allergic reaction to medication administered in the hospital, how long should the hospital staff take to administer antihistamine, steroids or adrenaline?
5. Do the medication administering staff have access to antihistamines in case of emergency?
6. Are medication administering staff required to administer antihistamines immediately or are they required to wait until a doctor is present regardless of reaction getting worse?
7. How does a hospital know if someone is having an allergic reaction when entering A&E?
8. If there is no allergy testing done in A&E or anywhere else in Tunbridge Wells hospital and only inflammation markers are used, does that mean all allergies are treated as infections instead and treated with antibiotics?
9. What type of medical treatment should be offered to a patient suffering an allergic reaction to penicillin?
10. How long do allergic reactions to penicillin last in patients?
11. When a patient is suffering from itching and burning skin from an allergic reaction to penicillin, what treatment should be offered to the patient?
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Allergy Recording in Electronic Patient Records (EPR).281124.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1 Trust Name:
Q2 Type of Healthcare Facilities
Q3 Demographic of Hospital Care
Q4 Respondent’s Role in the Trust:
Q5 Does your Trust use electronic patient records (EPR)?
Q6 Which EPR system does your Trust use?
Start of Block: Section 2: Allergy Recording System
Q7 Does the EPR system used by your Trust include a specific section for recording food, drug, latex, and other allergies?
Q8 If yes to question 7, how is the initial allergy information typically entered into the system? (Select all that relevant)
Q9 If yes to question 7, who is responsible for updating and/or checking allergy information in the patient’s electronic record? (Select all that apply)
Q10 How is the allergy information flagged or highlighted in the patient’s records to alert healthcare providers?
Q11 What training, if any, is provided to staff on the correct recording of allergies in patient records?
Q12 If training is provided on allergy documentation, does it specifically cover different types of allergies in the training materials?
Q13 Does your Trust have a Local Guideline or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in place covering allergy documentation on the EPR?
Q14 If yes to Question 13, does this guideline/SOP include documentation for allergens below? (Select all that relevant)
Q15 Does your hospital have access to specialist allergy advice for paediatric patients?
Q16 Does your hospital have access to specialist allergy advice for adult patients?
Start of Block: Section 3: Allergy incidents
Section 3: Incident Section 3: Patient Safety Incidents In this section, we would like to gather some information about patient safety incidents related to allergies in hospital, for example patients who have been administered penicillin antibiotics when they have a penicillin allergy. We would like information on up to 10 cases each for both drug allergy and food or non-drug allergy incidents, prioritised by severity of harm, followed by the most recent incidents.
Our local risk team recommends that you gather the following information for your incident reporting system before answering the following questions:
1. Drug allergy incidents- Allergen, Age, Level of harm
2. Food and other non-drug allergy incidents- Allergen, Age, Reactions, If reported as serious incident, Level of harm, Is the allergen previously documented in patients’ note, Is the the allergen correctly documented on EPR
3. Common causes identified on food and other non-drug allergy incidents reported.
Tips:
We recognize that many Trusts may not have a specific category for food and other non-drug allergies in their incident reporting portals. However, we have identified a few related categories that are often associated with the documentation of these incidents, including:
1. Food allergens incidents:
– Insufficient help with eating and drinking
– All other medication incidents (errors with prescribing, administration, follow-up etc.)
2. Medication allergen incidents:
– All other medication incidents (errors with prescribing, administration, follow-up etc.)
– Other injury/accident
– Inadequate or inappropriate medical care
3. Other search terms including- “anaphylaxis”, “allergy”, “food allergy”, “allergic”, “urticaria”, “urticarial”, “hives”, “angioedema”, “anaphylactic”, “non-drug allergy”, “adrenaline”, “wheezing”, “stridor”, “EpiPen”, “antihistamine”
4. Consider other search terms for non-drug allergy incidents including “Latex” , “Chlorhexidine” , “Povidone iodine” , “Macrogol”, “PEG-polyethylene glycol” , “Polysorbate 20”, “Polysorbate 80” , “Mannitol” , “EDTA” , “Tromatemol”,”Trismatemol”, “Metacresol” , “Arginine”
Q17 Does the incident reporting platform have a specific category for recording food or other non-drug allergy incidents?
Q18 In the last 10 years, has your Trust recorded any incidents where a patient was administered a food, drug, or other substance (e.g., latex) they were known to be allergic to?
Q19 If yes to question 18, how many such incidents have been reported in the last 10 years? [Numerical Response]
Q20 If yes to question 18, please indicate the number of incidents for each category: [Numerical Response]
Q21 Considering the start date of your EPR system, how many years’ worth of incident data have you been able to search for this survey? Ideally, up to 10 years. (e.g. 2014 – 2024)
Q22 For reported DRUG ALLERGY incidents, what are the drugs involved, age group (≤17 or >17 years), and level of harm (no harm, low harm, moderate harm, severe harm or death), listing up to 10 cases prioritized by severity of harm, followed by the most recent incidents?
Q23 For reported FOOD and OTHER NON-DRUG ALLERGY incidents, what are the allergens involved, age (confirm age via clinical record if required), reactions, if serious incident reported and level of harm (no harm, low harm, moderate harm, severe harm or death), listing up to 10 cases prioritized by severity of harm, followed by the most recent incidents?
Please indicate the total cases below if more than 10 cases were reported.
Q24 For FOOD AND OTHER NON-DRUG ALLERGY incidents, how many of the incidents was the allergen clearly documented in patients notes/correspondence prior to the incident? Please insert the number of cases involved in each category. (e.g. 0 – 100)
Q25 For FOOD AND OTHER NON-DRUG ALLERGY incidents, how many of the incidents was the allergen correctly documented on the relevant field in EPR prior to incident (Cerner / Epic / Other)? Please insert the number of cases involved in each category. (e.g. 0 – 100)
Q26 What were the causes identified in the food or other non-drug incidents? (Multiple answers allowed)
Allergy Recording in Electronic Patient Records (EPR).281124.docx
Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring.280922.docx
1. Can you confirm which modalities the hospital has at its disposal for ambulatory cardiac monitoring i.e. how many Holter Monitors does the hospital own or Zio Patch etc?
2. In the financial year 2020/2021 how many referrals from primary care were received for cardiac rhythm monitoring?
3. Can you provide the costs of each modality i.e. for Holter Monitoring, please provide the number of Holter Monitors, Zio patch etc at the Hospital, the purchase cost of each Holter Device, any costs associated with maintenance of the monitor such as, battery replacement, servicing etc.?
4. In the financial year 2020/2021 how many patients received ambulatory heart monitoring at 24h, 48h, 7days and 14days?
5. In the financial year 2020/2021, how many patients were monitored using each modality i.e. ECG, Holters, Zio, Bardy etc?
6. In the financial year 2020/2021 what was the total yearly NHS cost per patient undergoing ambulatory heart monitoring?
7. What is the average time from clinician receiving ECG data to patient prescribing?
Aortic dissection.180522.docx
1. Do you have a policy and/or written procedures for how your trust responds to patients presenting at A&E with chest pain or suspected heart related conditions?
2. Do you have a policy and/or written procedures for managing suspected aortic dissection?
3. Do you have a policy and/or written procedures for managing aortic dissection once diagnosed? Please provide a copy of these
4. If you have a policy or procedures in place regarding aortic dissection, what is the trust’s process for ensuring that all clinical staff are made aware and are reminded?
5. If you provide training, please provide a copy of the training material. Do you have any training / induction to ensure that all staff are familiar with it?
ASD (Autism spectrum disorder) services.301222.docx
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to request information relating to the provision of ASD (Autism spectrum disorder) services by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Please provide the following information to the email address specified below.
1. Please name the organisation(s) that deliver(s) CYP (children and young people) ASD assessment / diagnoses in your Trust area
a. When did the contract(s) begin and when is the contract(s) due to end
b. What is the annual spend for this service for 2022, and for the last 5 years?
c. How is the service contracted – is it Block, Activity-based, or AQP contracting?
d. If the service is commissioned with other CCGs, ICSs or Trusts, which are these?
e. At what prevalence (% of the child population) have the contracts been commissioned against?
2. Does the same organisation as for Question 1 also deliver CYP ASD prescriptions and post-diagnosis ASD support in your Trust area? If not, please provide the same information for this organisation.
3. Please outline the CYP ASD pathway in your area, including key referral sources
4. How many children and young people are currently waiting for a CYP ASD assessment in your area? What is the longest and median wait time from a referral?
a. Within the last year, how many children and young people were assessed within 12 weeks of referral?
b. Within the last year, how many children and young people were discharged without assessment?
c. Please answer Questions 4, 4a, 4b for as many historic years as possible, up to 5 years
5. For the last 5 years, please give the number of CYP patients per year in the Trust who were:
a. Referred for ASD assessment
b. Given an ASD assessment
c. Given an ASD assessment from a ‘Right to Choose’ provider, outside the service contracted
d. Diagnosed with ASD
6. For the last 5 years, what was the average number of ASD-qualified staff delivering services in the area? How does this split by role:
a. Qualified psychiatrists
b. Paediatricians
c. Speech and Language therapists
d. Clinical Psychologists
e. For a-d, please also give numbers of trainees
7. Please provide equivalent answers for Questions 1-6, but for Adult ASD services in the Trust. If the Trust does not distinguish between CYP and Adult ASD services, please answer Questions 1-6 for all patients collectively
Assault attendances to Emergency Department ED in 2021.300522.docx
Data required (for period between 1st January 2021 and 31st December 2021)
We require the gender of the patient (M or F), the date that they attended due to assault (dd/mm/yyyy) and their age. Age can either be numerical to the nearest year (preferred) or in age bands (“0-10”, “11-17”, “18-30”, “31-50”, “51+”), we can also accept date of birth.
To calculate the level of assault-related injury in England and Wales we also require the total number of attendances for any reason in the year of interest, i.e., 2021.
Please also include the names of hospitals providing assault data.
Assault attendances to Emergency Department ED in 2021.300522.docx
Asthma. 140422.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated (for any condition) in the last 4 months with:
a. Benralizumab
b. Omalizumab
c. Reslizumab
d. Mepolizumab
Q2. Of the patients treated in the last 4 months with any of the above products, please provide the number of patients by the following age-groups:
a. Age 6-11
b. Age 12-17
c. Age 18 and above
Q3. How many patients have been treated in the last four months with Dupilumab for Asthma ONLY?
Asthma.250823.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many patients have been treated (for any condition) in the last 4 months with:
• Benralizumab
• Dupilumab
• Omalizumab
• Reslizumab
• Mepolizumab
• Tezepelumab
Q2. Of the patients treated in the last 4 months with any of the above products, please provide the number of patients by the following age groups:
• Age 6 – 11
• Age 12 – 17
• Age 18 and above
Q3. How many patients have been treated in the last 4 months by the Respiratory Medicines Department ONLY with:
• Dupilumab
• Omalizumab
Asthma.260424.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1. How many patients have been treated (for any condition) in the last 4 months with:
a. Benralizumab
b. Dupilumab
c. Omalizumab
d. Reslizumab
e. Mepolizumab
f. Tezepelumab
Asthma, Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria.060922.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated (for any condition) in the last 4 months with:
a. Benralizumab
b. Omalizumab
c. Reslizumab
d. Mepolizumab
Q2. Of the patients treated in the last 4 months with any of the above products, please provide the number of patients by the following age-groups:
a. Age 6-11
b. Age 12-17
c. Age 18 and above
Q3. How many patients have been treated in the last 4 months with Dupilumab for:
a. Asthma ONLY
b. Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps ONLY
Q4. How many patients have been treated in the last 4 months with Omalizumab for:
a. Asthma ONLY
b. Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps ONLY
c. Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria ONLY
Asthma, Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria.060922.docx
Audit of patient urinary catheterisation.240322.docx
(A) For the financial year 2018-2019 whether an audit of patient urinary catheterisation was carried out by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust?
(B) For the financial year 2019-2020 whether an audit of patient urinary catheterisation was carried out by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust?
(C) For the financial year 2020-2021 whether an audit of patient urinary catheterisation was carried out by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust?
Axial Spondyloarthritis Services.220922.docx
1. On behalf of which NHS Trust are you responding?
2. Does your Trust have a local inflammatory back pain pathway in place?
3. Do you have a local education programme for primary care practitioners including GPs and first contact practitioners? Please give details.
4. Are you aware of the average current waiting time from when a patient is referred from their GP to receiving their diagnosis. By this we mean from the moment the referral is received by rheumatology until the patient receives an official diagnosis.
5. What is the average current waiting from when a patient is referred from their GP to receiving their diagnosis. By this we mean from the moment the referral is received by rheumatology until the patient receives an official diagnosis.
6. How do you ensure patients are given information and support following their diagnosis?
Please select all response options which apply
7. What guidance are patients with axial SpA given when deciding whether to access biologic treatment?
8. Does the rheumatology department have access to a specialist physiotherapist.
9. What percentage of adults with axial SpA (AS) are referred to a specialist physiotherapist as described above for a structured exercise programme within your local area when first diagnosed?
10. Do you provide patients with individual care plans when they are newly diagnosed?
11. Does this include specific information on flares?
12. Does the Trust have a dedicated axial SpA clinic? By this we mean a day or time when patients with axial SpA are seen by a multi-disciplinary team.
13. Which health professionals are available as part of the axial SpA clinic multi-disciplinary team?
14. Are axial SpA (AS) patients under the care of a rheumatologist offered access to psychological services?
Biologic medications in gastroenterology. 040122.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in October 2021 (or latest available month) by the gastroenterology department with the following drugs:
a. Adalimumab (any brand or biosimilar)
b. Infliximab (any brand or biosimilar)
c. Ustekinumab (Stelara)
d. Vedolizumab (Entyvio)
e. Tofacitinib (Xeljanz)
f. Filgotinib (Jyseleca)
Q2. How many patients were treated in October 2021 (or latest available month) for Crohn’s Disease ONLY with the following drugs:
a. Adalimumab (any brand or biosimilar)
b. Infliximab (any brand or biosimilar)
c. Ustekinumab (Stelara)
d. Vedolizumab (Entyvio)
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Blood test requests in A&E.080923.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. How many of the following tests were ordered by A&E/ED clinicians/staff (for A&E/ED attendees) within your Trust during the most recent 12 month (or other) period for which data is available. Please specify what period is being reported on in the case of each test.
(a) ANA (anti-nuclear antibody) test.
(b) ENA (extractable nuclear antigen) panel.
(c) Full Blood Count (FBC)
(d) C-reactive protein (CRP)
Botulinum toxin injections.290224.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Q1) How many patients are currently receiving botulinum toxin injections for cervical dystonia?
Q2) How many medical professionals currently administer the botulinum toxin injections?
Q3) What is the current average frequency between injections of botulinum toxin?
Q4) Are there any current delays to patients regular botulinum toxin injections? If so, by how many weeks
Bronchial challenge tests.051222.docx
1) The number of bronchial challenge tests performed by the trust, and at which sites within the Trust, during 2019 and 2021
2) The chemical agent used for the test e.g. mannitol or methacholine
3) The providers or bronchial challenge testing on behalf of the trust, should this be a procedure that is referred elsewhere
4) The contact details of the sites/departments performing the tests?
Cannulas.060224.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. How many Adult or Paediatric cannulation procedures (Peripheral Cannula passed) were done in your trust in the past financial year? This can be estimated figure (from number of cannulas purchased) or actual if any such records are kept by the trust
2. Do you use any form of prepacked cannulation kits that provide all appropriate equipment needed? These are manufactured outside the hospital and delivered as one whole pack, or the items are purchased / used separately.
3. Which type of cannula is used / preferred at your trust or hospital? There are two types – one with safety mechanism E.g., BD or Vygon or ones without safety. The safety cannulas are designed to prevent needle stick injuries.
4. Does the trust / hospital use any particular cannula more than others and if so what is the name of manufacturer(s) and breakdown of their supply e-g leading manufactures are BD, Vygon, etc
5. Is there any breakdown of cannulas used by their size / gauge (e-g 22G Blue / 20G pink)?
6. Do you use the NHS supply chain or purchase these cannulas / cannulation packs directly independent suppliers / distributors or companies within your trust? If so, please can we be provided with the supplier(s) / distributor (s) name(s) and breakdown of items purchase in last financial year
7. What is the total number of hospital beds you have within your trust and its occupied capacity?
8. What is the total number of annual attendance in the following departments:
i) Accident and Emergency
ii) Surgical Assessments Unit
iii) Medical Day Unit / Medical Admission Units
9. What is the annual budget for clinical waste disposal?
10. Do you have any figures in weight (tons) of clinical waste disposed of by your trust?
Cardiac arrest and Hypoxic brain injury protocols.270624.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
1. Can you confirm the blood test that you do to determine if some has had a heart attack or a cardiac arrest .
2. What are the protocols that you have in place at the hospital please.
3. Can you also confirm the types of Ct and MRI scans that you do to establish if someone has had suffered an Hypoxic brain injury.
4. What protocols are in place at your hospital please for these types of injuries .
Cardiac arrest and Hypoxic brain injury protocols.270624.docx
Cardiac arrest, myocarditis, stroke and generalised tonic clonic seizure. 081221.docx
1) In total, how many patients were admitted due to cardiac arrest (myocardial infarction) for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021?
2) In the year 2021, how many of these patients that were admitted with confirmed MI (myocardial infarction)/cardiac arrest) had been unvaccinated, had a single dose, had a double dose of covid19 vaccine prior to admission?
3) How many patients have been diagnosed with acute myocarditis (both inpatients and outpatients) in the following age brackets
4) For the year 2021 (in each of the age groups), how many patients with acute myocarditis were unvaccinated, had a single dose of covid19 vaccine and had a double dose of covid19 vaccine?
5) In total, how many patients were admitted due to stroke (cerebrovascular accident) for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021?
6) In the year 2021, how many of these patients that were admitted with Stroke (cerebrovascular accident) had been unvaccinated, had a single dose, had a double dose of covid19 vaccine prior to admission?
7) In the year 2021, how many of the above patients that were admitted with stroke (cerebrovascular accident), later died?
8) In total, how many patients attended the A&E Department with their first generalised tonic clonic Seizure (GTCS) in the years 2019, 2020 and 2021?
9) In the year 2021, how many patients admitted with their first generalised tonic clonic Seizure (GTCS) had been unvaccinated, had a single dose, had a double dose of covid19 vaccine prior to admission?
Cardio- respiratory diagnostics pathways.090223.docx
I would like to submit a FOI request to ask for the name and email address for the person(s) or team responsible for;
I. Cardio-respiratory pathways ( likely to be a clinical or business lead)? and
II. Community diagnostic centres ( CDC’s) for the Trust?
Cardio- respiratory diagnostics pathways.090223.docx
Cardiology.190423.docx
Please enter ‘No System Installed’ under supplier name if your trust does not use the system:
System type – Cardiology
1. Supplier name
2. System name –
3. Date installed –
4. Contract expiration –
5. Is this contract annually renewed? – Yes/No
6. Do you currently have plans to replace this system? – Yes/No
7. Procurement framework –
8. Other systems it integrates with? –
9. Total value of contract (£) –
10. Notes – e.g. we are currently out to tender
Cardiology referrals 1.210422.docx
Please can you provide the total number of patients that have been referred to the cardiology departments within your trust for the following years. If this data is available for individual age groups I would be grateful if you could provide.
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 (to date)
Cardiology referrals 2.210422.docx
Please can you provide the total number of patients that have been referred to the cardiology departments within your trust for the following years. If this data is available for individual age groups I would be grateful if you could provide.
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 (to date)
Cardiology referrals.200522.docx
Please can you provide the total number of patients that have been referred to the cardiology departments within your trust for the following years. If this data is available for individual age groups I would be grateful if you could provide.
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 (to date)
CAS card information. 041121.docx
With regard to your response (FOI/GS/ID 7019) sent this morning, I note that a response has not been provided in respect of the following request for information (FOI):
“1. Please can you explain: …what system this CAS card was used within by the Trust in April 2012. “
I therefore request the Trust provides a direct and explicit response to this question by the end of today.
Children attending A&E due to mental health. 120422.docx
1. Number of children attending A&E per month, since Jan 2019 due to a mental health related issue.
2. The top 10 longest stays in A&E of a child who is presenting a mental health issue over the last 12 months.
Chiropractic injuries.090824.docx
All questions are shown as received by the Trust.
Please release the number of recorded incidences where a patient has suffered an injury or other medical condition (e.g. stroke) where chiropractic was, or was suspected to be, the cause of the injury/condition or a contributory factor. Please include in the data all cases between June 2021 and June 2024. Please break the data down into the date of the injury/condition, the nature of the injury/condition and whether chiropractic was the cause or suspected cause.
Chronic Kidney Disease. 081021.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the last 6 months (for any disease) with the following products:
a. Aranesp & Aranesp SureClick (darbepoetin alpha)
b. Eprex (epoetin alfa)
c. NeoRecormon (epoetin beta)
d. Retacrit (epoetin zeta)
e. Mircera (methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta)
f. Ferinject (ferric carboxymaltose injection/infusion)
g. Diafer (ferric derisomaltose injection)
h. Monofer (ferric derisomaltose injection)
i. Cosmofer (iron dextran injection)
j. Venofer (iron sucrose injection)
Q2. In the past 6 months could you please state the number of patients treated for the following conditions:
a. Chronic kidney disease (ICD10 code – N.18)
b. Chronic kidney disease – Stages 4 & 5 (ICD10 codes – N.18.3 & N.18.4 & N.18.5)
c. Acquired cystic kidney disease (ICD10 code N28.1)
d. Chronic kidney disease – new patients (excluding previously treated patients)
e. Acquired cystic kidney disease – new patients (excluding previously treated patients)
Q3. Please indicate the number of patients treated in the last 6 months for chronic kidney disease ONLY with each of the following products:
a. Aranesp & Aranesp SureClick (darbepoetin alpha)
b. Eprex (epoetin alfa)
c. NeoRecormon (epoetin beta)
d. Retacrit (epoetin zeta)
e. Mircera (methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta)
f. Ferinject (ferric carboxymaltose injection/infusion)
g. Diafer (ferric derisomaltose injection)
h. Monofer (ferric derisomaltose injection)
i. Cosmofer (iron dextran injection)
j. Venofer (iron sucrose injection)
Chronic Kidney Disease or Diabetic Kidney Disease.160323.docx
Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local treatment guidelines, pathways or protocols for the treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease or Diabetic Kidney Disease?
Chronic Kidney Disease or Diabetic Kidney Disease.160323.docx
Clinical Insourcing and Outsourcing. 111121.docx
1. Do you insource clinical services and if so, which ones?
2. Do you have any current contracts in place with a company for these insourced services, and if so which services?
3. How much have you spent on insourcing clinical services per annum for the past 3 years?
4. Do you outsource clinical services and if so, which ones?
5. Do you have any current contracts in place with a company for these outsourced services, and if so which services?
6. How much have you spent on outsourcing clinical services per annum for the past 3 years?
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Community-based bronchiectasis services.270824.docx
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Community Respiratory Service Mapping
1. Does your trust provide community-based bronchiectasis services?
2. Does your trust provide services dedicated to complex bronchiectasis e.g. those with frequent exacerbations, or comorbidities?
3. Does your trust provide community-based services treat complex respiratory conditions such as COPD, interstitial lung disease?
High-cost drug propensity
4. Are the community service providers authorised to treat patients with any of the following drug types?
• Monoclonal antibodies
• Nebulised or infusion polymyxins / aminoglycosides antibiotics e.g. Colomycin or Gentamicin
• Other high-cost drugs
Resource utilisation
5. What is the total resource funding utilisation in social care for exacerbating bronchiectasis, in the last financial year?
6. What/how much is funded from NHS budgets?
7. What/how much is funded by social care budgets?
Complications related to elective surgery undertaken outside the UK. 080923.docx
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1.) The number of patients treated by your NHS Trust from 2018 to 2023 so far (as much as recorded) for complications related to elective surgery undertaken outside the UK.
Please provide the numbers broken down year-by-year:
a) 2018
b) 2019
c) 2020
d) 2021
e) 2022
d) 2023 (to date)
If possible, please also:
2) indicate the original (outside the UK) medical treatment, and
3) the subsequent treatment the patient received in the UK, at your trust
Complications related to elective surgery undertaken outside the UK. 080923.docx
‘Continuous pre-emptive flow’ model for A&E.260724.docx
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1. Since the start of 2021-22, has your trust enacted a ‘continuous pre-emptive flow’ model for A&E patients? Either based on or similar to the North Bristol model of care (which is described here – https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/controversial-aande-policy-showed-were-all-shouldering-the-pain-says-ceo/7035885.article )
2. If so, please describe how the ‘continuous flow’ model works at your trust – detailing whether this applies just to your Type 1 emergency departments, or your Type 3 departments as well.
3. In which month and year was this first enacted?
4. Is the model still in use now? If not, why not?
5. If not, do you have plans to enact such a model in the next six months?
6. If you’re not planning to introduce this model, please could you explain why?
Cost of interventions for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.310124.docx
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I would like to request the following information regarding patients seeking treatment for physical complications from dermal filler and Botulinum toxin injections, such as nodule formation, discolouration, migration and herpetic outbreaks:
1) The total number of patients that have been treated at all your hospitals for botched non-surgical procedures for quarter 2 of 2023-2024.
2) The total cost of treating botched non-surgical procedures at all your hospitals for quarter 2 of 2023-2024.
3) The total number of patients that all of your hospitals have referred to private clinics to treat botched non-surgical procedures for quarter 2 of 2023-2024.
Cost of interventions for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.310124.docx
Deaths in A&E.170624.docx
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Please can I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act on deaths in accident and emergency.
The number of people who arrived at your Trust’s Accident and Emergency Department and then subsequently died before being seen be seen broken down by each of the years a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020, d) 2021, e) 2022, g) 2023 so far
Deaths in A&E 2.220223.docx
Could you provide me with the number of patients to die in A&E at your trust, broken down by month from January 2010 to December 2022 please.
Deaths in A&E.220223.docx
How many patient deaths occurred in the A&E department at your Trust in each of the following calendar years (rather than financial years): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, broken down by month?
Decision-to-admit (DTA) wait times.290524.docx
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1. The number and percentage of patients who had to wait between four and twelve hours from decision-to-admit (DTA) at A&E to hospital ward admission at your trust in each of the calendar years broken down by total number, and the number of those 65 and over
a) 2023
b) 2022
c) 2021
d) 2020
e) 2019
2. The number and percentage of patients who had to wait more twelve hours from decision-to-admit at A&E to hospital ward admission at your trust in each of the calendar years broken down by total number, and the number of those 65 and over
a) 2023
b) 2022
c) 2021
d) 2020
e) 2019
3. The average wait time for patients from decision-to-admit at A&E to hospital ward admission at your trust in each of the calendar years broken down by total number, and the number of those 65 and over
a) 2023
b) 2022
c) 2021
d) 2020
e) 2019
4. The longest wait time for patients from decision-to-admit at A&E to hospital ward admission at your trust in each of the calendar years broken down by total number, and the number of those 65 and over.
a) 2023
b) 2022
c) 2021
d) 2020
e) 2019
Dehydration and acute kidney injuries.290424.docx
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Would it be possible for you to send me the number of admittances to A & E for each month of 2023 for acute kidney injury (AKI) and dehydration?
Dental distress.090224.docx
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1. The number of patients admitted to hospital with severe dental distress every month between 01/01/2023 and 31/07/2023.
2. The number of patients admitted to hospital with tooth decay every month between 01/01/2023 and 31/07/2023.
3. The total number of patients admitted to hospital every month between 01/01/2023 and 31/07/2023.
4. The number of patients admitted to hospital with severe dental distress every month between 01/01/2019 and 31/07/2019.
5. The number of patients admitted to hospital with tooth decay every month between 01/01/2019 and 31/07/2019.
6. The total number of patients admitted to hospital every month between 01/01/2019 and 31/07/2019.
Dental health problems.070923.docx
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1) In the two most recent financial years, please say how many patients presented at your A&E departments (including major A&E departments, minor injuries units and walk-in centres) with dental health problems? Of these:
a) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, how many received treatment at the hospital during that visit?
b) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, can the numbers please be broken down by type of problem (that is: e.g. toothache, loss of teeth, bleeding from the mouth, etc.;
c) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, can the numbers please be broken down by age of the patient. That is: under 18 (child for the purposes of NHS dentistry), adult (18 and over); and
d) Of the patients presenting with dental health problems, how many were not registered with an NHS dentist?
2) I note that there was a similar Freedom of Information request made in 2020, to which the Trust responded: “The system used in our A&E departments does not have the detailed coding needed to answer this request. The code used in the department is facio-maxilliary which includes dental, broken jaws, broken noses sinusitis etc.” Has the Trust considered or discussed disaggregating these types of injury/ condition?
Dermatological and rheumatological conditions. 081021.docx
Q1. How many patients were treated in August 2021 (or latest available month) by the dermatology department with the following drugs:
1. Baricitinib (Olumiant)
2. Bimekizumab (Bimzelx)
3. Brodalumab (Kyntheum)
4. Dupilumab (Dupixent)
5. Ixekizumab (Taltz)
6. Risankizumab (Skyrizi)
7. Guselkumab (Tremfya)
8. Secukinumab (Cosentyx)
9. Tildrakizumab (Ilumetri)
10. Ustekinumab (Stelara)
Q2. How many patients were treated in August 2021 (or latest available month) by the rheumatology department with the following drugs:
1. Baricitinib (Olumiant)
2. Filgotinib (Jyseleca)
3. Guselkumab (Tremfya)
4. Ixekizumab (Taltz)
5. Secukinumab (Cosentyx)
6. Tofacitinib (Xeljanz)
7. Upadacitinib (Rinvoq)
8. Ustekinumab (Stelara)
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Dermatology department.240424.docx
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1. What advice does your hospital’s dermatology department issue to patients with eczema regarding the amount of moisturizer that should be applied to patients?
2. What advice does our hospital’s dermatology department issue to patients with eczema regarding the amount of steroid cream/ointment that should be applied to patients?
Diagnostic Assessment for Adult ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder).131123.docx
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Please tell me of the length of the current waiting time between referral acceptance and Diagnostic Assessment for Adult ASD ( Autism Spectrum Disorder) in your Trust.
Diagnostic Assessment for Adult ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder).131123.docx
Digital sepsis alerts. 161221.docx
a) Does your Trust use an electronic health/patient record? YES/NO
If YES
b) Who is the provider of the electronic health/patient record?
e.g. EPIC and Cerner
i) If you use more than one system in the hospital could you provide details of the system used for adult inpatients and adult emergency departments.
c) When was the electronic health/patient record introduced?
d) Does your Trust use a digital sepsis alert [1]? YES/NO
If YES
e) Please give details on the hospital departments in which the alert is active.
f) Please provide details of the algorithm [2] and/or thresholds [3] in use in the digital sepsis alert.
Discrete cylinder regulators. 070921.docx
Name of Trust:
Please note, ALL the following questions relate to Medical Oxygen cylinders ONLY
1. Does your Trust use Medical Oxygen cylinders that have a pin index cylinder valve and require a discrete (removable) regulator to function?
If ‘Yes’ please continue
2. On average, how many discrete regulator cylinders are rented each month on an annual basis?
3. On average, how many of this particular cylinder type is replenished each month?
4. How many discrete regulators are held on inventory for use with this type of cylinder?
5. Do you also rent ‘integrated valve’ cylinders? (e.g. cylinders with regulators already fitted as an integral part of the package – BOC CD cylinder for example)
6. If you have answered ‘yes’ to question 1. And question 5., what is the proportion of each type of cylinder in use? A ratio or percentage would do. (E.g. 70:30 in favour of discrete or 70% discrete, 30% integrated)
7. Has your Trust ever reported a failure to supply or an unexpected cylinder ‘runout’ whilst using a discrete regulator on a cylinder?
Dog attacks and dog related injuries.060722.docx
1. Emergency department attendance for dog attacks and dog related injuries broken down by (calendar) year for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
2. A breakdown of the ages of patients in question 1 broken down by (calendar) year for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
3. Hospital admissions for dog attacks and dog related injuries broken down by (calendar) year for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
4. A breakdown of the ages of patients in question 3 broken down by (calendar) year for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Dog bites or attacks.270123.docx
Please can you provide me with the following information for the (calendar) years:
i)2017 ii) 2018 iii) 2019 iv) 2020 v) 2021 vi) 2022
*If possible, can an age or age range be provided for each?
1) The number of persons who visited A&E in your NHS Trust (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells) for injuries caused by dog bites or attacks?
2) How many persons required inpatient treatment for injuries caused by dog bites or attacks?
3) How many persons required surgery for injuries caused by dog bites or attacks?
4) How many persons suffered fatal injuries caused by dog bites or attacks?
Dravet syndrome. 281021.docx
1. What services are provided by your hospital for patients with Dravet syndrome?
a. Treatment initiation
b. Titration of dose (consider both starting and maintenance treatment)
c. Monitoring (incl. echocardiographies, liver function tests, etc.)
d. Review of clinical presentations (frequency, duration)
e. On-going prescription of treatments
f. Completing the Blueteq forms
g. Other ….
2. If services are not provided at your hospital
a. Where are patients referred to?
b. What services do they receive at the other location (see above list for examples)?
Drug and alcohol abuse.111122.docx
1. In the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 so far, how many under 18-year olds have been admitted to A&E for drug abuse?
2. In the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 so far, how many under 18-year olds have been admitted to A&E for alcohol abuse?
3. In each year, what was the youngest age of someone who was admitted to A&E for drug abuse?
4. In each year, what was the youngest age of someone who was admitted to A&E for alcohol abuse?
Drug related admissions.160822.docx
1. The number of hospital admissions for drug-related mental and behavioural disorders in
(a) 2020/21
(b) 2021/22
and if possible, broken down by drug type
2. The number hospital admissions for poisoning by drug misuse in
(a) 2020/21
(b) 2021/22
and if possible, broken down by drug type
3. The number of admissions with a primary or secondary diagnosis of drug-related mental and behavioural disorders in
(a) 2020/21
(b) 2021/22
and if possible, broken down by drug type
Drug-related admissions.310524.docx
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Under the Freedom of Information Act, could you please tell me for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 [current number as of 9th October]:
1. The number of A&E attendances where the word ‘cocaine’ appears in records
2. The number of A&E attendances where the word ‘ketamine’ appears in records
E-scooter and cycling admissions.270922.docx
1i. How many people were treated for injuries relating to e-scooters at your hospitals’ A&E departments in each of the following years:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
1ii. In each of the following years, how many of the people treated for injuries relating to e-scooters had consumed alcohol:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
2i. How many people were treated for injuries relating to cycling at your hospitals’ A&E departments in each of the following years:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
2ii. In each of the following years, how many of the people treated for injuries relating to cycling had consumed alcohol:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
3i. How many people were treated for injuries relating to motorbikes at your hospitals’ A&E departments in each of the following years:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
3ii. In each of the following years, how many of the people treated for injuries relating to motorbikes had consumed alcohol:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
4. How many people were treated for head injuries relating to e-scooters at your hospitals’ A&E departments in each of the following years:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
5. How many people were treated for head injuries relating to cycling at your hospital’s A&E department in each of the following years:
a. 2020
b. 2021
c. 2022 (up to and including 31st August)
E-scooter and cycling admissions.270922.docx
E scooter injuries.180823.docx
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Please can you tell me, for each of the last three calendar years, up to and including this one to date:
1. How many children (under 18) have been treated for injuries caused as a result of riding an e scooter or being involved in a collision with one?
2. How many of these children died?
3. In each case, please give brief details of injuries sustained and length of stay required in hospital
Effects of heat and light and sunburn.121222.docx
1. The number of A&E attendances and/or admission episodes between 1 June 2022 and 31 August 2022 with a diagnosis of sunburn and/or effects of heat and light. For each instance recorded please specify the diagnosis, the date of the episode and age of the patient.
2. The number of A&E attendances and/or admission episodes between 1 June 2021 and 31 August 2021 with a diagnosis of sunburn and/or effects of heat and light. For each instance recorded please specify the diagnosis, the date of the episode and age of the patient.
3. The number of A&E attendances and/or admission episodes between 1 June 2020 and 31 August 2020 with a diagnosis of sunburn and/or effects of heat and light. For each instance recorded please specify the diagnosis, the date of the episode and age of the patient.
Emergency admissions for people over 65. 120422.docx
In your NHS Trust, monthly from January 2015 to December 2021
1. how many emergency admissions were recorded for
a) people over 65
b) people over 65 with dementia?
2. separately over 65’s with the following as their primary reason for emergency admission:
a. a fall
b. a Urinary Tract Infection
c. Delirium
d. Dehydration
e. Gastroenteritis
f. Influenza
g. Chest Infections/ Pneumonia
h. Ear, nose or throat infections
3. For each category above – how many were care home residents, ideally broken down by LA, NHS or Private?
Emergency department delays.040422.docx
For each month in 2021 (January – December inclusive)
1. How many patients spent 6 hours or more in the emergency department in your Trust from the time of arrival?
2. How many patients spent 8 hours or more in the emergency department in your Trust from the time of arrival?
3. How many patients spent 12 hours or more in the emergency department in your Trust from the time of arrival?
4. What percentage of type 1 attendances spent 12 hours or more in the emergency department from time of arrival?
Emergency General Surgery 2022 Survey. 160322.docx
1. What is the name of the hospital the following questions will relate to?
2. How many acute inpatient beds did this hospital have for 2021?
3. How many emergency (unplanned) admissions did this hospital have under the acute general surgery services in 2021?
4. How many cases did this hospital submit to the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) in 2021?
5. Which of the following organisation systems describes how emergency general surgical admissions are organised in this hospital?
a. Mixed general surgical take under a non-specific general surgery consultant
b. Daily allocation of acute admissions to a general surgery subspeciality (Upper GI / Colorectal / Hepatobiliary)
c. Dedicated Emergency General Surgery consultants / service during weekdays only (Monday to Thursday, or Monday to Friday)
d. Dedicated Emergency General Surgery consultants / service weekdays and weekend
e. Other (please state)
6. If your hospital runs a dedicated emergency general surgery service (answers c or d above), how many dedicated emergency general surgery consultants form the rota for this service?
7. If this hospital does not already have an emergency general surgery service, does it plan to change its service to this form in the next 5 years?
Epilepsy Treatment.270223.docx
In the last 12 months of available data:
1a. What number of unique patients have been treated for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Dravet Syndrome and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex? Please give answers for each condition separately.
1b. For each indication (Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, Dravet Syndrome and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex), what number of these have been treated in a paediatric environment?
2a. How many patients have been treated with Epidyolex in a paediatric environment?
3a. Can you please detail which NHS Trusts/ Health Boards these patients have been referred from?
ExtraCorporeal Photopheresis (ECP).290524.docx
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1. In 2023, how many allogeneic stem cell transplants were performed in your facility?
2. How many ECP (ExtraCorporeal Photopheresis) systems are installed (e.g. Therakos Cellex, Fresenius Kabi Amicus, PIT Medical) and which providers do you have?
3. In 2023, how many ECP sessions were performed?
Four hours A&E performance.131023.docx
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Could you provide data for each site, for both admitted and non admitted patients, T1 activity only?
Four hours A&E performance.310823.docx
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For each of your type one A&E departments, please provide site-specific data on four hours A&E performance (so xx% for A&E 1, xx% for A&E 2 etc)
For each site, please split this between a) admitted patients b) all patients (both admitted and non admitted)
Please provide this by month from the start of 2022/23, including for 2023/24 up to 29 June 2023 (or the latest date possible). Please also provide aggregate four hours performance data for both 2022/23 and 2023/24 so far.
Please provide the data on the template provided.
Frequent attenders of ED services.280423.docx
• Does Maidstone Hospital have a frequent attenders service? Or a case management meeting only?
• What date (month and year) did the frequent attenders service or case management meeting start at Maidstone Hospital?
• If there used to be one and it does not exist anymore, what date did it start and what date did it cease?
• Is the service run by the liaison team (or was if the service is now closed) or by the ED team? What professionals make (or made) part of the service team/meeting?
• Does Tunbridge Wells Hospital have a frequent attenders service? Or a case management meeting only?
• What date (month and year) did the frequent attenders service or case management meeting start at Tunbridge Wells Hospital?
• If there used to be one and it does not exist anymore, what date did it start and what date did it cease?
• Is the service run by the liaison team (or was if the service is now closed) or by the ED team? What professionals make (or made) part of the service team/meeting?
Growth Hormone and Spasticity. 310821.docx
1. How many patients has your trust treated in the last 12 months with the following drugs?
a. Genotropin
b. Humatrope
c. Norditropin
d. Nutropin
e. Omnitrope
f. Saizen
g. Zomacton
h. Any other Somatropin (please specify)
2. Please provide the number of patients under the age of 16 that were treated in the last 12 months with each of the following drugs:
a. Genotropin
b. Humatrope
c. Norditropin
d. Nutropin
e. Omnitrope
f. Saizen
g. Zomacton
h. Any other Somatropin (please specify)
3. Within your trust, how many patients have been diagnosed (primary or secondary diagnosis) in the past 12 months for the following conditions:
a. Neuromuscular dysfunction of bladder (ICD-10 Code N31.9)
b. Cervical dystonia (ICD-10 code G24.3)
4. For patients diagnosed with neuromuscular dysfunction of bladder as per question 3 above, how many patients have been treated in the last 3 months with the following products:
a. Botox
b. Dysport
c. Xeomin
5. For patients diagnosed with cervical dystonia as per question c above, how many patients have been treated in the last 3 months with the following products:
a. Botox
b. Dysport
c. Xeomin
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Haemofiltration or continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).260623.docx
1. The name of your Trust.
2. The ICU’s conducting haemofiltration / CRRT within your Trust.
3. Current provider of CRRT services to your Trust?
4. Did you purchase additional CRRT machines during the covid-19 pandemic?
5. Date of the current contract for CRRT services.
6. What is the model of CRRT machine you are using in ICU?
7. The number of haemofiltration/CRRT machines you have in ICU?
Haemofiltration or continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).260623.docx
HASU (Hyper Acute Stroke Unit).220424.docx
1. Does the trust have, or is the trust looking to obtain a HASU (Hyper Acute Stroke Unit) status?
2. If yes, what is the trust’s HASU status?
3. If not, what is the trust’s timeline to gain the HASU status?
4. How does the trust manage stroke litigation?
5. What were the trust’s costs for managing stroke litigation in the financial year 2022/2023?
6. How does the trust currently feed into the SSNAP (Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme)?
7. What steps is the trust taking to improve its SSNAP score?
8. Does the trust have a ‘sophistication index’? E.g. A sophistication index shows the trust’s ability to approve and implement projects
Heart attacks and Strokes.050923.docx
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1a) The total number of heart attacks per year for the 4 years 2019-2022 inclusive
1b) The total number of strokes per year for the 4 years 2019-2022 inclusive
1c) The total number of TIA’s per year for the 4 years 2019-2022 inclusive
2a) The total number of heart attacks with hypercalcaemia per year for the 4 years 2019-2022 inclusive
2b) The total number of strokes with hypercalcaemia per year, for the 4 years 2019-2022 inclusive
2c) The total number of TIA’s with hypercalcaemia per year. For the 4 years 2019-2022 inclusive
3a) The number of fatalities resulting directly from each of the above per year.
Heart conditions.270123.docx
I would like to know how many confirmed cases and suspected cases of:
1. Myocarditis and Pericarditis
2. Atrial Fibrillation
3. Heart Failure
you have recorded for the years:
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Would you please present the information broken down by age (five or ten year intervals).
Would you also please tell me:
(a) whether or not the subject was vaccinated with an mRNA Covid 19 vaccine and, if so, the number of doses; and
(b) indicate how many yellow card notifications were filed by members of staff relating to the condition and Covid 19 mRNA vaccination.
Heart failure.111122.docx
1. In the latest 12 months of data available, how many patients have been diagnosed as having:
a. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)
b. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
2. How many of the HFrEF were Iron deficient?
a. How Many patients received an intravenous iron treatment
b. How many patients received oral iron treatment
c. How many patients did not receive any iron treatment
3. Of the HFrEF patients that did receive an iron treatment, how many were readmitted for any reason in the 12 months following their initial admission?
4. Of the HFrEF patients that did not receive an iron treatment, how many were readmitted for any reason in the 12 months following their initial admission?
Heart failure.121222.docx
Would it be possible to reduce the request to simply ask what number of inpatient spell discharges that have been coded with any heart failure code?
Heart failure services.100622.docx
1. What is the name of your Heart Failure Service?
2. Population served by the Heart Failure Service?
3. What is the service setting?
a) Acute hospital
b) Community hospital
c) Integrated care
d) Primary care
4. Approximate case load of Heart Failure patients seen per week?
5. Number of follow ups in 2021/22?
6. Which populations do you provide the following services for and are you commissioned for these services?
a) Heart Failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFrEF)
b) Heart Failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFpEF)
7. Staff dedicated to Heart Failure:
a) Number of Heart Failure consultants (pa’s)
b) Number of Heart Failure nurses (WTE)
c) Number of Heart Failure Pharmacists (WTE)
8. Which of these (a to g) does your NHS organisation have?
a) Access to open access ECHO
b) Access to Cardiac rehab?
c) HF Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT)
d) Cardiologist Non-HF specialist
e) Cardiologist HF specialist
f) Cardiology Pharmacist
g) GPwER (previously called GPwSI)
9. Which of the following (h to n) service models do you provide?
h) Acute inpatient
i) HF outpatient
j) Hospital based ambulatory heart failure unit
k) Community based ambulatory heart failure unit
l) Home based service / care
m) Community based clinic
n) Heart Failure virtual ward
10. Do you believe that the current service specification adequately reflects the range and volume of activity your service provides? (Yes / No)
Hereditary Angioedema.310522.docx
Q1. In the past 6 months (latest 6 months available) how many patients have received the following Immunoglobulin treatments (for any disease):
a. Cutaquig
b. Cuvitru
c. Gammanorm
d. Hizentra
e. Hyqvia
f. Subgam
g. Privigen
h. Octagam
i. Intratect
j. Gamunex
k. Kiovig
l. Panzyga
m. Iqymune
n. Gammaplex
Q2. In the past 6 months (latest 6 months available) how many patients have received the following treatments (for any disease):
a. Berinert (Human C1-esterase inhibitor)
b. Cinryze (Human C1-esterase inhibitor)
c. Firazyr (Icatibant injection)
d. Orladeyo (Berotralstat)
e. Ruconest (Recombinant Human C1-esterase inhibitor)
f. Takhzyro (Lanadelumab)
Q3. In the past 2 years, how many patients have been diagnosed (primary and secondary) with Hereditary Angioedema (ICD-10 code D84.1)
Q4. For the patients identified in Q3 above, how many patients have been treated (for any condition) in the past 6 months with the following drugs:
a. Danazol
b. Oxandralone
c. Stanozolol
Hidradenitis Suppurativa (Acne inversa).260124.docx
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Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local treatment guidelines, pathways or protocols for treatment of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (Acne inversa)?
High Acuity Monitoring.291122.docx
NICU – High Acuity Monitoring
1. Name of current suppliers
2. Number of devices per supplier
3. Installation date
4. Replacement date
5. Total number of NICU beds within each Hospital
6. Total number of expandable NICU Beds available (Beds that can be converted in to NICU beds when pressure demands) within each Hospital
Theatres – High Acuity Monitoring
1. Name of current suppliers
2. Number of devices per supplier
3. Total number of Operating rooms within Theatres
ICU – High Acuity Monitoring
1. Name of current suppliers
2. Number of devices per supplier
3. Total number of ICU beds within each Hospital within each Hospital
4. Total number of expandable ICU Beds available (Beds that can be converted in to ICU beds when pressure demands) within each Hospital
Holter monitor usage.230524.docx
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Questions on Holter monitor usage:
1. Do you directly purchase holter monitors which are reusable, which company/companies and products do you use (e.g.Spacelabs)?
a. How much do you pay per Holter monitor and what are the service costs?
b. How much do you pay for the analysis software per licence?
c. How many tests do you perform with these Holter monitors per annum?
d. Approximately how many devices do you purchase per annum?
2. Do you purchase outsourced analysis Holter monitors, either single use disposable Holter monitors (e.g. iRhythm-Zio) and/or reusable devices (e.g. ECG on Demand, Express Diagnostics), which company/companies and products do you use?
a. How much do you pay per Holter monitor/test?
b. What is the average test duration?
c. How many tests do you perform with these Holter monitors per annum?
d. Are you under an official contract with this supplier? If so, until when?
3. Do you have a current backlog of patient’s for Holter monitoring that falls outside of your KPI’s?
a. How many patients in total?
b. How many weeks is the current wait time for fitting?
c. Do you have a backlog for analysis? If so, how many?
4. Is the above information for cardiology or stroke (or both)?
Hospital acquired pressure ulcers & musculoskeletal injuries. 011221.docx
Please could you provide the following information for the time dated in the attached spreadsheet for January 2019 to April 2021 recording the information by month for each category?
HAPU = Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers
Overall Total HAPU Grade 2
Overall Total HAPU Grade 3
Overall Total HAPU Grade 4
Total Heel Grade 2 HAPU
Total Heel Grade 3 HAPU
Total Heel Grade 4 HAPU
Total Sacrum Grade 2 HAPU
Total Sacrum Grade 3 HAPU
Total Sacrum Grade 4 HAPU
Total Deep Tissue Injury reported
Total number of Patients who were admitted into hospital who required at least 1 overnight stay
MSK Injury Information (MSK=Musculoskeletal)
Total MSK Injury (MSK=Musculoskeletal) within the trust
Total MSK Injury due to using equipment in the trust (MSK=Musculoskeletal)
Average Patient stay (Elective)
Average Patient stay (Non-Elective)
Average Patient stay (Total)
Equipment in use
The Total number of slide sheets used within the trust
What is the code of the most used slide sheet in the trust?
What is the size of the most used slide sheet in the trust?
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Hospital emergency admissions for over 65’s from care homes.311024.docx
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1. How many people over the age of 65 were admitted to your hospital(s) as an unplanned (emergency) admissions who were usually resident in a care home or a nursing home. Please break down by years and if possible whether it was a care home or a nursing home.
2. Of those people from Q1 how many safeguarding reports were made about concerns around the patients welfare? Ie abuse or neglect? Please breakdown by years and if possible breakdown the type of safeguarding referral by category ie abuse, neglect.
2. Of those people from Q1 how many were recorded as either malnourished or dehydrated. (not necessarily their primary reason for being admitted). Please break down by years and if possible whether they were malnourished or dehydrated or both.
3. Of those people from Q2 how many were recorded as being admitted due to being malnourished or dehydrated (their primary reason for being admitted). Please break down by years and if possible whether they were malnourished or dehydrated or both.
4. Of those people from Q2 (recorded as dehydrated or malnourished) how many safeguarding concerns were made about the patient? Please break down by years.
Hospital emergency admissions for over 65’s from care homes.311024.docx
Hyaluronic acid dermal fillers.311024.docx
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1. Number of cases treated in the last 5 years related to complications resulting from hyaluronic acid dermal fillers being injected into the buttocks/ hips/ breasts of patients.
2. Number of hospital admissions in the last 5 years related to complications resulting from hyaluronic acid dermal fillers being injected into the buttocks/ hips/ breasts of patients
3. Number of surgical interventions required in the last 5 years related to complications resulting from hyaluronic acid dermal fillers being injected into the buttocks/ hips/ breasts of patients
4. Total spend in the last 5 years related to complications resulting from hyaluronic acid dermal fillers being injected into the buttocks/ hips/ breasts of patients
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.250823.docx
1. Does MAIDSTONE AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS TRUST have a dedicated inherited cardiac conditions team.
1.a. If they do not have a dedicated team or would not treat the condition where would patients be referred to?
1.b. Specifically, would MTW manage drug treatment up until the stage of surgery (septal ablation or surgical myectomy)?
1.c. If surgery is not offered where would the patient be referred to?
Impact of acute stroke services relocation during Covid. 030522.docx
1. Has there been a change in stroke patient outcomes in Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust area since the acute stroke services were moved (deaths, severe disability, recovery)?
2. Can you provide call to needle times for those Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells-residing stroke patients that required thrombolysis? Please show data before and after the stroke unit was relocated (ideally 2018 thru to latest data available). Call to needle meaning 999 call to administration of thrombolysis.
3. Where telemedicine has been used, where were Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells patients diverted to (please give total patient numbers by location for 2020 and 2021); and were all telemedicine patients assessed by a stroke consultant?
4. In the category of stroke 999 calls where telemedicine was initiated, what proportion were unable to contact a consultant, and therefore had to be admitted to a stroke unit? Please provide a total and a percentage.
5. Have any Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells patients suffered intracranial haemorrhage after being thrombolysed? If so, how many?
6. What is the mortality rate of your stroke patients after 5 days and 30 days, before and after stroke services were moved due to the pandemic?
Impact of acute stroke services relocation during Covid. 030522.docx
Implantable Cardiac Devices.140224.docx
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The following questions relate to the management of Implantable Cardiac Devices, and the data that these devices can produce. These devices can be classified into the following groups:
• Pacemakers (PPM)
• Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD’s)
• Cardiac Resynchronisation Devices (CRT-D’s or CRT-P)
• Implantable Loop Recorders (ILR’s)
1. How many Cardiac Device implant procedures did your trust perform over the last 12 months (Aug 21-Aug22)
2. How many Remote Cardiac Device Monitoring system due you use across the trust
3. How many Remote Cardiac device follow-ups were performed in your trust over the last 12 months (Aug21-Aug22)
4. Do you perform In-office clinics at multiple locations
5. How many In-office Cardiac Device follow-up clinics do you perform per week across all trust sites
6. How long are your appointment slots for In-Office cardiac device follow-up (mins)
7. How do you currently record and report Implantable Cardiac Device Follow-Up information
8. Do you have an Electronic Database system for storing Cardiac Device data
9. If yes to Q8, is the system currently in use, specifically designed for use with Cardiac Implantable Devices
10. How many Physiologists do you have actively involved in Cardiac Device Follow-up
11. If you do not currently use an Electronic Cardiac Devices Database system is this something that the trust would be interested in purchasing in the future
Injection side effects.291124.docx
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1. Please could you tell me how many people have attended the A&E units of hospitals within your Trust between 1.9.23 and 31.8.24 with a medical complaint that was believed to have been linked to their use of the injectable form of semaglutide/tirzepatide/liraglutide or a version of them?
Injuries caused by DIY and gardening.300924.docx
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1. How many injuries that resulted in accident and emergency department visits to your trust were caused by DIY?
2. How many of those injured were male?
3. How many of those injured were female?
4. How many of those injured were in the 18-24 age group?
5. How many of those injured were in the 25-49 age group?
6. How many of those injured were in the 50-64 age group?
7. How many of those injured were in the 65+ age group?
8. How many of those injured required prolonged stays in hospital?
9. How many injuries that resulted in accident and emergency department visits to your trust were caused by Gardening?
10. How many of those injured were male?
11. How many of those injured were female?
12. How many of those injured were in the 18-24 age group?
13. How many of those injured were in the 25-49 age group?
14. How many of those injured were in the 50-64 age group?
15. How many of those injured were in the 65+ age group?
16. How many of those injured required prolonged stays in hospital?
Insulin Patch Pumps for both Adult and Paediatric Patients.290322.docx
Please can you provide me with the following information regarding the initiation of the following Insulin Patch Pumps for both Adult and Paediatric Patients at Maidstone Hospital, Pembury Hospital, Tunbridge and Abbey Court
2019 – 2020: Number of Omnipod Patch Pump Users
Number of Medtrum TouchCare Nano Patch Pump Users
2020 – 2021: Number of Omnipod Patch Pump Users
Number of Medtrum TouchCare Nano Patch Pump Users
2021 – 2022: Number of Omnipod Patch Pump Users
Number of Medtrum TouchCare Nano Patch Pump Users
Insulin Patch Pumps for both Adult and Paediatric Patients.290322.docx
Intravenous fluid therapy.250123.docx
1. Does your trust have a consultant lead for intravenous fluid therapy? If so, how many PAs of consultant time are allocated?
2. Does your trust have a nursing lead for intravenous fluid therapy? If so, how many whole-time equivalents deliver this role?
3. Does your trust have an intravenous fluid therapy policy based on NICE Clinical Guideline 174 (CG174 Intravenous fluid therapy in adults in hospital)?
4. Does your trust audit compliance with this intravenous fluid management policy?
5. Does your trust audit compliance with NICE Quality Standard 66 (Intravenous fluid therapy in adults in hospital)?
Iron therapy in anaemia.140622.docx
Q1. How many patients have been treated in the last 6 months (for any disease) with the following products:
a. Feraccru (ferric maltol capsules)
b. Ferinject (ferric carboxymaltose injection/infusion)
c. Monofer (ferric derisomaltose injection)
d. Cosmofer (iron dextran injection)
e. Venofer (iron sucrose injection)
f. Any of the above 5 products
Q2. For the patients treated in the last 6 months with any of products listed in Q1, how many patients were diagnosed (at any point in the last 12 months) with the following:
a. Chronic Kidney Disease (ICD10 code – N.18)
b. Heart Failure (ICD10 code – I.50)
c. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (ICD10 codes – K.50 to K.52)
d. Malignant neoplasms (ICD10 codes C.00 to c.96)
e. Post-Partum Haemorrhage (ICD10 code O.72)
Q3. For the patients treated in the last 6 months with any of products listed in Q1, how many patients undertook the following elective surgeries at any point in the last 12 months:
a. Primary Hip Replacement (OPCS codes W371, W381 and W941)
b. Hysterectomy (OPCS codes Q074 and Q075)
c. Colorectal Resection (OPCS codes H071, H0712, H073, H074, H333 and H336)
d. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (OPCS code K453)
e. Cardiac Valve Surgery (OPCS codes K262 and K255)
Knife injuries and death. 080422.docx
1. How many people have been treated for serious knife or bladed article injuries for the following years
a. March 2019 – March 2020
b. March 2020- March 2021
c. March 2021 – March 2022
2. How many people have died through a knife wound for the following years:
a. March 2019 – March 2020
b. March 2020- March 2021
c. March 2021 – March 2022
3. Can you specify how many patients under the age of 18 have been treated for knife injuries both fatal and non-fatal in your Trust since 2013? Can you give a break down by age and sex?
a. March 2019 – March 2020
b. March 2020- March 2021
c. March 2021 – March 2022
Local Treatment Guidelines for Atopic Dermatitis (Atopic Eczema).140223.docx
Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local treatment guidelines, pathways or protocols for the treatment of Atopic dermatitis (Atopic eczema)?
Local Treatment Guidelines for Atopic Dermatitis (Atopic Eczema).140223.docx
Local Treatment Guidelines for Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.200423.docx
Does Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have any local treatment guidelines, pathways or protocols for the treatment of Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
Local Treatment Guidelines for Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.200423.docx
Longest A&E trolley wait.190523.docx
Of those patients waiting longer than 12 hours from decision to admit to admission in A&E at your Trust, what was the longest wait over 12 hours between September 2021 and September 2022? If possible, please provide a reason for the delay.
Major Haemorrhaging in Hospital Protocols. 150222.docx
I am writing to enquire if Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has protocols in place for the management of major haemorrhage, the rapid identification of patients taking anticoagulants and the reversal of anticoagulation agents. If such protocols are available, please could I request a copy.
Major Haemorrhaging in Hospital Protocols.250123.docx
Please could you confirm whether or not these guidelines are still in use and if they have been updated since the initial request. If they have been updated please could an updated copy be supplied.
If any new protocols for the management of major haemorrhage, the rapid identification of patients taking anticoagulants and the reversal of anticoagulation agents have been published since our initial request please could a copy be supplied.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust – Blood transfusion policy and procedure
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust – Code Red: Management of major haemorrhage, including guidance on care of specific patient groups
Malnutrition.250624.docx
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Q1: Since October 2022, how many people were admitted to hospitals within your trust with either a primary or secondary diagnosis of malnutrition?
Q2: If it does not exceed the FOI cost threshold, could I also ask how many people were admitted to hospitals within your trust with a primary or secondary diagnosis of either Rickets, Osteomalacia or Scurvy? Please provide a breakdown of the number of incidents of each illness. Again, we are looking for the figure since October 2022.
Measles, Mumps and Rubella. 141221.docx
1. The number of cases treated by the hospital per year and number of deaths registered per year for Measles for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
2. The number of cases treated by the hospital per year and number of deaths registered per year for Mumps for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
3. The number of cases treated by the hospital per year and number of deaths registered per year for Rubella for the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Medical Emergency Team.080324.docx
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1. What team name(s) your organisation uses when calling 2222 for a Medical Emergency.
2. Do you have more than one tier system.
3. If more than one team, please can you provide a breakdown of what types of emergencies you would expect each team to be activate for.
4. What staff members are part of the emergency team(s).
Memory Assessment Service.221124.docx
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1. Do you offer a specialist Memory Assesment Service? If no, how otherwise are people with memory problems diagnosed?
2.If you have a specialist MAS,
a. are people routinely offered a brain scan: either CT or MRI, and if so which?
b. which professionals are available as part of the memory clinic service offer, e.g., psychiatric nurse, general nurse, old-age psychiatrist, neurologist, psychologist, occupational therapist, social worker etc, please state
c. once people have received a diagnosis, what is the standard offer in terms of post diagnostic support? Please describe
d. does the memory clinic keep people on for regular review or are they discharged to their GP or another service? please state
Mental health related time spent in A&E.140823.docx
1. The total time, in hours, children spent in A&E, in the financial year 2022 to 2023, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
2. The total number of children who attended A&E, in the financial year 2022 to 2023, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
3. The total time, in hours, adults spent in A&E, in the financial year 2022 to 2023, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
4. The total number of adults who attended A&E, in the financial year 2022 to 2023, where their chief complaint was mental health related.
Midlines and PICCs.041223.docx
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1. Whether the trust inserts Midlines in inpatients.
2. Whether the trust inserts PICCs (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters) in inpatients.
3. If either or both of the above medical devices are inserted by the trust, which department provides this service (Anaesthetics, Interventional Radiology etc.)?
Migraine. 010322.docx
A.How many patients have been treated with the following drugs in the past 4 months:
a. Erenumab (Aimovig) – any disease
b. Fremanezumab (Ajovy) – any disease
c. Galcanezumab (Emgality) – any disease
d. Botulinum Toxin (i.e., Botox, Dysport, Xeomin) – migraine ONLY
B.I would like to understand the source of funding of Botox and anti-CGRP monoclonal antibody treatments (Ajovy, Aimovig, Emgality) for migraine. Could you please answer the following questions:
a. Does the trust commission/fund Botulinum Toxin treatment for migraine (Y/N)?
b. Does the trust commission/fund anti-CGRP treatments for migraine (Y/N)?
c. In case the trust actively provides Botulinum Toxin treatment for migraine but does not commission/fund it, then please provide the name(s) of the other NHS organisations that commission/fund these treatments at your trust.
d. In case the trust actively provides anti-CGRP treatments for migraine but does not commission/fund them, then please provide the name(s) of the other NHS organisations that commission/fund these treatments at your trust.
Migraine.091222.docx
A. How many patients have been treated with the following drugs in the past 4 months:
• Erenumab (Aimovig) – any disease
• Fremanezumab (Ajovy) – any disease
• Galcanezumab (Emgality) – any disease
• Botulinum Toxin (i.e., Botox, Dysport, Xeomin) – migraine ONLY
B. How many patients have you treated in the last 4 months for chronic migraine (15+ headache days per month) and episodic migraine (4-15 headache days per month) with the following drugs:
Migraine.290722.docx
Could you please tell me how many patients have been treated in the past 4 months with the following drugs?
1. Erenumab (Aimovig) – for any disease
2. Fremanezumab (Ajovy) – for any disease
3. Galcanezumab (Emgality) – for any disease
4. Botulinum Toxin (i.e., Botox, Dysport, Xeomin) – for migraine ONLY
MRI in the diagnosis of axial Spondylarthritis.091222.docx
1. Which hospital Trust do you work within?
Part 1 – Access to MRI
2. How many MRI scanners suitable for scanning the spine and SIJ do you have access to?
3. What type of scanner do you have access to?
4. Roughly how long would an outpatient wait for an MRI in your Trust?
5. Do you have regular meetings or discussions with your rheumatology colleagues?
6. How is axial SpA MRI imaging reported in your Trust?
Part 2 – Use of MRI in diagnosis of axial SpA
7. Are you familiar with the rheumatological term axial Spondyloarthritis (axial SpA)?
8. Are you familiar with the BRITSpA consensus guidance on MRI for the diagnosis of axial Spondyloarthritis? (BRITSpA guidance)
9. In what circumstances would you use MRI in the assessment/diagnosis of spondyloarthritis?
Part 3 – MRI protocols
10. Please write in text below what your standard MRI protocol for the assessment of spondyloarthritis is (specifying (i) field strength, (ii) sequences, (iii) anatomical coverage and (iii) acquisition planes for each element of the protocol):
11. What is the approximate scan time for this protocol? If multiple scanners are used, please give an average or range.
12. When assessing patients for possible early spondyloarthritis with MRI would you routinely scan?
13. If you do not scan any of the spine in the assessment of spondyloarthritis, why not?
14. If you do not MRI scan the whole spine in the assessment of spondyloarthritis, why not?
15. If you are MRI scanning part of, or the whole spine in the assessment of spondyloarthritis would you perform?
16. If you are MRI scanning the sacroiliac joints, would you perform?
17. When MRI scanning for the assessment of spondyloarthritis which sequences do you use in your protocol? Please tick all that apply.
18. When MRI scanning for the assessment of spondyloarthritis do you perform gadolinium-enhanced imaging of the sacroiliac joints?
19. When MRI scanning for the assessment of spondyloarthritis do you perform gadolinium-enhanced imaging of the spine?
Part 4 – MRI lesions and definitions
20. Are you aware of formal recommendations regarding which imaging features should contribute to the identification of a positive MRI of the sacroiliac joints in spondyloarthritis?
21. What MRI SIJ spondyloarthritis features do you use to make a diagnosis of Spondyloarthritis?
22. Are you aware of formal recommendations regarding which imaging features should contribute to the identification of positive MRI of the spine in spondyloarthritis?
23. What MRI spinal spondyloarthritis features do you use to make a diagnosis of Spondyloarthritis?
Multiple Sclerosis. 151221.docx
We would like to request data on people in Kent with MS;
1. How many people in Kent have MS
2. How many people have Relapsing Remitting MS
3. How many people have Secondary Progressive
4. How many people have Primary Progressive MS
5. What are the demographics, in particular location, age, and gender?
Multiple Sclerosis. 281021.docx
1. Are your patients coded for the different sub types of MS (multiple sclerosis), Relapse remitting, primary progressive and secondary?
Please answer Yes, No, coding planned, partial coding, all patients coded
2. For secondary progressive MS are your patients coded?
Please answer No coding, coding planned, partial coding, all patients coded
3. What proportion of your MS patients have a diagnosis of secondary progressive MS (within all MS diagnosed patients?
Please answer Unknown, <10%, 10-20%, 21-30%, 31-40%, >50%
4. For MS patients requiring an MRI, what is the average waiting time?
Please answer <1 month, 2 – 3 months, 4 – 6 months, >6 months
5. For MS patients requiring an OCT, what is the average waiting time?
Please answer <1 month, 2 – 3 months, 4 – 6 months, >6 months
6. For MS patients what is the average waiting time for IV MS treatment?
Please answer <1 month, 2 – 3 months, 4 – 6 months, >6 months
7. When a patient has been diagnosed with MS, what is the average time from diagnosis of MS to initiate treatment?
8. How many unscheduled admissions have there been for patients with a diagnosis of MS in any position between April – June 2021?
Please answer with the number of admissions
9. How many MS patients are being treated in neurology rehab?
Please answer the number of patients
10. Of the patients in Question 8, how many are being treated with an MS disease modifying drug?
Please answer with the number of patients
11. How many MS patients are in the following EDSS (Expanded Disability Status Scale) groups?
Please answer 1 – 3.5, 3.5 – 6.5, >7
12. How many of your physicians can initiate MS disease modifying drug treatment? If possible please supply the physicians name
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME-CFS).111122.docx
1. Has Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust implemented the NICE guidelines [NG206] on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: diagnosis and management, which were published on 29 October 2021?
If the NICE guidelines [NG206] on the diagnosis and management of ME/CFS have not been implemented, what is the intended timetable and deadline for implementation?
2. How many patients with a diagnosis of ME/CFS are receiving care from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust as of the date of this FOI request?
3. Of those receiving care for ME/CFS from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, how many have a personalised care and support plan in place as of the date of this FOI request?
4. What training has been provided by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust for healthcare professionals on the implementation of the NICE guidelines [NG206] on diagnosis and management of ME/CFS since 29 October 2021?
5. What written information is being provided to health professionals and patients on websites in line with the recommendations on diagnosis and management in the NICE guidelines [NG206].
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME-CFS).111122.docx