Freedom of Information Responses

Responses sent - Quarter 1 (Apr-Jun) - 2012

FoI 141/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 140/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 139/2012 - RIG Healthcare Ltd - Clinical Therapies management structure (the structure can be viewed here)
FoI 138/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 137/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 136/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 135/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 134/2012 - CH - IT systems and upgrades
FoI 133/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 132/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 131/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 130/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 129/2012 - Data News Ltd - Legal Services advertising on Trust premises
FoI 128/2012 - HFA - Healthcare - Spenditure by the Trust on Diclofenac+Misoprostol
FoI 127/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 126/2012 - FoI was withdrawn on 27 April 2012
FoI 125/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 124/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 123/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 122/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 121/2012 - Binleys - Clinical Homecare Contracts
FoI 120/2012 - Muscular Dystrophy Campaign - Hydrotherapy services for children and adults
FoI 119/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 118/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 117/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 116/2012 - Birth-Research Trust in Healthcare - Prone Surgery
FoI 115/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 114/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 113/2012 - HFA Healthcare Ltd - agency staff to the Trust in years 2010 and 2011
FoI 112/2012 - Nursing Standard - Employment of district nursing staff
FoI 111/2012 - FoI was withdrawn on 26 April 2012
FoI 110/2012 - Mr S - Audited accounts and procedures performed by the Trust
FoI 109/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 108/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 107/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 106/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 105/2012 - 360CRM Ltd - Major Incident Plan
FoI 104/2012 - FoI was withdrawn on 11 April 2012
FoI 103/2012 - SW - Band 7 staff taking flexible retirement
FoI 102/2012 - Rarer Cancers Foundation - Submitted applications using the Cancer Drugs Fund by the Trust
FoI 101/2012 - NCR - IT equipment disposal
FoI 100/2012 - KM - Injectable generic products purchased by the Trust
FoI 99/2012 - KM - Grades of secondary care doctors (excluding consultants)
FoI 98/2012 - Ms K - Staff assaulted by patients whilst working at the Trust
FoI 96/2012 - Big Brother Watch - Data stored outside of the organisation
FoI 94/2012 - Ms R - Staff assaulted by patients whilst working at the Trust
FoI 93/2012 - Data News Ltd - Ionising Radiation Regulations
FoI 87/2012 - Cegedim Relationship Management - Rheumatoid Arthritis documentation
FoI 86/2012 - Dataisastory.com - Procedures performed at institutions outside of the UK but funded by the Trust
FoI 82/2012 - Reed Specialist Recruitment - Trust spend on locum Allied Health Professionals
FoI 80/2012 - Member of Parliament - European Economic Area citizens treated
FoI 79/2012 - Leeds Metropolitan - Policies and procedures for a colonoscopy (if copies of the documents that are only available in hard copy are required, please contact the FoI team)
FoI 78/2012 - Covidien Plc - Hernia Repair procedures (the figures can be viewed here)
FoI 77/2012 - Mr W - Physical servers, storage devices, tape libraries, network switches and routers in the Trust (the information can be viewed here)
FoI 66/2012 - Mr K - Debts owed by the Trust under the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes
FoI 15/2012 - Request closed down on 02.05.12. Clarification was not received.
FoI 03/2012 - Request closed down on 02.05.12. Clarification was not received.
FoI 02/2012 - Request closed down on 13.04.12. Clarification was not received.

Responses sent - Quarter 4 (Jan-Mar) - 2011

FoI 97/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 95/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 92/2012 - Data News Ltd - NHS staff receiving private medical treatment paid for by the Trust
FoI 91/2012 - Data News Ltd - Accommodation for patients in hotel rooms, paid for by the Trust
FoI 90/2012 - YourChoice Magazine - Employees aged 55 and over
FoI 89/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 88/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 85/2012 - dataisastory.com - Contraceptive implants in schools
FoI 84/2012 - Mr H - IT Services structure (the structure can be viewed here)
FoI 83/2012 - Fitwise Management Ltd - Whole time equivalent staff employed in Infection, Prevention & Control
FoI 81/2012 - Ms S - Complaints satisfied within the 25 working day target
FoI 76/2012 - Kable - FoI request received from E-Health Media Ltd
FoI 75/2012 - Ferrari Press Agency - Patients who were not clinically fit being moved to nursing homes or hotel rooms
FoI 74/2012 - Member of Parliament - Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy
FoI 73/2012 - Paragon UK - Outpatient letters
FoI 72/2012 - Holmes & Hills LLP - Metal-on-metal hip replacements
FoI 71/2012 - IK - Paediatric Speech & Language Therapy
FoI 70/2012 - Ms P - Recruitment Agency spend
FoI 69/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 68/2012 - Doncaster Free Press - Patients admitted with foreign bodies
FoI 67/2012 - Mr B - Trust's audited accounts and Urology queries
FoI 65/2012 - Helping Health Ltd - Schemes as a way of saving money/improving access to specific pharmaceutical products (the results can be viewed here)
FoI 64/2012 - Red Wasp Marketing Ltd - Marketing budget and outsourcing
FoI 63/2012 - The Times - Patient discharges
FoI 62/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 61/2012 - Yorkshire Post - Foreign patients treated at the Trust
FoI 60/2012 - Kable - Trust's accounting & finance IT, human resources and procurement systems (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 59/2012 - whatdotheyknow.com - Vascular review (the Vascular information can be viewed here)
FoI 58/2012 - RNIB - Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
FoI 57/2012 - CH - Persons who have died with no known next of kin
FoI 56/2012 - University of Birmingham - Necrotising Fasciitis
FoI 55/2012 - Avoca Systems - Staff employed and vacancies in the health informatics area (the spreadsheets can be viewed here: IT department staff, IT department vacancies, Information department staff and Information department vacancies)
FoI 54/2012 - Data News Ltd - Pest control (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 53/2012 - BBC Sheffield - Full and part-time nursing posts/reductions
FoI 52/2012 - Member of Parliament - Advertising personal injury law firms
FoI 51/2012 - Microsoft UK - Details for the Chief Information Officer and the Director of Finance
FoI 50/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 49/2012 - University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire - Consultant appointments (the DCC SPA split can be viewed in this document)
FoI 48/2012 - RIG Locums - Medical locums (Managerial Breakdown and Organisational Structure)
FoI 47/2012 - CJ - Matrnity figures (the Excel spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 46/2012 - Mr L - Job Description and Person Specification of Trust Secretary (Job Description and Person Specification)
FoI 45/2012 - Mr P - SIRO and Caldicott Guardian
FoI 44/2012 - Miss D - Parking facilities/management
FoI 43/2012 - The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd - Audiology assessments
FoI 42/2012 - J Tomlinson Ltd - Procurement for construction and mechanical & electrical
FoI 41/2012 - RNIB (the questions can be viewed here)
FoI 40/2012 - UKHQ - Maternity statistics (Guidelines for Home Birth, Antenatal Risk Assessment and Ongoing Antenatal Clinic, Guidelines for the Management of Vaginal Birth after Caesarean Section and the statistics spreadsheet)
FoI 39/2012 - whatdotheyknow.com - Total spend on locum Anaesthetic doctors and locum Consultant A&E doctors
FoI 38/2012 - Yorkshire Post - Residential properties owned by the Trust
FoI 37/2012 - RCM Asset Management - Beds at the Trust
FoI 36/2012 - 7House - ITT for the contract for Pathology Services (the questions can be viewed here)
FoI 35/2012 - Mr S - Maternity Services (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 34/2012 - Mail on Sunday - MEE Healthcare
FoI 33/2012 - Health Service Journal - Documentation relating to any joint venture
FoI 32/2012 - whatdotheyknow.com - Agency Spend within Radiography
FoI 31/2012 - The Sun - Bariatric beds
FoI 30/2012 - Data News Ltd - Complaints in relation to the maternity unit
FoI 29/2012 - Dr R - Communication Aids
FoI 28/2012 - Binleys - Doctors employed at 1 January 2012 in grades: FY1 and FY2
FoI 27/2012 - Data News Ltd - Losses and Special Payments for financial year 2010/2011
FoI 26/2012 - Mr S - Antibiotic Pharmacist
FoI 25/2012 - Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - REQUEST WITHDRAWN
FoI 24/2012 - Mr S - Antibiotic Pharmacist
FoI 23/2012 - Mr M - Server and Virtualisation Support/Maintenance contract
FoI 22/2012 - UK Business Development Associates - Agency Staff (the response can be viewed here)
FoI 21/2012 - Mr W - Person's organ(s) have been, or are thought to have been, removed during post-mortem examinations (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 20/2012 - Ms S - Private healthcare costs by the Trust
FoI 19/2012 - Ms G - Patients entering the A&E Department with seizures (Status Epilepticus and Response)
FoI 18/2012 - Mr F - NHS Business Services Authority and Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd
FoI 17/2012 - The Telegraph - Maternal deaths, Neonatal deaths and Stillbirths
FoI 16/2012 - Mr B - Losses/thefts at Bassetlaw Hospital (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 15/2012 - Request is being processed
FoI 14/2012 - Cegedim Relationship Management - Pathways and Guidelines for Hepatitis C
FoI 13/2012 - Guardian - Properties within DBHFT (the questions can be viewed here)
FoI 12/2012 - MP - Overseas testing of blood samples
FoI 11/2012 - Ms T - Cost of IVF treatment privately in the Trust
FoI 10/2012 - Member of Parliament - Health professionals and administrative staff subject to warnings/dismissal (the response can be viewed here)
FoI 09/2012 - Grantham Davis Associates - ISO 9001:2008 and Senior Managers details
FoI 08/2012 - Dr G - WHO surgical safety checklist
FoI 07/2012 - Covidien (UK) Commercial Ltd - Hernia Repair procedures
FoI 06/2012 - Ms S - Head of Information Governance contact details
FoI 05/2012 - Covidien (UK) Commercial Ltd - Inguinal Hernia Repair procedures at Harrogate District Hospital
FoI 04/2012 - Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Policies on handling enquiries (Complaints Policy, Documenting Telephone Consultations and Dealing with Police Requests)
FoI 01/2012 - Mr C - Cataract operations (the Excel spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 314/2011 - Ferrari Press Agency - Redundancies (the response can be viewed here)
FoI 313/2011 - Mr C - Agency staff costings (the expenses can be viewed here)
FoI 312/2011 - Dr R - Communication devices purchased by the Trust
FoI 310/2011 - MP - Emergency re-admissions
FoI 309/2011 - Mr S - Reclaiming VAT on cartridges and toners
FoI 307/2011 - Mr C - Number and estimated costs of thefts from the Trust and thefts of patients' possessions (the Word document can be viewed here)
FoI 306/2011 - Pulse - Figures for births via IVF
FoI 303/2011 - Avoca Systems Ltd - Transactions exceeding £25,000
FoI 302/2011 - PW - Purchasing price of specific drugs by the Trust
FoI 301/2011 - NHiS - Breast cancer patients (the questions can be viewed here)
FoI 300/2011 - VI - Cancer patients (the questions can be viewed here)
FoI 299/2011 - Sunday Telegraph - Highest sum paid for a continuous shift by one locum (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 297/2011 - Ms R - Youngest child admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of obesity
FoI 296/2011 - Ms B - Thrombosis Committee and Drugs & Therapeutics Committee (the minutes can be viewed here: September, October and November)
FoI 295/2011 - BBC Sheffield - Number of claims for medical negligence
FoI 294/2011 - GP Newspaper - Policy on how information should be provided to GP practices (you can view the CQUIN here)
FoI 292/2011 - Cegedim Relationship Management - Pathways and prescribing guidelines (the three documents can be viewed here - Medicines Formulary: 3.4 and 12.2 and Service Specification for Diabetes)

Responses sent - Quarter 3 (Oct-Dec) - 2011

FoI 209/2011 - Mr B - Redundancy payments
FoI 239/2011 - Mr C - Patients being treated with biologics for various conditions
FoI 240/2011 - Mr C - Melanoma Taskforce (the response can be viewed here)
FoI 241/2011 - Ms W - Personal File
FoI 242/2011 - Mr S - ICT Contracts
FoI 243/2011 - Mr J - Average annualised Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of data centres used to house servers employed in processing DBHFT's data
FoI 244/2011 - Mr J - CRC energy efficiency scheme
FoI 245/2011 - Mr H - First attendances to Doncaster Royal Infirmary's A&E department (the attachment can be viewed here)
FoI 246/2011 - Tagra Management Systems Ltd - Names of Senior Managers and IT systems
FoI 247/2011 - Telegraph - General Medicine, Elderly Rehabilitation and Specialist Elderly beds
FoI 248/2011 - Ms J - Providers of parking facilities/management and security
FoI 249/2011 - House of Commons - Amount (£) of charges for NHS treatments and exemptions for people visiting the UK, and amounts (£) that remain unpaid
FoI 250/2011 - Cegedim Relationship Management - Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in the Trust
FoI 251/2011 - Smoothwall Ltd - Web filtering system and IT structure (the structure can be viewed here)
FoI 252/2011 - Kable - ICT budget (you can view the spreadsheet here)
FoI 253/2011 - Committed Network - Temporary and fixed term contract employees (banding 6-9)
FoI 254/2011 - Ms T - Tests and checks on the ability and clinical skills of agency nurses within the EU, not including the UK
FoI 255/2011 - Dr S - Names and e-mail addresses of Senior Managers
FoI 256/2011 - Ms S - Names and e-mail addresses of various Directors
FoI 257/2011 - Mr K - Names of the Head of Procurement and the Chief Pharmacist
FoI 258/2011 - RSR Consultants Ltd - DNA rates for our HIV clinic
FoI 259/2011 - Mr D - Names and e-mail addresses of Senior Managers in Finance
FoI 260/2011 - Ms B - Policies on Advanced Decisions (attachments can be viewed here: Document 1 and Document 2)
FoI 261/2011 - Mr S - Telephone contracts
FoI 262/2011 - Cegedim Relationship Management - Diabetes documentation (the document can be viewed here)
FoI 263/2011 - Yorkshire Post - Items loaned out to patients
FoI 264/2011 - Dr W - WHO surgical safety checklist
FoI 265/2011 - Dr G - Overseas recruitment (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 266/2011 - Population Research - Band 7 and above managers & staff employed by the Trust
FoI 267/2011 - Mr C - Clinical appointment letters
FoI 268/2011 - Porge Research - Contract Register (the attachment can be viewed here)
FoI 269/2011 - NHiS Ltd - Urinary Incontinence
FoI 270/2011 - Ferrari Press Agency - Compensation money paid to staff as a result of accidents at work
FoI 271/2011 - Busy Bees Benefits - Childcare Voucher Scheme
FoI 272/2011 - Mr A - ARMD and Cataracts procedures
FoI 273/2011 - UK Healthcare Research - Total cost resulting from missed outpatient and surgery appointments (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 274/2011 - The Times - Compromise/settlement agreements reached with individuals with whom the Trust has admitted liability for medical negligence
FoI 275/2011 - Ms B - Trust spend on Locums and Agency Workers
FoI 276/2011 - Ms M - Retrieval of sperm and IVF treatments
FoI 277/2011 - Gateshead Health - Implementation of systems within our Trust and the migration of data
FoI 278/2011 - Mr C - Wound Care Formulary/Formularies for the Trust (policies can be viewed here and here)
FoI 279/2011 - Ms E - Cots on our neonatal and trabsitional care units and number of individuals or environmental sites which we have isolated and Enterobacter cloacoe
FoI 280/2011 - Initial Facilities - Healthcare - Soft FM & Hard FM Services and other non-clinical services (the questions and response can be veiwed here)
FoI 281/2011 - Grantham Davis Associates - Purchase of baby products (the report can be viewed here)
FoI 282/2011 - Ms A - Newly diagnosied Rheumatoid Arthritis initial steroid regime (for the attached spreadsheet, please follow this link)
FoI 283/2011 - Ms A - Names and e-mail addresses of various managers and directors at the Trust
FoI 284/2011 - GP Newspaper, Haymarket Business Media - Prescribing costs
FoI 285/2011 - Mr H - Persons who have died with no known next of kin since 01.06.11
FoI 286/2011 - C Clarke - Haemofiltration fluid(s) used by the Trust
FoI 287/2011 - BBC - Number of maternal direct deaths arising within 0-7 days of delivery
FoI 288/2011 - This request was for personal information, and therefore not covered under the Freedom of Information Act.
FoI 289/2011 - Ms A - List of consultants working at the Trust (GP info)
FoI 290/2011 - Plumtree Group Ltd - Software and contact details for Infection, Prevention & Control
FoI 291/2011 - Mail on Sunday - Training for staff who have been recruited from overseas
FoI 293/2011 - Mr S - Inventory list of Photocopiers, Printers and Fax Machines, contact details and costs of ink and toners (the inventory lists can be viewed via the following links: Photocopiers, Printers and Fax Machines)
FoI 298/2011 - Linet UK - ITU/CCU managers at Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Bassetlaw Hospital
FoI 304/2011 - JK - Health data being shared
FoI 305/2011 - Mr V - Contact details of senior managers
FoI 308/2011 - Mr C - Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers and Pressure Ulcers (the spreadsheet can be viewed here)
FoI 311/2011 - Mr J - Proposal documents and costs of appointing the Chief Executive