University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | 2018

A) How many non-disclosure agreements has the authority agreed in each of the calendar years of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017? Please provide individual figures per year. Please also provide reasons for the agreements being agreed where possible (e.g. 2 whistleblower complaints). Please provide the total number of NDAs but also the different types of NDA agreements (e.g. whistleblower complaint/ / sexual harassment complaint etc.). Please make clear if the agreements concern commercial companies rather than employees.

B) Please provide the total amount of financial compensation awarded as part of these agreements for the entirety of this period in £.

Please see attached spreadsheet FOI 0059HGS

Please note University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1^st April 2018. For the purposes of this request we have answered on behalf of what was HEFT i.e. Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals and community services.

I would greatly appreciate if you could provide me with the planned budget, actual spend and variance for the following:

Collection

An expenditure report of payments to suppliers (per annum or monthly) over the last 5 years related to phlebotomy allocations i.e. Venepuncture needles, Vacutainer tubes, blood vial holders or other accessories and clinical waste disposal spend
If possible, the indirect costs related to above i.e tourniquets (assuming they are not disposed of and re-used for other procedures such as cannulation), tube labels, and the human resource cost such as a phlebotomist/nurse time
Cost of wasted equipment due to failed blood draw techniques

Testing

Automated Full Blood Count (FBC) Analyser, centrifuge, clinical chemistry analyser and immunoanalyser runtime costs. Or the equivalent machinery used in your associated labs
Prices charged to your CCG as well as other hospital overheads and indirect expenses

The Trust does hold the information requested above. However, we estimate that compliance with your request would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000. This is currently £450. In order to provide the information we would need at least six members of staff for at least half a day (a conservative estimate) to provide and analyse the data require. This would more than exceed the 18 hour limit set by the Freedom of Information Act.

Mr. Mark Chapman

Qualifications

EBSQ (coloproctology) 2000

Master of Surgery. London University 1995

Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1991

M.A. (Hons Cantab.) 1988

M.B. B.S. (Lond.) 1987

Professional Profile

Mr Chapman is a specialist colorectal surgeon, diagnosing and treating patients with diseases of the large bowel (colon, rectum & anus). He has as a special interest in treating cancer of the large bowel, diseases of the anus such as haemorrhoids, fissures and fistulae as well as functional disorders of defaecation. He perform’s both diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy. And introduced sacral nerve modulation to the Trust and was instrumental in establishing the pelvic floor service

Amanda Flynn Secretary to Mr. Chapman Good Hope 0121-424-7008

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1^st April 2018. UHB includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic.

Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust some responses have been provided by hospital site.

Please could you kindly provide the total number of patients who received the following treatments for the indications specified below, during:

January 1^st 2016 to December 31^st 2016
January 1^st 2017 to December 31^st 2017
January 1^st 2018 – current

Pembrolizumab for untreated PD-L1-positive metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer
Pembrolizumab for treating PD-L1-positive non-small-cell lung cancer after chemotherapy
Nivolumab for previously treated locally advanced or metastatic NON-SQUAMOUS non-small-cell lung cancer
Nivolumab for previously treated locally advanced or metastatic SQUAMOUS non-small-cell lung cancer
Atezolizumab for treating locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer after chemotherapy

Please see attached FOI 0210

For the purposes of this request we have answered on behalf of the whole Trust.

How many referrals were made to CAMHS from any possible referrer for the last three financial years (April 1 2015 – March 31 2016, April 1 2016 – March 31 2017, April 1 2017 – March 31 2018)?

How many were accepted for each of the years above?
Of those accepted, how many had any of the below factors known or believed to be evident (if information is available), for each of the years above?
– Previous contact with CAMHS
– Recurrent threats or acts of self harm
– High levels of risk
– Eating disorders
How many accepted were from each type of referrer (e.g. GP, A&E etc) for each of the years above?
What was the mean and median waiting time between referral and treatment for each of the years above?

How many were declined for each of the years above?
Of those rejected, how many had any of the below factors known or believed to be evident (if information is available), for each of the years above?
– Previous contact with CAMHS
– Recurrent threats or acts of self harm
– High levels of risk
– Eating disorders
How many rejected were from each type of referrer (e.g. GP, A&E etc) for each of the years above?

The Trust does not hold this information. The CAMHS service is part of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. You may wish to contact their Freedom of Information team bsmhft.foioffice@nhs.net

Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust some responses have been provided by hospital site.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Does your Trust have a specific policy to support staff who may suffer domestic violence?

QEHB does not have a policy, however we do have a Procedure for supporting staff affected by domestic abuse. Please see attached Procedure for Domestic Abuse

Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospital

Does your Trust have a specific policy to support staff who may suffer domestic violence?

In answering the question precisely as written, the answer for HGS is no. The Domestic Abuse Policy is about patients although there is a reference to staff who state they are a victim of domestic abuse but that section is brief and is more in the context of how that would affect their treatment of patients who are also victims of domestic abuse. Please see attached Domestic Abuse Policy HGS

Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust some responses have been provided by hospital site.

How many deceased bodies do you have at today’s date?
In any of your hospitals of that number how many are unidentified?
Or identified but no one has stepped forward to arrange a funeral service?
Or identified or unidentified but are being stored for some other reason?

Please provide details of how long they have been in the mortuary (please note following a telephone conversation you confirmed that gender information was not required).

Please see attached FOI 0160

For the purposes of this request we have answered on behalf of the whole Trust.

1.Does your trust have a policy regarding drinking water provision for immunosuppressed/immunocompromised patients?

We do not have a specific guideline for this.

If yes, could you please provide me a copy of your policy or guideline that refers to it?

N/A.

QUESTION 1:

In the past 10 years, how much has the Trust spent on sending people (staff or contractors) on courses run by the leadership development organisation Common Purpose?

(Please break down the figures for each year, up to the most recent year for which figures are available).

2012/13: £4,600
2013/14: £8,000

QUESTION 2:

How many people currently on your payroll (staff or contractors) are graduates of a Common Purpose course?

We do not hold this information as people may have attended this course prior to starting with the Trust. However, we are aware of three current staff who are on the payroll having previously attended a Common Purpose course.

QUESTION 2A:

If possible, please identify senior managers who are graduates of a Common Purpose course.

Director of Operations.

Note: the information above relates to information for courses directly commissioned as part of the Learning Beyond Registration funding stream. Any courses commissioned by self funders or locally is not held.

I have seen the policy for flexible working online but am unable to find the additional job share policy could you email me this policy please.

See attached documents FlexibleWorkingPolicy JobShareProcedure

Coronavirus information

FOI HGS 0059 Non disclosure agreements

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