Freedom of Information Request:
I am submitting a Freedom of Information Request to the Trust relating to the Royal College Report.
Please answer the questions in the attached sheet.
Q1. Since Jan 1 2016 have you commissioned or received any reports from a royal college into one or more of your services? Please state number, and, for each, which college and service/s was involved, date commissioned and date final report received.
Q2. When did you inform
- the CQC and
- NHSE/I (or their predecessors) that a report had been commissioned and when were they told it had been received?
Q3. When was the full report shared with
- CQC
- NHSE/I? When was it seen by the full board?
Q4. Was the full report made public and, if so, when and how (eg on public board papers)?
Q5. Was an action plan or similar produced in response to the report/s? If so, when was this seen by
- CQC and
- NHSE/I? When was it seen by the full board?
Q6. Was the full action plan or similar made public and, if so, when and how?
Q7. Please release to us
- the full report (which we appreciate may need to be redacted in part if individual cases are mentioned)
- the action plan or similar developed in response to this.
In October 2019, the Royal College of Surgeons was invited to carry out a review of Neurosurgery services. This review is currently in progress.
In December 2015 the CQC visited the Cardiac Surgery unit and they published a report in 2016, which is available at the following link:
https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/RRK15/reports
The Trust provided the CQC with action plan updates as agreed and the conditions on our registration in respect of cardiac surgery services were removed in May 2016. During 2015 the Trust commissioned its own independent review and associated Quality Improvement Programme. As part of the Trust’s internally commissioned independent review, the Royal College of Surgeons was invited to visit cardiac surgery services in 2016. Monitoring and reporting was managed internally and summary information was reported to the Trust Board. Board papers are published and available on our website, please visit the following link for the relevant papers:
https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/bod-papers-jan-2016.htm
Please note that full reports are not published as they contain sensitive and confidential information. NHS England (Midlands & East) was provided with all the data submissions that were sent to the CQC.
