In the last five years, has your organisation been served with any enforcement notices relating to fire safety? If so, please give details.

No, none.

Please direct me to your latest fire safety risk assessment for each of your sites (or attach if not online). When was this last updated? What has been done in response to any areas of concern in the assessment?

The Trust’s Fire Safety Advisors undertake circa 200 Fire Risk Assessments on a rolling programme to cover all clinical (annual) and non-clinical (every two years) areas of the Trust’s three Acute Hospitals, the Birmingham Chest Clinic and shared Community Properties, in accordance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety Order) 2005 and the Health Technical Memorandum 05-03. To date, all Fire Risk Assessments have been reviewed in accordance with this programme, or earlier if there has been a material change, and a sample, redacted, copy of a clinical and non-clinical risk assessment is attached. All areas of concerns identified by the Fire Risk Assessments have been addressed or there is an actively monitored action plan to do so.

Patient Ward Area FRA Sample doc Non Patient Area FRA Sample

Have you assessed backlog maintenance related to fire safety? If so, what is needed and have you estimated the cost of doing these and do you have any plans to carry out this work and when? Please direct me to the most recent board papers and/or send me any report related to this backlog.

Yes, we have assessed backlog maintenance for the Trust which does include some Fire Safety requirements although these have not been separated accordingly.  The total backlog maintenance cost has been estimated and is available by accessing the Trust’s ERIC return for 2015/16 at www.digital.nhs.uk. Works to reduce the identified backlog maintenance have commenced.