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FOI 5133 Clinical Benchmarking System

Published: April 6, 2017

Do you currently have a clinical benchmarking system and who is the supplier (or suppliers if more than one contract in place)? This information within these systems are used to provide a wide range of information to the Trust, including the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) and Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) which is reported […]

FOI 5123 Radiology agency staffing

Published: April 4, 2017

Can you please assist me with retrieving the total Agency spend for Medical Locum Doctors within Radiology over the following months, within your Trust or Health Board? Please see attached FOI5123

FOI 5139 Mammography equipment

Published: April 4, 2017

Please can you answer the following questions regarding the Mammography equipment used within the Trust? 1. Please can you provide the following information for each piece of mammography equipment? Manufacturer Model Location – Hospital Name or Mobile Van Function – Breast Screening/ Assessment/ Screening & Assessment Method of Finance at Procurement (Trust/Lease/MES/Charity/PFI) Initial cost of […]

FOI 5114 Ophthalmology

Published: March 30, 2017

 Whether the organisation has paid any suppliers to deliver clinical ophthalmology services, which are, or have been, recorded as the organisations own NHS activity in 2015-16 No A list of any suppliers paid to deliver clinical ophthalmology services, which are, or have been, recorded as the organisations own NHS activity in 2015-16 Not applicable The […]

FOI 5129 Catering

Published: March 27, 2017

From the NHS list of hospitals I gathered that you have about 521 beds at the Good Hope Hospital, is that still correct? We have512 beds at Good Hope Hospital. On the NHS list I have seen that the Heartlands Hospital has about 790 beds. We have 781 beds at Heartlands Hospital. We also have […]

FOI 5085 Endoscopy Tender

Published: March 24, 2017

Has the contract for the new 4 theatre endoscopy unit, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham tendered 4 December 2015 been awarded yet and if so, are you able to tell me who to?   The tender has not been awarded, this scheme is no longer going ahead.

FOI 5102 Mouthwash

Published: March 17, 2017

1.          Please advise the estimated number of beds at your hospital(s) This information is available on the Trust’s website at https://hgs.uhb.nhs.uk/foi-4982-patient-beds/  . We are therefore withholding this information under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 “information already accessible “ 2.          Please advise the estimated number of patients treated annually at your hospital(s) […]

FOI 4376 Medicines and pharmacy savings

Published: March 9, 2017

1. Please provide details of medicines and pharmacy savings schemes (aka cash releasing efficiency schemes, cost improvement schemes, cost reduction schemes etc)  for 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and plans and progress to date for 2016-17.  Please provide details of the total saving for each year and predicted savings target for 2016-17. 2013/14  £536k Staff transformation as below including […]

FOI 5084 Subcontracting of surgical activity

Published: March 6, 2017

Questions relating the sub-contraction of surgical activity. FOI5084

FOI 5037 Patient food

Published: February 28, 2017

For each of the hospitals your trust runs, please can you tell me the following, preferably broken down by hospital if this is possible. If not, the overall Trust figures would be great. 1) Do you have vending machines selling chocolate or sweets in portions larger than 250g per item? The vending machines are stocked […]

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