FOI 0569 Inpatient Bed/Ward Closures 2019/20

Published: March 24, 2020

Freedom of Information Request: 0569 2019/20   Please could you outline details of all occasions on which your trust closed inpatient beds or wards because there were insufficient staff to work on it, between December 2017 and December 2019?   In each instance please could you confirm the name of the hospital concerned, whether it […]

FOI 0528 2019/20 Carestream Health PACS System

Published: January 15, 2020

Freedom of Information Request: 0528 2019/20 May I ask if your Carestream Health PACS system is live yet? If so when was it pushed live and when is the contract expiration?   The Carestream PACS went live for the first of our four hospital sites on 7/7/2019. The Go-live at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull […]

FOI 0456 2019/20 Tendering and Procurement Procedures

Published: November 27, 2019

  Freedom of Information Request: 0456 2019/20 Under the Freedom of Information Act, I’d like to request a copy of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s latest versions of: 1.Tendering and procurement procedures The Trust is withholding this information under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act, as the information is publically available […]

FOI 0434 2019/20 CCG Restrictions on Treatments

Published: November 27, 2019

Freedom of Information Request: 0434 2019/20 Please confirm or deny if there are any requirements from your local CCG to ration any treatment or surgery options to people based on their smoking status (i.e. not limited to smoking cessation treatments); if confirm, please provide details.    UHB does not ration any treatment or surgery options to […]

FOI 0291 2019/20: Non-EU countries transcribing

Published: October 3, 2019

Freedom of Information Request: 0291 2019/20 I would like to make an FOI request for information on whether the trust contracted transcribing services in any non-EU countries in the last year? The Trust has not contracted transcribing services in any non-EU countries in the last year. Who was this contract with? What was the value […]

FOI 0257 2019/20: Car Parking Contracts & Information

Published: October 1, 2019

Freedom of Information Request: 0257 2019/20 How many carparks does your trust have? How many spaces overall are there? UHB has 8 car parks serving Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) with a total of 2,870 spaces. What system do you use for cashless (pay by phone) parking and when does the current contract end? The […]

FOI 0245 2019/20: DNA

Published: September 13, 2019

Freedom of Information Request: 0245 2019/20 Thank you for your response with regards to FOI request 0167. Please could you clarify the data slightly to help with our understanding – and ensure we are collecting the same data across all NHS trusts? It would be helpful to know: I. For each time period, how many […]

FOI 0191 2019/20: Hospital Parking

Published: September 3, 2019

Freedom of Information Request: 0191 2019/20 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1st April 2018.  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 […]

FOI 0166 2019/20: Suspension/Closure of Acute Services

Published: August 30, 2019

Freedom of Information Request: 0166 2019/20 1) How many of your acute services or units (if any) had to be suspended or closed to new admissions in 2016, 2017 & 2018? Please name the service/unit. 2) What was the duration of each suspension/closure? 3) What was the reason for each suspension/closure? There is no record of any acute services […]

FOI 0159 2019/20: Specialist Stroke Unit

Published: August 29, 2019

Freedom of Information Request: 0159 2019/20 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Please provide a list of the hospitals within the remit of the following: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Which have a Specialist Stroke Unit (by which we mean a stroke unit with a 24 hours a day/7 days a week available team with access […]