New volunteers join hospital team aiming to prevent delirium
Published: May 23, 2016
With Dementia Awareness Week in full swing 16 kind-hearted volunteers at Solihull Hospital began their journey to helping to prevent delirium, a common condition affecting up to one in three elderly patients. Patients with delirium can be confused, agitated, drowsy, less mobile and they can experience frightening hallucinations. Although it’s a short-term condition, the effects […]
Patients to benefit from local dementia research boost
Published: September 16, 2015
Patients with dementia and their carers will have the opportunity to shape their future treatment and care thanks to a boost in research at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Dementia affects over 850,000 people in the UK and it is estimated that 25 million of the UK population have a close friend or family […]
FOI 3839 Decisions on the formulary position of lipid/cholesterol lowering drugs
Published: June 17, 2015
Which person or which group of people are responsible for making decisions on the formulary position of lipid/cholesterol lowering drugs? Initial review of any new drugs applications is undertaken by the Trust Medicines Assessment and Advisory Group. Should this group support the application, then for any drugs which would impact on primary care prescribing this […]
FOI 3648 Agency Payments
Published: April 9, 2015
Q1. In last 2 years has your organisation used external recruitment agencies to hire for permanent or contract roles? Yes Q2. In list format what are the five highest paid external recruitment agencies with the total amount paid in the last 2 years? 2013_14 Supplier £ THORNBURY NURSING SERVICES 974,434 MEDACS HEALTHCARE […]
FOI 3718 FOI Computer System
Published: April 9, 2015
I am interested to know what computer FOI system the Trust uses. We do not have a specific system for FOIs but we use Datix which is used in the main for reporting incidents and logging complaints. When was this purchased and is there an intention to buy another system in the future? We […]
FOI 3675 EPR
Published: March 19, 2015
Q6 FOI 3675 Copy of ICT Project Portfolio @ 13 02 2015 v1 0 02 Structure ICT Direcorate named March v2 Q3 FOI3675 1, What is the Trust’s current policy / position regarding a trust wide Electronic Patient Record (EPR) in relation to acute, primary, secondary, tertiary, and community care. Where applicable kindly mention how […]
FOI 3592 ICT training
Published: March 12, 2015
1- In last 2 years have you purchased any it technical training for the ICT /IT department from QA training covering it technical courses such as Microsoft VMware oracle citrix and Cisco. No 2- What is the exact job title of the manger or team leader in ICT/IT department who has made the purchase? […]
Rare Disease Day
Published: October 23, 2015
Rare Disease Day is held on the last day of February every year aiming to raise awareness of rare diseases and improve access to treatment for individuals who have rare diseases and their families. It has been eight years since Rare Disease Day was first celebrated and this year’s theme is ‘Living with a Rare […]
FOI3190 Clinical Coding
Published: December 16, 2014
You asked: Please supply structure of your Clinical Coding Dept How many FCE’s per year do you have? How many Coders do you employ broken down into Bandings ( If not detailed in 1 above) Do you code totally from the full Medical Record or an EPR? How many separate systems are used to contribute […]
FOI3380 Occupational Therapy Staffing
Published: November 11, 2014
You asked: 1. The number of locum staff currently employed across the trust within the Occupational Therapy services? 2. A breakdown of the above – how many locums per specific department/specialty of occupational therapy? 3. A structural chart or description of structure of management teams within OT. Our answer: We have provided data for September […]
