2020 FOI disclosure logs

Last updated: 13/09/2022

2020 disclosure logs

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Historic disclosures by University Hospitals Bristol and by Weston Area Health NHS Trust.

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December 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
11/12/2020	20-386	BAME	No
01/12/2020	20-382	Outsourcing in HR.	Document 1 Document 2 Document 3 Document 4
09/12/2020	20-182	Dsift Funding	No
11/12/2020	20-250	Invited review by any Academy of Medical Royal Colleges	Document 1 Document 2 Document 3
07/12/2020	20-263	Stock	No
10/12/2020	20-373	Cloud Hosting	No
16/12/2020	20-332	Patients Catering	No
15/12/2020	20-211	Biffa & Lift Service	No
10/12/2020	20-262	Rheumatoid Arthritis	Document 1
03/12/2020	20-308	Rhesus Disease	No
11/12/2020	20-366	Laboratory information system	No
07/12/2020	20-293	Direct Engagement	No
11/12/2020	20-268	BAME	No
08/12/2020	20-388	Patient advice and liaison service (Pals)	No
02/12/2020	20-344	Subject access requests	No
02/12/2020	20-261	Sharps containers	No
15/12/2020	20-233	Surgical volumes	Document 1
18/12/2020	20-343	Care homes	No
15/12/2020	20-227	Endoscopy	No
15/12/2020	20-350	PALS	No
15/12/2020	20-369	Staff Travel Expenses	No
17/12/2020	20-325	Perioperative practitioner groups	No
15/12/2020	20-315	PPE	No

November 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
19/11/2020	20-322	Hand sanitiser	No
18/11/2020	20-228	Capacity management	No
24/11/2020	20-380	Implementation and incorporation of the Anaesthesia Associate	No
16/11/2020	20-375	Telehealth and Telecare	No
18/11/2020	20-361	Overseas visitors	No
16/11/2020	20-229	Junior Doctor Spend	No
10/11/2020	20-200	Overtime Charges	No
25/11/2020	20-389	Pre-Operative IT System	No
27/11/2020	20-336	PPE	No
18/11/2020	20-348	Treatment for asthma	No
19/11/2020	20-377	Vending Services	No
18/11/2020	20-328	Psoriatic Arthritis	No
16/11/2020	20-334	External well led review	No
18/11/2020	20-260	IV peripheral cannula	No
19/11/2020	20-357	Cardiac stress test equipment	No
27/11/2020	20-371	PPE	No
27/11/2020	20-379	On call specialist registrar rotas	No
04/11/2020	20-217	Medical equipment	Yes
23/11/2020	20-372	Trip and/or fall in 2019, 2018 and 2015	No
11/11/2020	20-383	Treatment with drugs	No
11/11/2020	20-316	CQC	No
27/11/2020	20-249	BAME	No
12/11/2020	20-224	Software	No
16/11/2020	20-205	In house labour	No
18/11/2020	20-367	Inherited Retinal Dystrophy	No
23/11/2020	20-376	Cataract surgery	No

October 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
19/10/2020	20-285	Staff Covid Deaths	No

September 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
24/09/2020	20-329	Diversity lead for Bristol and Weston	No
21/09/2020	20-391	A&E patients at Weston General Hospital suffering with knife wounds	No
24/09/2020	20-341	Drugs free of charge	No
29/09/2020	20-392	Covid-19	No
16/09/2020	20-299	Neurosurgical procedures	No
24/09/2020	20-342	Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome cases	No
15/09/2020	20-370	Losses and special payments	No
21/09/2020	20-214	Serious toxicity	No
15/09/2020	20-180	Nursing agency	No
24/09/2020	20-272	Mental health patient	No
16/09/2020	20-220	Testing centre	No

August 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
19/08/2020	20-242	PPE stocks	No
18/08/2020	20-225	EPR system	No
19/08/2020	20-359	Recruitment Agencies	No
21/08/2020	20-266	Patients discharged to care homes	No
21/08/2020	20-281	Symptomatic aortic stenosis	No
21/08/2020	20-318	All transactions over £25,000 from April 2020	No
04/08/2020	20-330	Lung Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Urothelial, melanoma head and neck.	No
04/08/2020	20-305	Dermatology and Atopic Dermatitis	Yes
04/08/2020	20-324	Licensing agreements, by year, since the year 2000	Yes
18/08/2020	20-354	Staff in post within the IT department that occupy each of the standard Agenda for Change bands.	No
07/08/2020	20-296	How many staff do you currently employ within the trust?	No
28/08/2020	20-234	Head and neck cancer	No
19/08/2020	20-257A	Coronavirus deaths at Weston General Hospital	No
13/08/2020	20-257B	Patients discharged to care homes	No
04/08/2020	20-317	What is the main Radiology (RIS/CRIS) system that your Trust/Health Board runs?	No
04/08/2020	20-349	Immigration NHS surcharge	No
04/08/2020	20-283	If your Trust uses Teleradiology services, please kindly outline:	No
04/08/2020	20-216	In the year of 2019 how many patients were admitted into your trust into an acute bed?	No
04/08/2020	20-236	Please breakdown the number of medical staff working in your hospitals by ethnicity and gender for the past five financial years (2015/16-2019/20).	No
18/08/2020	20-258	Tight-fitting respiratory protective equipment	No
24/08/2020	20-280	Covid-19 antibody tests conducted to date among staff:	No
21/08/2020	20-355	Hepatic Veno Occlusive Disease	Yes
13/08/2020	20-269	Risk-assessment of staff at potentially greater risk of COVID-19	No
04/08/2020	20-345	Staff headcount at your organisation?	No
04/08/2020	20-222	Please can you disclose the amount of admissions related to covid-19	No
21/08/2020	20-368	Translation Costs	No
13/08/2020	20-286	Please could you tell me which private hospitals the trust has contracted with to take Covid patients if needed/provide spare capacity since 1 January 2020?	No
13/08/2020	20-284	Covid in care homes	No
26/08/2020	20-360	Births	No
13/08/2020	20-287	Data Centre technology	No
13/08/2020	20-237	Risk assessments on all Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff	No
18/08/2020	20-320	Cleaning	No
28/08/2020	20-384	Overseas nurse recruitment	No
18/08/2020	20-291	Payment and the source of the payment for hospital beds left open for covid patients?	No
26/08/2020	20-353	Number of Patients Initiating department e.g. rheumatology, dermatology, etc.	No
28/08/2020	20-387	Paternity Policy	Yes
26/08/2020	20-319	Is the Trust part of a collaborative bank	No
13/08/2020	20-346	ICT/IM&T/IS Strategy- The IT department strategy or plans	Doc 1 Doc 2
07/08/2020	20-171	Epithelial Ovarian, Fallopian Tube or Primary Peritoneal Cancer?	No
24/08/2020	20-356	Staff travel	No
13/08/2020	20-270	Operating theatres	No
26/08/2020	20-290	Temporary Staff Management and Spend	No
26/08/2020	20-362	General Managers email addresses	No
19/08/2020	20-241	Discriminatory behavior	No
28/08/2020	20-385	BAME staff network	No
18/08/2020	20-363	Organisation’s Spend	No
21/08/2020	20-212	ICT Team structure including	Yes
04/08/2020	20-218	Retail outlets	No
04/08/2020	20-151	Management of AF ablation treatment	Doc 1 Doc 2
13/08/2020	20-239	Patients discharged to care homes	No
26/08/2020	20-378	Cancer patients	No
21/08/2020	20-374	Video consultations	No
07/08/2020	20-252	How many patients are currently awaiting an appointment for imaging studies/scans	No
27/08/2020	20-381	COVID-19	No
21/08/2020	20-352	Staff Numbers	No
18/08/2020	20-247	Breakdown of locum agency doctor spend	No
21/08/2020	20-243	Patients discharged to care homes	No
19/08/2020	20-358	Estates email addresses	No
21/08/2020	20-364	Haemophilia Centre	No
04/08/2020	20-307	How many canisters of Nitrous Oxide have been stolen	No
05/08/2020	20-340	Does the Trust have paper or electronic order sets	No
18/08/2020	20-347	Cardiac CT scans	No

July 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
22/07/2020	20-312	Atopic Dermatitis patients	No
13/07/2020	20-302	Attempted suicide/self-harm admissions	No
16/07/2020	20-304	How many people are employed by your organisation, including full time and part time?	No
22/07/2020	20-326	Locations where women can give birth	No
07/07/2020	20-271	Where are the Trust’s Sterile Services Department/s (SSD) located?	No
09/07/2020	20-192	How many patients are currently (within the past 3 months) being treated with the following regardless of patient diagnosis	No
13/07/2020	20-153	Medical Repatriation	No
07/07/2020	20-297	Robotic Process Automation	No
22/07/2020	20-165	How many patients have been treated for VTE using Warfarin?	No
28/07/2020	20-278	Master Vendor Provider for Medical Locums for the past 6 months	No
16/07/2020	20-208	Failed fit tests for all available masks at your trust between 1st February 2020 and 30th April 2020.	No
21/07/2020	20-303	Overtime Payments	No
16/07/2020	20-253	Enterprise Resource Planning Software Solution	No
21/07/2020	20-196	Doctors Nurse s Allied Health Professional	No
08/07/2020	20-155	Medical students	No
16/07/2020	20-313	Contact details	No
28/07/2020	20-339	Clinical benchmarking supplier	No
22/07/2020	20-207	Exception reports	Yes
31/07/2020	20-321	Ethnicity of senior trust staff	No
31/07/2020	20-256	ECMO	No
08/07/2020	20-202	Covid-19	No
28/07/2020	20-158	UKHCDO (The United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors’ Organisation)	No
16/07/2020	20-203	Covid 19	No
31/07/2020	20-309	Procurement of personal protective equipment	No
13/07/2020	20-292	Covid 19 at Weston General Hospital (Weston-Super-Mare)	No
16/07/2020	20-300	Achalasia	No
28/07/2020	20-310	Sustainability or sustainable development strategy.	No
28/07/2020	20-327	Number of Health Practitioners that have returned to the NHS under your Foundation Trust to support it during COVID-19	No
21/07/2020	20-174	The total internal bank spend	No
16/07/2020	20-168	List of all general and specialist surgical operating tables	Yes
10/07/2020	20-298	Software	No
28/07/2020	20-144	New Medical Systems trading as New Medica	No
13/07/2020	20-259	Repair of cystoscopes.	No
31/07/2020	20-338	Payments	No
21/07/2020	20-232	WGH Covid-19 ICU	No
31/07/2020	20-274	Endoscopy Procedures	No
28/07/2020	20-294	What is your policy on zero hour’s contracts?	No
16/07/2020	20-198	Obstructive Sleep Apnoea patients	No
16/07/2020	20-201	Rigid endoscopes?	No
22/07/2020	20-215	Laboratory structure	No
22/07/2020	20-301	Parathyroidectomies	No
21/07/2020	20-275	Please provide agency spend for the staff group for 2019-20	No
28/07/2020	20-295	Junior doctors	No
16/07/2020	20-245	FIT testing scheme	Yes
31/07/2020	20-265	Coronavirus tests the trust has used on patients	No
09/07/2020	20-306	Covid-19	No
17/07/2020	20-135	Business Continuity Plan	No
21/07/2020	20-210	Spend on renting vans, lorries or buses	No

June 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
05/06/2020	20-226	Drugs Usage	No
03/06/2020	20-186	Diagnostic Report	No
02/06/2020	20-223	Transactions over £25,000 from January 2020	No
24/06/2020	20-185	Dental patients in A&Es, fourth quarter of 19/20	No
02/06/2020	20-230	Drugs Usage	No
24/06/2020	20-276	Theatre Cataract Recovery Plan	Yes
12/06/2020	20-254	PALS Complaints	No
05/06/2020	20-081	Booking Centres	No
19/06/2020	20-189	Cancer Diagnosis	Yes
19/06/2020	20-221	Unity Sexual Health Clinics	No
10/06/2020	20-244	Fat Shaming Complaints	No
24/06/2020	20-240	SELR Exemption & MTI Route	No
09/06/2020	20-235	Apprenticeships	No
05/06/2020	20-130	Post	No
02/06/2020	20-246	Prescribing in Ophthalmology	No

May 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
15/05/2020	20-209	Telephone Maintenance Contract	No
06/05/2020	20-213	Systems in UK	No
01/05/2020	20-206	Whistleblowing	No
01/05/2020	20-181	PPE Correspondence	No
29/05/2020	20-188	Company Spend	No
13/05/2020	20-193	Hospital Departments	No
29/05/2020	20-248	Weston Covid Deaths	No

April 2020 +

Closed date	Reference	Description	Additional documents
21/04/2020	20-183	Bed base	View attachment
15/04/2020	20-139	Delayed transfers of care	View attachment
03/04/2020	20-177	Surgical volumes for Colonoscopy	View attachment
29/04/2020	20-184	Atopic Dermatitis	No
21/04/2020	20-141	Racist/discriminatory behaviour	No
14/04/2020	20-023	Job Planning	No
29/04/2020	20-187	Aciclovir powder for intravenous infusion	No
15/04/2020	20-114	Ophthalmology Laser Equipment	No