NHSR solicitors and accessing data
The following information was requested:
1) Please can you confirm whether or not the solicitors who work at NHS Resolution have access to NHS smart cards?
2) If the solicitors who work at NHS Resolution do have NHS smart cards, please can you confirm whether they are capable of accessing a claimants medical data?
3) If so, under what circumstances would the NHS solicitors at NHS Resolution access a claimant’s data?
4) If a solicitor who works at NHS Resolution discovered a patient’s medical data had been unlawfully accessed or altered, would the NHS Resolution have a legal duty to inform the patient about the data breach?
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Recruitment and Selection Policy and Procedure
The following information was requested:
Could you please send me your HR Recruitment Policy and Procedures please.
Probs with Medical Records
The following information was requested:
Would it be possible to identify over the last 3 years how many claims have been records related, per year, what was the amount of claims settlement.
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Inappropriately discharged
The following information was requested:
For the last financial year 2021/2022 please provide a breakdown of:
1) The number of claims where you have paid out damages where one of the reasons stated within the claim was that the patient was inappropriately discharged from hospital?
2) The amount of money paid out in damages where one of the reasons stated within the claim was that the patient was inappropriately discharged from the hospital?
Note: Please note this question refers to last year (21/22) as the year the claims were settled regardless of when the incident took place or when the claim was lodged.
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Podiatry
The following information was requested:
I’m working on a piece about litigation within the profession [of Podiatry], and I wonder if you could help me with any information on the cost of this in the NHS?
For example, of the £2.5bn spent on claims in 2021/22 according to your annual report, could you confirm what proportion of this was attributed to podiatrists?
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IT Staff and Software
The following information was requested:
Please could you provide the following information:
1. Number of Employees
2. Number of IT Staff
3. The name of your current IT Service Management Software and the company that supplies it
4. Whether this this a Cloud / SaaS or On-Premise Solution
5. The number of licences and whether these are Named or Concurrent
6. The length of your current contract for this Software / Service
7. The contract expiry date, and whether you intend to change it
8. The Contract Review Date: (approximate date of when the organisation is planning to review this contract.):
9. The Annual cost of the contract
10. The Total cost of the contract
11. The person responsible for this Software / Service and their contact details (name + email + direct phone number if possible)
12. The lead person to contact about any future projects to review or replace this Software / Service, and their contact details (name + email + direct phone number if possible).
If this solution is currently on Premise, please could you also provide the following information:
1. Do you have a cloud migration strategy?
2. If so, is there specific budget allocated to this?
3. Would you be looking to move to a cloud service at the end of the current contract?
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Inadequate Nursing Care (FOI_5577)
The following information was requested:
1. In relation to the 21/22 financial year please state how many claims were paid out in that year and what was the total value of those claims paid out in that year where either the first or second recorded `cause’ logged for the claim was `inadequate nursing care’? Please could the data be provided in a similar format and on the same basis as a previous FoI response [Ref: FoI_5181].
Note: I require the data relating to the number of payouts and the value of the payouts made in the year, regardless of when the claim was actually lodged.
2. In relation to the claims paid out under Question 1 please provide me with a breakdown of the numbers that were logged under each type of injury claim?
3. In relation to the claims paid out in Question 1 which 5 Trusts had the highest value of claim payments made against them.
Please name the Trust, the total value of these paid claims that were paid out the year and the number paid out by the Trust in that year.
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CNST members
The following information was requested:
You have, under a previous Freedom of Information request in 2017 (F/3116), provided me with a “List of NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trust signed up for Periodical Payments Agreement”.
I would be grateful if I could be provided with an up-to-date list (the previous list is dated to 31st November 2017) in respect of all current members (whether Trusts, Foundation Trusts, ICB or other body) of CNST.
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