South London Healthcare NHS Trust
Health
Andrew Lansley (Secretary of State, Health; South Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
I wish to inform the House that I have made an order to appoint a trust special administrator to South London Healthcare NHS Trust. The order will be laid in the House shortly with a report setting out the basis of my decision, in accordance with chapter 5A of the National Health Service Act 2006, as introduced by the Health Act 2009.
My decision is based on the recommendation of the NHS chief executive and the responses to my recent statutory consultation with the trust board, the strategic health authority and local NHS commissioners on the proposal to place the trust in the trust special administrator’s regime. In accordance with the legislation, I have decided it is in the interests of the health service and, in particular, of the patients the trust serves to put South London Healthcare NHS Trust in the trust special administrator’s regime.
I have appointed Matthew Kershaw as the trust special administrator. Mr Kershaw’s role will take effect on
My key objective for all NHS providers is to ensure they deliver high-quality services to patients that are clinically and financially sustainable for the long term.
The purpose of the trust special administrator’s regime is to ensure that services provided by any NHS trust subject to the regime meet that objective.
The regime, included by the last Government in the Health Act 2009, offers a time-limited and transparent framework to provide a rapid resolution to problems within a significantly challenged NHS trust and its health economy. This is to ensure long-term sustainability and the protection of access to quality services for local patients. In addition to maintaining the provision of services during the period of the regime, the duty of a trust special administrator appointed to an NHS trust is to develop and consult locally on a draft report, making recommendations to me in a final report about what should happen to the organisation and the services it provides. The objective is that high-quality, sustainable services are delivered to the local health economy. I must make a final decision based on the recommendations made in the trust special administrator’s final report, publishing that decision and the reasons for it in Parliament.
The trust special administrator’s regime is not a day-to-day performance management tool for the NHS or a back-door approach to reconfiguration. The purpose is to deliver a rapid and robust process when the widest range of other solutions to improve and maintain sustainability have been tried, implemented and not delivered the results required. It is for this reason that Parliament agreed to set challenging milestones for any appointed trust special administrator and for the Secretary of State to make a final decision about an organisation within a usual maximum period of 120 working days from the date the order is made.
I am using my powers to extend by order the overall time frame by 30 working days. For South London Healthcare NHS Trust, it means I will make a final decision on the fixture of the organisation within 145 working days from
Furthermore, the future of services at Orpington are about to be consulted upon, following a public health driven and commissioner-led needs assessment. Extending the time period in which a draft report would be produced by the trust special administrator by 30 working days would allow him to take into account responses to that consultation, so far as they are relevant, as he develops his own recommendations in the draft report, assuming that consultation goes ahead. It is crucial that the first use of the regime is robust and has the greatest possible chance of success. I believe that the particular complexities and issues that affect South London Healthcare NHS Trust, coupled with this being the first ever use of the regime, and the opportunity to take into account responses to the planned consultation on Orpington, mean that this is an exceptional case which warrants an extension to the time frame in the interests of the health economy and, most importantly, the patients of south-east London.
Despite recent improvements in quality of services and access times, there is a long-standing history of underperformance, particularly around financial management and some key access targets, within the area now served by South London Healthcare NHS Trust. There has been a consistent inability by the trust to deliver high-quality services whilst balancing income with expenditure over the last seven years. A number of solutions have been implemented to attempt to resolve the worsening problems and ensure the NHS in this area can provide consistent quality services to patients and the public within the designated budget. These systemic, long-standing challenges mean that South London Healthcare NHS Trust has historically underperformed against key quality, performance and finance requirements outlined in the national NHS performance management framework. The trust has also failed to make progress towards a viable foundation trust application. In 2011-12, it incurred the largest financial deficit of any of the 248 NHS provider organisations in England, at over £65 million. The deficit equates to an average weekly overspend of £1.3 million of taxpayers’ money on top of an average allocated weekly income of £8.4 million.
For South London Healthcare NHS Trust, the regime will be used because of the particular nature and scale of the financial and performance challenges, the complex interrelationship, the failure to make the scale of change required in the trust and with its partners and the absence of any viable, alternative strategy to ensure long-term clinical and financial sustainability.
The trust special administrator, working with clinicians, staff, commissioners, patients and the public, and other stakeholders, must now prepare recommendations for a sustainable solution for South London Healthcare NHS Trust as part of the south-east London health economy. The scale of the challenge means that Mr Kershaw will be expected to engage with, and consider the implications of any recommendations he makes with regard to the South London Healthcare NHS Trust on, other providers. Whilst it is not possible to speculate on the effect any decision may have pending the outcome of the regime, providers in the south London health economy could be affected and will be engaged throughout the process.
The trust special administrator will also constitute a clinical advisory panel, comprising prominent clinical leaders, to support and advise him in developing his recommendations. This will provide further reassurance that the TSA’s proposals are based on strong clinical evidence and are in the interests of local patients.
In accordance with my statutory duty, I have published guidance for trust special administrators appointed to NHS trusts, to which they must have regard in undertaking their legal duties. This can be found at: www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/07/statutory-guidance-tsa/
A copy has been placed in the Library.
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ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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18 July 2012
Dear Mr Lansley Secretary of State for Health and Mr Turner MP for the Isle of Wight,
I am very sorry that the unworkable PFI arrangement to provide Princess Royal University Hospital has proved to be a financial disaster.
Worse, the environment within the hospital was not designed to have fullscale air conditioning so that patients can swelter in adverse conditions. I have personally witnessed and testified to this. I also made a Freedom of Information to SLHT regarding their Engineering and Environment. I still await any Internal Review even though the Board Secretary Mr Weaver did promise to get me all the reviews to my FOI hopefully by 26 April 2012. All of this is on the internet website www.whatdotheyknow.com .
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/civil_engineering_envi...
Civil Engineering - environmental regulation of Princess Royal University Hospital
ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended) made this Freedom of Information request to South London Healthcare NHS Trust
Waiting for an internal review by South London Healthcare NHS Trust of their handling of this request.
From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
29 October 2011
29 October 2011
Dear South London Healthcare NHS Trust,
Civil Engineering - environmental regulation of Princess Royal University Hospital
I am making enquiry as to the civil engineering at Princess Royal University Hospital.
I would like to enquire from South London Healthcare NHS Trust:
1] What civil engineering has taken place to ensure the well-being of patients? What environmental and temperature regulation control do you have in place in each and every part of the Princess Royal University Hospital?
2] How many patients have complained - or their families/legal representatives/executors/executrixes have complained - about the built environment and/or air conditioning of the Princess Royal University Hospital?
3] How many staff have complained about the built environment and/or air conditioning of the Princess Royal University Hospital?
4] How many patients have been recorded in 2011 as lying naked in their beds covered with just a sheet?
5] How many patients have been recorded in 2010 as lying naked in their beds covered with just a sheet?
6] How many patients have been recorded wandering around naked in 2010? And in 2011?
7] How many complaints have staff made about patients wandering around naked in 2010? And in 2011?
8] How many complaints have staff made about patients lying in bed naked, just covered by a sheet, in 2010? And in 2011?
9] How many complaints have staff made about patients walking around naked in a single-occupancy bedroom - which has privacy from the main ward - in the PRUH in 2010? and in 2011?
10] How many complaints have visitors made about patients walking around naked in a single-occupancy bedroom - which has privacy from the main ward - in the PRUH in 2010? and in 2011?
11] How many patients have been warned that they may not lie naked in bed in 2010? And in 2011?
12] How many patients have complained that they have been warned that they may not lie naked in bed in 2010? And in 2011?
13] How many complaints have been made by staff that patients refuse to "cover-up" and lie naked in bed with a sheet over them in 2010? And in 2011?
14] How many complaints have been made by patients that staff have insisted that they cover-up and not lie naked in bed with a sheet over them in 2010? And in 2011?
15] What is the composition of all of your hospital gowns? What is their thickness? Do they wick away sweat? Have any patients complained about them? If so, how many complaints have you had?
16] If any complaints have been received about any of the above-mentioned issues, what investigations have been made by the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees of
a] Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust.
b]South London Healthcare NHS Trust?
And if there were any complaints, what were the outcomes? And if there were any complaints, what learning has taken place?
17 ]Has the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees of
a] Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust and
b] South London Healthcare NHS Trust
discussed these issues at all, and if so, please provide me with their discussions, deliberations and actions this may be by automatic link to your papers if they are on the internet, or by email attachment to What Do They Know?
I am very grateful to you for your help in this matter as I am aware of debates regarding the current Health and Social Care Bill where the whole NHS system is being reviewed and scrutinised.
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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From: Slh Boardsecretary (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST)
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
31 October 2011
I write to confirm receipt of your Freedom of Information request received on 29th October.
The Trust will consider your request and respond in due course.
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
31 October 2011
Dear Mr Weaver, Slh Boardsecretary (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST),
Thank you very much for your acknowledgement.
I am very grateful to you for all your help.
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
26 November 2011
Dear Mr Weaver Board Secretary, SOUTH LONDON
HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST,
I am requesting an Internal Review of the reason for why my FOI Request has not been answered in the 20 days.
Please may I have your response to my request very shortly via this website of WhatDoTheyKnow?
Thank you very much
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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From: Slh Boardsecretary (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST) South London Healthcare NHS Trust
28 November 2011
Ms Cantwell
I write to acknowledge receipt of your email received on Saturday 19th November 2011.
The Trust notes your request for an Internal review.
Please be advised that the Trust will endeavour to proceed with a response to your request at the earliest possible time.
Yours Sincerely
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
2 December 2011
Dear Mr Weaver,
I am very concerned at just how long it takes for Freedom of Information Requests to be processed by SLHT.
Could you please confirm also that the SLHT Information Controller is the one registered with the Information Commission and that access to all data is held centrally and that anyone seeking their
medical records comes to the registered Information Controller as shown on the ICO website being at St Mary's Sidcup?
Can you please tell me where a person seeking the Medical Records of a LIVING PERSON applies for their own records - or in the case of a solicitor applying for a client the medical records of their client - actually makes the request for information for the
Princess Royal University Hospital?
And can you also explain where a person wishing to obtain DPA 1998 material gets their information, such as the Camerawork of 7 and 9 and 10 March 2011 to which I have made mention in an HSE Riddor Report?
Please may I request if you assess it under Freedom of Information in the alternative, as I have been to the ICO.
I am somewhat confused that if 2 nurses come out and triage and start treatment on a person in a car in the A and E area of the grounds of the Princess Royal University Hospital on 7 March 2011 that that surely means that it is the Medical Records of that person, but equally is the DPA material of the persons who were
also in the camerawork such as the Driver and the 2 nurses who TREATED their patient in the car at that time?
As such is it a DPA1998 and if so can the identities of the people be obliterated ie their faces - so that it can be proved beyond shadow of doubt that a certain car with a specific registration was actually on the site at the time in question, so that the public
can then see the camerawork as this is a police matter as you are very well aware and that I have raised this with the Metropolitan Police and ICO.
I believe that the issues here are very important.
Please respond at your earliest convenience, and preferably before the end of today.
Thank you very much for your help in these matters which you know I have been raising for several months with little success although the CEO did write a letter on 16 June 2011 but not given to me by
yourselves but which was given to Oxleas.
Thank you very much
Yours sincerely
Rosemary Cantwell
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From: Slh Boardsecretary (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST)
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
2 December 2011
Ms Cantwell
I write to confirm receipt of your email received on 2nd December 2011.
The Trust will consider your request and respond in due course.
Your Sincerely
Michael Weaver
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
2 December 2011
Dear Mr Weaver
I am very grateful to you for your kindness.
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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From: Weaver Michael (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST)
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
9 December 2011
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Thank you for your recent e-mail requesting information. Please accept my
apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act please find enclosed the Trust response.
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[1][email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
10 December 2011
Dear Mr Weaver
Thank you very much for giving me this response and your personal attention.
May I just ask if you are also going to be able to respond to my other outstanding FOI on Whatdotheyknow regarding Transfer of patients?
I would be most grateful for your looking into that one too.
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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From: Weaver Michael (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST) South London Healthcare NHS Trust
10 December 2011
Thank you for your email
Please be advised that I am currently out of the office and will not return until the afternoon of Monday 12th December
In my absence please be advised of the following;
Should you need to contact the Trust Board Secretariat please forward your email to Audrey Cosens, Assistant Trust Board Secretary
[email address]
For enquiries regarding Freedom of Information Requests or any other matters in relation to Trust Board please contact Audrey Cosens on [email address]
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
11 March 2012
11 March 2012
South London Healthcare NHS trust
Our Ref: MW/F01 S744
Dear Mr Weaver Board Secretary,South London Healthcare NHS Trust,Ms Hall Deputy Chief Executive South London Healthcare NHS Trust, Dr Streather CEO, Monitor, Mr Turner MP for the Isle of Wight, Mr Lansley Secretary of State for Health and the Care Quality Commission,
I am writing to request an Internal Review of South London Healthcare NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Civil Engineering - environmental regulation of Princess Royal University Hospital'.
Mr Weaver responded to my Freedom of Information Request in December 2011 and it is now more than 3 months since his response but I have been in possession of further intelligence and I wish to ask further whether or not anything else has transpired.
I found today various links on the Internet regarding the definition of Civil Engineering. Mr Weaver is absolutely correct when he states: "Civil engineering works generally refers to works within the ground, ie. foundation and tunnelling. No works of this nature have taken place since the buildings construction in 1998."
This is in accord with the definition provided by
http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.as...
and there is no mention thereof of any construction of buildings, such as hospitals.
However, other definitions have included inter alia air
conditioning and the built structure and it has been expanded in its meaning according to one source in 2007.
I must admit that there is a degree of confusion over the definitions.
http://vnbuild2009.hubpages.com/hub/Civi...
http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/peopl...
http://live.asce.org/hh/index.mxml?versi...
http://www.ice.org.uk/About-ICE/What-we-...
http://showcase.gspnet.com/Showcase/Proj...
http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/?...
If we could look again at the widest possible meaning of what "civil engineering" means to include inter alia the air conditioning as well as the ventilation and hot and cold water and the actual planning and design of the whole hospital, I would be most grateful, as this is what I actually meant, but it was not until today that I found a different definition that accorded with what my own definition had been when I wrote the Freedom of Information Request in 2011.
Mr Weaver very helpfully responded in this way:
"I would like to enquire from South London Healthcare NHS Trust:
1. What civil engineering has taken place to ensure the well-being of patients? What environmental and temperature regulation control do you have in place in each and every part of the Princess Royal University Hospital?
Civil engineering works generally refers to works within the ground, ie. foundation and tunnelling. No works of this nature have taken place since the buildings construction in 1998.
Ventilation and Heating;
The hospital was designed and constructed around natural ventilation principles to the ward areas and was also designed and constructed to adhere to the Hospital Technical Memorandums in place at the time of design, in particular:
HTM2025, Ventilation,
HTM 2027 Hot and cold water
2. How many patients have complained - or their families/legal representatives/executors/executrixes have complained - about the built environment and/or air conditioning of the Princess Royal University Hospital?
The Trust has no record of any specific complaints
3. How many staff have complained about the built environment and/or air
Estates & Facilities does not have any record of any specific complaints"
Thus, the first 3 requests for information I would like reviewed in light of the widest possible interpretation of "civil engineering" as per the websites I cite above as well as any others available
from reputable sources.
I have had personal experience of terrible conditions in the heat at Medical Ward 6 in June and July 2006 when my late mother was a patient at Princess Royal University Hospital.
This was when it was run by Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust and therefore I would like to know if there were any complaints to Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust, as we most certainly DID complain because the fans had to be used to try and get any coolth at all, but the air was stagnant and still and unbearable. The staff had
insufficient fans for all the patients and it was a most terrible environment in which to be either a member of staff or a patient.
Yet in the CT scanning suite and theatre it was cooler.
And the staff explained that the civil engineering design for the hospital had specifically limited the air conditioning to only certain parts of the hospital including the ICU but excluding the standard wards.
That is why I believe that people had difficulty in keeping their clothes on, as certainly I saw people in state of undress that summer in Princess Royal University Hospital and I wish to know if this still happens.
My requests for data were consequent on the issue of civil engineering but because I had no other definition other than the one you helpfully provided until I found the above references today, I have not proceeded with requesting an Internal Review until now.
But now I would like an internal review and would specifically like to know how staff report their findings to the Trust. Or do they simply file things in patients' records and it never comes to you?
I have myself complained about the terrible heat in Princess Royal University Hospital and would be most grateful if you could find my complaints about it.
Thank you very much.
"4. How many patients have been recorded in 2011 as lying naked in their beds covered with just a sheet?
The Trust has no record of this information
5. How many patients have been recorded in 2010 as lying naked in their beds covered with just a sheet?
The Trust has no record of this information.
6. How many patients have been recorded wandering around naked in 2010? And in 2011?
5 Incidents have been recorded (1 for 2010 and 4 in 2011)
7. How many complaints have staff made about patients wandering around naked in 2010? And in 2011?
The Trust has no record of any such complaints by staff.
8. How many complaints have staff made about patients lying in bed naked, just covered by a sheet, in 2010? And in 2011?
The Trust has no record of any such complaints by staff
9. How many cornplaints have staff made about patients walking around naked in a single-occupancy bedroom - which has privacy from the main ward - in the PRUH in 2010? And in 2011?
The Trust has no record of any specific complaints
10. How many complaints have visitors made about patients walking around naked in a single-occupancy bedroom - which has privacy from the main ward - in the PRUH in 2010? And in 2011?
The Trust has no record of any specific complaints
11. How many patients have been warned that they may not lie naked in bed in 2010? And in 2011?
The Trust has no record of this information
12. How many patients have complained that they have been warned that they may not lie naked in bed in 2010? And in 2011?
The Trust has no record of any specific complaints
13. How many complaints have been made by staff that patients refuse to "cover-up" and lie naked in bed with a sheet over them in 2010? And in 2011?
The Trust has no record of any specific complaints
14. How many complaints have been made by patients that staff have insisted that they "cover-up" and not lie naked in bed with a sheet over them in 2010? And in 2011
15. What is the composition of all of your hospital gowns? What is their thickness? Do they wick away sweat? Have any patients complained about them? If so, how many complaints have you had?
50/50 cotton/polyester cotton has a natural absorbency and Estates &Facilities have not received any specific complaints on the composition of the gowns used.
16. If any complaints have been received about any of the above-mentioned issues, what investigations have been made by the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees of
a) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust,
b) South London Healthcare NHS Trust?
And if there were any complaints, what were the outcomes? And if there were any complaints, what learning has taken place?
The Trust has no record of complaints with regard to the above-mentioned issues,
17. Has the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees of
a) Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust and
b) South London Healthcare NHS Trust
Discussed these issues at all, and if so, please provide me with their discussions, deliberations and actions this may be by automatic link to your papers if they are on the internet, or by email attachment to What Do They Know?
The Trust has no record of this information"
I believe that from what you have told me that 5 people were recorded as going naked in 2010-2011, that they might have been feeling ill with the heat. People who are ill may well have dysregulation of their internal thermostats even when their temperatures show a normal reading.
It does not make them perverts, but simply can be an emanation of their unwellness.
If people are so hot that they have to remove all their clothes and lie under a single bedsheet then this surely is a sign and signal that the Hospital Trust needs to think very carefully about how to
introduce necessary coolth to the working environment for the staff and the medical and clinical environment for the patients.
I believe that my mother was totally unable to bear anything other than a single bedsheet over her and when they removed the broken fan she could not even do that. She was in a terrible state.
She was soaked with perspiration and the window was wide open but not a breath of fresh air from anywhere. It was stifling and terrible.
Therefore I would like to have reviewed the whole of my FOI request in view of the above.
Has anyone come and altered the environment of the Princess Royal University Hospital before March 9 2011, and, if so, what was done?
Has anyone come and altered the environment of the Princess Royal University Hospital since April 8 2011, and, if so, what was done?
I know that this hospital was built to critical acclaim but I also know that there has been criticism of its design especially its environmental factors of the atmospheric pressure/air conditioning/temperature regulation and it is this that makes me concerned for the staff and patients and their relatives and
friends who visit.
If you are to become a 2-hospital trust, maybe you should consider which 2 hospitals to keep open, and maybe it might not be Princess Royal University Hospital unless you have made dramatic changes in
the coolth and air conditioning and temperature controls in the built environment since my family were in-patients.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ci...
Thank you very much for all your help,
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
Campaigner for legal reform, liberty, truth and justice
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
9 April 2012
9 April 2012
Dear Mr Weaver Board Secretary,South London Healthcare NHS Trust,Ms Hall Deputy CEO South London Healthcare NHS Trust,Mr Turner MP for the Isle of Wight,
On 11 March 2012 I wrote requesting an internal review of South London Healthcare NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Civil Engineering - environmental regulation of Princess Royal University Hospital'.
Bearing in mind that there have been 3 official non-working days in the UK between 11 March 2012, the standard 20 working days for the Internal Review will, by my calculations, be 11 April 2012.
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Please may I ask if you will be able to respond to me within this timeframe? I appreciate that you are busy and my sole concern is the health and safety of patients, visitors and staff in Princess Royal University Hospital.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ci...
Thank you very much, as always, I am most grateful to you,
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
Campaigner for legal reform, liberty, truth and justice
I would like to know who will now provide the answers if the Board is no longer Extant, there can no longer be a Secretary of Deputy Secretary of the Board, and who provides Data Access?
I am also concerned that I have requested a Subject Access Request for data but to date nobody has acknowledged my £10 for data under the DPA 1998 [not medical data].
But although I sent this a month ago, and it was Signed for on Royal Mail Track and Trace, I have not heard anything about when I will receive my data, yet I have the proof that they did receive my request along with the £10 and proofs of identity.
I do hope that South London Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to respond to me as I am awaiting important information from them.
Thank you very much for your help.
Yours sincerely,
Rosemary Cantwell
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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18 JULY 2012
Dear Mr Lansley Secretary of State for Health, Information Commissioner and Mr Turner MP for the Isle of Wight,
I made a Freedom of Information Request to South London Healthcare NHS Trust to enquire specifically what their plans for the future were.
I received a response to part of my FOI Request but none of the other issues which Mr Weaver Board Secretary said he intended to get to me by 26 April 2012 have ever been given to me, and is the subject of Appeal to the Information Commissioner.
However, I am now very concerned because if the Board is no longer in existence, there cannot be a Secretary or Deputy Secretary of a Board that does not exist.
So who is the Data Controller now please?
I am awaiting to have my Subject Access Data Request handled and now that Dr Streather CEO announced his resignation in June 2012 to take effect in July 2012, I am not even sure who is running the day-to-day Trust if there is no longer a Trust in existence.
Is the Data Controller the Administrator or Mr Lansley Secretary of State, and to where do I send my correspondence and how do I contact you regarding my data, please?
Thank you very much for your help.
Yours sincerely,
Rosemary Cantwell
Please provide the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposals for the new SLHTrust thank you
ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended) made this Freedom of Information request to South London Healthcare NHS Trust
The request was partially successful.
From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
12 February 2012
Sunday 12 February 2012
Dear South London Healthcare NHS Trust,
Please provide the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposals for the new SLHTrust thank you
I am making a formal FOI Request for the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposeals for the new SLHTrust or whatever it will be once the proposals have gone to PUBLIC consultation and thereafter with MONITOR to determine if the NEW
Trust will receive FOUNDATION TRUST STATUS.
In the light of the fact that when SLHT was founded in 2009, the FOI Requests about the other 3 hospitals trusts that had closed down, now come to SLHT to answer, is it not the case that you, de facto, have INHERITED the responsibilities and LIABILITIES and DUTY
OF CARE to ALL the patients AND employees of the former trusts?
This is very important to note.
And has wide implications for any future development of SLHT's framework proposals not only vis-a-vis the question of closing one hospital and reorganisation with just two hospitals, or in the alternative to continue with three hospitals and still reorganise,
but crucially if you become a FOUNDATION TRUST then you will no longer be SLHT.
And as such, like Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust previously, there will have to be parliamentary debate as to the closure of SLHT and the foundation of a NEW hospital foundation trust as set out by parliamentary legislation in force at the time.
With the new Health and Safety Bill now causing such a stir with so many vested interests involved - literally all of us are stakeholders in the NHS - then how will any new Trust determine the rights and responsibilities of the new trust?
Will the new trust not include TUPE?
Will the new trust be independent of government and not be subject to FOI Requests?
Will the new trust determine that no "legacy" matters are their province either with regards to patients OR employees?
I note that someone else has written about an employment issue vis-a-vis a major court case involving a urologist who was not working in SLHT but one of the predecessor bodies.
Could you please clarify precisely what the minutiae of the closure of the old trusts were and how SLHT came into being and what actually are the liabilities and responsibilities of SLHT to patients and employees alike of the old hospitals trusts?
As you are aware, my mother died in Princess Royal University Hospital of septicaemia in July 2006 in very distressing circumstances and there still is a question of the "4 reviews" of the case which Martin Thorpe Bromley Police, Metropolitan Police,
in March 2011 told me that the SLHT have and as such he would not proceed with the investigation into an allegation of assault by injection of haloperidol by an unnamed prescriber.
This is still the stated position as given to me by SLHT a few days ago that the identity of this unknowable prescriber has his/her identity protected by the DPA1998 but that that therefore means that the GMC cannot investigate the complaint I made in December
2010 into the matter, and also the South London Coroner will not countenance opening an investigation until and unless the full facts of everything in the fax of 1 July 2006 and subsequent correspondence going on to the present day - can be proved to him.
Thus I am in a catch-22 position.
The HMRC are demanding an Account be made by me, the Executrix of my mother, and by the Executor, by 17 February 2012.
How can we do this comprehensively when we are obstructed from knowing the FULL investigations into my mother's death?
I believe that SLHT owe us these "4 reviews".
Please provide them to me urgently.
Mr Jo Johnson MP for Orpington has been involved as has Mr Andrew Turner MP for the Isle of Wight.
I simply want the answers to my complaints made over the years - not to be fobbed off, and not to be threatened as I was in the email of 6 May 2011 by SLHT regarding my mother - deceased - and another member of my family.
Princess Royal University Hospital will continue regardless of which hospital framework is decided after the consultation yet it is this hospital where I personally have so many unhappy memories.
Please assist me in my role as Executrix of my late mother to get the truth.
Thank you very much,
Yours sincerely,
Rosemary Cantwell
Campaigner for Liberty, Truth and Justice
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From: Slh Boardsecretary (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST)
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
13 February 2012
Ms Cantwell
I write to confirm receipt of the following 5 emails received by the Trust between 2nd February 2012 and 12th February 2012.
Thu 02/02/2012 22:30
Fri 03/02/2012 01:56
Tue 07/02/2012 23:45
Sat 11/02/2012 13:43
Sun 12/02/2012 14:19
The Trust will review the content of each of your separate requests and respond accordingly.
Please be advised that due to the number of Freedom of Information request we are currently receiving and the time required to research and respond to each request the Trust is mindful of the need to give a prompt response to each request however may be some delay in some applicants receiving responses to their requests.
Yours Sincerely
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
13 February 2012
13 February 2012
Dear Mr Weaver,Secretariat and Dr Streather, CEO, and the Board of Trustees South London Healthcare, Mr Turner, MP for the Isle of Wight,
I am most grateful to you Mr Weaver for your kind attention to my FOI Requests.
Please may you also ask you to answer my emails sent to you under separate cover as they do need urgent answers as you are well aware of my anxieties in certain key areas going back many years, including my fax of 1 July 2006 in particular, being the complaints
of my late mother who died whilst Joanne Cutting was initiating the investigation into the complaint. This complaint has never been answered, and nor has the expanded one which Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust - via Pohwer and BHNHST Beverley Reynolds.
I am aware that there were further unanswered questions I put to the Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust such as "BRONZE DIABETES" which I asked a number of questions as to whether or not my mother had this
particular condition but went unanswered.
I was told that it would be best to take the offer of the Healthcare Commission rather than ask questions - that was in autumn 2007 - but this was not my preferred option and I am well aware that this is contentious, but please, I pray you, have pity on me and my family, and just give us the answers that we have now waited so many years to have them.
Thank you so much,
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
Executrix of my late mother
Campaigner for Liberty, Truth and Justice
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
10 March 2012
10 March 2012
Dear South London Healthcare NHS Trust and Mr Turner MP for the Isle of Wight
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of South London Healthcare NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Please provide the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposals for the new SLHTrust thank you'.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pl...
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL (Account suspended)
9 April 2012
9 April 2012
Dear Mr Weaver Board Secretary, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, Mr Turner MP for the Isle of Wight, Information Commissioner,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of South London Healthcare NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Please provide the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposals for the new SLHTrust thank you'.
Please provide the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposals for the new SLHTrust thank you
ROSEMARY CANTWELL made this Freedom of Information request to South
London Healthcare NHS Trust
Waiting for an internal review by South London Healthcare NHS Trust
of their handling of this request.
From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL
12 February 2012
Sunday 12 February 2012
Dear South London Healthcare NHS Trust,
Please provide the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposals for the new SLHTrust thank you
I am making a formal FOI Request for the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposeals for the new SLHTrust or whatever it will be once the proposals have gone to PUBLIC consultation and thereafter with MONITOR to determine if the NEW
Trust will receive FOUNDATION TRUST STATUS.
In the light of the fact that when SLHT was founded in 2009, the FOI Requests about the other 3 hospitals trusts that had closed down, now come to SLHT to answer, is it not the case that you, de facto, have INHERITED the responsibilities and LIABILITIES and DUTY
OF CARE to ALL the patients AND employees of the former trusts?
This is very important to note.
And has wide implications for any future development of SLHT's framework proposals not only vis-a-vis the question of closing one hospital and reorganisation with just two hospitals, or in the alternative to continue with three hospitals and still reorganise,
but crucially if you become a FOUNDATION TRUST then you will no longer be SLHT.
And as such, like Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust previously, there will have to be parliamentary debate as to the closure of SLHT and the foundation of a NEW hospital foundation trust as set out by parliamentary legislation in force at the time.
With the new Health and Safety Bill now causing such a stir with so many vested interests involved - literally all of us are stakeholders in the NHS - then how will any new Trust determine the rights and responsibilities of the new trust?
Will the new trust not include TUPE?
Will the new trust be independent of government and not be subject to FOI Requests?
Will the new trust determine that no "legacy" matters are their province either with regards to patients OR employees?
I note that someone else has written about an employment issue vis-a-vis a major court case involving a urologist who was not working in SLHT but one of the predecessor bodies.
Could you please clarify precisely what the minutiae of the closure of the old trusts were and how SLHT came into being and what actually are the liabilities and responsibilities of SLHT to patients and employees alike of the old hospitals trusts?
As you are aware, my mother died in Princess Royal University Hospital of septicaemia in July 2006 in very distressing circumstances and there still is a question of the "4 reviews" of the case which Martin Thorpe Bromley Police, Metropolitan Police, in March 2011 told me that the SLHT have and as such he would not proceed with the investigation into an allegation of assault by injection of haloperidol by an unnamed prescriber.
This is still the stated position as given to me by SLHT a few days ago that the identity of this unknowable prescriber has his/her identity protected by the DPA1998 but that that therefore means that the GMC cannot investigate the complaint I made in December 2010 into the matter, and also the South London Coroner will not countenance opening an investigation until and unless the full facts of everything in the fax of 1 July 2006 and subsequent correspondence going on to the present day - can be proved to him.
Thus I am in a catch-22 position.
The HMRC are demanding an Account be made by me, the Executrix of my mother, and by the Executor, by 17 February 2012.
How can we do this comprehensively when we are obstructed from knowing the FULL investigations into my mother's death?
I believe that SLHT owe us these "4 reviews".
Please provide them to me urgently.
Mr Jo Johnson MP for Orpington has been involved as has Mr Andrew Turner MP for the Isle of Wight.
I simply want the answers to my complaints made over the years - not to be fobbed off, and not to be threatened as I was in the email of 6 May 2011 by SLHT regarding my mother - deceased - and another member of my family.
Princess Royal University Hospital will continue regardless of which hospital framework is decided after the consultation yet it is this hospital where I personally have so many unhappy memories.
Please assist me in my role as Executrix of my late mother to get the truth.
Thank you very much,
Yours sincerely,
Rosemary Cantwell
Campaigner for Liberty, Truth and Justice
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From: Slh Boardsecretary (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST) South London Healthcare NHS Trust
13 February 2012
Ms Cantwell
I write to confirm receipt of the following 5 emails received by the Trust between 2nd February 2012 and 12th February 2012.
Thu 02/02/2012 22:30
Fri 03/02/2012 01:56
Tue 07/02/2012 23:45
Sat 11/02/2012 13:43
Sun 12/02/2012 14:19
The Trust will review the content of each of your separate requests and respond accordingly.
Please be advised that due to the number of Freedom of Information request we are currently receiving and the time required to research and respond to each request the Trust is mindful of the need to give a prompt response to each request however may be some delay in some applicants receiving responses to their requests.
Yours Sincerely
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL
13 February 2012
13 February 2012
Dear Mr Weaver,Secretariat and Dr Streather, CEO, and the Board of Trustees South London Healthcare, Mr Turner, MP for the Isle of Wight,
I am most grateful to you Mr Weaver for your kind attention to my FOI Requests.
Please may you also ask you to answer my emails sent to you under separate cover as they do need urgent answers as you are well aware of my anxieties in certain key areas going back many years, including my fax of 1 July 2006 in particular, being the complaints of my late mother who died whilst Joanne Cutting was initiating the investigation into the complaint. This complaint has never been answered, and nor has the expanded one which Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust - via Pohwer and BHNHST Beverley Reynolds.
I am aware that there were further unanswered questions I put to the Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust such as "BRONZE DIABETES" which I asked a number of questions as to whether or not my mother had this
particular condition but went unanswered.
I was told that it would be best to take the offer of the Healthcare Commission rather than ask questions - that was in autumn 2007 - but this was not my preferred option and I am well aware that this is contentious, but please, I pray you, have pity on me and my family, and just give us the answers that we have now waited so many years to have them.
Thank you so much,
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
Executrix of my late mother
Campaigner for Liberty, Truth and Justice
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From: ROSEMARY CANTWELL
10 March 2012
10 March 2012
Dear South London Healthcare NHS Trust and Mr Turner MP for the Isle of Wight
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of South London Healthcare NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Please provide the full details of EACH AND EVERY ONE of SLHT's separate proposals for the new SLHTrust thank you'.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pl...
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pl...
Yours sincerely,
ROSEMARY CANTWELL
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From: Slh Boardsecretary (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST)
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
17 April 2012
Dear Mrs Cantwell
May I first apologise for the delay in responding to recent correspondence in relation to your Freedom of Information requests.
The Trust understands the need to comply within the statutory 20 working day limit and at all times endeavours to do so however as the Trust has been receiving a very high volume of requests that have required considerable research in order to compile an appropriate response.
Please be advised the Trust will seek to provide you with a response to all outstanding items you have raised in relation to your Freedom of Information request and for the purposes of clarification advise you of the status of all your requests received between 22nd October 2011 and 12th February 2012.
I would expect to provide you with a response by Thursday 26th April.
For the purpose of responding to your Freedom of Information Requests may I ask that all future correspondence is directed to the following email address
[South London Healthcare NHS Trust request email]
Yours Sincerely
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[email address]
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From: Weaver Michael (SOUTH LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST)
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
4 May 2012
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Thank you for your recent e-mail requesting information. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act please find enclosed the Trust response.
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[1][email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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South London Healthcare NHS Trust
4 May 2012
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Thank you for your recent e-mail requesting information. Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act please find enclosedthe Trust response.
Michael Weaver
Trust Board Secretary
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
[1][email address]
+ 44 788 772 4765
Extension at Queen Marys Hospital 4619
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