February 2019

Information request – 1

Has the pharmacy of your hospital dispensed any bowel cleansing preparations from January 1, 2018 till December 31, 2018?

 Information request – 2

If the answer is ‘yes’ to request 1, could you please send me below details: 

• Name of dispensed brand(s) and number of packs dispensed in the 12 month period (January 1, 2018 till December 31, 2018).

information relating to e-Rostering within your trust. 

As a result of HMRC’s changes to the pensions Lifetime Allowance (‘the LTA’) and Annual Allowance (‘the AA’) many of our members have left the NHS Pensions Scheme. This results in NHS Employers saving the employer pension contributions which they would have paid into our members’ pensions had they not left the scheme. We have been made aware of some NHS Employers operating policies to enable such scheme leavers to apply for and receive payment of the monies which their NHS Employer would have paid into their pension in the form of employer pension contributions. The following request for information relates to the monies which you, as the NHS Employer, have saved from unpaid employer pension contributions in the way described above.

1. Do you have a policy (written or unwritten) by which one of your employees who is leaving the NHS Pension Scheme may be able to receive after leaving the scheme payment(s) equivalent to or calculated in relation to the employer pension contributions which you, as the NHS Employer, would have paid to his/her pension had they not left the scheme?
2. If you, as the NHS Employer, do not have such a policy, did you used to have one or do you intend to implement one? If you intend to implement such a policy, when do you expect that the policy will be implemented?
3. If you, as the NHS Employer, do have such a policy, how many doctors and how many non doctors that you employ have benefitted from it by receiving payments under it?
4. What are the policy criteria for establishing employees’ eligibility to receive such payments? Please provide a copy of the policy or any other documents evidencing the eligibility criteria and rules. 

1. A list of the five highest amounts of annual payment made to a single locum doctor by your health board in each of the last three financial years?
 
2. A breakdown the proportion of the health board’s staff spends on locums/agency staff in each of these years and the total amount for each year? 

Please can you release copies of all correspondence between NHS Velindre, in their role as the operators of the Welsh infected Blood support service, and 

a) Haemophilia Wales and b) ****** is her role are representative of Haemophilia Wales

between the dates of 22/08/2018 and 12/02/2019

Telecoms contract information update

Telecoms contract information update - Data

• I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £25,000 as far back as your records go to at most a month in arrears from the date at which you publish in response to this request.

• Please provide the data in a machine readable format (preferably csv). As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of each transaction if you have it.

• Your team may also be interested in the guidance on producing spending data:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-publishing-spend-over-25000.

• This letter makes it clear that this guidance applies to the NHS: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/216668/dh_119742.pdf. 

For the avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response within 20 working days.