Our ref: 513
Your ref: Email 26/ 8/2009
23rd September 2009
Dear Ms Brook,
Freedom of Information Request
Many thanks for your request for information regarding confidentiality clauses and
disciplinarys:
1. Copies of all confidentiality clauses, agreements or policies that staff are
required to abide by. Please include any non-standard clauses which apply to
particular groups of staff, or individuals. I am expecting the release of any
relevant standard clauses contained within employment contracts as well as
relevant policies such as your whistle-blowing policy, and any rules guiding
staff participation in online discussion, blogging and social networking sites.
Please see attached documents
2. The number of times staff members have faced disciplinary actions or
proceedings as a result of breaching these confidentiality agreements,
policies and clauses.
0
3. A listing of these disciplinary actions broken down by the date and type of
disciplinary action taken (eg verbal warning, demotion, loss of benefit, etc)
N/A
4. The number of staff dismissed as a result of breaching or infringing
confidentiality agreements.
N/A
5. Of those i) disciplined and ii) dismissed - How many had a defence of
whistleblowing?
N/A
This completes the Trust response to your request, but please note:
Re-use of Public Sector Information
Information Governance Department
Tel: 01226 730000 ext 2017
All information supplied by the Trust in answering a request for information (RFI)
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or Environmental Information
Regulations is the copyright of Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust, and is subject to
the terms of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005, Statutory
Instrument 2005 No.1515 which came into force on 1st July 2005.
Under the terms of the Regulations, the Trust will not license the re-use of any or
all information supplied if it is being used in a form and for a purpose other than
which it was originally supplied.
This license for re-use will be in line with the requirements of the Regulations and
the licensing terms and fees as laid down by the Office of Public Sector
Information (OPSI). Most licenses will be free; however the Trust reserves the
right, in certain circumstances, to charge a fee for the re-use of some information
which it deems to be of commercial value.
Further information can be found at where a sample licence terms and fees can
be found with guidance on copyright and publishing notes and a Guide to Best
Practice and regulated advice and case studies, at www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/psi-
regulations/index.htm
Your rights
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request, you may ask for
an internal review in accordance with Section VI Complaints Procedures of the
Section 45 Code of Practice of the Freedom of Information Act 2000: and in
accordance with the Trust’s Code of Practice for Responding to Requests for
Information.
If you wish to complain you should contact:
Katie Hyde
Information Governance Manager
Block 12
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Gawber Road
Barnsley
S75 2EP
[email address]
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right
to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please remember to
quote the reference number above in any future communications
Information Governance Department
Tel: 01226 730000 ext 2017
Yours sincerely
Terri Milligan
Information Governance Project Officer
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Information Governance Department
Tel: 01226 730000 ext 2017
