Assessments, False Information & Disciplinary Action

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Dear Sir/Madam

Please supply the following data (for all questions please supply data over the last 12 months):

1. How many complaints have you received where patients supplied an audio recording of an assessment and the assessors written notes and this proved that the written notes contain significantly inaccurate information?
2. How many complaints, of the above, detailed that such inaccurate information could undermine legal/criminal investigations?
3. Of the above, where it has been proven records created contained false information, please confirm if any disciplinary action has been taken and if so on how many occasions.

If this would be too time consuming to gather, please supply the following information only:

- How many times disciplinary action has been taken against your employees, in the last 12 months, due to them writing inaccurate medical notes?

Thanks

[Name Removed] [Name Removed]son

FOI (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST), Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Your email request  for information under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 is acknowledged.

We will endeavour to ensure that you receive the information within 20
working days from the receipt of your request.

If your query does not relate to the Freedom of Information Act please
contact the Communications Department at: [email address].

 

 

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FOI (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST), Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Johnson,

Please find attached the response to your FOI request.

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Faye Cording
Assistant Trust Board Secretary/FOI Lead
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
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Dear Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews. I am writing to request an internal review of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Assessments, False Information & Disciplinary Action'.

That is due to the fact that you've stated you cannot provide information free of charge and why, but there is a much easier way that information could be obtained. If you looked at it the other way around (i.e. look at your staff disciplinary cases, rather than the complaints), there would be much less of those and therefore you could provide details of this, within time-frames that allow you to supply the information free of charge. I want to know if any of your staff have been disciplined for writing/recording false information, as per the original request.

I look forward to receiving this information.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed] [Name Removed]son

FOI (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST), Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Your email request  for information under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 is acknowledged.

We will endeavour to ensure that you receive the information within 20
working days from the receipt of your request.

If your query does not relate to the Freedom of Information Act please
contact the Communications Department at: [email address].

 

 

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FOI (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST), Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Dear Mr Johnson,

The disciplinary records will be reviewed by a HR representative for the timeframe as you mention and a response will be provided to you as soon the findings of this have been obtained.

Kind regards

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CORDING, Faye (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST), Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Johnson,

Please find attached the further response to your FOI request.

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Faye Cording
Assistant Trust Board Secretary/FOI Lead
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
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Dear Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust,

Thanks for providing this response. This is useful information. What I had asked is whether any disciplinary action had been taken in respect of this issue. Could you be so kind as to clarify the following:

Of these three cases, how many instances are there of disciplinary action being taken? If you could supply this asap I'd appreciate it.

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed] [Name Removed]son

FOI (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST), Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Dear Mr Johnson,

HR have clarified that two were concluded with disciplinary action taken and one is ongoing so cannot be confirmed at this time.

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Faye Cording
Assistant Trust Board Secretary/FOI Lead
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
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Dear FOI (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST),

Thank you. Can I please clarify if any of those 3 cases you mention involved you being provided with an audio recording showing the records taken were incorrect and if so, in that/those instances was disciplinary action taken?

Yours sincerely,

[Name Removed] [Name Removed]son

FOI (BARNET, ENFIELD AND HARINGEY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST), Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Dear Mr Johnson,

HR have confirmed that none of the cases involved audio recordings.

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Faye Cording
FOI Lead/ Assistant Trust Secretary
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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Dear Faye,

Thanks for supplying this info.

Kind regards,

[Name Removed] [Name Removed]son