Healthcare Operations department - information request
Dear Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
Please could you provide the following information:
How many staff do you currently employ to undertake RTT validation tasks?
How many more permanent or temporary staff are expected to be needed over the next 12 months?
How many open RTT pathways do you have currently?
How many staff do you currently employ to undertake clinical coding validation tasks?
How many more permanent or temporary staff are expected to be needed over the next 12 months?
Do you operate and utilise a live bed state system?
Has your organisation implemented any centralised or 24 hour bed management process, or have an automatic electronic utilisation data capture solution.
If so, which processes or solutions are in use?
What is the name, job title, and department contact email address of the primary decision maker for change control of the bed state process?
How many Urgent Care/Emergency Department staff have access to the spine lookup and validation service to verify demographics at the point of patient registration?
Yours faithfully,
Clive Townsend
Dear Mr Townsend
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Kind regards
Nicola Frost | Document control & FOI co-ordinator | Governance
Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group
Southend University Hospital, Prittlewell Chase, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 0RY
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Dear Mr Townsend,
I am writing in respect of your enquiry for information held by Southend
University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. We have now processed your request,
please find attached our response. Please accept our apologies for the
delay in responding and for any inconvenience this has caused.
If you have any further queries or concerns or if you are not satisfied
with the way that your request was handled, please do not hesitate to
contact us.
Kind regards
Tracy Jeffreys
Patient Information and Document Administrator & FOI Administrator
Governance Unit
Mid and South Essex University Hospitals Group
Ed Centre, 1^st Floor, RM EDD-1-28
Southend University Hospital | Prittlewell Chase I Westcliff-on-Sea I
Essex I SS0 0RY
Tel: 01702 435555 ext 7028 I Email: [1][email address]
Visit our website: [2]www.southend.nhs.uk
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