Hospital Chaplaincy Procedures

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust did not have the information requested.

Dear Wirral Community NHS Trust,

I would like to request the following information on standards, policies and procedures relating to hospital chaplains in your Trust.

Could you please:

1. tell me whether policies or procedures exist to:

a. establish whether a patient admitted to any of your hospitals does or does not wish to receive contact from a hospital chaplain

b. ensure that patients (or their visitors, next-of-kin etc.) do not received unsolicited contact from chaplains

c. safeguard patients’ personal and medical data such that hospital chaplains by default do not have access to it

d. ensure that hospital chaplains, when given access to patient data, do not share any of it with third parties

If you answered yes to any of the above, please could you provide me with copies of the relevant policies or procedures

2. outline your approach for monitoring adherence to the policies and procedures above

3. provide me with a summary of the results of this monitoring for the last five years, including rates of compliance with the policies and procedures, and severity of any non-compliance events

4. provide me with details of any action taken in respect of any non-compliance identified (e.g. tightening of procedures, disciplinary action – in the latter case, taking care not to disclose any personal information)

Please could you release this information in electronic form by email via this WhatDoTheyKnow request.

Yours faithfully,

Susan Davis

Heather Stapleton,

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Dear Ms Davis,

 

Thank you for your recent FOI request.  Please find attached our response.

 

Heather Stapleton

Board Support & Freedom of Information Officer

 

Telephone: 0151 514 2888

Internal extension: 6098

 

Wirral Community NHS Trust

Old Market House

Hamilton Street

Birkenhead

Merseyside

CH41 5AL.

 

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Dear Heather,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Yours sincerely,

Susan Davis

Heather Stapleton,

I will be out of the office until Monday 19 April 2013. If your request is related to Board or Board Committees please contact Mike Games on ext. 1440 or Cathy Gallagher on ext. 3282. Alternatively I will respond to your e.mail on my return.