Hospital Chaplaincy Procedures

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Dear East and North Hertfordshire 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

Enh-tr Foi (EAST AND NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE NHS TRUST), East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

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From: Susan Davis [[FOI #154457 email]]
Sent: 25 March 2013 11:36
To: Enh-tr Foi (EAST AND NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE NHS TRUST)
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Hospital Chaplaincy Procedures

Dear East and North Hertfordshire 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

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