IT budget and inspections

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Dear Healthcare Improvement Scotland,

Can you please give me an indication of your current FY IT budget and which IT systems you use to support and manage inspections? Also can you please confirm the average number of inspectors and inspections per year?

Yours faithfully,

Monika Wisniewska

HIS, Comments (NHS HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND),

Dear Ms Wisniewska

Thank you for your freedom of information request received by Healthcare Improvement Scotland today, 20 March 2017.

I can confirm that your request is now being processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).

Healthcare Improvement Scotland will respond to you as soon as possible, but must legally do so within 20 working days from the date of receipt of your request. You are therefore due a response by no later than close of business on Monday 17 April 2017.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me on the telephone number given, quoting our reference number, FOI 653.

Kind regards

Patrick Maitland-Cullen.

Patrick Maitland-Cullen | Health Information Scientist (Freedom of Information Officer)

Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Gyle Square | 1 South Gyle Crescent | Edinburgh | EH12 9EB

t: 0131 623 4605 | text phone: 0131 623 438
e: [email address]

www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org

The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate, Scottish Health Council, Scottish Health Technologies Group,
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the Scottish Medicines Consortium are part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

This correspondence is intended for the named recipient. If it is received or accessed by any individual or organisation other than stated, the recipient must treat the information contained in the correspondence as confidential and dispose of it appropriately.

Please note: as a public body, Healthcare Improvement Scotland may be required to make available emails as well as other written forms of information as a result of a request made under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

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MAITLAND-CULLEN, Patrick (NHS HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND),

Dear Ms Wisniewska

 

Further to your freedom of information request received please find a
number of points below on which we'd be grateful for clarification or
comment:

 

1. We read the request as relating to financial year 2016/17.

 

2. Are you requesting the corporate IT budget, i.e. that for the
organisation overall?

 

3. Are you looking for a list of all IT systems that may have a role in
supporting and managing inspections ie CRM, Microsoft licences/software,
servers, hardware, phones, VPN tokens and so on? Most of these systems
support all corporate activities and not just inspections.

 

Are you instead looking for systems that are specific to inspection
activity?

 

4. We can provide current figures for inspectors employed, and possibly
snapshots at yearly intervals. Would this answer your question? How many
years do you seek information for? Are you looking for figures on staff
covering independent healthcare or the NHS, or both?

 

5. As inspections are based wholly on risk there is no set 'average'
number of inspection, if that is the implied approach. We can provide
information on numbers of inspections by financial year. How many years do
you seek information for?

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Kind regards

 

Patrick Maitland-Cullen.

 

 

Patrick Maitland-Cullen | Health Information Scientist (Freedom of
Information Officer)

 

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Gyle Square | 1 South Gyle Crescent | Edinburgh | EH12 9EB

 

t: 0131 623 4605 | text phone: 0131 623 438

e: [email address]

 

www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org

 

The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate, Scottish Health Council, Scottish
Health Technologies Group,

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the Scottish Medicines
Consortium are part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

 

This correspondence is intended for the named recipient. If it is received
or accessed by any individual or organisation other than stated, the
recipient must treat the information contained in the correspondence as
confidential and dispose of it appropriately.

 

Please note: as a public body, Healthcare Improvement Scotland may be
required to make available emails as well as other written forms of
information as a result of a request made under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002.

 

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MAITLAND-CULLEN, Patrick (NHS HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND),

Dear Ms Wisniewska

 

Further to the email below, sent on 22 March, this is a reminder that we
would be grateful for clarification on several points of your freedom of
information enquiry. This will allow us to start processing the request.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me about any aspect of these questions.

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Kind regards

 

Patrick Maitland-Cullen.

 

Patrick Maitland-Cullen | Health Information Scientist (Freedom of
Information Officer)

 

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Gyle Square | 1 South Gyle Crescent | Edinburgh | EH12 9EB

 

t: 0131 623 4605 | text phone: 0131 623 438

e: [1][email address]

 

[2]www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org

 

The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate, Scottish Health Council, Scottish
Health Technologies Group,
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the Scottish Medicines
Consortium are part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

 

This correspondence is intended for the named recipient. If it is received
or accessed by any individual or organisation other than stated, the
recipient must treat the information contained in the correspondence as
confidential and dispose of it appropriately.

 

Please note: as a public body, Healthcare Improvement Scotland may be
required to make available emails as well as other written forms of
information as a result of a request made under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002.

 

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Dear MAITLAND-CULLEN, Patrick (NHS HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND),

Please see the clarification responses to your questions:

2. Are you requesting the corporate IT budget, i.e. that for the
organisation overall?- yes please

3. Are you looking for a list of all IT systems that may have a role in
supporting and managing inspections ie CRM, Microsoft licences/software,
servers, hardware, phones, VPN tokens and so on? Most of these systems
support all corporate activities and not just inspections.- just software systems e.g.. Ms Office etc.

Are you instead looking for systems that are specific to inspection
activity?- yes, relating to managing inspection processes

4. We can provide current figures for inspectors employed, and possibly
snapshots at yearly intervals. Would this answer your question? - yes please, current number of inspectors is fine.
How many years do you seek information for?- just current or previous year
Are you looking for figures on staff covering independent healthcare or the NHS, or both?- ideally both

5. As inspections are based wholly on risk there is no set 'average'
number of inspection, if that is the implied approach. We can provide
information on numbers of inspections by financial year. How many years do
you seek information for?- last financial year is enough

Thank you in advance,

Yours sincerely,

Monika

MAITLAND-CULLEN, Patrick (NHS HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND),

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Dear Ms Wisniewska

 

Further to your email below, please find our response letter attached:

 

·         FOI 653 Letter v 1 0

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Patrick Maitland-Cullen.

 

 

Patrick Maitland-Cullen | Health Information Scientist (Freedom of
Information Officer)

 

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Gyle Square | 1 South Gyle Crescent | Edinburgh | EH12 9EB

 

t: 0131 623 4605 | text phone: 0131 623 438

e: [email address]

 

www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org

 

The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate, Scottish Health Council, Scottish
Health Technologies Group,

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the Scottish Medicines
Consortium are part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

 

This correspondence is intended for the named recipient. If it is received
or accessed by any individual or organisation other than stated, the
recipient must treat the information contained in the correspondence as
confidential and dispose of it appropriately.

 

Please note: as a public body, Healthcare Improvement Scotland may be
required to make available emails as well as other written forms of
information as a result of a request made under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002.

 

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