IT Training for Doctors

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Dear Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust,

I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act. For the purposes of the Act, please take the date of your receipt of this request as 18 October 2019.

Please provide answers to the following questions:

1) How long (no. of hours) is your IT Training (on patient systems) for doctors on induction?
2) Is the training face to face, eLearning or a combination of both?
3) Is the doctors IT Training (on patient systems) completed prior to arrival or once the doctor arrives at the hospital?
4) How is this training funded? Are doctors paid for their time or given time off in lieu?
5) Do doctors get any support from the IT Trainers following their initial training? e.g. floorwalkers/coaching/mentoring

Please do not delay your response on the basis that you cannot provide some or any of the information for any one of the items above; I am happy for you to provide partial information in a timely manner, on the understanding that you will provide more complete information as soon as it is available.

I would be grateful if you would send me the requested information promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth working day following the date of receipt of my request.
If my request is denied in whole or in part, or if specific items within the responses are withheld from disclosure, then you must justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the Act, as per Section 17 of the Act. Where you rely on a qualified exemption to withhold disclosure, you are obliged to consider the public interest in your decision and the refusal notice must explain not only which exemption applies and why, but also the public interest arguments addressed in reaching the decision

Yours faithfully,

Louise Bendell

LG, Foi (LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST), Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust



 

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LG, Foi (LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST), Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Dear Louise Bendell

 

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information received by the
Trust on 17 October 2019. Your request will be dealt with under the terms
of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and you should expect your response
by 14 November 2019.

 

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about this as soon as possible.

 

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Yours Sincerely,

Freedom of Information Team

 

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Directorate of Nursing and Clinical Quality

RA Team/Information Governance

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LG, Foi (LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST), Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

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Dear Louise Bendell

 

Please find attached the response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Freedom of Information Team

 

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Directorate of Nursing and Clinical Quality

RA Team/Information Governance

1^st Floor

Estates Building

Lewisham High Street

Lewisham

London

SE13 6LH

 

For FOI Queries please contact UHL 0208 333 3000

 

Remember the 7 Caldicott Principles

The Caldicott Guardian is a senior person responsible for protecting the
confidentiality of patient and service user information and enabling
appropriate information sharing.

 

Our Caldicott Guardian is Professor Martin Crook.

 

For more information- [1]http://lgnet/caldicott-guardian

 

 

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