Corona Virus infection CONTROL

Waiting for an internal review by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust of their handling of this request.

Dear George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust,
Could you please answer the following questions with Regards to this freedom of information request.
1.Can you please clarify if ITU has been closed down and cleaned due to the findings of a Patients being diagnosed with corona virus?
2.Does thevTrust have a new infection control policy for corona virus other than the normal infection control policy? If so could you please forward me a copy of the policy.
3.Does A and E have an isolation pod for the assessment of perceived corona virus Patients and are staff screened at regular intervals who work within the isolation pod?
4.Does the Trust have a new mandatory training module for corona virus other than the normal infection control mandatory training?
5.Does the Trust have an infectious diseases unit or will corona disease patients be nursed in side rooms in isolation on general medical wards?
6.How much money has the Trust spent on PPEs and other equipment and bio hazard suits for the care of corona disease patients please give financial statistics for the past 4 callendar week's?
7.Are bank nurses on a nursing bank contract only expected to care for corona virus patients?
8.Have all the patients that were in itu where a patient was diagnosed with the disease have they all been screened for corona virus? and have all visitors been stopped for visiting these Patient's?
9. Can you please clarify if any nursing staff and other staff have been screened for corona virus and if so how many?
10.Is there always medical staff on stanby dressed in bio hazard suits waiting to assess perceived corona virus patients?

Yours faithfully,

Alison Stevens

Freedom of Information,

Ref No: GEH 1920 538 Acknowledgement

Dear Ms Stevens

Thank you for your email received 9th March 2020 requesting information.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

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FOI Team
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
College Street | Nuneaton | Warwickshire | CV10 7DJ

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Dear Freedom of Information,
I am requesting an internal review into the Trust non compliance with regards to my Freedom of Information Request.
By Law you had a duty to comply via 7th April 2020.

Yours sincerely,

Alison Stevens

Freedom of Information,

Dear Alison,

Please accept my apologies that you have not received the requested information within the usual timeframe.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic Freedom of Information requests and internal reviews may be delayed due to urgent operational responses to dealing with Public Health priorities. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, we do remain committed to responding to your request and will respond as soon as we are able.

If you are unsatisfied with this response you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office and you can contact them at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/offi... . We thank you for your understanding during this extraordinary time.

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Kind Regards,

Ben Wilczynski
Information Governance Manager & Data Protection Officer
[email address]
Tel: 02476 378 512

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
College Street| Nuneaton | Warwickshire | CV10 7DJ 
“our vision is to EXCEL at patient care"

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Dear Freedom of Information,
Please continue with my request for an internal review.

Yours sincerely,
Alison Stevens.

Alison Stevens

Dear Freedom of Information,
I am requesting an internal review into the Trusts blatant disregard and non compliance with Regards to this freedom of information request.
Which was sent in April 2020 .
I will now report this non compliance to the information commissioner.

Yours sincerely,

Alison Stevens