Healthcare Operations department - information request

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust,

Please could you provide the following information:

How many staff do you currently employ to undertake RTT validation tasks?
How many more permanent or temporary staff are expected to be needed over the next 12 months?
How many open RTT pathways do you have currently?

How many staff do you currently employ to undertake clinical coding validation tasks?
How many more permanent or temporary staff are expected to be needed over the next 12 months?

Do you operate and utilise a live bed state system?
Has your organisation implemented any centralised or 24 hour bed management process, or have an automatic electronic utilisation data capture solution.
If so, which processes or solutions are in use?

What is the name, job title, and department contact email address of the primary decision maker for change control of the bed state process?

How many Urgent Care/Emergency Department staff have access to the spine lookup and validation service to verify demographics at the point of patient registration?

Yours faithfully,

Clive Townsend

Freedomofinformation (ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Mr Townsend,

We have received your further (second) Freedom Of Information request - Healthcare Operations department - on 18/12/2019. The Trust will apply Section 12
12. — (1) Section 1(1) to this second Freedom of Information request. The Trust is not oblige to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit. The position will be reviewed at the end of January 2020.

Kind Regards

Information Governance
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

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