Hospital Chaplaincy Procedures

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Dear Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation 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

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Susan,

Many thanks for your email below requesting information from Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust regarding Hospital Chaplaincy Procedures.

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

If you have any queries about this request, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely
Sophie

Sophie Cain
Acting Legal Secretary
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Headquarters
Unit 8
The Point
Lions Way
Sleaford
NG34 8GG

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Dear Susan,

Further to your Freedom of Information Request as per your original email below. Please find attached Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust response. Also attached is Trust Policies and Chaplaincy Leaflet.

I hope this information is helpful.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to: FOI Department, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Units 8 & 9, The Point, Lions Way, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 8GG. If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Kind regards
Sophie Cain
Acting Legal Secretary
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Headquarters
Unit 8
The Point
Lions Way
Sleaford
NG34 8GG

CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addessed. Therefore if the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is strictly prohibited.  Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated.  The information contained in this E-Mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  Unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure, the confidentiality of this E-Mail and your reply cannot be guaranteed. 

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