Hospital Chaplaincy Procedures

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Dear Powys Teaching Local Health Board,

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

FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), Powys Teaching Health Board

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Thank you for your email below requesting information. We will manage your request in accordance with the procedures laid down by the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please find attached leaflets produced by Powys teaching Health Board which explain our obligations in respect of this legislation.

We are currently dealing with your request and will write to you again shortly.

In the meantime if you have any queries then please contact me quoting the reference above.

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FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), Powys Teaching Health Board

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Please find attached our response to your request for information.

 

Mrs Amanda Smart

Records Manager / Data Protection / Freedom of Information

Address: Training Department, Bronllys Hospital, Bronllys, Brecon. Powys
LD3 0LS

 

Tel No:  01874 71(2763)

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