Information regarding your current review of the Same Sex Accommodation Guidance (2019)

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Dear NHS England,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please provide any information that you hold pertaining to the following questions;

1) What is the aim of this review?
2) Which organisations or individuals have been invited to take part in your review?
3) Please detail the meetings with stakeholders you have had to date, including the names or attendees or organisations represented with dates and times allotted.
4) Please can you detail the terms of reference for this review.
5) When is this review due to be completed and published?
6) What actions will be taken to ensure full transparency is maintained for key stakeholders?

Yours faithfully,

L Ko

CONTACTUS, England (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24), NHS England

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FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24), NHS England

Dear L Ko,

Thank you for your communication dated 21 March 2022.

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FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24), NHS England

Dear L Ko,  

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 21 March
2022.

Your exact request was:

“This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 
Please provide any information that you hold pertaining to the following
questions;

1) What is the aim of this review?
2) Which organisations or individuals have been invited to take part in
your review?
3) Please detail the meetings with stakeholders you have had to date,
including the names or attendees or organisations represented with dates
and times allotted.
4) Please can you detail the terms of reference for this review.
5) When is this review due to be completed and published?
6) What actions will be taken to ensure full transparency is maintained
for key stakeholders?”

NHS England holds information in relation to your request. We will answer
your questions in turn below.

1) The aim is to improve patient privacy, dignity & safety of all patients
in all healthcare settings, through a review of current Delivering same
sex accommodation (2019) guidance, development of an improvement resource
for staff and a quality improvement programme

2) All organisations which are members of the Health and Wellbeing
Alliance were invited to take part in the review’s engagement process. In
addition, steering group members were requested to provide contact details
of additional organisations to ensure that patients with all protected
characterises were involved in engagement. During engagement meetings with
patient organisations, any additional organisation or individual nominated
by those attending was also contacted. A total of 20 organisations took
part in engagement. Nine individuals also emailed using the generic inbox
which presumably their own networks had shared.

3) Please see the table below:
 

Patient group Patient group Patient group Staff group
NHS Youth Forum Womens’ Budget Stonewall (21/2/22) & CNO Strategic
(13/12/21) Group (13/1/22) Stonewall Housing Advisory Group
(25/2/22) (16/12/21)
Faith Action Women’s Live Through This (by AHP representation
(16/2/22) Resource Centre email on 21/2/22) (22/2/22)
(14/2/22)
HOPE network Fair Play for Mermaids (22/2/22) NHS Ward Leaders
(16/2/22) Women (15/2/22) (23/2/22)
Race Foundation A Womans Place LGBT Foundation British Islamic
(18/2/22) UK (28/2/22) (22/2/22) Medical Association
(28.2.22)
LBG Alliance Parapride (25/2/22) Royal Colleges
  (28/2/22) (8/3/22)
   
  Sex Matters Opening Doors  
(28/2/22) (25/2/22)
Maternity Gendered Intelligence
  Action (email (by email on 11/3/22)  
on 28/2/22)

4) The steering group met 9 times prior and during engagement.

Role of the steering group

• ensure the delivery of the benefits of the project
• ensure the project delivers within its agreed parameters (e.g. time,
cost, organisational impact and expected benefits realisation etc.)
• resolve strategic and directional issues within the project, which
might need the input and agreement of senior stakeholders to ensure
the progress of the work
• support the resolution of escalated risks and issues
• oversee any external dependencies of the project
• provide formal approval in relation to deliverables and services
produced by the project

5) Engagement ended on 16 March 2022. All feedback is being collated into
a revised version of the Delivering same sex accommodation (2019) guidance
and an improvement resource for staff. It is anticipated that the writing
and publication will be complete in 2022. The EHIA will also be published.

6) The engagement summary will be published alongside the revised guidance
and improvement resource for staff.

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Please quote the reference number FOI-2203-1718580 in any future
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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Communications Team
Office of the Chairs, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
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