MHA s136
David Mery made this Freedom of Information request to South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust,
Please provide me with the following detail per month for the period of January 2012 to the most recent month this year for which you have the data, preferably in Excel-compatile format, and in electronic format in any case:
(1) The list of NHS s136 suites, as defined in the the Mental Health Act (MHA), per borough covered by the trust.
(2) The list of NHS A&E departments, per borough covered by the trust.
(3) The breakdown, per s136 suite, of the number of days the s136 has been opened that month.
(4) The breakdown, per s136 suite and A& department, of the number of individuals detained under s136 of the MHA brought to each of the trust's s136 suites and A&E departments.
(5) The number of individuals detained under s136 of the MHA and admitted to hospital in the boroughs covered by the trust, following an MHA assessment.
(6) The breakdown, per s136 suite and A& department, by type of vehicle the individuals detained under s136 of the MHA were conveyed to that place of safety (i.e., ambulance, police vehicle, or other)
(7) The breakdown, per s136 suite and A& department, by gender of individuals detained under s136 of the MHA and conveyed to that place of safety.
(8) The breakdown, per s136 suite and A& department, by age range of individuals detained under s136 of the MHA and conveyed to that place of safety.
(9) The breakdown, per s136 suite and A& department, by ethnicity of individuals detained under s136 of the MHA and conveyed to that place of safety.
(10) The breakdown, per s136 suite and A& department, of whether individuals detained under s136 of the MHA and conveyed to that place of safety were considered to be suffering from the effects of drink or drugs
(11) The breakdown, per s136 suite and A& department, of whether individuals detained under s136 of the MHA and conveyed to that place of safety were restrained
Yours faithfully,
David Mery
Dear Mr Mery
Thank you for your emailed request for information - this will now be considered and a response made to you promptly and within 20 working days of receipt.
Kind regards
John Hughes
Information Governance Manager
Information Services / IM&T Department
South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Springfield Hospital
Building 7A
61 Glenburnie Road
London SW17 7DJ
[email address]
Tel: 020 3513 6184
Fax: 020 3513 6845
Dear Mr Mery
I am writing in response to your recent request for information. Please see attached document which covers all 11 sections of your request plus details of the appropriate contacts within the Trust should you wish to discuss our response directly.
I hope this response satisfies your request in full. If you are not satisfied, you may appeal by setting out your concerns in writing for the attention of myself, the Information Governance Manager. In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the outcome of any appeal, you have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), although they will expect you to exhaust the Trust’s internal complaints policy before they will consider a case. For further details see: www.ico.gov.uk .
Yours sincerely
John Hughes
Information Governance Manager
Information Services / IM&T Department
South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Springfield Hospital
Building 7A
61 Glenburnie Road
London SW17 7DJ
[email address]
Tel: 020 3513 6184
Fax: 020 3513 6845
Dear John Hughes,
Many thanks for your response and the information provided.
As per my request, if the information is available on a monthly basis for the period covered I would appreciate these figures as well and not just the overall totals for the period covered as already provided.
Also I'd appreciate receiving the data for the three figures included as it is much easier than trying to figure out exactly what number corresponds to each bar.
Yours sincerely,
David Mery
David
Thanks for your email - I'll address these points and get back to you shortly.
Regards
John Hughes
Information Governance Manager
John,
When do you expect to be able to address these points by?
Yours sincerely,
David Mery
Dear South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust's handling of my FOI request 'MHA s136'.
Please address the points that John Hughes was going to address 'shortly' two months ago.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/m...
Yours faithfully,
David Mery
Dear Applicant
Thank you for your emailed request. I do apologise for not having responded to your follow up queries relating to our initial response to your FOI request. Rather than initiate a review process I will action the clarification you requested and respond to you as soon as possible.
As I understand it, you wish us to provide this additional information 9with reference to our initial response:
Figure 1 Details of actual numbers of detainees per month as you cannot determine these from the bar chart format provided;
Figure 2 Age and gender broken down by month and by actual numbers rather than in a bar chart format
Figure 3 Ethnicity profile broken down by month and by actual numbers rather than in bar chart format
I hope to have this additional data with you shortly.
Kind regards
John Hughes
Information Governance Manager
Information Services / IM&T Department
South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Springfield Hospital
Building 7A
61 Glenburnie Road
London SW17 7DJ
[email address]
Tel: 020 3513 6184
Fax: 020 3513 6845
Dear Hughes, John,
Yes please. Thank you for your apology. It would be more useful in your FoI responses to say by when you estimate you'll be able to provide the requested data than just 'shortly'.
Yours sincerely,
David Mery
Dear Mr Mery
Please find attached the additional information as requested.
Kind regards
John Hughes
Information Governance Manager
Information Services / IM&T Department
South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Springfield Hospital
Building 7A
61 Glenburnie Road
London SW17 7DJ
[email address]
Tel: 020 3513 6184
Fax: 020 3513 6845
Dear Mr Mery,
In July 2013 you submitted the following request to us for information
under the Freedom of Information Act:
Our Ref: Date Received Date Replied Subject Matter
FOI095/13 29 July 2013 21 August 2013 S136 Suite Statistics
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Records Information Officer
T: 020 3513 6106
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Information Services
IM & T Department
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Building 7A
Springfield University Hospital
61 Glenburnie Road
London
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