Smoking and mental health inpatient services

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Hello,

I hope you're well.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide separate information for each of your hospitals/facilities providing mental health inpatient services:

- Is the hospital smokefree (i.e. does not allow smoking anywhere on hospital grounds) and, if yes, what date did this happen?
- How many patients/service users have absconded/gone AWOL while on leave for each separate calendar year since 2000 (or for each year you have information)?
- Of these, how many patients/service users have absconded/gone AWOL while on leave to have a cigarette or where the report mentions cigarettes for each separate calendar year since 2000 (or for each year you have information)?
- When looking at all incident reports (not just those in which a patient absconded), how many incident reports mentioned "smoking", "smoke", "cigarette" or "lighter" a) in 2017, b) in 2018 and c) in 2019?

If this request will come in above the cost limit, please advise how I might refine it.

Yours faithfully,

Claire Wilde

PENNINECARE, Foi (PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust



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PENNINECARE, Foi (PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Claire

 

FOI ref: 2020/0076

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 14^th January 2020.

 

We will consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
You should receive a response within 20 working days - in this case, by
11^th February 2020. Please be aware, the information you have requested
may not be disclosed to you if it is exempt.

 

We will inform you if:

• we are unable to achieve the 20 working day deadline. We aim to give you
a revised due date as soon as possible.

• we are unable to give you the information as responding to your request
exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’. This would apply if it would take us
longer than 18 hours to retrieve, collate and provide the information you
request.

• your request (in full or in part) needs be transferred to another public
authority to obtain the information you have requested

 

For information regarding how we will handle your personal data as part of
our FOI process, please see the following address –
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let us know.

 

If you have any questions about this request, please contact me quoting
the reference number above.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Ceri Owen

Information Governance Administrator

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

225 Old Street

Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 7SR

Telephone: 0161 716 3147

Email: [email address]

SAR Team Email: [email address]

I.G Email: [email address]

Website: www.penninecare.nhs.net

 

 

 

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Hello, the following clarification of this request may be helpful:

To clarify questions 2 and 3, I would be looking for the number of occasions, rather than the number of individual patients.

I.E if one patient had failed to return from leave on three occasions that year, that this would count as 3 rather than 1 in the figures.

Kind regards,
Claire Wilde

PENNINECARE, Foi (PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust



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PENNINECARE, Foi (PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Good morning Claire

 

FOI ref: 2020/0076

 

Further to your email below, I can now respond to your request dated 14^th
January 2020.

 

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within Pennine
Care NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) to locate the requested information
and I can confirm that the information requested is held by the Trust.

 

- Is the hospital smokefree (i.e. does not allow smoking anywhere on
hospital grounds) and, if yes, what date did this happen?

 

Pennine Care share our Hospital Estate with a variety of Hospital/Acute
Service Providers. We are not the overall Hospital Site Managers so do not
hold this information and cannot answer this question.

 

We can confirm Pennine Care does not allow the use of tobacco in the
premises directly under our control.

 

- How many patients/service users have absconded/gone AWOL while on leave
for each separate calendar year since 2000 (or for each year you have
information)?

 

Please be advised, the Trust only holds this information going back to
2007.

 

Year Total
2007 2
2008 53
2009 280
2010 288
2011 391
2012 399
2013 308
2014 353
2015 301
2016 342
2017 301
2018 304
2019 320

 

 

- Of these, how many patients/service users have absconded/gone AWOL while
on leave to have a cigarette or where the report mentions cigarettes for
each separate calendar year since 2000 (or for each year you have
information)?

 

As above, the Trust only holds this information going back to 2007.

 

Year Total
2007 0
2008 0
2009 8
2010 6
2011 10
2012 23
2013 15
2014 9
2015 5
2016 7
2017 6
2018 8
2019 7

 

 

- When looking at all incident reports (not just those in which a patient
absconded), how many incident reports mentioned "smoking", "smoke",
"cigarette" or "lighter" a) in 2017, b) in 2018 and c) in 2019?

 

The Trust have provided this information for mental health inpatient
settings where an incident of any nature contained the words “Smoking” or
“Smoke” or “Cigarette” or “Lighter”.  Please note, where an incident
contained more than one of these key words (e.g. smoke and cigarette),
this has only been counted once.            

                                                                                   

Year Total
2017 570
2018 557
2019 696

                                                                       

 

 

 

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Should you have any further queries concerning this matter, please email,
write or contact the team on telephone number 0161 716 3147 quoting the
reference number above.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Sarah Browne

Senior Information Governance & Risk Officer

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

225 Old Street

Ashton-under-Lyne

OL6 7SR

 

Telephone: 0161 716 3146

 

Email:t[2][Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust request email]

Website: [3]www.penninecare.nhs.uk

 

 

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From: PENNINECARE, Foi (PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST)
Sent: 16 January 2020 09:37
To: Claire Wilde
Cc: PENNINECARE, Foi (PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST)
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Smoking and mental health
inpatient services

 

Dear Claire

 

FOI ref: 2020/0076

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 14^th January 2020.

 

We will consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
You should receive a response within 20 working days - in this case, by
11^th February 2020. Please be aware, the information you have requested
may not be disclosed to you if it is exempt.

 

We will inform you if:

• we are unable to achieve the 20 working day deadline. We aim to give you
a revised due date as soon as possible.

• we are unable to give you the information as responding to your request
exceeds the ‘appropriate limit’. This would apply if it would take us
longer than 18 hours to retrieve, collate and provide the information you
request.

• your request (in full or in part) needs be transferred to another public
authority to obtain the information you have requested

 

For information regarding how we will handle your personal data as part of
our FOI process, please see the following address –
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/foi.  If you require a printed copy, please
let us know.

 

If you have any questions about this request, please contact me quoting
the reference number above.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Ceri Owen

Information Governance Administrator

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

225 Old Street

Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 7SR

Telephone: 0161 716 3147

Email: [email address]

SAR Team Email: [email address]

I.G Email: [email address]

Website: www.penninecare.nhs.net

 

 

 

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