The number of NHS staff that have returned to practice

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Lauren A. Smithson

Dear University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust,

Under the Freedom Of Information Act, I would like to request data on the number of Health Practitioners that have returned to the NHS under your Foundation Trust to support it during COVID-19, including retired practitioners who have returned to service and those who have rejoined the NHS.

Yours faithfully,

Lauren Smithson

FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

Our Reference: DP/FOI/44156

24 July 2020

Lauren Smith
[FOI #678738 email]

Dear Ms Smith

Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information, as received by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 21 July 2020. Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed centrally by the Corporate and Committee Services Team.

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20 working-day deadline. I will, of course, keep you informed should this not prove possible for any reason. If we require any clarification on your request, we will contact you as soon as possible.

All requesters are advised that the Trust may make a charge for providing the information to them, to cover the cost of photocopying, postage and packaging etc – I confirm that where these costs are below £5.00 in total, no charge will be made. All requesters are also advised that there may also be a charge payable to cover costs of locating the information they have requested, as laid down in the Freedom of Information Act Regulations published by the Government in December 2004. Naturally, if such a charge is to be applied to your request, you will be informed as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Devyani Pathak
Project Support Officer
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

Our Reference: DP/FOI/44156

12 August 2020

Lauren Smithson
[FOI #678738 email]

Dear Ms Smithson

Request for Information

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, which was received by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, on 21 July 2020 and acknowledged on the 24 July 2020. For information, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country. We have nearly 17,000 staff working across our three hospitals, the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester General Hospital, serving the 1.2 million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to three million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for specialist treatment. Excluding Alliance activity, during 2019/20 we treated 1,483,800 patients – that’s 4,054 patients each day.

Following consultation with colleagues from the Human Resources Directorate, I confirm that the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI request. In your Freedom of Information Act request, you asked for the following information and the Trust’s response is provided following each section of your request below:-

Under the Freedom Of Information Act, I would like to request data on the number of Health Practitioners that have returned to the NHS under your Foundation Trust to support it during COVID-19, including retired practitioners who have returned to service and those who have rejoined the NHS.

104 health staff returned to the Trust during COVID-19. This only includes registered healthcare professionals including those who returned to non-registered posts and retired practitioners. The data is from end of March to mid August 2020.

I hope that this response is helpful and provides you with the information requested (where available). If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are dissatisfied with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom of Information Act complaints procedure.

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. Accordingly you must not re-use this information without having the consent of the Trust. Where the Trust is prepared to provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the information is to be re-used.

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Tel: 0303 123 1113, website: www.ico.org.uk

Yours sincerely,

Devyani Pathak

Project Support Officer
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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