Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust

• Details of vehicles licensed with the DVLA
• Records and data management policies
• Current posts employed by the Trust
• Gender of staff employed by post
• Do you follow the EOC Code of Practice on Equal Pay?
• Have you carried out an equal pay audit on your terms and conditions of employment?
• Do you provide free personal protective equipment to staff?
• Did the Trust receive an EOC Equal Pay Review Kit?
• What steps has the Trust taken to implement the EOC Equal Pay Review Kit?
• Officer responsible for taking the lead in equal opportunities
• To which posts were bonuses paid in addition to basic (1997 to 2004)?
• How much were the bonuses as a % of basic pay?
• What were the conditions of service for entitlement to bonuses?
• Since when has the bonus scheme been in operation?
• What steps have been taken in respect of the gender impact of such a bonus scheme?
• With which union officials have discussed the issue of equal pay?
• What consideration to the gender impact for employees on Whitley terms and conditions?
• Do you employ any maintenance labourers?
• Do you employ any estates officers?
• Who carries out building maintenance for the Trust?
• Do you pay any recruitment and retention premia?
• For which posts have completed local assimilation under Agenda for Change?
• How do you plan to phase local assimilation - which posts and in which order?
• Has the Trust ever investigated introducing job evaluation?
• How much have you oaid external solicitors and counsel (2002 to date)?

• Copies of your Race Equality Scheme, action plan and review
• Number of contracts rewarded for security, facilities management, CCTV
• Information regarding possible dispersal of Trust finance department
• Copy of enclosure L of the 25/11/04 meeting relating to business case
• Copy of document relating to restructuring of the Estates department
• ESR (Erthrocyte Sedimentation Rate) analysis
• Urinalysis (urine dipstick testing)

• How many mortuary facilities are operated by your NHS Trust?
• What is the storage capacity of each mortuary facility?
• What excess capacity do you have for storage of human remains?
• How many bodies were stored (2003 to 2005)?
• Does your Trust retain any human cadavers for medical research or training purposes?
• What is the longest period that a body / remains have been stored?
• Does your Trust have a policy on the length of time that bodies are stored?
• What facilites do you have for the long term storage of human bodies in deep freeze?
• How many post mortems have taken place within the last 12 months?
• How many staff are employed within your mortuary facilities?
• Has your Trust ever used emergency facilities to store human remains?
• Has your Trust ever used a cold room / chapel / refridgerated container?
• What training do staff in the mortuary receive in bereavement counselling?
• How many complaints have been made in respect of mortuary services?
• Business Continuity Questionnaire

 
April  2005

• Ashford Hospital surgical infection rate statistics (from Q1 1999)
• Organisational structure and contact details for each department

• Contact for Clinical Director of Gastroenterology
• Copy of most recent Annual Report
• Copies of the full text of the relevant merger consent letters (since 1997)
• Contacts for finance departmental leads
• Copy of all information relating to parent (computer, paper and other media)
• Contracts, maintenance agreements or standing orders for surgical instruments

• Expenditure on ICT (2004/05 and 2005/06)
• Copy of assessment of patient made by A&E sister
• Copy of MRSA report / wound investigation for patient
• Does the Trust use generic or individual passwords to access major systems?

• Implementation of NHS Care Record Service at the Trust
• Copies of Public Health Report, Business Plan, Clinical Governance Report
• Do you have software to track DPA / FOI / EIR?
• Business improvement programmes at th Trust and methodology used
• Copy of winning tender for two-storey modular ward block and scoring matrix
• Questions relating to the impact of Agenda for Change
• Make and model of any car available for Chief Executive's personal use
• Questionnaire relating to catering, cleaning and portering operations

August 2005

• Questionnaire relating to corporate information, targets and budgets
• Questionnaire relating to urine collection and contamination 
• Trust expenditure on external executive coaching services (2004/05)
• Total  value for each participating company in tender

• Emergency and Intensive Care facilities at Ashford Hospital (post reconfiguration)
• Copy of Annual Report 2004/05
• Questionnaire relating to bed occupancy and theatre cancellations
• Copy of Trust's Infection Prevention and Control annual report

• Copies of photographs of MRSA
• Breakdown of bad debt written off for the past five years

• Estimated total number of MRSA cases diagnosed (past five years)
• Estimated total number of MRSA-connected deaths (past five years)
• Estimated total year end deficit (and any services cut as a result)
• % of emergency admissions from (west) Hounslow with COPD

• Names of patients who died with no next of kin (including size of estate)
• Further information on corneal transplants