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1 Examples of Freedom of Information Requests Received by Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust May 2015 Reference Number Date Received Applicant Information Requested and Response /05/2015 Company Please can you confirm the list of medical equipment auctioned by the Trust in the year and the revenue generated, per item? No equipment was auctioned by the Trust in the Financial Year 2013/ /05/2015 Private Person 1. How much money has been paid out to staff working at your trust through compensation claims following accidents/injuries at work during the period outlined below? Please provide this information broken down by the following financial years (with the totals for each financial year included). 2010/ / / / /2015 I am not requesting information for the year that the incident occurred, but the year that the payment was made. 2. Please provide the separate amounts paid out for each case, and any detail you hold relating to the reason behind the claim (i.e detail of the injury). The NHS Trust does not pay compensation, this is paid by the NHS Litigation Authority therefore please contact them with your request. Their contact details can be found at the link below:

2 Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information, regarding the disposal of pregnancy remains (all pregnancy losses prior to 24 weeks) 1) How many times pregnancy remains where incinerated with clinical waste in: ) How many sensitive incinerations of pregnancy remains (where the remains are packaged, stored and incinerated separately from other clinical waste) were carried out by the Trust in: ) When a sensitive incineration is carried out, does the Trust have a policy on how the pregnancy remains are packaged before incineration (i.e. what receptacle are they placed in)? If so, could you provide me with details of that policy.

3 4) For the total number of cases of incineration of pregnancy remains (whether non-sensitive, or sensitive), could you please provide a breakdown of how many parents: Specified they wanted the incineration to occur Expressed no desire to be involved in the decision Did not express an opinion on the incineration within the 12 week timescale Other In each year. 5) The number of official complaints the Trust has received related to any aspect of pregnancy remains disposal whether incineration, sensitive incineration, cremation (shared or individual), burial (shared or individual), mother deciding to take remains home at any stage pre, during or post disposal, in the years: If you keep a record of the complaints, I d very much like to see a sample. We have not received any complaints in relation to how we dispose of pregnancy remains.

4 /05/2015 NHS I am currently doing some research on FOI management systems. Please can you tell me what system you currently use in your organisation for example, do you rely on an excel spreadsheet or access database, or do you have a separate system? If the latter, please can you confirm the name and provider of the system, how long you have had this system in place We can confirm that we use a Microsoft Access database for managing FOI requests /05/2015 Private Person Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you supply a figure for the number of patients in Intensive Therapy Units in your Trust who were offered hypothermia therapy in (a) 2013/14 and (b) 2014/15? The relevant OPCS code is X51.1. Nil patients On 28th May, I asked if, under the Freedom of Information Act, you could supply a figure for the number of patients in Intensive Therapy Units in your Trust who were offered hypothermia therapy in (a) 2013/14 and (b) 2014/15? (The relevant OPCS code is X51.1.) Could you, in your response, please also explain how many of these patients in each year were cooled via Surface cooling and how many by non surface (invasive) cooling? N/a nil patients /05/2015 Private Person I am requesting information about cyber attacks. By cyber attack I mean any unauthorised access to or deliberate disruption of a computer system or device owned or used by any health facility (including

5 hospitals, clinics or administrative offices) and associated administrative offices under your responsibility. 1) How many (if any) cyber attacks have there been in the last five years since 1 January 2010? 2) For each separate attack, please provide a. The type of attack b. The target of attack c. Any details you have as to the origin of the attack (country/ip address, etc.) d. The type of information accessed (if any) e. Whether the attack was reported to police authorities f. Whether the attack was reported to the Information Commissioner s Office g. Any internal measures taken as a result. The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has never recorded a cyber attack incident.