FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02247
- Request Date
- February 27, 2018
- Subject
- Opthalmology Rooms & Sessions
- Description
1. Physical capacity
- How many ophthalmology testing/consulting rooms does your Trust have in total? (Please include outpatient rooms/testing cubicles/mobile testing facility rooms etc)
- How many theatre sessions does ophthalmology use per week?
- Do you use mobile facilities either on site or in the community (e.g. motorised or tow-able facilities)
- If you answered yes to question 3, how many rooms do these provide?
- If you answered no to question 3, do you have any plans to add mobile facilities?
- Do you offer NHS care at weekends – i.e. six or seven day working
2. Workforce Capacity
- How many ophthalmologists do you currently employ (all grades)?
Please state this in “Full Time Equivalent” (FTE) numbers - How many ophthalmology posts (all grades) are currently vacant?
Please state this in “Full Time Equivalent” (FTE) numbers - Are you experiencing recruitment difficulties in ophthalmology?
- If you answered yes to question 9, please tick all the grades and staff groups where you are experiencing recruitment difficulties
-ophthalmology consultant grades
-ophthalmology SAS grades (including specialist doctors and associate -specialists
-junior doctor grades
-medical training grades
-ophthalmic nurses
-optometrists
-contact lens opticians
-orthoptists
3. Department Management
- Do you have a departmental manager(s) for ophthalmology, and if so how many?
- How many years has he/she been in post? Please tick one box (if more than one manager answer based on the lead/head manager)
- Does he/she also manage other non-ophthalmic facilities?
- What is his/her Agenda for Change Pay band?
4. External Capacity
- Do you subcontract ophthalmology capacity from the independent sector?
- If you answered yes to question 15, please tick the statement(s) that apply
-on a planned/permanent/semi-permanent basis
-on an ad hoc short-term basis when there are pressures
-for specific waiting list type initiatives
5. Paying Patients
- Does your Trust provide or provide facilities for private ophthalmology services?
- Do your employed ophthalmologists practise in these?
- Do your employed ophthalmologists operate their own private practices from your premises?
- Do independent ophthalmology providers provide services from your premises?
- Response
1. Physical Capacity
- 14
- 19
- No
- N/A
- No
- Yes
2. Workforce Capacity
- 17
- 2
- We do not hold this information
- N/A
3. Department Management
- Yes, 1
- Over 2 years
- No
- This relates to a very small number of individuals and to provide further detail may breach their confidentiality. Therefore we are exempting this information as personal and applying section 40(2).
4. External Capacity
- No
- N/A
5. Paying Patients
- No
- No
- No
- No