FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02946
- Request Date
- January 30, 2019
- Subject
- Brexit 05/03/2019
- Description
1. Has your organisation appointed a senior responsible officer for EU Exit preparation? If so, who is it and what is their existing job title with the trust? 2. All NHS trusts and foundation trusts have been asked to undertake internal reviews/self-assessments of purchased consumables, goods and services (non-clinical) to understand any risks to operations if there is a disruption in supply in the event of a no-deal EU exit. Please send your trust’s review/self-assessment. 3. All NHS trusts and foundation trusts were asked to assess whether their organisation has incurred (or expects to incur) a reduction in the number of EU nationals in your workforce before the UK leaves the EU. Please confirm if you have carried out this assessment, and if you have please send the assessment. 4. All NHS trusts and foundation trusts were told to undertake local risk assessments to identify any staff groups or services that may be vulnerable if there is a shortfall of EU nationals. Please confirm if you have carried out such assessments, and if you have please send the assessments
- Response
1 Yes
Berenice Groves – Interim Executive Director of Operations2 Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has undertaken a risk assessment in preparation for a no deal EU Exit. This has covered the following domains:
• Medicines
• Vaccines & other public health issues
• Clinical Trials, Research & Clinical Networks
• Medical Devices and Clinical Consumables
• Non clinical consumables, goods and services
• Blood and Transplant
• Workforce
• Reciprocal Healthcare arrangements
• Data
As the risk assessment is reviewed and updated on a weekly basis it is not available at this point to share wider.
All issues have mitigations attached3 Please see attached document
4 Please see attached document