Freedom of Information disclosures 2022
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The Department receives and answers an array of FOI requests each year. In this section you will find examples of the type of requests received and answers given for 2022.
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Documents
- DOH/2022 - 0266 - Organisations licensed under Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986
- DOH/2022 - 0265 - DoH Press Office/communications staff with Professor Mark Taylor in respect of WHSCT/SWAH emergency surgery situation from 1 October and 31 December 2022.
- DOH/2022 - 0263 - Data on stillbirths, neonatal deaths and maternal deaths
- DOH/2022 - 0262 - Full-time equivalent salaries funded in the 2022 / 2023 financial year by European Structural Funds
- DOH/2022 - 0261 - Documentation including communication between the Southern Health and Social Care Trust and all sections within the Department of Health in relation to the Valley Nursing Home closure since 1 July 2022 to date
- DOH/2022 - 0260 - Adult Safeguarding Policy
- DOH/2022 - 0259 - Local Treatment Guidelines for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- DOH/2022 - 0258 - Guidance and application for the clinical risk management of Health IT Systems for healthcare organisations within Northern Ireland
- DOH/2022 0257 - Speech and Language Therapy
- DOH/2022 - 0255 - Mandatory Covid vaccines for healthcare staff
- DOH/2022 - 0254 - Emails between DoH, Minister, CSA and CMO between 21/421 and 17/11/21 re 'Domestic Covid Certification System'
- DOH/2022 - 0253 - Prevalence of Fibromyalgia
- DOH/2022 - 0250 - Review of Regional Gender Identity Service Feedback Report
- DOH/2022 - 0249 - Data on membership of health trust boards
- DOH/2022 - 0245 - MFDs
- DOH/2022 - 0244 - Senior IT Staff
- DOH/2022 - 0243 - Catheters
- DOH/2022 - 0242 - Spend on Wound Dressing
- DOH/2022 - 2041 - Political Party Websites
- DOH/2022 - 0240 - Sleep Apnoea
- DOH/2022 - 0239 - Masurement of internal radon concentrations in all buildings used by departmental staff
- DOH/2022 - 0238 - Cardiac Related Death Statistics
- DOH/2022 - 0236 - A and E Waiting Times
- DOH/2022 - 0233 - Nursing leavers and vacancies
- DOH/2022 - 0231 - Antidepressant usage
- DOH/2022 - 0230 - David Bell Exercise Cygnus
- DOH/2022-0228 - Patients travelling to Great Britain for treatment since 2017
- DOH/2022 - 0227 - Various questions
- DOH/2022 - 0225 - Funding Allocation - Emerge Concert
- DOH/2022 - 0224 - Collaborative Messaging Apps
- DOH/2022 - 0222 - Opt-out(s)/removals of consent - Electronic Records
- DOH/2022-0223 - ROI Reimbursement Scheme Information
- DOH/2022 - 0221 - Evidence upon which Minister based his comments about deaths in Clogher Valley Nursing Home
- DOH/2022 - 0220 - GP Practice Based Counselling Information
- DOH/2022 - 0218 - Communications regarding ECS/NIECR complaint
- DOH/2022 - 0216 - Details of social media management and monitoring information
- DOH/2022 - 0212 - Eating Disorder Service Commissioning Statements
- DOH/2022 - 0211 - Total funding supplied by the DoH to organisations supporting female victims of domestic abuse from April 21 to March 22
- DOH/2022 - 0210 - Recorded vaccines injuries and deaths
- DOH/2022 - 0209 - Vacant Buildings
- DOH/2022 - 0208 - Government rules/regulations - Covid-19 vaccine trials
- DOH/2022 - 0206 - Contraceptive Implants
- DOH/2022 - 0204 - Vaccination Status of Deaths and Hospitalisations
- DOH/2022 - 0203 - Clinical Staff who has sustained a workplace musculoskeletal disorder
- DOH/2022 - 0201 - Harpers Law
- DOH/2022 - 0200 - Email Requests
- DOH/2022 - 0199 - Policy in respect of Violence Against Women and Girls
- DOH/2022 - 0198 - Baby deaths and brain injuries
- DOH/2022-0197 - Review of SAI Process
- DOH/2022 - 0161 and 0196 - Vaccine Damage Payment details
- DOH/2022 - 0195 - Equality Diversity and Inclusivity
- DOH/2022 - 0194 - Hospitalisation and death from flu
- DOH/2022 - 0193 - Temporary Promotions
- DOH/2022-0192 - IVF & Transgender Fertility
- DOH/2022 - 0190 - Lakewood Secure Care Centre
- DOH/2022 - 0188 - Primary Care Pathways Lower GI
- DOH/2022 - 0186 - Emerge Concert details
- DOH/2022 - 0185 -Engagement between the Department and an organisation known as “Ugly Mugs” for work undertaken by the Department in furtherance of its report
- DOH/2022 - 0184 - Matters of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- DOH/2022 - 0183 - Staff members on a Visa
- DOH/2022 - 0181 - Government spend on CARE badges
- DOH/2022 - 0180 - Removal of compulsory masks
- DOH/2022 - 0179 - Coronavirus Protocol
- DOH-2022 - 0178 - RVH Trauma Unit
- DOH/2022 - 0177 - Deaths and COVID-19 vaccination
- DOH/2022 - 0176 - Consultant Contracts
- DOH/2022 - 0175 - Collins - Response Letter
- DOH/2022 - 0153, 0154 and 0174 - Media Queries/FOI responses
- DOH/2022 - 0173 - Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- DOH/2022 - 0172 - Letter dated 6 September 2021 sent to UK CMOs
- DOH/2022 - 171 - Deaths from hypothermia
- DOH/2022 - 0169 - Respiratory cases
- DOH/2022 - 0168 - Total cost to the Department of Health to establish and run the Covid-19 drive in PCR testing centres
- DOH/2022 - 0167 - PR Photography Costs
- DOH/2022 - 0165 - Current age profiles of GPs in the Western Trust
- DOH/2022 0164 - Moates Military Aid
- DOH/2022 - 0163 - Ferguson - Response Letter
- DOH/2022 - 0162 - Spend on Pathology or Laboratory Testing
- DOH/2022 - 0160 - Diversity Champions
- DOH/2022 - 0159 - Cases of heart ailments
- DOH/2022 - 0158 - Healthcare Ireland Limited
- DOH/2022 - 0156 - IBD & Arthritis Guidelines
- DOH/2022 - 0155 - European Medicines Agency (EMA) licenses of Covid vaccinations used in Northern Ireland
- DOH/2022 - 0151 - Independent Inspection of Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service
- DOH/2022 - 0149 - Children in Care
- DOH/2022 - 0148 - School of Dentistry costs
- DOH/2022 - 0147 - New cases of cancer, auto immune diseases and strokes
- DOH/2022 - 0144 - Valley Nursing Home
- DOH/2022 - 0143 - Multi-Functional Devices
- DOH/2022 - 0137 - Number of people in receipt of Continuing Health Care
- DOH/2022 - 0136 - Immigration Enforcement Correspondence
- DOH/2022 - 0136 - Immigration Enforcement Correspondence
- DOH/2022 - 0135 - (NICE) guidance recently published in England on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- DOH/2022 - 0134 - Special Recognition Payment
- DOH/2022 - 0133 - First Annual Report from the Mental Health Champion (MHC) for Northern Ireland
- DOH/2022 - 0132 - Covid-19 Vaccination Status
- DOH/2022 -131 - Glyphosate Queries
- DOH/2022 - 0130 - Mouth Cancer
- DOH/2022 - 0129 - Information relating to Trust Agency and Bank Staff Expenditure
- DOH/2022 - 0127 - MFD Contracts
- DOH/2022 - 0124 - Outsourced Healthcare Information
- DOH/2022 - 0123 - Face Coverings in GP or Hospital Settings
- DOH/2022 - 0120 - Renal Cell Carcinoma
- DOH/2022 - 0119 - Adult persons affected by adoption
- DOH/2022-0117 - ROI Reimbursement Scheme
- DOH/2022 - 0116 - Kidney Stone surgery
- DOH/2022 - 0115 - Gallstone surgery
- DOH/2022 - 0113 - Continuing Healthcare Funding
- DOH/2022 - 0112 - GP Workforce Information
- DOH/2022 - 0111 - Contact Details
- DOH/2022 - 0109 - CO2 monitors
- DOH/2022 - 0107 - Use of Naswar2
- DOH/2022 - 0102 - Hospital beds
- DOH/2022 - 0101 - Suicide Statistics
- DOH/2022 - 0096 - Policy guidance under which staff in children's homes are governed
- DOH/2022 - 0094 - Costs detailed in the Mental Health Strategy Funding plan are based on the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
- DOH/2022-0092 - Bariatric Surgery
- DOH/2022-0091 - Elderly Care Home Local Authority Fee Rates 2022-23
- DOH/2022-0089 - Community Pharmacy & GP Contracts
- DOH/2022 - 0087 - Funing to Queen's University
- DOH/2022 - 0086 - Use of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (Nuvaxovid)
- DOH/2022 - 0085 - Was an emergency declared in March 2020 due to Sars Cov-2
- DOH/2022 - 0083 - Multi Disciplinary Teams
- DOH/2022-0080 - Young People on the Child Protection Register
- DOH/2022 - 0078 - Covid certification scheme - Costs and details
- DOH/2022-0077 - Abortion Services
- DOH/2022 - 0075 - Hospital admission data reported by days of positivity to SARS-CoV-2 since admission
- DOH/2022 - 0074 - Costs - Vaccine Passport System
- DOH/2022-0073 - Extra Contractual Referrals (ECRs)
- DOH/2022 - 0072 - Number of Diabetics in Northern Ireland
- DOH/2022 - 0071 - Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal
- DOH/2022 - 0070 - Front Line Experience
- DOH/2022-0068 - Social Care Policies
- DOH/2022 - 0067 - GPs Telephone System
- DOH/2022 - 0066 - Ministers approval to temporarily pause phase 2
- DOH/2022 - 0065 - Paediatric Pathology Services
- DoH/2022 - 0063 - Department of Health’s total budget and allocated resource for elective care
- DOH/2022 - 0062 - Various questions relating to immigrants
- DOH/2022 - 0059 - Contracted - Catering, Cleaning, Security, Technical Services (this includes and planned or reactive repairs & maintenance) and facilities management services
- DOH/2022 - 0058 - Reciprocal Health Agreement with Guernsey
- DOH/2022 - 0057 - Impact of Covid-19 on FOI Responsiveness
- DOH/2022 - 0056 - Breakdown for elective care
- DOH/2022 - 0055 - Cost of Living Crisis
- DOH/2022 - 0050 - Vaccine Passports
- DOH/2022 - 0049 - The tendering process for PCR Testing Centres for Covid 19 etc.
- DOH/2022 - 0048 - Public Health Agency Gambling
- DOH/2022 - 0047 - Children with Covid 19
- DOH/2022 - 0046 - Surgeons who are qualified and funded by the NHS to carry out Liposuction
- DOH/2022 - 0045 - Data for the use of stents in Northern Ireland from 2015 to 2022
- DOH/2022 - 0044 - Information or advice given to the Prison service/ Department of Justice on Mandatory testing for Covid
- DOH/2022 - 0043 - Questions on Clifton Nursing Home, Dunmurry Manor and the RQIA
- DOH/2022-0042 - Children's Psychiatric Services
- DOH/2022 - 0041 - CAMHS Inpatient services
- DOH/2022 - 0040 - Health Expenditure
- DOH/2022 - 0039 - IT Devices
- DOH/2022 - 0038 - List of the land and property the department owns which are unused, vacant or derelict
- DOH/2022 - 0037 - Ministerial Coordination Group
- DOH/2022 - 0034 - Funding Plan attached to the 10-year Mental Health Strategy
- DOH/2022 - 0032 - ICT Documents
- DOH/2022 - 0030 - Access to healthcare for the homeless population
- DOH/2022 - 0028 - SARS-Cov2 Virus
- DOH/2022 - 0026 - The COVIDCertNI app
- DOH/2022 - 0024 - The use of Covid-Status Certification in order to limit the spread of COVID-19
- DOH/2022 - 0023 - Vaccination Status of Deaths and Hospitalisations
- DOH/2022 - 0022 - Risk assessment for generalised face mask wearing in a public setting
- DO/2022 - 0019 - How many equality and Economic Impact Assessments have been 1) started 2) completed by Department of Health NI since March 2020?
- DOH/2022 - 0018 - Vaccination Status of Deaths and Hospitalisations
- DOH/2022 - 0017 - Further Information on Exercise Alice
- DOH/2022 - 0015 - Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- DOH/2022 - 0015 - Costs incurred for the implementation of the domestic Covid certificate
- DOH/2022 - 0013 - Clinical and social care negligence cases
- DOH/2022 - 0009 - Vaccination Status
- DOH/2022 - 0008 - Hospital admissions
- DOH/2022 - 0007 - List of companies using the PCR test in Northern Ireland
- DOH/2022 - 0006 - Number of hospital admissions from 2010 to 2022
- DOH/2022 - 0005 - Covid-19 Deaths
- DOH/2022 - 0003 - Evidence of an isolated and purified Covid-19 virus
- DOH/2021 - 0002 - Total Number of Deaths related to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland
- DOH/2021 - 0001 - Legislative Process for introducing minimum unit pricing of Alcohol