Lothian NHS Board Waverley Gate 2-4 Waterloo Place EH1 3EG

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Date: 11/06/2018 Your Ref: Our Ref: 2676

Enquiries to : Richard Mutch Extension: 35687 Direct Line: 0131 465 5687 [email protected]

Dear

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – PYSCHIATRIC BEDS

I write in response to your request for information in relation to psychiatric beds within NHS Lothian.

I have been provided with information to help answer your request by the Psychiatry Department of NHS Lothian.

Question: • How many in-patient psychiatric beds the Health Board currently has (as of the start of this financial year); • How many in-patient psychiatric beds 5 years ago and 10 years ago;

Answer: The bed number situation is available in report R040LS via the Information Services Division (ISD) website ( http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Finance/Costs/ )

The available archive goes back to year ending March 2000.

This information is exempt under Section 25 of the Freedom of Information () Act 2002 - Information otherwise accessible (1) Information which the applicant can reasonably obtain other than by requesting it under section 1(1) is exempt information.

ISD have not confirmed the publication date for 2017/18, but it is normally the end of November.

Question: • The current exit/entry/access requirements/arrangements to those beds currently (ie. whether the ward is open with free entry/exit, locked entry but open exit, locked entry but keypad exit, locked entry and exit, monitored by nursing staff, etc)?

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Answer: Royal Edinburgh Building (REB) • Swipe cards in 10 REB • Swipe card and keypad in IPCU within REB

Royal Edinburgh Hospital (REH) wider site • Keys in all other areas of REH site. It is only the Ritson Clinic within Royal Edinburgh Hospital grounds that has is free entry, other areas are monitored/controlled by nursing staff.

St John’s Hospital Mental Health: • Ward 1 - 12 beds with swipe access [locked] • Ward 3 - 12 beds with swipe access [locked] • Ward 17 - 24 beds with swipe access [open] • Pentland Court - 12 beds key access [open]

Ferryfield House • Rowan is free access • Willow is a keypad exit and entry is push button.

Gindlay House • Fillieside is free access and • Prospectbank is keypad exit and entry is push button.

Midlothian Community Hospital • Rossbank ward and Glenlee ward (psychiatric in-patients) are both locked. Entry and exit is via swipe card controlled and monitored by staff.

I hope the information provided helps with your request.

If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner within 6 months of receipt of our review response. You can do this by using the Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office online appeals service at www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal . If you remain dissatisfied with the Commissioner’s response you then have the option to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of law.

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If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to the FOI Reviewer at the address at the head of this letter. The review will be undertaken by a Reviewer who was not involved in the original decision-making process.

FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian’s Freedom of Information website at: http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/YourRights/FOI/Pages/default.aspx

Yours sincerely

PROFESSOR ALEX MCMAHON Executive Director, Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs Cc: Chief Executive