Information Governance Department NHS Forth Valley Colquhoun Street Medical Director’s Office Stirling FK7 7PX Telephone: 01786 433282 Date 20 September 2017 Mr David Smith Your Ref Our Ref FOI 0003674 What Do They Know.com Enquiries to Hilary Chalmers By Email Extension [email protected] Direct Line 01786 433284 Dear Mr Smith Request for Information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 We write in response to your enquiry under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act. I wish to know whether all in-patients have access within their room or ward, whenever needed, to the following disabled facilities; and if not, the number of beds where patients do not have ready access at all times, broken down by hospital and ward, noting the ISD Scotland classification of each. Response: The information you have requested is detailed in the table below which excludes the ISD classification: Forth Valley Royal Clackmannanshire Buildings owned by Hospital Community Health NHS Forth Valley Centre 1. Wheelchair accessible Yes Yes All toilets 2. Toilets at a suitable Yes Yes All height for wheelchair users 3. Bars or hand grips in the Yes Yes All toilets 4. Emergency cords in the Yes Yes All toilets 5. Disabled showering Yes Yes All facilities 6. Emergency cords beside No – Nurse call facility Yes All beds at all beds. Staff emergency call in each room 7. Automatic doors between No, All ensuite doors are No, None beds and toilets manual and open Ward 1/ 25 beds outwards Ward 2/ 20 beds Stirling Community Ward / Beds Hospital A11 / 32 Ward 1/ 10 beds A12 / 32 Ward 2/ 10 beds A21 / 30 Ward 3/ 24 beds Chairman: Alex Linkston CBE Interim Chief Executive: Fiona Ramsay Forth Valley NHS Board is the common name for Forth Valley Health Board Registered Office: Carseview House, Castle Business Park, Stirling, FK9 4SW www.nhsforthvalley.com Facebook.com/nhsforthvalley @nhsforthvalley A22 / 29 Ward 4/ 24 beds A31 / 32 Ward 5/ 11 beds A32 / 32 B11 /32 Falkirk Community B12 / 32 Hospital B21 / 13 Unit 1/ 24 beds B22 / 20 Unit 2/ 24 beds B23 / 32 Unit 3/ 20 beds B31 / 32 Unit 4/ 24 beds B32 / 32 Unit 5/ 22 beds 1 / 12 2 / 18 Bo’ness Community 3 / 24 Hospital 4 / 20 Unit 1/ 20 beds 5 / 20 Unit 2/ 20 beds 6 / 9 7 / 15 Bellsdyke Hospital 8 / 27 Hope House/ 6 beds Paediatrics / 25 Trystview/ 24 beds Paediatric Assessment / Trystpark/ 18 beds 7 Russell Park/ 12 beds Day Surgery / 14 Cardiology / 14 Lochview AAU 1 / 36 House 1/ 8 beds AAU 2 / 10 House 2/ 6 beds AAU 3 / 8 House 3/ 6 beds Intensive care / 21 Surgical Assessment / 8 Clinical Assessment / 16 8. Automatic doors No, see response to Q7 No, see response to Q7 for None, see response to between beds and for list of wards & bed lost of wards & bed Q7 for list of wards & showering facilities numbers numbers bed numbers 9. Hoists Yes Yes Mobile Hoists as required We trust this is to your satisfaction. However, under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 if you are dissatisfied with our response you are entitled to request a review. A request for review must be made in writing to Miss Deirdre Coyle, Head of Information Governance, NHS Forth Valley, CSD, Colquhoun Street, Stirling, FK7 7PX or [email protected], no later than forty working days from receipt of the response. Your request must be in permanent form and should state: • That you are asking for a review of this decision and • Why you are unhappy with the response you have received. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to ask for advice, assistance or a formal appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DS or www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal Please feel free to contact us should you require any further advice or assistance. Yours sincerely Hilary Chalmers Lead Freedom of Information Officer .