Internal Reference Number: FOI_7350
Date Request Received: 03/08/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 09/08/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Maternity complaints by ethnicity
Request Category: Private Individuals
Question Number 1: The annual number of complaints made to the trust about the maternity care for the calendar years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. Please state the number of complaints fully upheld, partly upheld, and not upheld. Please provide the data broken down by the complainants’ ethnicity. In the simplest terms, please indicate what the nature of each complaint was. | |
Answer To Question 1: 2018 - 8 Complaints = <5 upheld, 5 partially upheld, <5 not upheld 2019 - 8 complaints = <5 upheld, <5 partially upheld, <5 not upheld 2020 - 7 complaints = 0 upheld, <5 upheld, <5 not upheld 2021 - 13 complaints = <5 upheld, 10 partially upheld, 0 not upheld 2022 - 17 complaints = 0 upheld, 7 partially upheld, 10 not upheld We do not store data on the complainant's ethnicity. The Trust does not hold this information in an easily reportable format. In order to provide the most accurate response, this would take us over 18 hours due to the manual work required to review the 53 complaints. Please see attached exemption notice. | |
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