Annual costs for Health Care Professionals - 732/2020
The request relates to the provision of police custody/custodial healthcare (also variously referred to as ‘custody medical services’ or ‘custody healthcare services’ or ‘forensic medical service’ or ‘forensic healthcare services’ amongst others) as required by Code C of the Police & Criminal Evidence Act within the Dyfed-Powys Police custody suites or centres and is:
1. For the provision of your constabulary/force/service the total annual costs for the provision of custodial medical care in custody suites (sometimes known as “forensic medical services”) for each of the financial years 2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20. For the avoidance of doubt these figures should include:
• The detail of costs to the constabulary for healthcare of detainees (the need for whose assessment is determined by PACE Codes of Practice) provided by healthcare professionals (doctors, nurse or paramedics) employed by yourselves and/or any outsourced provider (this figure is to include all costs of locum healthcare professionals covering sickness, maternity or other leave)
• The administrative costs (to include infrastructure, personnel and any other relevant resources) to manage the custody healthcare service (and in the case of outsourced providers, the cost to the constabulary to manage that contract).
2. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20), provision of the numbers of examinations/assessments of detainees undertaken in the custody setting, including multiple assessments of the same detainee
3. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20) , provision of the number of examination/assessments of detainees done by each of the following types of healthcare professional (HCP) - doctor, nurse or paramedic
4. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20) , the name and details of the provider of custodial healthcare (if contracted to an independent commercial provider or NHS trust)
5. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20) , provision of the number of HCPs directly employed within each HCP group (ie doctor, nurse, paramedic) by your constabulary
6. For each of those years(2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20) , provision of the number of HCPs contracted within each HCP group (ie doctor, nurse, paramedic) by your constabulary or by any other provider of custodial healthcare
7. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20) , the minimum experience, training and qualification when recruiting for each HCP group (ie doctor, nurse, paramedic) required to work within your custody suites
8. Is the current clinical lead for custodial healthcare a doctor, nurse or paramedic?
9. Who is the employer of the current clinical lead?
10. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20) , the total number of detainees processed through your constabularies’ custody suites
11. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20), the number of full-time custody suites within your constabulary.
12. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20), the number of available cells (when all full-time custody suites are fully operational)
13. For each of those years (2017/2018, 2018/19 and 2019/20) , the numbers of deaths in custody that have been recorded.