Freedom of Information Publication Scheme

About us

More in this section

• About us
• Who we are
  • Our organisation
  • Board of Directors
  • Non-executive directors
  • Council of Governors
  • Facts and figures
  • King's Health Partners
  • Who we work with
• Together we care - our strategy
• Our values
  • Our values
  • Showing we care
  • Background to our values
  • NHS Constitution
• Our quality story
  • Our Quality Story
  • Safe care
    • How our surgeons are performing
    • Helping diagnose patients with dementia
    • Screening for risk of blood clots
    • Screening our patients for MRSA
    • MRSA blood infections
    • C.difficile infections
    • Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio
    • Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator
    • Falls
    • Learning from when things go wrong
    • Safe staffing levels
    • New birth reviews within 14 days
  • Waiting times
    • Waiting times for treatment
    • Cancer: urgent appointments
    • Cancer: waiting for treatment to start
    • Cancer: waiting for second treatments
    • Cancer: maximum waiting times following GP referral
    • Maximum time for any treatment to start
    • Accident and emergency (A&E)
    • Diagnostic tests
  • Your feedback
    • Patient Friends and Family Test
    • Support and advice from PALS
    • Responding to complaints
    • Listening to you
    • Cleanliness, food, privacy and our facilities
    • Asking patients to rate their surgery
    • Trust surveys
    • NHS website
    • Patient Opinion
    • iWantGreatCare website
    • Your privacy and dignity
    • Asking patients what they think
  • Money
    • Our financial rating
    • Our annual accounts
    • Financial report
    • Payments to suppliers
  • Reports
    • Involving patients in research studies
    • Annual report and quality accounts
    • Inspections by the Care Quality Commission
  • Our staff
    • What our staff think about working here
    • Staff Friends and Family Test
  • For professionals
    • For professionals
• Our history
  • Overview
  • In photos 1940-1960
  • Research on our recent history
  • Experts through the ages
  • Art in the hospitals
  • Florence Nightingale
• Patient and public engagement
• Equality and diversity
  • Embracing equality and diversity
  • Our strategy
  • Join our equality panel
  • NHS Rainbow Badges
  • Sunflower lanyards
  • Reports
• Part of the community
  • Overview
  • Reducing our impact on the environment
  • Local employment
  • Local procurement
• Adult local services programme
• Publications
  • Publications
  • Annual reports and statutory publications
  • Board papers
    • 2020 Board papers
    • 2019 Board papers
    • 2018 Board papers
    • 2017 Board papers
    • 2016 Board papers
  • Freedom of Information
    • Freedom of Information (FoI) Act
    • Freedom of Information Publication Scheme
    • FOI satisfaction survey
    • Caldicott Guardian
    • Payments to our suppliers
  • The GiST magazine
  • The medicines formulary
• Join our Trust forums
• Digital transformation programme
• Improving care for patients with heart and lung disease
• Emergency preparedness
• Online payment
• Awards

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, every public authority has a duty to specify what information they publish, how the information is made available and whether it is free or if there is a charge.  

Our publication scheme explains what information we provide to the public. Wherever possible, we will make it it easy for you to access. The information is provided in a set format, classed into the seven categories below.

Information categories

• Who we are and what we do

  1. How we fit into the NHS structure – see the who we are section
  2. Organisational structure – download our organisational structure chart (PDF 385Kb)
  3. List of, and information relating to, organisations with which the authority works in partnership – see information on our partners
  4. Senior staff and management board members – download the organisational structure chart (PDF 1.9Mb) or see the Board of Directors page
  5. Location and contact details for all public facing departments – see our services and Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) page

• What we spend and how we spend it

  1. Annual statement of accounts – see our annual reports page
  2. Budgets and variance reports – see the board meeting minutes for our monthly finance reports
  3. Financial audit reports – as above, see our annual reports page
  4. Standing financial instructions. See the board meeting minutes for the latest standing financial instructions  
  5. Capital programme – see our board meeting minutes for the latest reports
  6. Staff pay and grading structures – See the pay scales structure on the NHS Employers website
  7. Our expenditure – see our payments to suppliers page, which gives monthly reports of the payments we have made to suppliers

• What our priorities are and how we are doing

  1. Reports and business planning – useful documents can be found under the publications section and in our monthly board papers
  2. Our overall performance – see our monthly board papers and annual reports page
  3. Declarations of compliance – see our statutory documents
  4. Audit reports – audit committee minutes are available to download from the board meeting minutes

  5. We report on the full range of our clinical and non-clinical performance indicators in our Integrated quality and performance report which can be found in our board papers and through regular updates to Our quality story

• How we make decisions

  1. Board papers – agenda, supporting papers and minutes
  2. Patient and public involvement strategy (PPI) - see our members section for ways to get involved
  3. Public consultations (for example concerning closures/variations of services) – see our publications section and board minutes

• Our policies and procedures

  Specific policies and procedures are available on request. Electronic or single print copies are free of charge. To request a policy or procedure, please email foi@gstt.nhs.uk.

• Lists and registers

  Please email our Freedom of Information team at foi@gstt.nhs.uk or write to the information governance team: first floor, North Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH. 

• Services we offer

  1. Clinical and non clinical services provided and/or commissioned – see our services section
  2. Patient information leaflets and other booklets and newsletters – see our patient publications page
  3. Patient advice and liaison service (PALS) – see the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) page for more information
  4. Advice and guidance – see our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) page
  5. Corporate communications and media releases – see our news and events section

Request information 

If you need information not available via the Publication Scheme, please contact us.

Archives

Records that we no longer need for business purposes are stored at the London Metropolitan Archives:

Tel: 020 7332 3820
Email: lma@corpoflondon.gov.uk
Address: 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB