FOI/25/398

Request

As part of a piece of work I am undertaking to review the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy services offered by NHS England, I am contacting you to ask for the following information to please be provided.

 

1. How many whole-time equivalents are employed in the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) and what are their bandings? Please differentiate between staff on substantive and temporary contracts, as well as staff working in the service on bank or agency contracts.

2. What are the typical core hours of the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) on offer? How are these service(s) provided over the week (i.e. weekdays only, seven days a week, etc)?

3. What type of support (such as regular activities, events, or gatherings) is offered by the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s)? Please differentiate this between support offered to patients, support offered to family / friends, and support offered to staff members.

4. What on-call or out-of-hours provisions are made by the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) at your Trust? Please differentiate between provisions offered by staff members employed by the Trust, and provisions offered by external contractors / arrangements.

5. What support is offered to the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy services(s) by external organisations? For instance, what contracts are held by the Trust for this / these service(s) and who are these contracts with?

6. On average, how many service users are supported by the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) in a week? Please take an average of service users supported between January and December 2024.

7. What is the overall satisfaction for the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s) offered by your Trust? Please provide the overall satisfaction for the period January 2024 to December 2024.

8. What supervision, if any, is provided to staff working in the spiritual, religious, and / or chaplaincy service(s)? Please identify whether this is provided by your Trust or by an external provider, and the average annual cost for this provision.

9. Please provide a contact name and contact email address if there should be any additional queries relating to this Freedom of Information request.

Response

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH) is a community based organisation which provides care in the community, therefore CLCH do not provide Spiritual, Religious Chaplaincy Services.

Please visit the link below for further information on which services are provided by CLCH

https://clch.nhs.uk/services