Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')
As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.
You asked:
1. What was the organisation’s annual spend on medical training during the most recently available financial year?
2. How much was spent on which level of training:
D13 1; D13 2; Basic Life Support; First Aid Skills Police (Emergency First Aider at Work); Custody First Aid; First Aid at Work Police (Initial and Requalification); Enhanced First Aid Skills; Public Order Medics First Aid; Qualsafe Awards Level 3 and Level 4 First Response Emergency Care; Other courses.
3. Does the organisation have a Clinical Governance (CG) framework? If yes, is the framework provided by a commercial enterprise or is the CG framework from within the organisation?
4. Is the organisations medical training (either in part or whole) provided by a commercial enterprise, if yes, what was the annual spend on commercially delivered medical training during the most recently available financial year?
In Response:
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with both the Training and Finance Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.
- No information held. We do not calculate the cost of internally provided medical training. In relation to external training provided by third parties the cost was £480 in 2019/20.
- In relation to externally provided training, the full £480 was for Qualsafe level 3 First Response Emergency Care Training.
- Yes – within the organisation with support from NEAS and NHS.
- No.
