Under Section 19 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has a legal duty to adopt and maintain a Publication Scheme for the publication of the Trust's information. Before considering whether to make a FOI request we would encourage you to review what information is already available through the publication scheme on this website.
The constitution is one of the most important documents within any foundation trust and all foundation trusts are required to have one. A foundation trust’s constitution is distinct from the overarching NHS Constitution, and the two documents cover different subjects.
Below you will find financial information relating to projected and actual income and expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit.
Latest publication
Great Western Ambulance Service Annual Reports and Accounts
Expenditure over 25K
Please note that this information is updated on a quarterly basis; please be patient and check back in the future if the file you are interested in has not yet been published
Information on agency and third party expenditure can be found here.
Details of Chairman and Board remuneration can be found in our Annual Reports.
Find out more information here.
Annual Patient Experience Report
Annual reports and accounts 2020-21
Safeguarding annual report 2020-21
Safeguarding annual report 2021-22
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/
Corporate performance reports can be read here
https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new_reports/AAAH3969.pdf (CQC Inspection Report - 26 June to 18 July 2018)
CQC NHS 111 quality report (June 2016)
NHS England root cause analysis investigation report - William Mead (May 2016)
The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) has commissioned, with the support of the then Clinical Commissioning Groups and NHS England, a Patient Safety Incident Investigation (PSII), into the wider system pressures influencing NHS ambulance response times in the South West of England.
The PSII report is underpinned by investigation of 49 patient-safety-incidents which occurred between 1 December 2021 and 31 May 2022. Based on its findings the report makes a series of recommendations for SWASFT, the Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and their system partners in the NHS and social care, as well as NHS England, to act upon.
The full report is available here.
Addendum (1) to the Patient Safety Incident Investigation (PSII) Report – Investigation to examine the wider system pressures influencing NHS ambulance response times in the South West Region of England is available here.
Our Board papers can be found here.
Current written protocols, policies and procedures for delivering our services and responsibilities.
Policies and procedures relating to the conduct of business and the provision of our services
Infection Prevention and Control Information
Capacity, Consent, De-escalation and Safe Holding Policy
Frequent Caller Management Policy
Policies and procedures relating to Human Resources including recruitment and employment policies, Equality and Diversity Policy
Modern Slavery Act - Trust Statement
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy
Performance and Development Policy
Recruitment and Selection Policy
Standing financial procedures/instructions
Standing Financial Instructions
Complaints and other customer service policies and procedures
You can contactus us and make a complaint here.
Data protection/records management/Caldicott Guardian
Making a Subject Access Request
GDPR privacy notice for employees
GDPR privacy notice for patients
Green Plan 2021-2024
Information held in registers required by law and other lists and registers relating to the functions of our organisation.
Any information our organisation is currently legally required to hold in publicly available registers
FOI Disclosure Logs
Since April 2017 we have published the full response to all FOI requests received. Prior to that date full responses can be requested by making a FOI request through our standard FOI request procedures.
SWASFT disclosure logs
GWAS disclosure logs
Until 1 February 2013 the geographic area now covered by SWASFT was previously covered by two different organisations. Ambulance services in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset were provided by SWASFT and services in Avon, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire were provided by the Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS).
Freedom of information requests received before the 1 February 2013 were processed separately by each organisation. GWAS became part of SWASFT on 1 February 2013 so any requests received from this date onward relating to any part of the new larger trust area appear on the SWASFT disclosure log.
Meetings of this nature happen on an infrequent ad-hoc basis. If you have a specific enquiry of this nature, please contact Information.Governance@swast.nhs.uk in the first instance.