clairemiller, 24 days ago

#FOI shows 504,276 patients classed as Code 2, meaning they were deemed to be in need of “very urgent emergency care”, arrived at A&E not in an ambulance in 2023.

This was up 11,500 (2.4%) compared to 2022, and up 141,000 (38.9%) compared to 2019.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-accused-uber-ambulance-crisis-32706981

clairemiller, 24 days ago

Another #FOI might suggest one of the reasons why people are having to make their own way to hospital.

Just 78 per cent of ambulances nationally are operational on any given day – falling to as low as 72 per cent at South Central Ambulance Trust.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13361561/Ambulances-maintenance-reliability-issues-investigations.html

clairemiller, 24 days ago

#FOI has found there have been three deaths due to ‘missed cancers’ at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust over the past three years

The Trust could not confirm if they were due to a ‘wrong diagnosis', or a ‘failure’ or ‘delay’ in diagnosis

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24279746.three-missed-cancer-deaths-durham-darlington-nhs-trust/

clairemiller, 24 days ago

#FOI shows in 2015, the last full year before Sadiq Khan became mayor, there were 456 instances of shoplifting involving weapons or tools.

The number rose to 844 in 2018, then dropped in the pandemic, but was 874 offences in 2023.

https://enfielddispatch.co.uk/armed-shoplifting-in-london-nearly-doubles/

clairemiller, 24 days ago

You can use #FOI as a kind of survey tool (as you don’t want to FOI every school).

Policy Exchange sent requests to 800 schools and found that only 11% of secondary schools had an “effective ban” on mobile phones in place.

https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/national/24287271.schools-ensure-pupils-hand-lock-phones-start-day---report/

clairemiller, 24 days ago

Not the ones that make pedalling up a steep hill a bit less of a challenge, but those that are more like mopeds.

#FOI shows that 260 electric powered bicycles were seized by police last year, double the 130 confiscated in 2022 & 4x as many as 61 in 2021.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13374185/Illegal-e-bikes-hit-40mph-death-traps-motorways.html

clairemiller, 24 days ago

Fibre analysis can be used as evidence to indicate if a suspect was present at a crime scene.

#FOI shows police forces paid for less than 1,000 hours of fibre analysis per year between 2018 and 2020 – the equivalent of around 30 hours per force.

https://inews.co.uk/news/police-use-forensics-slashed-crisis-unfolds-3014701

clairemiller, 24 days ago

Police figures show that only two out of 19 reports of sexual assaults in pubs, bars and clubs in four major towns have resulted in arrests.

#FOI shows Lowestoft had the highest number of reports since 2020, with 16 reports with two arrests made.

https://www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk/news/24280671.sexual-assaults-pubs-four-east-suffolk-towns/

clairemiller, 24 days ago

There have been more than 12,000 reported cases of scarlet fever in the last few months in the UK alone.

#FOI shows Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust has seen cases rise from five in to 20 cases last year.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/unusual-strawberry-symptom-scarlet-fever-32712800

clairemiller, 24 days ago

In 2023, Belfast City Council confiscated 671 illegal vapes, enough for two to be sold every day in the city alone, according to #FOI.

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/figure-show-number-illegal-vapes-29066038

clairemiller, 24 days ago

Breaches in data security in the last three years have cost Lancashire Council £51,000 in compensation.

#FOI shows the council has suffered 19 personal data breach incidents since 2021. The payout total is the third highest figure of all county councils.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24281761.lancashire-county-councils-cyber-compensation-bill-tops-50-000/

clairemiller, 24 days ago

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