NHS Trust Freedom of Information Request Responses

A collection of responses to Freedom of Information Act requests received by the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. The data was gathered by Harriet Feldman via an FOI request and is hosted on the paperswithcode platform. The specific temporal coverage, row count, and column details are not provided in the metadata.

Use Cases

• Analyze NHS Trust operational transparency based on FOI request topics.
• Study public information access patterns in UK healthcare based on request and response data.
• Benchmark administrative data release practices across different NHS trusts.

Strengths

• Data originates from a formal legal process (Freedom of Information Act), suggesting a structured request-response format.
• Source is a specific, named NHS Foundation Trust, providing a clear institutional context.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and file formats are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last update date and temporal coverage of the requests are unknown; freshness is unverified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Collection Method

Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Harriet Feldman.

Geography

United Kingdom, specifically Southampton.