Corporate Affairs Directorate 
Mauldeth House 
Mauldeth Road West 
Chorlton 
Manchester 
M21 7RL 
Tel: 0161 861 2278 
Fax: 0161 861 2270 
16 June 2009  
e-mail: [email address] 
 
 
 
Dr N Bhatia 
via email to '[FOI #11867 email]' 
 
 
Dear Dr Bhatia 
 
Freedom of Information Request – SCR Project – Reference M126/09 
 
I am writing further to my email of 12th June concerning this request. 
 
You asked us: 
 
1. Please could you kindly send me the minutes (draft or otherwise) of any Summary 
Care Record Project/Programme Board meeting held between 01.01.09 and 
30.04.09. 
 
2. Please could you kindly send me the minutes (draft or otherwise) of any Summary 
Care Record Project (or Project Implementation) Team meeting held between 
01.01.09 and 30.04.09. 
 
3. Please could you kindly send me any Summary Care Record Highlight Reports, 
Update Reports or Progress Reports created or updated between 01.01.09 and 
30.04.09. 
 
4. Please could you send me any Summary Care Record Risk Logs, Issue Logs or 
Decision Logs created or updated between 01.01.09 and 30.04.09. 
 
I am writing to advise you that I have established that the information you requested 
is not held. 
 
This is because no project to set up the Summary Care Record in Manchester 
Primary Care Trust has yet been established. 
 
However, in order that you may understand our position better I enclose two 
documents setting out the pre-project planning and scoping which has been done so 
far, together with an outline timetable. 
 
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I must repeat my apology to you contained in my email of 12th June.  We should have 
replied to you by 10th June and we very much regret our failure to comply with the 
requirements of Section 10 of the Act and that you had to remind us before a 
response was received. 
 
I have now investigated the reasons for the delay and find that it was partly due to a 
failure on the part of an individual member of staff to give appropriate priority to the 
handling of requests under the act, combined with a very heavy workload.  The need 
to meet our commitments under the act has been re-emphasised. 
 
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for 
an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of 
the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to: 
[email address]  
 
In the light of your having complained already to the Information Commissioner, I am 
copying this correspondence to his office for information. 
 
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future 
communications. 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of any internal review, you have the right to 
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information 
Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe 
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF 
 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jim Whitaker 
Information Governance Manager 
[email address] 
 
Attached: ManchesterSCRProjectOutlineTimescale.pdf 
  ManchesterSCRProjectMandate.pdf 
 
 
 
Copy to Information Commissioner’s Office  (Dr Bhatia’s complaint to you was dated 
12th June.) 
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