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Access to investigations under Health Service Guidelines (HSG)
D. Speers made this Freedom of Information request to Department of Health
The request was partially successful.
From: D. Speers
14 April 2010
Dear Department of Health,
Since the withdrawal of local and national suicide indicators and
withdrawal of National Suicide Prevention Policy ...
Please advise:
what now replaces the access criteria "suicide clusters as
indicators of significant system failure" " for "Independent
Investigations into Adverse Incidents in Mental Health Services
under Health Service Guidelines....HSG(94)27.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsands...
The importance of this HSG was underlined by NHS CEO David
Nicholson in a letter to all SHA CEOs in July 2007.
Yours faithfully,
D. Speers
Department of Health
15 April 2010
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If your enquiry is about a medical matter, please contact NHS Direct on
0845 4647 or visit [1]NHS Choices, or contact your GP surgery.
For the latest on swine flu, please visit [2]the National Pandemic Flu
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For general health information you may also find it helpful to refer to
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From: D. Speers
12 June 2010
Dear Department of Health,
The response to my FOI request is long overdue according to the
terms of the FOI Act. By law, I believe you should have responded
to this by now. As you haven't you are breaking the law.Please now
respond or I shall have to escalate this to the ICO.
Yours faithfully,
D. Speers
Department of Health
15 June 2010
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This is an acknowledgement - it does not require a response.
Where a reply is appropriate we aim to send one within 20 working days.
If your enquiry is about a medical matter, please contact NHS Direct on
0845 4647 or visit [1]NHS Choices, or contact your GP surgery.
For general health information you may also find it helpful to refer to
[2]Directgov, the UK Government's Official information website, or the
Department of Health website's [3]Frequently Asked Questions.
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Department of Health
22 June 2010
Our ref: DE00000512386
Dear Ms Speers,
Please find attached correspondence in response to your recent query.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health
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From: D. Speers
22 June 2010
Dear Aimee Gasston,Department of Health,
Thank you for your response and my confusion is if policy is
published then how can FOI not apply?
You wrote: "It is my understanding that you have written to the
Department many times about this
issue before and had been advised by the CSC that any further
queries which did not raise new issues would be noted but may not
receive a reply." I have and dont think that no replying is an
option I'm afraid.
I am looking for a reply to my initial question still, which is: "
Since the withdrawal of local and national suicide indicators and
withdrawal of National Suicide Prevention Strategy.
Please advise:
What now replaces the access criteria "suicide clusters as
indicators of significant system failure" " for "Independent
Investigations into Adverse Incidents in Mental Health Services
under Health Service Guidelines....HSG(94)27.
For info: The importance of this HSG was underlined by NHS CEO
David Nicholson in a letter to all SHA CEOs in July 2007.
Thank you again for your time.
Yours faithfully,
D. Speers
Department of Health
22 June 2010
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Department of Health website's [3]Frequently Asked Questions.
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Department of Health
28 June 2010
Our ref: DE00000515351 - Ref: DE00000512386 - Complaint about overdue
response
Dear Ms Speers,
Please find a response attached in reply to your recent correspondence.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health
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From: D. Speers
29 June 2010
Dear Department of Health,
Following your recent information on my overdue FOI request,in
which you stated "the questions which you are asking are general
questions which require advice on Government policy, rather than
requests for
recorded information under the FOI Act which, if held, would
require the release of unpublished documentation to you or refusal
under one or more exemptions
under the FOI Act.
Therefore, looking at my request again:
Please can I have a copy of the policy guidance that replaces
guidance on Health Service Guidelines, with particular ref to
HSG(94)27?
Yours faithfully,
D. Speers
D. Speers left an annotation (29 June 2010)
If nothing has replaced HSG(94)27 it effectively means one of two things:
1) that current guidance must be still in place and is effectively inaccessible.
2) There is a 'hole' in policy which needs addressing.
Either way this is a fundamental flaw!
Department of Health
30 June 2010
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[2]Directgov, the UK Government's Official information website, or the
Department of Health website's [3]Frequently Asked Questions.
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Department of Health
5 July 2010
Our ref: DE00000518697 - A copy of the policy guidance that replaces
guidance on HSG, with particular ref to HSG(94)27
Dear Ms Speers,
Please find attached a reply in response to your recent Freedom of
Information (FOI) request.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Department of Health
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D. Speers left an annotation ( 9 July 2010)
National and Local Suicide Indicators as indicators of 'significant system failure' have been withdrawn as has National Suicide Prevention Strategy. Overview and Scrutiny Committees are not used for hospitals with Foundation Trust status but as Overview and Scrutiny Committees have almost always admitted that they didn't have the knowledge to challenge the HCC self-assessments anyway so no real loss. But lack of teeth at the Care Quality Commission is sending everything around the same ineffectual loop once again however.
What will now happen to the Performance Management responsibility recently bestowed on PCTs? This mornings news is that PCTs and SHAs are having their remit reduced and additional funding for commissioning of services will be given to GPs (Practice Based Commissioning I believe its called...http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/A2184.pdf) Will the Performance Management responsibility be passed to GPs too?
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