Blood Glucoe Meter standardisation and procurement information

Dear Lee Anderson

Thank you for your email of 3rd October 2011 requesting information on blood glucose meters and insulin pen needles under the Freedom of Information Act. However, this information is not held by the PCT but with provider organisations. I give below the website links for the Trusts and also for Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust.

http://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs...

http://www.nuh.nhs.uk

http://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

Yours sincerely

Diane Whitehead
on behalf of Debbie Pallant
Information Governance Manager
NHS Nottinghamshire County Birch House
Ransom Wood Business Park
Southwell Road West
Rainworth,
Notts NG21 0HJ

Telephone 01623 673017

Email : [email address]

Should you have any further enquiries or queries about this response please do not hesitate to contact me. However, if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, NHS Nottinghamshire County has an internal complaints procedure through which you can raise any concerns you might have. Further details of this procedure can be obtained by contacting

PALS
Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust Byron Court Brookfield Road Arnold
NG5 7ER

Telephone: 0800 028 3693 (ask for PALS Advisors)

E-mail: [email address]

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the complaints procedure, you can apply to the Information Commissioner, who will consider whether NHS Nottinghamshire County has complied with its obligations under the Act, and can require NHS Nottinghamshire County to remedy any problems. You can find out more about how to do this, and about the Act in general, on the Information Commissioner’s website at: www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.

Complaints to the Information Commissioner should be sent to: FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution, Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

NOTE: Re-use of Public Sector Information

All information supplied by the Trust in answering a request for information (RFI) under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 will be subject to the terms of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005, Statutory Instrument 2005 No.1515 which came into force on 1st July 2005.

Under the terms of the Regulations, the Trust will licence the re-use of any or all information supplied if being used in a form and for a purpose other than which it was originally supplied. This licence for re-use will be in line with the requirements of the Regulations and the licencing terms and fees as laid down by the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI). Most licences will be free; however the Trust reserves the right, in certain circumstances, to charge a fee for the re-use of some information which it deems to be of commercial value.

Further information can be found at www.opsi.gov.uk where a sample licence terms and fees can be found with guidance on copyright and publishing notes and a Guide to Best Practice and regulated advice and case studies, at www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/psi-regulations/i...

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