Continuing Healthcare for Spinal Cord Injured people

Dear Dan Burden

RE: Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your request for information about continuing healthcare.
Your request was received on 10th June and I am dealing with it under
the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, I
will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to you, and you will
be required to pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Yours sincerely

Deborah Pallant
Information Governance Manager
NHS Nottinghamshire County PCT
Birch House
Ransom Wood Business Park
Southwell Road West
Rainworth
Notts NG21 0ER

Telephone : 01623 673017 internal 43017
[mobile number]
Email: [email address]
Fax: 01623 673110

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Dear Dan Burden

RE: Continuing Care Funding for Spinal Injuries.

Further to your request for information from NHS Nottinghamshire County I can confirm the following information.

Number of spinal injury patient = 15

Question 1
* 15 patients

Question 2
* 3 cases prior to 2007 reviewed 1 remains fully funded 2 remain joint funded

* 1 fully funded since 09 reviewed 2010 remains fully funded

* 3 joint fund since 2009 reviewed 2010 remain joint funded

* 8 joint funded since 2010

Question 3
* No appeals

Question 4
* None

Question 5

* Due to time constraints can not identify level of injury to the spinal cord as a specific reason for request for continuing care funding.

I can confirm that NHS Nottinghamshire County holds some of the information falling within the description specified in your request. However, we estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit of £450. The appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for health authorities is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3 1/2 working days in determining whether the Department holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
The requests are not filed by reason for funding requests and each file would have to be reviewed individually to determine the response to this question.
Under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act the Department is not obliged to comply with your request and we will not be processing your request further.

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.

Yours Faithfully

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]

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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