Discharge Summaries

Dear D Bird,

I have looked through our FOI Log for your original request which you
stated was sent to the Trust on the 30th January 2009 but we have no
record of your original request having been received at the Trust on
this date. Did you receive a confirmation from the Trust of receipt, as
this would be normal practice?

We are very sorry that you have not received a response and are very
concerned that your information request has not been dealt with.

With this in mind, I was wondering if you could possibly send through
your original request again to us for us to action upon receipt.

We will also inform the Information Commissioner of our response back to
you today.

Once again, please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience
caused to you.

Kind Regards

Katie Thomas
(Sent on behalf of Debbie Terry).

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Dear D Bird,

Freedom of Information Ref NUH 582.

Further to your email dated 21st January requesting information under
the Freedom of Information Act, we will now deal with your request and
respond to you within the 20 working days allowed under the Act.

Please bear in mind however, that we only received your request on
Friday 22nd January 2010.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact
me.

With Kind Regards

Debbie Terry
Head of Information Governance
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
ICT Services
Heathfield House
City Hospital Campus
Hucknall Road
Nottingham
NG5 1PB

Email: [Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust request email].
Telephone: (0115) 969 1169 x57169.
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Dear D Bird,

I am writing in response to your email dated 21st January requesting
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am pleased to
be able to answer your questions as follows:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) came into being on 1st
April 2006 and assumed responsibility for the services provided by both
the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) and Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
(NCH).

I am writing to request information about discharge summaries.
Specifically, I would like to ask:

1). What standards for the timely issue of discharge summaries has the
Trust agreed with local commissioning bodies?
Within the CQUIN requirements with Commissioners by the 31st March the
Trust is required to provide 75% of discharge summaries electronically
within 24hrs to those GPs who are able and set up to receive them.

2). What procedures are in place for monitoring the Trust's compliance
with the above standard?
IT development processes are in place across the Trust. So far 85% of
specialties have been given training and access to the new Trust
E-discharge template. Roll out to the remaining specialties will be
completed by end of March 2010. Following this all Directorate Managers
will receive a weekly management report on the amount of patients
discharged against discharge summaries created and sent to GPs within 24
hours.

3). The number of discharge summaries issued on time by the Trust so far
in the 08/ 09 financial year and in any other period for which data are
available.
We regret that we are unable to answer this question as we don't have
the monitoring systems in place across the Trust yet as explained in Q2.

4). The number of queries received from GPs or other primary care staff
about the late issue of discharge summaries.
Unfortunately, we do not have any recorded data available to answer this
question.

You are advised that this information is provided in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 and is for your personal use. Any re-use
of this information will be subject to copyright and the Re-Use of
Public Sector Information Regulations (1st July 2005) and authorisation
from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust will be required. In the
event of any re-use, the information must be reproduced accurately and
not used in a misleading manner.

If you are unhappy with the information received within this response,
please address your complaint to the Complaints Lead at Nottingham
University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Derby
Road, Nottingham, NG7 2UH.

If, after exhausting our internal process, you are still unhappy with
the information received, you may write to the Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact
me.

With Kind Regards

Debbie Terry
Head of Information Governance
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
ICT Services
Heathfield House
City Hospital Campus
Hucknall Road
Nottingham
NG5 1PB.

Email: [Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust request email]
Telephone: (0115) 969 1169 ext. 57169.
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