Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,

1, Could you please tell me what mid essex ccg form and or process a gp has to use to access a patient's request to choose their NHS provider of mental health care?

2, Can you please tell me if it is necessary to show clinical exceptionality as part of the CCG to access the patient's choice of provider beyond Eput?

Yours faithfully,

iain

Dear FOI, Essexccgs (NHS BASILDON AND BRENTWOOD CCG),

Chasing as waiting for a response to my previous request to NHS mid-Essex CCG

I would like information on the new CCG process (since January 2021) for patients to access the mental health NHS provider/Trust of their choice?

As Mid Essex CCG had agreed to a new process/procedure to access choice in mental health with NHS Improvement in January 2021.

I can provide NHS to confirm that mid-Essex CCG agreed to change its unlawful process for patients to access choice, would you like to see this correspondence?

Prior to this mid Essex CCG was not following NHS England's guidance which is based on statute law (which came in to force in April 2014 so quite a few years ago) on a patients' legal right to choose the mental health NHS provider/Trust of their choice. Putting the choice of mental health provider on an equal footing as physical health for NHS patients.

The key question being does a patient still have to show exceptionality to access choice?
If a patient still has to show exceptionality to mid-Essex CCG to access the provider of their choice as was the case in the old CCG procedure prior to January 2021.
Then Mid Essex CCG is still not following statute law or the NHS constitution on mental health choice which became a legal requirement for the CCG to follow in 2014.

Yours sincerely,

iain

Dear FOI, Essexccgs (NHS BASILDON AND BRENTWOOD CCG),

This request is long overdue

Yours sincerely,

iain

Dear FOI, Essexccgs (NHS BASILDON AND BRENTWOOD CCG),

I am chasing,
I do have Dyslexia so I like plain English, where information is explained clearly and not ambiguous to me. I have asked the CCG to explain in plain English before. Can you please make this reasonable adjustment if your sentences are not clear on the meaning?

Yours sincerely,

iain

Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group's handling of my FOI request 'CCG process for accessing mental health choice'.

[ The ccgs have not answered the questions at all]

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

iain

Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group's handling of my FOI request 'CCG process for accessing mental health choice'.

Had no acknowledgment or update at all.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

i gordon

Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group's handling of my FOI request 'CCG process for accessing mental health choice'.

I have dyslexia
and comprehension difficulties,
this has been expressed to the CCG on many occasions in the past

The CCG paragraph below is not in clear English and is ambiguous and the CCG has persisted with this type of poor communication often not replying unless i contact the ico.

"Should EPUT not be deemed clinically appropriate for certain treatments that are not routinely funded by the CCG, then an Individual Funding Request (IFR) is the only route available via the NHS. A clinician can make a referral to the IFR team if they are of the opinion that a patient’s clinical situation is different to other patients with the same condition and it is appropriate for the patient to have different treatment(s) to others."

For example, what does the ccg mean by "treatments not routinely funded by the ccg", as this was not my question?

So is the CCG say a routine treatment at an NHS provider other than Eput is not a routine treatment for the CCG?

If a patient wants to choose another provider other than eput for routine treatment what is the CCG process for accessing this choice?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

iain gordon

Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group's handling of my FOI request 'CCG process for accessing mental health choice'.

I have dyslexia and comprehension difficulties.

Can you please clarify as requested in my previous recent review request
As all you have done is resent what you provided in December 2021 which i asked you to clarify previously.

CCG says
"Should EPUT not be deemed clinically appropriate for certain treatments that are not routinely funded by the CCG, then an Individual Funding Request (IFR) is the only route available via the NHS. A clinician can make a referral to the IFR team if they are of the opinion that a patient’s clinical situation is different to other patients with the same condition and it is appropriate for the patient to have different treatment(s) to others."

Your paragraph above is not clear on what is not routine.
1, What does the ccg mean by "treatments not routinely funded by the ccg"

As my question related to routine treatment.
2, So the treatment is routine, yes or no?
3, But the patient has chosen to see a different provider is that what the ccg is making the situation not routine?

Saying it a different way
4, So the ccg is saying a routine treatment,
from a provider other than Eput makes it not routine?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

iain gordon

Dear FOI, Essexccgs (NHS BASILDON AND BRENTWOOD CCG),

Still waiting for a response to my review request

Yours sincerely,

iain gordon

Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group's handling of my FOI request 'CCG process for accessing mental health choice'.

As a patient, the NHS has not provided the simple information request in a format I can comprehend.
I have asked the NHS previously on multiple occasions to make a reasonable adjustment due to my disabilities and answer my simple questions rather than referrer to its complex NHS procedures.

Therefore I request the NHS answer the simple foi questions I have put previously with eg clear none ambiguous answers eg yes or no.

This NHS organization appears to want to be as unhelpful as it can to the patients it serves.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

iain gordon

Dear FOI, Essexccgs (NHS BASILDON AND BRENTWOOD CCG),

As a patient, trying to find out simple information for my NHS treatment,
This NHS has not provided the simple information request in a format I can comprehend.
I have asked the NHS previously on multiple occasions to make a reasonable adjustment due to my disabilities and answer my simple questions rather than referrer to its complex NHS procedures.

Therefore I request the NHS answer the simple foi questions I have put with clear none ambiguous answers eg yes or no.

As it is causing significant distress to me over a prolonged period of time and delaying my NHS treatment

Yours sincerely,

iain gordon