Communications with the SW Pay, Terms & Conditions Consortium

The request was refused by Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

Dear Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust,

Under the FOI act, I wish to receive:

1) Copies of all communications between your trust and the South-West NHS Pay, Terms & Conditions Consortium or its other member trusts since 1 Sep 2011, with email histories intact.

2) Copies of notes/minutes from any meetings or telephone calls with the Consortium or its member trusts since the same date.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Walker

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

 
Thank you for the request for information you have sent in under the
[1]Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We will endeavour to answer your request within the next 20 working
days.

Should your request fall under any of the exemptions of the [2]Freedom
of Information Act 2000, we will not be able to answer your request,
however, we will inform you as to why it has been deemed as exempt.

Regards,

The Information Governance Team
[3]Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust,

Your response to my FOI request is overdue - please send it by return.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Steve Walker

Freedom Of Information,

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Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Salisbury District Hospital
Department of Information Technology
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP2 8BJ

[3]www.salisbury.nhs.uk

14^th September 2012

Reference No: FOI_1129

Dear Mr Walker

Regarding your request for information received on the 15th August 2012,
please find below our response to your request. We hope this information
is satisfactory and meets your intended request requirements. Should this
information not answer your questions, please contact us using the email
address at the bottom of this email, or you can write to us using the
address above.

 

Question No. 1

 

Copies of all communications between your trust and the South-West NHS
Pay, Terms & Conditions Consortium or its other member Trusts since 1 Sep
2011, with email histories intact.

 

Question No. 2

 

 

Copies of notes/minutes from any meetings or telephone calls with the
Consortium or its member trusts since the same date.

 

 

Answer

 

Please note that Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has recently received a
similar request for communications. The documents provided under this
earlier request partially fulfil your request, as communications up to
6^th July 2012 are included. Please therefore follow this link to the
documents published on the Trust’s website:

 

[4]http://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/ABOUTUS/FREE...

 

With regard to communications after the above date, please follow this
link to remainder of the documents you have requested:

 

[5]http://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/ABOUTUS/FREE...

 

During the collation of communications in response your request, the Trust
has established it received a number of items from external correspondents
which are encrypted. The Trust is currently in the process of obtaining
the appropriate encryption codes, to establish if their content is
relevant to your request. We will contact you again if this information
proves to be relevant.

 

If you experience any technical issues whilst accessing the information,
please contact Bob Noble Informatics Transformation Manager on 01722
336262 extension 4133. 

 

Yours sincerely

Information Governance Team

If you have any questions regarding this response, please contact us at
[6][Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust request email]

Visit the Freedom of Information website at
[7]http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/free...

 

 

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Dear Information Governance Team,

It will take time to go through everything, but your response appears to be very complete. Many thanks!

Yours sincerely,

Steve Walker

Dear Freedom Of Information Team,

The emails you sent to me include one dated 16/7/12, which merely points to a secure email as follows:

Subject: Commercial in Confidence - URGENT update on consortium
Attachments: securedoc_20120716T105231.html

But there is no link to the attached email. Please provide it by return.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Walker

Freedom Of Information,

 

Dear Mr Walker

 

Thank you for your email dated 19^th September 2012 regarding our response
to FOI request reference FOI_1129.  

 

Within the original response to this request the Trust stated ‘During the
collation of communications in response your request, the Trust has
established it received a number of items from external correspondents
which are encrypted. The Trust is currently in the process of obtaining
the appropriate encryption codes, to establish if their content is
relevant to your request. We will contact you again if this information
proves to be relevant.

 

We can confirm that this remains the case and we will be in touch again
shortly.

 

Information Governance Team
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Tel: 01722 336262 ext 4133
E-mail: [1][Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust request email]

Save Paper – Do you really need to print this email?

 

 

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Dear Information Governance Team,

Please let me have an update by return regarding the encrypted emails.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Walker

Freedom Of Information,

Dear Mr Walker

 

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has been auditing the emails sent from our
Freedom Of Information System and it has been identified that during a
technical failure the following information was not sent to you:

 

Further to our response to your request reference FOI_1129, you
subsequently asked for the following information:

 

Dear Freedom Of Information Team,

The emails you sent to me include one dated 16/7/12, which merely
points to a secure email as follows:

Subject: Commercial in Confidence - URGENT update on consortium
Attachments: securedoc_20120716T105231.html

But there is no link to the attached email. Please provide it by
return.

 

In response to your further request please note that the Trust does not
hold the information requested.

 

However, the Trust has established that the information requested was
originally sent to an ex-employee, who remotely accessed this information
via a secure site, not operated by the Trust. The passwords to this
facility are unique to the individual and not available to anyone else.

 

We trust the above satisfies your request for information.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Information Governance Team

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Tel: 01722 336262 ext 4133
E-mail: [1][Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust request email]

 

 

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