Current figures for patients choice in mental health
Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,
I have dyslexia and comprehension difficulties
the CCG uses ambiguous terms a lot and drags correspondence out, both on purpose
please put my questions first and then the ccg response.
The Essex ccg have confirmed no, 0, nil, zero patients of the Essex CCG's have been successful at choosing a provider beyond Eput from April 2014 to 29-04-2021. Please see foi 2021287 below in speech marks.
"Could I please have separate figures for all the Essex CCG showing how many patients have been able to access choice in secondary care mental health provider beyond Eput or their forerunner organizations/your service provider partners, between April 2014 to present?
Following checks in the CCGs’ records, there is no information held in response to your query.
Hence, it is a nil."
Could I please have separate figures for all the Essex CCG showing how many patients have been able to access choice in secondary care mental health provider beyond Eput (or their forerunner organizations/your service provider partners), between April 2014 to present?
So i can pass this to NHS England
Yours faithfully,
iain gordon
Dear NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group,
over 20 working days and no response at all
Yours faithfully,
iain gordon
FOI Request: Current figures for patients choice in mental health
Our Reference Number: 2122310
Dear Mr Gordon,
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NHS Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group
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Dear GEAR, Iain (NHS BASILDON AND BRENTWOOD CCG),
have dyslexia and comprehension difficulties
do not use ambiguous communication and put my questions before your replies
Thank you for passing the request to the other essex ccg's that you provide foi for.
This is a big however on a number of points
Most of the essex ccgs use the same email address which is [email address]
The FOI department for most of the Essex CCG is by the same team at the same address at "Phoenix Place | Christopher Martin Road | Basildon | SS14 3HG",
1, Therefore most of the Essex ccg have had my request for weeks or months and not collated the information, Why?
2, Why no figures in the latest reply for mid-Essex ccg if you insist on the excuse other ccg's above?
3, The FOI department for most of the CCG is by the same team at the same address at "Phoenix Place | Christopher Martin Road | Basildon | SS14 3HG", so they is not really any plausible excuse other than the CCG has failed to provide the information on time, why?
4, As you know you mental health commissioner could not put a list together with the word Eput on it,is there a similar problem in the foi department?
For example not passing my request to the person next to them or forwarding my email (it takes milliseconds), why?
5, I think you might be looking digging desperately for technicalities why I have not receive a response in time why?
If any of the above you deem are complaints please pass them on to complaints team on my behalf as formal complaints
Yours sincerely,
iain gordon
Dear GEAR, Iain (NHS BASILDON AND BRENTWOOD CCG),
If any of my questions of earlier today are not deemed issues for foi to respond to,
can you please pass them on as formal complaint questions to each relevant essex ccg department to answer?
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 'Current figures for patients' choice in mental health'.
Chase as I have not had a reply from the FOI of ESSEX CCG group on the points I raised.
Or any reply to these issues from complaints if foi refuses to respond
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 and Iain Gear
On the 11th of February 2022
I asked
"Could I please have separate figures for all the Essex CCG showing how many patients have been able to access choice in secondary care mental health provider beyond Eput or their forerunner organizations/your service provider partners, between April 2014 to present?
The following was promised FOI ON 6TH April 2022
"We have passed this request to each of the CCGs in Essex for which we also provide an FOI service
(Basildon & Brentwood CCG, Castle Point & Rochford CCG, Southend CCG, Thurrock CCG and West
Essex CCG), and you will receive an acknowledgment and response to these in due course."
Yours faithfully,
iain gordon
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