To: John Slater
DWP Central Freedom of Information Team
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Our Ref: FOI 1652
23 June 2016
Dear Mr Slater,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request which we received on 25 April 2016.
You asked:
“The contract between the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and CHDA Limited
includes a number of service requirements specified in “Schedule 2.1 (Service Requirements).
These include the following in ANNEX 5: MEDICAL QUALITY REPORT”.
One of these is described as the “WCA outcome report” and comes with the following
instruction:
“Complete the spreadsheet – comments to be provided for those centres either identified by the
Authority or who are outside the agreed range.”
Please disclose:
RFI1: How does the DWP manage the WCA outcome reports? For example does each CHDA
assessment centre submit its own report to the DWP or does CHDA collate individual reports
and submit a single report to the DWP?
RFI2: What is the frequency of reporting of WCA outcome reports to the DWP (i.e. weekly,
monthly, quarterly etc)
RFI3: If a single instance of this spreadsheet is maintained by the DWP please supply me with a
copy.
RFI4: The DWP refers to an “agreed range”. What does this mean, what is its value and how it
was derived?
RFI5: Please provide the most recent WCA outcome report submitted to the DWP by CHDA
(assuming a single collated report is submitted to the DWP). If individual reports per assessment
centre are submitted to the DWP then please provide the most recent WCA outcome report for
the Leicester assessment centre.
The associated “Schedule 2.1 (Service Reqts) Annex 5 WCA Outcome Rept” describes the
structure of the WCA outcome report. It states that the WCA outcome report contains the
following columns (in the same order)
1. TI referral - TI %
2. Comment
3. PBR - SG %
4. Comment
5. PBR - accept (initial referral) %
6. Comment
7. Consultation - SG %
8. Comment
9. Consultation - Treat as LCW %
10. Comment
11. Consultation - 3 Month Prognosis %
12. Comment
13. Consultation - NFCA %
14. Comment
15. Consultation - Uncontrollable condition NFD % 16. Comment
RFI6: Please provide the meaning for columns 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 (including definitions for
abbreviations used).”
The Freedom of Information Act provides people with a right of access to recorded information
held by public authorities such as DWP (Section 84 of the Act refers). A request can be made in
question form but DWP does not have to answer if this would mean creating new information.
The Department does not hold information in response to your request, and therefore we need
to create new information to answer your questions.
You can view the Freedom of Information Act 2000 via the following link:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/contents
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
DWP Central FoI Team
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