A&E Provision, Public Assurance
Dear Powys Teaching Health Board, following a recent freedom of information request to WAG (H&SSG), concerning the lack of A&E provision in mid Powys, I received the Following:
"In Wales, the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport has a role to set the strategic direction for health services and hold the NHS to account. However, it remains the responsibility of health boards to plan how services will be delivered at a local level and they must regularly review these services to ensure they meet the needs of their resident population."
In respect of the above, please provide or direct me to, all the documented results of these 'regular reviews' whose purpose is to assure the public.
Yours faithfully,
Pat James
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Regards
FOI Team
Dear Ms James
Please find attached correspondence for your kind attention.
Yours sincerely
Pam Davies
Pamela Davies
Personal Assistant to Hayley Thomas, Director of Planning and Performance
Powys Teaching Health Board
Glasbury House, Bronllys Hospital, Bronllys, Brecon, Powys, LD3 0LU
Email: [1][email address]
Telephone: 01874 712725
Pamela Davies
Cynorthwywyr Personol i Hayley Thomas, Cyfarwyddwr Cynllunio a
Pherfformiad,
Bwrdd Iechyd Addysgu Powys
TÅ· Glasbury, Ysbyty Bronllys, Bronllys, Aberhonddu, Powys, LD3 0LU
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Dear Pamela Davies (Powys Teaching Health Board - Corporate Services Hub), my request is valid within the terms and requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, therefore I insist on a full and honest response commensurate within that act and you have no unilateral authority to treat it any other way unless your response is a refusal which would require reasonable grounds. For me to incur time and expense in travelling to a meeting is entirely unreasonable, as all I am requesting is electronic copies of existing documentation, which is of insignificant expense.
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Dear Pamela Davies (Powys Teaching Health Board - Corporate Services Hub), mu request was for information, not conversation. In this respect you are now in breach of the Freedom of Information act. By failing to provide the information you are denying the general public of information for which they have a right to know, unless it is subject to one of the 21 exemptions contained within the act.
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Dear Mrs James
Further to previous correspondence, I am writing to advise you that our
response will be signed off tomorrow and will then be sent out to you.
Apologies for the delay
Regards
FOI Team
Amanda Smart
Information Governance Officer
c/o Quality & Safety Unit
Bronllys Hospital
Bronllys
Brecon
Powys LD3 0LS
Tel: 01874 71(2763) Fax: 01874 71(2756)
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awdur yw’r rhai sydd yn yr e-bost ac nid ydynt o anghenraid yn cynrychioli
barn Bwrdd Iechyd addysgu Powys heblaw bod hynny wedi’i nodi. Mae’n
bosibl y gellir datgeli’r wybodaeth sydd yn yr e-bost hwn dan Ddeddf
Rhyddid Gwybodaeth 2000, Rheoliadau Gwybodaeth Amgylcheddol 2004 a Deddf
Diogelu Data 1998. Oni bai bod y wybodaeth wedi’i heithrio rhag cael ei
datgelu dan y gyfraith, ni allwn sicrhau cyfrinachedd yr e-bost hwn ac
unrhyw ateb iddo.
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2004 and the Data Protection Act 1998. Unless the information is legally
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Dear Mrs James
Please find attached our response to your request for information. Apologies for the delay in sending our response out to you.
Kind regards
FOI Team
Dear FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), thank you for the information you sent, however, it contains no evidence of any "regular review", merely a set of proposals cobbled together as an un-financed plan.
My request:
"In respect of the above, please provide or direct me to, all the documented results of these 'regular reviews' whose purpose is to assure the public."
would imply documentation of meeting minutes and review reports which would give a more credible assurance that problems and deficiencies had been identified and appreciated, and that your subsequent plans are well founded and credible.
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Thank you for your email. I can assume by your email that you are dissatisfied with the response and have logged an internal review.
We will be back in touch within 20 working days.
Regards
FOI Team
Please find attached our response and supporting documentation
Regards
FOI Team
Dear FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), I write to remind you of my original request in this matter which you seem incapable of discharging:
Dear Powys Teaching Health Board, following a recent freedom of information request to WAG (H&SSG), concerning the lack of A&E provision in mid Powys, I received the Following:
"In Wales, the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport has a role to set the strategic direction for health services and hold the NHS to account. However, it remains the responsibility of health boards to plan how services will be delivered at a local level and they must regularly review these services to ensure they meet the needs of their resident population."
In respect of the above, please provide or direct me to, all the documented results of these 'regular reviews' whose purpose is to assure the public.
Despite clarifications and an inordinate length of time you have not provided ant evidence which would assure anyone with a modicum of intelligence.
You are treating this subject as if you were selling a Mediterranean cruise and not the serious matter of deficient health service provision.
In view of your failure to provide the level and quality of information requested, I demand that your handling of this matter is put to review.
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Dear Mrs James
Thank you for your email.
We will provide a response in due course
Regards
Dear FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), please explain how your review can be independent when you are the Chief Executive who has ultimate responsibility for providing the required assurances and carry the liability for the incompetence of the Health Board and its deficiencies. Where are these assurances?
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Dear FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), I remind you that this matter remains unresolved and it status is evidence that you are failing in your duty to the general public by not providing assurance required by statute.
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Dear Mrs James
Further to your email below, I can confirm that we conducted an internal review at your request and our response was sent to you as per the attached copy. If you still remain dissatisfied with our response I would recommend you contact the Information Commissioners Office.
Kind regards
FOI Team
Dear FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), in response to your latest misleading correspondence, you have not provided any reports, merely sent copies of agenda items which give no assurance of anything. Please provide the recorded documentation as requested, which is 5 months overdue.
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Dear Mrs James
Thank you for your email. I can confirm there is nothing further we can provide in response to your questions over and above what has already been released to you. As advised earlier today, if you remain dissatisfied please refer to the Information Commissioners Office.
Regards
FOI Team
Dear FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), from your lack of response it is safe to assume that you cannot or will not provide the assurances required by legislation. Please confirm.
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
Dear Mrs James
We have endeavoured to answers all your questions and we have provided a full response based on the information held by the organisation. There is nothing further we are able to add to our response.
Kind regards
FOI Team
Dear FOI (Powys Teaching Health Board - FOI), you have not provided the information that answers my request or complies with your legal obligations.
Are you refusing to supply the required information as specified in the legislation?
Yours sincerely,
Pat James
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