Annual health checks for people with a learning disability

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust (PCT) should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust (PCT),

In light of your trusts responsibility for commissioning the existing direct enhanced services payment scheme, I would be grateful if could you provide the following information:

1) The overall total of GP surgeries in your trusts area
2) The overall total of GP surgeries in your trusts area who are currently in receipt of direct enhanced services and are therefore expected to offer annual health checks for people with a learning disability.
3) This number as a percentage of the total number of GP surgeries within your trusts area.
4) The names of those GP surgeries in your trusts area currently in receipt of direct enhanced services and therefore offering annual health checks .
5) Any postcode districts within your trusts region that have no GP surgeries in receipt of direct enhanced services and therefore no GP surgeries offering annual health checks.

I look forward to your response.

With thanks,
Clare Lucas

Dear Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust (PCT),

I wanted to check on the status of my request as I was expecting a response within the 20 working day time frame which passed on the 21st January. I look forward to receiving a full response in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Clare

Fol Function, Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust (PCT)

Good afternoon Clare

I apologise for the delay in the response to your freedom of information request. A reminder was sent out to the relevant person on the 11th January and again today. I would hope to have a response for you very soon.

I am will now be out of office until Tuesday and hope to respond to you then with your answers.

Kind regards

Lois Nesbitt
Governance/FOI
NHS Merseyside
Bevan House
65 Stephenson Way
Wavertree
Liverpool
L13 1HN
TEL – 0151 285 4647
FAX – 0151 285 4645

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