Blood Glucose Testing Strips
Dear Redbridge Primary Care Trust (PCT),
Could you please provide me with the following information
1.Current Blood Glucose patient testing guidelines
2. Current Standardisation guidelines for Blood glucose meters.
3.Contact details for the Procurement Officer responsible for medical supplies relating to Type 1 Diabetes (Blood glucose meters and Insulin pen needles)
Yours faithfully,
Linda Craddock
Dear Ms Craddock
Please accept this email as acknowledgement of receipt of your Freedom of
Information request to NHS Redbridge around Blood Glucose Testing Strips,
which has been allocated the reference number 4407R/WF/H.
We also wish to confirm receipt of additional identical requests for NHS
Waltham Forest and NHS Havering. As we now operate a centralised
management structure – NHS Outer North East London – comprising NHS
Redbridge; NHS Havering; NHS Waltham Forest and NHS Barking and Dagenham
our response will cover the three separate requests. For this purpose we
will use the NHS Redbridge as per the reference shown in the address bar.
It would be greatly appreciated if you would be kind enough to cancel the
other two references to prevent them showing as “not answered”.
NHS Waltham Forest = [[email address]]
NHS Havering = [[email address]]
This matter is now receiving our attention. Our response will be issued
by 29 March 2012 or before, which is in line with the 20 working day legal
limit.
Please be kind enough to use this reference number on any further
communications concerning this matter. Our new website www.ONEL.NHS.UK
provides information on all four of our primary care trusts.
Sue Brown
Freedom of Information Officer
020 8926 5323
NHS Outer North East London- a partnership of local primary care trusts
Becketts House, 2-14 Ilford Hill, Ilford IG1 2QX
Please note that with effect from 1 April 2011 all Freedom of Information
requests for NHS Havering; NHS Barking and Dagenham; NHS Waltham Forest
and NHS Redbridge will be handled centrally by NHS Outer North East
London.
To ensure prompt attention to your request(s) please ensure that you
nominate which primary care trust your request is being submitted to.
Dear Ms Craddock
We refer to your recent requests submitted to NHS Redbridge, NHS Waltham
Forest and NHS Havering and are now able to respond as follows.
The prescribing guidance for all primary Care trusts within NHS Outer
North East London is to be found on our website through the following
link.
[1]http://www.onel.nhs.uk/for-health-profes...
We do not have any guidelines for blood glucose meters, nor a Medicines
Management procurement officer.
We trust this information will prove to be of assistance to you.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request you have the
right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be
submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response of your
original letter and should be addressed to:
Sue Brown
Freedom of Information Officer
NHS outer north east London
2-14 Ilford Hill
Ilford
Essex
IG1 2QX
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House,
Water Lane,
Wilmslow,
Cheshire,
SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
Directorate of corporate affairs
NHS outer north east London
[2][email address]
Please note that with effect from 1 April 2011 all Freedom of Information
requests for NHS Havering; NHS Barking and Dagenham; NHS Waltham Forest
and NHS Redbridge will be handled centrally by NHS Outer North East
London.
To ensure prompt attention to your request(s) please ensure that you
nominate which primary care trust your request is being submitted to.
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