Contact Tracing App Stop Covid NI

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Dominique Anderson

Dear Department of Health (Northern Ireland),

The number of people alerted to self-isolate by the contact tracing app Stop Covid NI between 27th July 2020-1st June 2021, with a monthly breakdown of total numbers.

Yours faithfully,

Dominique Anderson

DoH FOI, Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

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We have received your Freedom of Information request and I attach your acknowledgement letter and a Public Information Leaflet.

John McCann
Information Management Branch
DoH
Tel: 02890 528218

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Dominique Anderson

Dear DoH FOI,

*An Internal Review*

Please explain what the delay is? because the DOH should have responded by the 31st of August 2021.

Does the DOH have information or not?

Who do I need to ask for basic hot top covid information?

The DOH get their numbers of those advised to isolate/Isolation from a source.
Is it*StopCOVID NI App? Who manages StopCOVID NI App? Contact tracers working for the DOH send a text message out to people on mobile phones or phone people to go into isolation. The App alerts people to isolate too.

Yours sincerely,

Dominique Anderson

DoH FOI, Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

Dominique

Apologises for the delay in responding to your request, but due to the ongoing pandemic, the Department of Health (NI) have received an unprecedented amount of correspondence, including a number from yourself and we are endeavouring to answer all as soon as possible. We realise that we are outside the legislative time frame but hope to get a response to you as soon as possible.

I hope you understand.

Regards

Jeff Burns
Information Management Branch
Department of Health (NI)

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Dominique Anderson

Dear Jeff Burns,

Here is officially my Freedom of Infomation complaint.

Yours sincerely,

Dominique Anderson

Dominique Anderson

Dear DoH FOI,

I am requesting an internal review for the handling of my FOI.

Yours sincerely,

Dominique Anderson

Dominique Anderson

Dear Department of Health (Northern Ireland),

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information Internal reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Health (Northern Ireland)'s handling of my FOI request 'Contact Tracing App Stop Covid NI'.

No information was provided.

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,

Dominique Anderson

DoH FOI, Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

Dominique

We have received your request below. However as I explained we are endeavouring to get a response to you as soon as possible, therefore can I ask what you want us to review at this stage?

Also can I ask you to ensure that our reference number is included on your communications from now on as we have a number of requests from you.

Regards

Jeff Burns
Information Management Branch
Department of Health (NI)

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DoH FOI, Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

Dominique

I will pass this on to the relevant person.

Regards

Jeff

Jeff Burns
Information Management Branch
Department of Health (NI)

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Dear Department of Health (Northern Ireland),

Would you please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information Internal reviews (Again)?

My internal review is open until the process of the Department of Health has proceeded with carrying out an internal review.

I am writing to request an internal review of the Department of Health (Northern Ireland)'s handling of my FOI request 'Contact Tracing App Stop Covid NI'.

(Again) I want the department of health to do an internal review because the department of health did not provide the data requested. I question if the department of health does not have access to 'Contact Tracing App Stop Covid NI' (data).

*****I repeat (Again) of my FOI request The number of people alerted to self-isolate by the contact tracing app Stop Covid NI between 27th July 2020-1st June 2021, with a monthly breakdown of total numbers.*****

Would you please direct me to where the data is held?

If the department of health does not know about Contact Tracing App Stop Covid NI' (data). I question the DOH, who is tallying the number of people pinged by the app to self-isolate?

If you would like further clarification, please ask?

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,

Dominique Anderson

Craig, Robert, Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

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Ms Anderson,

 

Please see attached response to your request for information.

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

Robert

 

Robert Craig

Department of Health

Information Management Branch

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DoH FOI, Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

Dominique

A response was issued on 15 September 2021, with an apology for the lateness of the response. Do you still need an Internal Review as detailed below?

Regards

Jeff

Jeff Burns
Information Management Branch
Department of Health (NI)

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DoH FOI, Department of Health (Northern Ireland)

Dominique

We responded to your request on 15 September 2021 and although the response was late we have explained that we are still receiving large volumes of requests for information and are not able to respond to them as quickly as we would like and apologised.

Do you still want me to take this complaint forward and if so can I ask on what grounds are you complaining?

Regards

Jeff

Jeff Burns
Information Management Branch
Department of Health (NI)

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Dear DoH FOI,

I am happy my FOI was administered correctly delivering information requested.

Yours sincerely,

Dominique Anderson