Coroners' Prevention of Future Deaths Reports 2013-2024 received by your NHS Trust
Dear Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I request data on coroners' Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs or Reg 28 letters) received by this NHS Trust. Can I please request the following:
1. the total number of PFDs where the Trust was a listed addressee from inception (July 2013) until Oct 2024 (or the most recent available data), broken down as annual counts for each calendar year (e.g. for 2013, the number of reports from Jul to Dec; for 2014 the number of reports from January to December).
2. the total number of PFDs where the Trust was copied for information as an ‘interested person’ from inception (July 2013) until Oct 2024 (or the most recent available data), broken down as annual counts for each calendar year (e.g. for 2013 the number of reports from Jul to Dec; for 2014 the number of reports from January to December).
Yours faithfully,
Dr Georgia Richards
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Dear Dr Richards
Thank you for your Freedom of Information enquiry, our reference FOI/2024/2424.
We will respond by 25th November 2024.
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Jeanette
Jeanette Pearce
Administration Information Governance
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
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Dear Dr Richards
Thank you for your Freedom of Information enquiry, our reference
FOI/2024/2424.
The Trust’s response is as follows:
We have not received any PFDs since 2019 and our files only go back to
2018.
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Dear HERTFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY NHS TRUST,
Thank you for your response, however this only addresses part 1 of the request regarding PFDs addressed to the Trust. Has the Trust received any PFDs for information as an interest person or is this information not included as part of the 'files'?
Yours sincerely,
Dr Georgia Richards
Dear Georgia,
Thank you for your email. The Trust's full response is as follows:
We have no record of being copied for information, for any PFD from 2018 onwards, and there are no available records prior to that to be able to provide older information.
Kind regards,
Martin Vitty MSc
Head of Information Governance & Data Protection Officer
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Howard Court
14 Tewin Road
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 1BW
Tel: 01707 364349
FOI: [email address] Access to Records: [email address]
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