Cot Deaths

This request has been withdrawn by the person who made it. There may be an explanation in the correspondence below.

Dear Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information in regards to cot deaths. I would like to know:

1. How many cot deaths have occurred each year since 2012?

2. The gender of the children that have been lost.

3. The common causes of cot deaths.

4. The age categories of the children in months (e.g. 0-3, 4 - 6, 7 - 9, 10+)

Please provide the above information digitally, preferably in the form of an excel spreadsheet.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.

In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this.

I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.

If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for.

Yours faithfully,

Kirsty Card

Freedomofinformation (BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Please accept this email as formal acknowledgement of your request for information received on 19th August.

This request will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and unless you are otherwise informed, your request will be processed within a maximum of twenty working days from receipt.

At this moment we are unaware of any fees, charges or exemptions likely to be applied to your request. However, if during the course of processing your application it becomes clear that fees will apply, we will inform you of this. In the event that costs are applicable, no information will be provided unless the costs are paid within three months of us informing you. In the event that some or all of the information you have requested is exempt from disclosure, we will inform you of this.

We will also contact you if during the process it emerges that we do not have sufficient detail to locate the information or we are unclear exactly what it is that you have requested.

In the meantime if you wish to discuss any aspect of your request please feel free to contact us at this email address.

Yours sincerely

FOI Lead/Publication Scheme Co-ordinator

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Freedomofinformation (BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Please clarify:

1. Do you mean cot deaths that occurred in hospital as the age gap you are asking for is quite extensive

2. With reference to cot deaths, do you mean the ones in the community? We will only know of the ones that occurred whilst we were still providing community mw visits

3.Concern has been raised about the level of detail requested could potentially identify our patients, especially questions 2,3,and 4. We therefore may not be able to disclose the data in this aspect of your request.

Please respond to the above to enable us to proceed with your request.

Regards

FOI Lead/Publication Scheme Co-ordinator

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Dear Freedomofinformation (BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST),

Please provide the stats and answers that you have available and can legally provide.

Yours sincerely,

Kirsty Card

Dear Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust's handling of my FOI request 'Cot Deaths'.

The response is delayed after clarification.

Yours faithfully,

Kirsty

Freedomofinformation (BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

We are sorry that you have had to chase a response to your FOI request and will write to you again once we have completed our enquiries into the delay to respond to your follow up query. Please quote the reference 4369 in further communication related to this request.

Regards

FOI Lead/Publication Scheme Co-ordinator

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CHOUDHURY, Fateha (BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Hi Kirsty,

Please call us on 0121 333 8434 to clarify the outstanding information for this FOI and to establish if we can provide it, thanks.

Regards

FOI Lead/Publication Scheme Co-ordinator

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