Cygnet Healthcare ltd

The request was refused by Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Dear Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, how many of your patients in the past or present have been referred and sent to any Cygnet healthcare ltd facility? Thankyou.

Yours faithfully,

christina evans

FOI (RRE) MPFT, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Mrs. Evans,

 

I write to acknowledge receipt of your email in which you requested
information under the FOI Act 2000.

 

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days, from the date of receipt, as
defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Currently your request for information may be delayed due to urgent
operational responses to dealing with Public Health priorities.

 

Our response to Freedom of Information Requests and Environmental
Information Regulation Requests may take longer for us to complete at this
present time due to COVID-19 implications.

 

The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has advised that although they
are unable to extend statutory timescales, they will advise people that
they may experience understandable delays when making requests during the
COVID-19 pandemic.

 

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, we do remain committed
to responding to your request and will respond as soon as we are able.

 

Should our response to your request breach the statutory timeframe and you
remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the
Information Commissioners Office and you can contact them at;

 

Information Commissioners Office

[1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Fax: 01625 524510

 

The Act defines a number of exemptions which may prevent release of the
information you have requested. There will be an assessment and if any of
the exemption categories apply then the information will not be released.
You will be informed if this is the case within 20 working days, together
with your rights of appeal.

 

If the information you are requesting contains reference to a third party
then they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or
not to release the information to you. You will be informed within 20
working days if this is the case.

 

If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact
me.  May l ask that you quote the above reference number on all your
correspondence?

 

PLEASE NOTE: As of 1^st June 2018 South Staffordshire and Shropshire
Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has merged with Staffordshire and
Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust to become Midlands Partnership
Foundation Trust.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Aled Evans

 

FOI Officer

Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust

Trust HQ, St George’s Hospital

Corporation Street

Stafford
ST16 3AG

Tel: 01785 221104 Ext 7128998

Skype: 01785 301314 Extenstion: 301314

Email: [2][email address]

 

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FOI (RRE) MPFT, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Mrs. Evans,

 

Could you please specify a timeframe for your request?

 

Your request shall be placed on hold until we receive clarification.

Thanks.

Kind regards

Aled Evans

Freedom Of Information Officer/Records Access Officer

Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust

Trust HQ

St George’s Hospital

Corporation Street

Stafford
ST16 3SR

Tel: 01785 221104

MS Teams DD: 01785 301314/Extension: 301314

Email: [1][MPFT request email]

 

Currently working from home.

 

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Dear FOI (RRE) MPFT, you ask what timeframe I am referring to sending patients to Cygnet Healthcare Ltd. The timeframe I am referring to is from when you first sent patients to Cygnet Healthcare Ltd to when you finished sending patients to Cygnet Healthcare Ltd. Even if it was ever known by any other name. Thankyou

Yours sincerely,

christina evans

FOI (RRE) MPFT, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Ms Evans,

Further to your recent request made under the Freedom of Information Act
2000, please see detailed below the Trust’s response:

We do not routinely collect information relating to patient transfers or
referrals to particular hospitals. The only way of obtaining the
information would be to manually check through all patient records. Given
that there are thousands of clients which even at 1 minutes per client,
would take over 50 hours. The provision of this information is therefore
exempt under Section 12 of the FOI act which states that this exemption
will apply “where the cost of compliance is estimated to exceed the
appropriate limit”. This is based on a cost limit of £450 with a
calculation of £25 per hour.

 

We would be grateful if you could take a minute to fill out our Freedom of
Information Customer Satisfaction Survey (attached) and let us know about
your experience.

Please contact me (Hannah Rogers) in the first instance if you have any
queries or questions regarding the Trust's response. However, if you have
any complaints about the handling of your enquiry, please contact:

Ms Lian Stibbs,

Head of Information Governance and Records Access Management,

Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust,

Trust Headquarters,

St George's Hospital,

Corporation Street,

Stafford,

ST16 3SR

Email: [1][email address]

You also have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545700
Website: [2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

PLEASE NOTE: As of 1^st June 2018 South Staffordshire and Shropshire
Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has merged with Staffordshire and
Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust to become Midlands Partnership
Foundation Trust.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Hannah Rogers

FOI Officer

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Trust Headquarters,

St Georges Hospital,

Corporation Street,

Stafford,

ST16 3SR.

 

External Tel. 01785 221104

Internal Tel. 7128278

E. [3][email address]

 

[4]www.mpft.nhs.uk

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Richard Taylor left an annotation ()

Our advice for those unhappy with a response is at:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/unha...

in this case you could request an internal review, you could ask the review to consider if the most efficient search strategy has been proposed.

It may be true that the information you are seeking is not easily accessible from the trust's records. You might want to consider if this is itself notable and something you want to act on and bring to the attention of local elected representatives or the media.

Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act gives public bodies a duty to provide advice and assistance.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200...

You could ask for advice on how you could rephrase or redirect your request to obtain either the exact information you requested, or, more broadly, information on the subject of the number of referrals to a Cygnet Healthcare Ltd facility.

One idea might be to follow the money. You could make requests to your local Clinical Commissioning Groups for information on payments to Cygnet Healthcare Ltd, and for the basis of those payments (making clear that you are not seeking any personal information).

You might want to expand your request to cover all facilities run under the Cygnet Health Care brand to catch activity carried out by other members of the group of companies.

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Richard - WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer