Disabled nurses
Dear Nursing and Midwifery Council,
Can you please provide the number of registered nurses who have mobility issues and require wheelchairs in Scotland or if that is not available then UK wide.
Yours faithfully,
James Hardy
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Dear James Hardy ,
Thank you for your email. We acknowledge receipt of your request.
The statutory time-frame for responses are:
* 20 working days - Freedom of Information requests.
* 30 days - Data Subjects Rights Requests (under the GDPR)
If you need the information in an alternative format, we will do all we
reasonably can to help. When you submit a request to us, we may ask for
further information to assist us in processing your request. We will only
collect, use and store this information in order to process your request
and in accordance with our Retention and Disposal Schedules.
To learn more about how we use this information, please read
our [1]Privacy Notice.
Thank you.
Freedom of Information & Data Protection Officers
Records and Archives Team
Nursing and Midwifery Council
23 Portland Place
London
W1B 1PZ
The Nursing and Midwifery Council uses email and file encryption service -
Egress Switch to secure sensitive information. [2]http://www.egress.com/
James Hardy
[1][FOI #756807 email]
Our ref: NMC-08729-S0J7M7
10 June 2021
Freedom of Information Response
Dear James Hardy
Thank you for your request for information which was received by the
Nursing and Midwifery Council on 19 May 2021.
Your request
Can you please provide the number of registered nurses who have mobility
issues and require wheelchairs in Scotland or if that is not available
then UK wide.
Our response
We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and
can confirm that we do not hold data at the level of what you are have
requested.
Please note that the NMC know where a registrant currently lives and if a
registrant has declared that they have a disability, but we do not have
sufficiently reliable information relating to the precise nature of the
disability i.e. mobility, visual or hearing impairment etc.
We hope this is helpful to you.
Internal review
We hope that the information provided to you today is what you were
looking for however, if you are not satisfied with the way we have dealt
with your request you can ask for an internal review. To submit an
internal review, please email Graham Ostle, Information & Data Requests
Manager at [2]foi&[email address]
Please submit any request within one month and tell us why you are not
satisfied with our response.
Yours sincerely
Information and Data Request
Nursing and Midwifery Council
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