Enrichment of the SCR

Dear South West Essex Primary Care Trust (PCT),

I would like to make some further requests under the FOI Act regarding the Summary Care Record within your PCT.

For the purposes of the Act, the date of your receipt of this request will be 5th May 2010.

Thank you for your previous FOI response regarding GP practices uploading to the SCR.

I am also interested in "enrichment" of the SCR with GP and non-GP data.

I would be grateful for the following information:

• Please could you identify which of the 50 GP practices, currently uploading "core" data to the SCR, are also "enriching" (or "enhancing") SCRs with additional/supplementary data from their GP records.

• Please could you confirm if any hospital departments, out-of-hours centres or specialist clinics within your PCT area are planning to upload non-GP data - so called Release 2 information - to the SCR within the next 6 months.

As per Section 4a of Part 1 of the FOI Act
( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukp... ) I would like the information in question held at the time when my request is received (draft or otherwise), except that account may be taken of any amendment or deletion made between now and the latest time by which the information is to be communicated to me, being an amendment or deletion that would have been made regardless of the receipt of my request.

I would be grateful if you would be kind enough to send me the requested information promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth working day following the date of receipt of my request - that is by then end of the working day of 3rd June 2010.

If my request is denied in whole or in part, or specific items within the responses are withheld from disclosure, then you must justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act, as per Section 17 of the Act
( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukp... ). Where you rely on a qualified exemption to withhold disclosure, you are obliged to consider the public interest in your decision and the refusal notice must explain not only which exemption applies and why, but also the public interest arguments addressed in reaching the decision.

I wish to receive the information by email; I believe such a request would be reasonable in these circumstances. As per Section 11 of Part 1 of the FOI Act ( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukp... ) I would be grateful if you would "so far as reasonably practicable give effect to that preference"; if you determine that it is not reasonably practicable to comply with this preference then you are required by law to notify me of the reasons for your determination.

The “return address” (to which the information that I have requested be should be sent ) is the email address that this particular request originates from.

I would be grateful if you would kindly acknowledge receipt of this request as recommended by the ICO (“It would be good practice to acknowledge receipt of requests and to refer to the 20 working day time limit, so that applicants know their request is being dealt with”).

Thank you once again.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Neil Bhatia

Dear Kathleen,

Your last email had no such response attached to it.

Kind regards,

Dr Neil Bhatia