29 January 2014
Ms Joan Corrigan
[email: Joan Corrigan <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx]
Dear Ms Corrigan
RE: Freedom of Information (FOI) request – Our ref. FOI/14/011, Flexicare 1
I refer to your Freedom of Information request which was received by the Western
Health and Social Care Trust on 10 January 2014. Please see below a Trust
response which to your queries.
Flexicare 1
31/03/2012
£240,000
Funding available
for services to
31/03/2013
£240,000
Service Users in the
WHSCT
Current Year
2013/14 (to
£240,000
date)
31/03/2012
27.5% of overall budget
Funding allocated to
Fermanagh for same 31/03/2013
27.5% of overall budget
time period
Current Year
2013/14 (to
27.5% of overall budget
date)
Freedom of Information (FOI) Office, Administration Building,
Altnagelvin Hospital site, Glenshane Road, Londonderry, BT47 6SB
e-mail: xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx
The eligibility criteria for access to
the Connecting Elderly Rural
Isolated (CERI) Project are:
Eligibility criteria for access to
(a) Aged 65+ years
Flexicare
(b) Live within the Western Health
and Social Care Trust catchment
area.
Trust systems are unable to provide
31/03/2012
a breakdown for each year.
How many referrals
have been made to
31/03/2013
Between 31/03/2012 and 2013/14
Flexicare in the
year to date, there has been 500
WHSCT area?
Current Year referrals made to Flexicare in the
2013/14 (to
Western Trust area.
date)
31/03/2012
How many referrals
have been made to
31/03/2013
Approximately 30% of total referrals
Flexicare in
in WHSCT area
Fermanagh alone?
Current Year
2013/14 (to
date)
I hope you are happy with this response. Please contact us at the below address if
you have any further queries.
Yours sincerely
Damian Houston
Information Governance Manager
Freedom of Information: If you are unhappy as to how this request has been handled, you have
access to the Trust’s FOI complaints procedure. You should write to FOI Office, Administration
Building,
Altnagelvin
Hospital
site,
Glenshane
Road,
Londonderry
BT47
6SB
(xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx) within two months of the date of this response and your
complaint will be considered and a response provided, usually within 20 working days of receipt. If
you remain unhappy, you can write to our Chief Executive, who will reconsider your complaint and
respond to you, again usually within 20 working days.
If, after receiving a response from the Chief Executive, you remain unhappy, you can refer your
complaint to the Information Commissioner. It is important to note that if you refer any matter to the
Information Commissioner, you wil need to show evidence of having gone through the Trust’s
complaints procedure to try to resolve the matter with the Trust in the first instance.
Freedom of Information (FOI) Office, Administration Building,
Altnagelvin Hospital site, Glenshane Road, Londonderry, BT47 6SB
e-mail: xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx