FOI request - SCR: care settings with viewing capability, Dec
Dear Department of Health,
Thank you very much for all your previous FOI responses.
I would like to make a further request under the FOI Act.
For the purposes of the Act, please take the date of your receipt of this request as 1st December 2010.
Back in September, you very kindly provided me with a list of all the viewing sites that are technically live, and technically live and viewing, Summary Care Records (out-of-hour centres, A&E departments etc - so called "care settings with viewing capability"), other than the GP surgeries that are uploading the data of course.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/46...
A more up-to-date list does not seem to be publicly accessible anywhere.
Have there been any further additions to that list as of 1st December 2010?
If not then please say so without delay, thank you, and I will consider my request answered.
If yes, please could you be kind enough to detail any addition(s) (i.e. name, location), or alternatively send me an updated list?
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 31st December 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.
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
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Information about the NHS Database / Summary Care Record can be found on my site:
www.summarycarerecord.info