General Medical Council e-mails
Dear Care Quality Commission,
I am writing to request copies of e-mail correspondence between your organisation and the General Medical Council regarding Medical Associate Professionals.
Please can you provide copies of emails which:
- Contain the keywords "physician associate" or "physician associates" or "medical associate professional" or "anaesthesia associate"
- Were sent or received from the General Medical Council. The email domain is @gmc-uk.org
- Time limit: last 4 months (14th March 2024 - 14th July 2024)
*This time limit has been chosen to comply with Section 12. E-mail software allows for rapid searching, and only a brief review is required to remove personally identifiable information. If you still assess this will exceed the Section 12 limit, please reduce the search criteria to a time period which falls under the Section 12 limit (e.g. last 3 months/2 months) with a justification of the reduced time period.
Public authorities must advise and assist requesters. I have been very specific in my request; however, if you require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours faithfully,
Michael Bridger
Dear Mr Bridger
I acknowledge receipt of your correspondence dated 14 July 2024, in which
you made a request for information.
Your request is as follows:
“I am writing to request copies of e-mail correspondence between your
organisation and the General Medical Council regarding Medical Associate
Professionals.
Please can you provide copies of emails which:
- Contain the keywords "physician associate" or "physician associates" or
"medical associate professional" or "anaesthesia associate"
- Were sent or received from the General Medical Council. The email domain
is @gmc-uk.org
- Time limit: last 4 months (14th March 2024 - 14th July 2024)”
CQC will consider your request in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Our statutory deadline for response is 9 August 2024, but we will in any
event endeavour to respond as soon as possible.
We will write to you if we are unable to meet this deadline.
The information you have requested may be subject to an exemption from the
right to know. Should this occur, we will explain the reasons why when we
respond.
Regards
On behalf of:
Information Access Team
For information about CQC, including contact details, information about
how we use and protect personal data, and how to request information from
us, go to [1]https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
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confidential to the intended recipient. They may not be disclosed to or
used by or copied in any way by anyone other than the intended recipient.
If this email is received in error, please notify us immediately by
clicking "Reply" and delete the email. Please note that neither the Care
Quality Commission nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses
and it is your responsibility to scan or otherwise check this email and
any attachments. Any views expressed in this message are those of the
individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be
the views of the Care Quality Commission. Information on how the Care
Quality Commission processes personal data is available here
http://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/our-polic...
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Dear Mr Bridger
I write to provide an update with regards to your request for information
made in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and
the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).
Our response to your request was due today. Unfortunately, we are not
currently able to respond to your request.
Please accept my sincere apologies on behalf of CQC for the delay in
responding to your request. I appreciate that this may be disappointing
and we appreciate your patience in this matter.
Please be assured that we are making every effort to respond to your
request as soon as possible.
Regards
On behalf of:
Information Access Team
-------------- The contents of this email and any attachments are
confidential to the intended recipient. They may not be disclosed to or
used by or copied in any way by anyone other than the intended recipient.
If this email is received in error, please notify us immediately by
clicking "Reply" and delete the email. Please note that neither the Care
Quality Commission nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses
and it is your responsibility to scan or otherwise check this email and
any attachments. Any views expressed in this message are those of the
individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be
the views of the Care Quality Commission. Information on how the Care
Quality Commission processes personal data is available here
http://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/our-polic...
Dear Information Access,
Thank you for the update. Could you kindly provide an estimated date by which you expect to respond to this request?
Yours sincerely,
Michael Bridger
Dear Information Access,
I'm sorry to email again, but can you please provide an estimated date by which you expect to respond to this overdue request?
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/foi...
Thank you for your assistance,
Yours sincerely,
Michael Bridger
Dear Mr Bridger
I write to provide an update with regards to your request for information
made in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and
the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).
We are working on your request with IT colleagues and will provide you
with an response or update within the next 10 working days.
Kind Regards
On behalf of:
Information Access Team
For information about CQC, including contact details, information about
how we use and protect personal data, and how to request information from
us, go to [1]https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
-------------- The contents of this email and any attachments are
confidential to the intended recipient. They may not be disclosed to or
used by or copied in any way by anyone other than the intended recipient.
If this email is received in error, please notify us immediately by
clicking "Reply" and delete the email. Please note that neither the Care
Quality Commission nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses
and it is your responsibility to scan or otherwise check this email and
any attachments. Any views expressed in this message are those of the
individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be
the views of the Care Quality Commission. Information on how the Care
Quality Commission processes personal data is available here
http://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/our-polic...
References
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1. https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
Dear Information Access,
This is another reminder to respond to this request, which is now significantly over the time limit.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Bridger
Dear Information Access,
I did not receive a response to my email yesterday. You have missed your previously stated deadline for responding to this request, and you are overdue for the statutory time limit.
I ask again for your response. I have escalated this to the ICO because I am concerned about your organisation's overall compliance with Section 10 of the FOIA.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Bridger
Dear Mr Bridger
Please accept our apologies for the continued delay. We are experiencing
some technical issues in extracting the information from our internal
systems.
Please be assured that we are making every effort to respond to your
request as soon as possible.
Kind Regards
On behalf of:
Information Access Team
For information about CQC, including contact details, information about
how we use and protect personal data, and how to request information from
us, go to [1]https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
-------------- The contents of this email and any attachments are
confidential to the intended recipient. They may not be disclosed to or
used by or copied in any way by anyone other than the intended recipient.
If this email is received in error, please notify us immediately by
clicking "Reply" and delete the email. Please note that neither the Care
Quality Commission nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses
and it is your responsibility to scan or otherwise check this email and
any attachments. Any views expressed in this message are those of the
individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be
the views of the Care Quality Commission. Information on how the Care
Quality Commission processes personal data is available here
http://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/our-polic...
References
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1. https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
Dear Information Access,
I have still not had a response (49 working days so far). Please can you respond to this request? I do feel like I'm being ignored!
Yours sincerely,
Michael Bridger
Dear Information Access,
I have still not had a response to this request.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Bridger
Dear Mr Bridger
I apologise for the ongoing delay with our response to your request. This has been due to issues with our ability to conduct the automated and widespread searches of emails required for this request. We have been working with IT colleagues and we have now managed to resolve this issue for your request. We are working on our response and will send it to you as soon as possible.
We have been contacted by the ICO in response to your complaint to them. We anticipate that our response to you will be within 10 working days.
Yours sincerely
Simon
Simon Richardson
Information Rights Manager
Care Quality Commission
For information about CQC, including contact details, information about how we use and protect personal data, and how to request information from us, go to https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
-------------- The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient. They may not be disclosed to or used by or copied in any way by anyone other than the intended recipient. If this email is received in error, please notify us immediately by clicking "Reply" and delete the email. Please note that neither the Care Quality Commission nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan or otherwise check this email and any attachments. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of the Care Quality Commission. Information on how the Care Quality Commission processes personal data is available here http://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/our-polic...
Dear Mr Bridger
I write in response to your correspondence in which you requested the
following information:
“I am writing to request copies of e-mail correspondence between your
organisation and the General Medical Council regarding Medical Associate
Professionals.
Please can you provide copies of emails which:
- Contain the keywords "physician associate" or "physician associates" or
"medical associate professional" or "anaesthesia associate"
- Were sent or received from the General Medical Council. The email domain
is @gmc-uk.org
- Time limit: last 4 months (14th March 2024 - 14th July 2024)”
Please accept my sincere apologies on behalf of CQC for the delay in
responding to your request. We experienced issues in coordinating with our
IT partners in conducting the electronic search of our email traffic.
The Information Access Team has now coordinated a response to your
request. CQC has considered your request in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Our first obligation under the legislation is to confirm whether we do or
do not hold the requested information.
In accordance with section 1(1) of FOIA we are able to confirm that CQC
does hold recorded information in relation to this matter and copies of
the emails are attached.
I hope this information is of assistance to you.
Kind Regards
On behalf of:
Information Access Team
For information about CQC, including contact details, information about
how we use and protect personal data, and how to request information from
us, go to [1]https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
-------------- The contents of this email and any attachments are
confidential to the intended recipient. They may not be disclosed to or
used by or copied in any way by anyone other than the intended recipient.
If this email is received in error, please notify us immediately by
clicking "Reply" and delete the email. Please note that neither the Care
Quality Commission nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses
and it is your responsibility to scan or otherwise check this email and
any attachments. Any views expressed in this message are those of the
individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be
the views of the Care Quality Commission. Information on how the Care
Quality Commission processes personal data is available here
http://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/our-polic...
References
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1. https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us
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