Stacey Teale
Corporate Officer
Direct Line: 0151 318 9318
Email:
xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx
NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group
Date: 5th March 2020
Marriss House
Hamilton Street
Name: Katja Huijbers
Birkenhead
Email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Wirral
Our Ref: ID 1647
CH41 5AL
Tel: 0151 651 0011
Dear Ms Huijbers,
Re: Freedom of Information Request - Advocacy
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
which was received into this office on 23rd February 2020.
You Asked for:
We would like to request information about services you may commission to provide
Independent Advocacy for people accessing support in the following processes in your area:
- Continuing Health Care (CHC)
- Continuing Care
- Personal wheelchair budgets
- Personal Health Budgets (PHB’s)
1. Could you provide the name of any service(s) you commission to provide Independent
Advocacy Support to people going through CHC (adult) or Continuing Care (children)?
2. Could you provide the name of any service(s) you commission to provide Independent
Advocacy Support to people accessing personal wheelchair budgets?
3. Could you provide the name of any service(s) you commission to provide Independent
Advocacy Support to people accessing or using PHB processes (both adult and
children)?
Our Response:
1. Cheshire Centre for Independent Living (CCIL).
2. NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) does not hold this information. May I
suggest that you contact Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
(WCHC)? I have included their contact details should you wish to do so:
xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.
3. Please see the answer to question number 1.
We hope this information is useful, however if you require any further information please do not
hesitate to contact a member of the Corporate Affairs Team (contact details at the top of this
letter)
Yours sincerely
Paul Edwards
Director of Corporate Affairs
NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group
Re- Use of Information
Most of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of Information Act 2000 requests will be
subject to copyright protection. In most cases the copyright will be owned by Wirral Clinical
Commissioning Group. The copyright in other information may be owned by another person or
organisation, as indicated on the information itself.
You are free to use any information supplied for your own non-commercial research or private study
purposes. The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed by a limitation or exception in
copyright law, such as news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the
information in analogue or digital form, including on the internet, will require the permission of the
copyright owner.
For information where the copyright is owned by Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group please e-mail
xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx to request a reuse licence.
For information where the copyright is owned by another person or organisation you must apply to the
copyright owner to obtain their permission.