Information regarding the SCR/TPP Project: February 2009

Dear BHPCT

I would like to make further requests under the FOI Act regarding the SCR rollout.

For the purposes of the Act, the date of your receipt of my request will be 12th March.

• Please could you kindly send me the minutes (draft or otherwise) of any Summary Care Record Project/Programme Board meeting held between 12.01.09 and 27.02.09.

• Please could you kindly send me the minutes (draft or otherwise) of any Summary Care Record Project (or Project Implementation) Team meeting held between 12.01.09 and 27.02.09.

• Please could you kindly send me any Summary Care Record Highlight Reports, Update Reports or Progress Reports created or updated between 12.01.09 and 27.02.09.

• Please could you send me any Summary Care Record Risk Logs, Issue Logs or Decision Logs created or updated between 12.01.09 and 27.02.09.

Pulse has reported how Bolton PCT used payments to entice and support practices getting involved in the first two waves of uploading patient records, payments which Bolton PCT claimed were "compensation for the extra work that was involved due to the practices being pilot sites".
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?se...

South Birmingham PCT has also paid GP practices for this.

Please could you:

• detail any payments paid to pilot GP practices up to 27th February 2009

• detail any payments as of 27th February 2009 agreed will be paid to pilot GP practices (on a future date)

by your PCT for work involved with the Summary Care Record uploads, excluding the IM&T DES payments.
Please could you list the total sum of payments already paid, any further sum planning to be paid, as well as indicating what each individual pilot GP practice received/will receive (I am not asking you need to identify the individual practices).

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 9th April.

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

Just a polite reminder that your are obliged to email me this information by the end of today.

Kind regards,

Dr Neil Bhatia

Thank you.

Dr Neil Bhatia