Local Health Community and PCT Informatics Plan for 2011/12

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Dr Neil Bhatia

Dear Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust (PCT),

Thank you very much for all your previous FOI responses.

I would like to make a request under the FOI Act.

For the purposes of the Act, please take the date of your receipt of this request as Tuesday 1st March 2011.

• Please could you kindly send me the latest version of your Local Health Community and PCT Informatics Plan for 2011/12.

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 Tuesday 29th March 2011.

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

Hoskins Melissa (5NC) Associate Director Communications and Engagement,

Dear Dr Bhatia,

Please accept this email as confirmation of receipt of your request. This matter is being dealt with and I anticipate being able to respond by or within the 20 working day limit, based on receipt on 1 March.

Please ensure reference 910687 is included in any future correspondence, so we are able to deal with your enquiry promptly.

Please note I am responding in the absence of Sue Brown, our FOI officer, who is currently away from work.

With regards

Melissa Hoskins
Associate Director - Communications & Engagement
NHS Waltham Forest
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Freedom of Information (5NC) WF-PCT,

1 Attachment

Dear Dr Bhatia

I refer to your recent request and am now in a position to respond as
follows.

Please find attached our current Informatics Plan. We are in the process
of producing a new plan to reflect the emerging requirements of GP
consortia but currently await updated directives from the Department of
Health before we can actually finalise this. We have received no confirmed
time-line from DoH and believe it could be mid-late May before we are able
to complete this exercise.

I am therefore unable to offer a defined response other than the attached
which we are retaining as our current plan.

Kind regards,

Sue Brown

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICER

NHSWaltham Forest

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