MRI diagnosis of brain damage cuased by anti psychotic drugs
Dear Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust,
Please would you be so kind as to tell me how many times have the MRI department at the Queens medical campus been required to diagnose brain damage caused by anti psychotic drugs in: (a) 2011,
(b) 2010
(c) 2000-2010
(e) 1990-2000
Yours faithfully,
germaine gross
Dear Ms Gross
Please refer to the attached letter
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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ID:B4f97cbf80000.000000000001.0002.mml - 11:03:36 25/04/2012
Dear Staton Janet (ICT Services),
RE Your requested simplification of my FOI's.
Please inform me of the text or published research documents used in the training /college education / post graduate education etc., by your MRI staff to enable them to identify and distinguish brain damage caused by anti psychotic drugs from all other forms of brain damage. Please inform me of where this training took place.
Please would you also inform me how many times the MRI department at the QMC have been asked to identify brain damage caused by anti psychotic drugs since April 2006 , or if that is too expensive in 2011, and 2010 ?
Yours sincerely,
germaine gross
Dear Ms Gross
Please find the attached letter and note the alteration in the number allocated to your request
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ID:B4f9a4a930000.000000000001.0001.mml - 08:28:19 27/04/2012
Dear Ms Gross
Please see the attached documents
Thank you
Janet Staton
Freedom of Information Administartor
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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ID:B4facb74d0000.000000000001.0002.mml - 07:53:02 11/05/2012
Dear Ms Gross
Please see the attached letter
Thank you
Janet Staton
Freedom of Information Administrator
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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ID:B4fb235660000.000000000001.0001.mml - 11:52:22 15/05/2012
Dear Staton Janet (ICT Services),
I require a list of all funds paid to , loaned to, made available to, or otherwise gifted in any manner, to Nottingham university hospitals, its staff, its research, its consultants, its board members, its CE, its associated departments of any and all kinds, its patients, its students , bursaries, charities, and any other form of associated funding of any kind, by any p pharmaceutical manufacturer, supplier, wholesaler, or research establishment, or any commercial enterprise associated with any pharmaceutical company, industry, multi national, manufacturer, wholesaler, supplier, producer, retailer or any other form of suppler of pharmaceuticals to your University Hospital trust.
I am particularly interested in the funds and holidays, travel expenses, overseas and UK conference expenses, and any other expences of any form, paid to you consultant psychiatric and neurological staff members by any such research, manufacturer, supplier, wholesaler or retail supplier of pharmaceutical products to you hospital Trust.
Please supply details of any payments, expences and financial contributions made to your consultant psychiatric and neurological teams for any reason, by any pharmaceutical manufacturers, suppliers, research establishments, and all and any other aspects of the pharmaceutical industry.
Please send me details of all any any funds made available or paid to your NHS trust in any form what so ever, since April 2006 by any pharmaceutical supplier, manufacturer or retailer or supplier of any kind.
Please inform me how I might gain access to your accountancy records to verify to statements in reply to this request.
Please note that you have not answered my previous FPI requesting the number of times your MRI department had]s been asked to investigate brain damage in relation to anti psychotic drugs. Your claim that this never happens is false , since it happened only recently to a known patient. Please answer both questions.
Yours sincerely,
germaine gross
Dear Ms Gross
Thank you for your e mail of 14th May 2012 regarding our response to your request. This has now been passed to our Resident Pharmacist whi will reply to you directly
Thank you
Janet Staton
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Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust
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ID:B4fb49a920000.000000000001.0001.mml - 07:28:34 17/05/2012
Dear Ms Gross
Thank you for your recent e mail sent by yourself as a result of our response to you, dated 11th May 2012 regarding MRI training and diagnosis. Within your e mail dated 15th May 2012 at 12.55 we note that you requested clarification regarding the previous Freedom of Information NUH 8294 as follows:
. The number of times our MRI department had been asked to investigate brain damage in relation to anti psychotic drugs.Your claim that this has never happened is false,since it happened only recently to a known patient
We have been in touch with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Claims Manager who has also confirmed there is no recorded information of claims relating to brain damage in relation to anti psychotic drugs
Thank you
Janet Staton
Freedom of Information Administrator
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ID:B4fbcdf5d0000.000000000001.0002.mml - 14:00:13 23/05/2012
Dear Ms Gross
Please find the attached letter
Thank you
Janet Staton
Freedom of Information Administrator
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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ID:B4fbce3330000.000000000001.0002.mml - 14:16:35 23/05/2012
Dear Ms Gross
Thank you for your clarification e mail that is receiving our attention.
In your request you asked the following
I am particularly interested in the funds and holidays, travel
expenses, overseas and UK conference expenses, and any other
expences of any form, paid to you consultant psychiatric and
neurological staff members by any such research, manufacturer,
supplier, wholesaler or retail supplier of pharmaceutical products
to you hospital Trust.
Please supply details of any payments, expences and financial
contributions made to your consultant psychiatric and neurological
teams for any reason, by any pharmaceutical manufacturers,
suppliers, research establishments, and all and any other aspects
of the pharmaceutical industry.
Please send me details of all any any funds made available or paid
to your NHS trust in any form what so ever, since April 2006 by any
pharmaceutical supplier, manufacturer or retailer or supplier of
any kind.
Please find the attached Register of Hospitality that provides information
declared and registered at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Thank you
Janet Staton
Freedom of Information Administrator
ICT Services
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Queens Medical Centre Campus
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
Tel: 0115 9249924 Ext 63100
janet.staton @nuh.nhs.uk
Dear Staton Janet (ICT Services),
I cannot find any attached information except a statement re Data protection. Is this all you are sending ? If not please re send the information requested.
Yours sincerely,
germaine gross
Dear Ms Gross
O dear, let's try again
Janet
Janet Staton
Freedom of Information Administrator
ICT Services
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Queens Medical Centre Campus
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
Tel: 0115 9249924 Ext 63100
janet.staton @nuh.nhs.uk
Dear Staton Janet (ICT Services),
thank you for your documents.
You appear to have confused the two FOI s I sent you. Please note that this Freedom of Information request specifically asks you to inform me how many times your MRI department has been asked to diagnose permanent brain damage caused by anti psychotic drugs since 2006.
I have also asked you to inform me where and what training your MRI clinicians have had in the permanent side effects of anti psychotic drugs, I presume from your refusal to supply this information that they have had no training of any kind.
Given this fact it is odd that they should feel themselves competent to diagnose this injury with such precision and certainty.
You appear to claim that it is the neurologist who had diagnosed the MRI scan, but the neurologist claims it is the MRI clinician, and bases hi9s authority on that fact.
Please would you inform me which is the case, and which is not the case ?
Please supply the information requested for both of these requests.
Please also supply an answer to my question regarding your claim that anti psychotic drugs cause no brain injuries of any kind. Why is it that Nottingham University trust hospitals disagree with all known a=facts concerning these drugs ?
Yours sincerely,
germaine gross
Dear Ms Gross
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) came into being on 1st
April 2006 and assumed responsibility for the services provided by both
the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) and Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
(NCH).
You submitted a request for information to us on 24^th April 2012(Ref: NUH
8284 for which we responded on 11^TH May 20912. We received an email from
you on 11^th May 2011 submitting several more requests for information
relating to that response these being:
o Please would you inform me why it is your hospital appears to disagree
with the experts in these drugs employed by the NHS?
o Have you conducted any private research?
o What specific medical research and documents provide you with your
stated belief that anti psychotic drugs never cause any permanent
changes to the brain, permanent side effects, or brain damage?
To qualify under the Freedom of Information Act legislation your request
must be for recorded information held by a public authority i.e. not
knowledge, judgement, opinion or general advice we are therefore not able
to assist further with these enquiries.
We also received a request from you on 15^th May 2012 (Ref: FOI – 8515)
which we dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
and provided a response on 25^th May 2012. We are now able to provide
responses for the elements of you’re your enquiry of 15th May for which we
have not yet replied in order to conclude our response.
You requested:
Please inform me how I might gain access to your accountancy records to
verify statements in reply to this request.
The FOI Act provides individuals with a legal right of access to
information and not to documents. It is often simple to provide
information by supplying a copy of relevant documents such as a copy of a
document which covers a single topic. However, some documents contain a
great deal of other information or information that may fall into other
access regimes e.g. Data Protection Act or contain exempt information.
The term ‘Accountancy records’ covers a wide variety of financial matters,
some of which might not be appropriate for disclosure under FOI and might
qualify for non-disclosure to the public under an exemption within the
Act. The Trust would therefore reasonably require further information from
you in terms of what it is that you want to know, in order to identify and
locate the exact information that you seek.
We will not be able to take this application further without clarification
as we are unable to determine what information is relevant to your
request, whether or not we hold the information within specific finance
records or elsewhere, whether or not it is disclosable under the Terms of
the Act or how long it will take to process (as it may exceed the time
limit) etc. We will not be able to take this matter further without
clarification from you.
If you are unhappy with the response you have received and wish to make an
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Information Governance Manager
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Nottingham
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Yours sincerely
Janet Staton
Freedom of Information Administrator
Sent on behalf of
Deborah Coombs
Recorda Manager
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Nottingham
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germaine gross left an annotation ()
Thank you for the information. Please would you answer my question included in the FOI: How many times has the MRI department at University hospital Nottingham been asked to identify brain damage caused by anti psychotic drugs since April 2006 ?
Thank you.