Dear Mr King

Please see attached an acknowledgement of your request.

Best regards
FOI Team. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Good Morning Shaun

Further to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 that was received on 27th November 2022, the Trust’s response is attached to this email.

If you are dissatisfied with the way your request has been handled, you can request an internal review by writing to me at the above address within two months of the date of this letter. If you are still dissatisfied after an internal review, you can apply to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for an independent review. The ICO will normally accept such applications only where they have already been through the Trust’s internal review process. The ICO’s address is:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

If you need any further assistance in this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Carole Sheppard
Freedom of Information Team
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Great Western Hospital
Marlborough Road
Swindon SN3 6BB

E: [Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust request email]

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Good Afternoon Shaun

Further to our response to this request which was provided on 30th November 2022, an error has been found in the figures that were originally provided in relation to ED attendances for Myocarditis and Pericarditis. This was a formula error that occurred during the process of simplifying the data into a pivot table. The value that was displayed was the sum total of a numeric value within the raw data, specifically a row count, as the years progressed the row count increased meaning the sum was greater. The value displayed should have been a count and not a sum.

I have provided the correct information in attached spreadsheet. Please accept my sincere apologies for this. Please be assured that this was a genuine error and that we have implemented an additional checking process for requests that ask for statistical information in the future.

Best Regards
Carole Sheppard
Freedom of Information Team
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Great Western Hospital
Marlborough Road
Swindon SN3 6BB

E: [Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust request email]

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