Neurology NTN occupancy rates by LETB

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Dear Health Education England,

Please provide me with the following information, clearly broken down for each LETB:

A) on 1st January 2016 (or as close as possible to this date)-
i) the number of neurology NTNs commissioned,
ii) the number of neurology NTNs that were not filled through national recruitment or interdeanery transfer (or by other means),
iii) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave,
iv) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were "in programme" ie normally engaged in full time or less than full time clinical work (ie NOT those out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave).

B) on 1st July 2015 (or as close as possible to this date)-
i) the number of neurology NTNs commissioned,
ii) the number of neurology NTNs that were not filled through national recruitment or interdeanery transfer (or by other means),
iii) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave,
iv) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were "in programme" ie normally engaged in full time or less than full time clinical work (ie NOT those out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave).

C) on 1st January 2015 (or as close as possible to this date)-
i) the number of neurology NTNs commissioned,
ii) the number of neurology NTNs that were not filled through national recruitment or interdeanery transfer (or by other means),
iii) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave,
iv) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were "in programme" ie normally engaged in full time or less than full time clinical work (ie NOT those out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave).

Yours faithfully, and with thanks,

Tim Yates

FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND), Health Education England

Dear Mr Yates

 

Request for Information: Freedom of Information Act

 

We acknowledge receipt of your request for information to Health Education
England which we received on 29 July 2016.

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (General Rights of Access) that
came into force on 1 January 2005, we have a duty to:

 

•               Acknowledge receipt of your request within 2 working days

•               Respond to your request within 20 working days. 

 

We will respond to your request as soon as possible but no later than 26
August 2016.

 

Kind regards

 

Erin Wood

Briefing Manager

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House | Duncombe Street | Leeds | LS1 4PL

 

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FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND), Health Education England

Dear Mr Yates,

 

Freedom of Information: Request for clarification

 

Further to your request below, I have been advised by the team answering
your query that HEE conduct 2 annual stocktakes for this information, 1
April and 1 October, therefore we are unable to answer your request at the
exact point in time you have requested.

 

Please could you advise as to whether you would like us to process your
request for one of the dates outlined above or whether you would like to
withdraw your request.

 

Please note that your request will be held until you advise us further and
I will then be able to notify you of the new deadline.

 

Thank you in anticipation.

 

Kind regards

 

Erin Wood

Briefing Manager

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House | Duncombe Street | Leeds | LS1 4PL

 

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From: FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND)
Sent: 29 July 2016 10:30
To: Tim Yates
Cc: FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND)
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Neurology NTN occupancy
rates by LETB

 

Dear Mr Yates

 

Request for Information: Freedom of Information Act

 

We acknowledge receipt of your request for information to Health Education
England which we received on 29 July 2016.

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (General Rights of Access) that
came into force on 1 January 2005, we have a duty to:

 

•               Acknowledge receipt of your request within 2 working days

•               Respond to your request within 20 working days. 

 

We will respond to your request as soon as possible but no later than 26
August 2016.

 

Kind regards

 

Erin Wood

Briefing Manager

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House | Duncombe Street | Leeds | LS1 4PL

 

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Dear Erin (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND),

Thank you. On the basis of your response, please ignore my the original three dates for which I requested information and instead provide the same information (i-iv, below for each LETB) for (A) 1st April 2015, (B) 1st October 2015 and (C) 1st April 2016.

i) the number of neurology NTNs commissioned,
ii) the number of neurology NTNs that were not filled through national recruitment or interdeanery transfer (or by other means),
iii) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave,
iv) the number of trainees holding a neurology NTN who were "in programme" ie normally engaged in full time or less than full time clinical work (ie NOT those out of programme for research, training, career break or experience, or on maternity leave).

Yours sincerely,

Tim Yates

FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND), Health Education England

Dear Mr Yates,

 

Thank you for your quick response.

 

Please note that there will be no amendment to the deadline for response,
this will remain at 26 August.

 

Kind regards

 

Erin Wood

Briefing Manager

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House | Duncombe Street | Leeds | LS1 4PL

 

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Dear FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND),

I note that your response is now delayed and that no explanation has been provided as to the cause of the delay or the likely date of your response. I would appreciate a prompt response with the data requested or an explanation of the delay and a confirmed delivery date, please.

Yours sincerely,

Tim Yates

FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND), Health Education England

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Dear Mr Yates,

 

RE: Freedom of Information Request

 

I refer to your email of 28 July 2016 in respect of attaining information
relating to training places and recruitment into neurology.

I can confirm in accordance with S.1 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA) that we do hold the information that you have requested.  I
would like to take this opportunity to apologise to you for the slight
delay in response.  HEE takes the burden placed on it in terms of its
obligations relating to the FOIA very seriously.  However, the delay
occurred following the unexpected absence of a member of staff involved in
the collation of the requested figures.  Nevertheless, in an attempt to
provide you with as much information as possible, we have attached the
data we have available to us at this time. It is anticipated that we will
be able to provide you with the remaining data (April 2015) by the end of
this week and we will contact you tomorrow to confirm that.

 

Please note that the information we have collated is part of a 6 monthly
stocktake in which the figures are only accurate at that point in time.
There is always likely to be some variation in figures but these are
anticipated and calculated into the recruitment figures; the flux in post
data may not reflect actual reductions or increases in post numbers
therefore no assumptions should be made.

 

You should also note that the information provided only includes neurology
training information and does not include and neurology posts that may
occur in other training programmes for example, General Practice. The
figures provided are not NTNs as HEE does not commission these, they are
the number of filled training places funded by HEE.

 

I hope that this information is of use.  If you are dissatisfied with the
way in which we have dealt with your request you can ask us to review our
decision by writing to:-

 

Mr Lee Whitehead

Director of People and Communications

Health Education England

2 - 4 Victoria House,

Capital Park,

Fulbourn,

Cambridge

CB21 5XB

 

If at the conclusion of any review you remain dissatisfied you may
complain to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at:-

 

The Office of the Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Yours sincerely

 

Erin Wood

Briefing Manager

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House | Duncombe Street | Leeds | LS1 4PL

 

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FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND), Health Education England

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Dear Mr Yates,

 

Further to my email yesterday, I have now been able to locate the
remaining information. Please find attached an updated version of the
information I provided you with previously.

 

Once again I would like to apologise for the delay in getting this data to
you.

 

Kind regards

 

Erin Wood

Briefing Manager

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House | Duncombe Street | Leeds | LS1 4PL

 

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Dear FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND),

Thank you.

You have only made a partial response and have not addressed why a complete response has not been made.

For questions (i), (iii) and (iv), you have provided aggregated data for the whole of England, and have not presented the data by LETB, as was clearly requested.

I would be grateful for a response that relates entirely to my original request, please.

Yours sincerely,

Tim Yates

FOIA (HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND), Health Education England

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Dear Mr Yates,

 

Thank you for your email, you will now find attached all of the
information broken down by HEE's 4 Local Education and Training Boards
(LETBs). Should you submit a further request for the information to be
broken down further, I have been advised that this may not be released to
you on the grounds that it could make individuals identifiable.

 

Section 40 (2) of the FOIA applies to third party personal data and is
exempt from disclosure under the FOIA if disclosure would breach any of
the data protection principles contained within Part 1 of Schedule One
under Section 4 (1) and (2) of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). 

 

One of the main differences between the FOIA and the DPA is that any
information released under the FOIA is released into the public domain,
not just the individual requesting the information and disclosure under
the FOIA must be made with that in mind. As such, any release that
identifies an individual through releasing their personal data, even third
party personal data, is exempt.

 

All persons whose personal data is processed by HEE, regardless of whether
they be staff, trainees or members of the public, have an intrinsic right
to privacy and these rights are protected by virtue of the DPA. Release of
the information subject to the exemption is likely to compromise those
rights.

 

Kind regards

 

Erin Wood

Briefing Manager

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House | Duncombe Street | Leeds | LS1 4PL

 

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