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Dear Dr Davidson,

Thank you for your communication dated 27 June 2016.

NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. As such, please be assured that your request is being dealt with under the terms of the FOI Act and will be answered within twenty working days.

For further information regarding the FOI Act, please refer to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website. For further information regarding NHS England and the information it publishes please visit our website here.

If you have any queries about this request or wish to contact us again, please email [NHS England request email] and the message will be forwarded appropriately. Please remember to quote the above reference number in any future communications.

Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a central mailbox. To communicate with NHS England regarding Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, enquiries or complaints we ask these are sent directly to NHS England’s customer contact centre. This is to ensure all communications are progressed correctly. Their postal address, telephone number and email details are as follows:- PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT; 0300 3 11 22 33, [NHS England request email] .

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Corporate Communications Team
Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

NHS England
PO Box 16738
Redditch
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [NHS England request email]

‘High quality care for all, now and for future generations’

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Dear Dr Davidson,

 

Re:      Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI-011126)

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 27 June
2016.

 

Your exact request was:-

 

“I wish to investigate health care provision per population across local
authority areas (32 London boroughs, City of London, 36 metropolitan
boroughs, 55 unitary authorities, 201 non-metropolitan districts, The
Isles of Scilly). These areas match the voting areas during the recent EU
referendum.

 

I can access population estimates for these areas from the Office for
National Statistics but cannot find an option to bulk download the data
underpinning the NHS Choices website that contains information on GP
surgeries, Walk-In Centres and Hospitals by post code area. If I had this
data then I could collate the number of each service in each voting
geography.

 

I therefore request that you provide this information (for the services
mentioned here at least, hospitals to include primary services such as
A&E, maternity etc) either with post code geographical information or
already aggregated as counts within each voting geographic area as
described. It would be useful to know the number of GPs in each surgery if
you have that information.

 

If you also had that information for Wales or other devolved
administrations, I would appreciate that too. ”

 

NHS England does not hold this information.

 

It may help if we explain that the NHS in England is not a single
organisation but is made up of a range of organisations such as Hospitals,
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Ambulance Trusts. NHS England is
responsible for commissioning primary care services such as GP and dental
surgeries, as well as some specialised secondary care services. Therefore,
any recorded information NHS England may be able to provide in response to
an FOI request will generally relate to the services NHS England
commissions. For information on commissioned services and the types of
information NHS England holds can be found on our [1]website and
[2]publication scheme. For further information on the NHS, its structure
and other NHS organisations please refer to NHS Choices [3]here.

 

For information in relation to Wales, Scotland and Ireland you will need
to contact the relevant authorities for those nations. We have included
their contact information for your convenience below:-

 

Health in Wales

There are a range of organisations within Wales which may hold this
information, for which information can be found on the website
[4]http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/...

 

NHS National Services Scotland

·         Web form: [5]Information Request Form

·         Email: [6][email address]

·         Phone: 0131 275 6665, or

·         Write including your name, address, telephone number and full
details of the information you seek, to the address below:

 

Customer Services Desk
National Services Scotland
Gyle Square
1 South Gyle Crescent
Edinburgh
EH12 9EB

 

Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Departmental Information Manager

FOI Unit

DHSSPS

Room A3.5b

Castle Buildings

Stormont

Belfast BT4 3SQ

 

Email: [7][email address]

Telephone: 028 90 522353

 

For information regarding England, maps outlining Local Authority areas
(onto which you may be able to superimpose healthcare provider locations)
are available at the following web link:

 

·        
[8]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

 

Details of NHS providers including GP practices, hospital trusts, dental
surgeries and others are available on the NHS Choices website via the
following web link:

 

·         [9]http://www.nhs.uk/service-search

 

Some Local Authorities may hold information in relation to the health care
provision in their area. Should you wish to redirect your enquiry, you can
find Local Authority contact information via the following web link:

 

·         [10]http://local.direct.gov.uk/LDGRedirect/S...

 

We hope this information is helpful. However, if you are dissatisfied, you
have the right to ask for an internal review by writing to us, within two
months of the date of this letter, to:

 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Email: [11][NHS England request email]

 

Please quote the reference number FOI-011126 in any future communications.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can be contacted at:

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Email: [12][email address]  

Website: [13]www.ico.gov.uk

 

Please note there is no charge for making an appeal.

 

Please be aware that in line with the Information Commissioner’s directive
on the disclosure of information under the FOI Act, your request will be
anonymised and published on our website as part of our disclosure log.

 

Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a
central mailbox. To communicate with NHS England regarding Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests, enquiries or complaints we ask these are sent
directly to NHS England’s customer contact centre. This is to ensure all
communications are progressed correctly. Their postal address, telephone
number and email details are as follows: PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT;
0300 3 11 22 33, [14][NHS England request email].

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Tel: 0300 311 22 33

Email: [15][NHS England request email]

 

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Dear Dr Davidson,

 

Thank you for your email dated 11 July 2016 with regard to FOI-011126. The
Department of Health owns the NHS Choices website. The content, data and
services on NHS Choices are  delivered by the Health and Social Care
Information Centre (HSCIC), which is also responsible for responding to
Freedom of Information (FOI) requests regarding the NHS Choices website.
As such, you may wish to liaise with the HSCIC with regard to your
request. You can find information on how to make an FOI request to HSCIC
on their website at the following web link:

 

·                     [1]http://www.hscic.gov.uk/foi   

 

We hope this information is helpful.

 

If you are dissatisfied with NHS England’s handling of your request, you
have the right to ask for an internal review by writing to us, within two
months of the date of this letter, to:

 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Email: [2][NHS England request email]

 

Please quote the reference number FOI-011132 in any future communications.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can be contacted at:

 

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Email: [3][email address]  

Website: [4]www.ico.gov.uk

 

Please note there is no charge for making an appeal.

 

Please be aware that in line with the Information Commissioner’s directive
on the disclosure of information under the FOI Act, your request will be
anonymised and published on our website as part of our disclosure log.

 

Please do not reply to this email. This message has been sent from a
central mailbox. To communicate with NHS England regarding Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests, enquiries or complaints we ask these are sent
directly to NHS England’s customer contact centre. This is to ensure all
communications are progressed correctly. Their postal address, telephone
number and email details are as follows:- PO Box 16738, Redditch, B97 9PT;
0300 3 11 22 33, [5][NHS England request email]  .

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Freedom of Information

Corporate Communications Team

Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

REDDITCH

B97 9PT

 

Tel: 0300 311 22 33

Email: [6][NHS England request email]

 

‘High quality care for all, now and for future generations’

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