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The Freedom of Information Team

Good morning,

RE: Freedom of Information Acknowledgement Ref code FOI 10797

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information requests made in relation to information held by Pennine Acute Trust and Salford Royal Foundation Trust. You have made two identical or very similar FOI requests and the responses will both be dealt with in the same administrative process. You will receive one set of correspondence dealing with both requests.

Requests for information from one of the Care Organisations making up Pennine Acute Trust (Fairfield General Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary and Community Service, The Royal Oldham Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital and Community Services) are now processed from the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust base of the Northern Care Alliance.

To ease processing please ensure ALL FOI related emails, including new requests, are sent to [email address] quoting the FOI reference numbers shown in the subject line of this acknowledgement

In accordance with Trust policy and the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, a period of 20 working days is assigned for processing your request. [Working days within the NHS refers to Mon-Fri.] We will provide you with an explanation if we find that there is any reason why this period may extend beyond the period prescribed by the Act.

Please contact us if you have any queries regarding the procedure.

Kind regards,

Freedom of Information Office
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Northern Care Alliance
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Dear Karla Rogosic,

FOI Reference Number: FOI/10797

You currently have a Freedom of Information Request with the above
reference number open with the Trust. 

We write at this time, to confirm we have this request on our caseload. 
We wish to apologise that this request is currently over the expected
timeframes of the legislation for release.

As you are aware, the past few months have been extremely busy and most of
our services had been working under immense pressure.

If there are instances where the information requested is no longer
required; a return confirmation of this would be appreciated so we can
close the file.

If you still require the information, please respond to this email and let
us know so we can continue to process your request. It may be the case
that we are able to release parts of the information you requested earlier
than others.

Thanking you for your support and understanding.

Kind regards

Freedom of Information Office

Northern Care Alliance

(Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust)