Practices uploading to the Summary Care Record - November

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Dear NHS Tees,

Thank you very much for all your previous FOI responses.

I would like to make further requests under the FOI Act regarding the Summary Care Record rollout within your PCTs.

For the purposes of the Act, please take the date of your receipt of this request as Monday 1st November 2010.

For each of your 4 PCTs, Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees and Redcar & Cleveland:

• Please could you kindly state the total number of GP practices within each PCT that are uploading data to the Summary Care Record as of the end of Sunday 31st October 2010.

Connecting for Health have recently sent out some new guidance regarding enrichment of core (or "basic") summary care records:
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/sy...

• Please could you kindly state the number of practices within each PCT that have added more than core information to patient summary care records (that is, have enriched one, some or all of their patients' summary care records).

• Please could you kindly state the total number of patient summary care records, as uploaded by participating practices within each PCT, that have been enriched in any way beyond core information.

As per Section 4a of Part 1 of the FOI Act
( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukp... ) I would like the information in question held at the time when my request is received (draft or otherwise), except that account may be taken of any amendment or deletion made between now and the latest time by which the information is to be communicated to me, being an amendment or deletion that would have been made regardless of the receipt of my request.

I would be grateful if you would be kind enough to send me the requested information promptly and in any event not later than the twentieth working day following the date of receipt of my request - that is by then end of Monday 29th November 2010.

If my request is denied in whole or in part, or specific items within the responses are withheld from disclosure, then you must justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act, as per Section 17 of the Act
( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukp... ). Where you rely on a qualified exemption to withhold disclosure, you are obliged to consider the public interest in your decision and the refusal notice must explain not only which exemption applies and why, but also the public interest arguments addressed in reaching the decision.

I wish to receive the information by email; I believe such a request would be reasonable in these circumstances. As per Section 11 of Part 1 of the FOI Act ( http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukp... ) I would be grateful if you would "so far as reasonably practicable give effect to that preference"; if you determine that it is not reasonably practicable to comply with this preference then you are required by law to notify me of the reasons for your determination.

I would be grateful if you would kindly acknowledge receipt of this request as recommended by the ICO (“It would be good practice to acknowledge receipt of requests and to refer to the 20 working day time limit, so that applicants know their request is being dealt with”).

Thank you once again.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Neil Bhatia

Freedom of Information,

Dear Dr Bhatia,

Thank you for your request of 1 November regarding the Summary Care
Record roll-out. This request will be handled under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act (2000) on behalf of NHS Hartlepool, NHS
Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton on Tees. I can
be contacted by telephone on 01642 352397 should you have any questions
or concerns about your request.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, I
will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to you, and you will be
required to pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

Under the Act we have 20 working days in which to provide the
information, therefore you can expect a response no later than 29
November 2010.

In line with the Information Commissioner's Directive on the disclosure
of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 your request
will form part of our disclosure log. Therefore, a version of our
response which will protect your anonymity will be posted on the Tees
PCTs websites.

If I can be of any further assistance in the meantime please do not
hesitate to contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number
above in any future communications.

Liane Cotterill
Information Governance Manager
Performance & Quality Improvement
NHS Hartlepool, NHS Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar & Cleveland, NHS Stockton
on Tees

Riverside House
18 High Force Road
Middlesbrough
TS2 1RH

Tel: 01642 352397
[mobile number]

If you are sending personal idenifiable information please use my
NHS.net address, [email address]

Visit: www.tees.nhs.uk

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Dear NHS Tees,

Just a polite reminder that you must respond to my request

• promptly, and
• no later than Monday 29th November

Kind regards,

Dr Neil Bhatia

Freedom of Information,

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Dear Dr Bhatia,

With reference to your Freedom of Information request relating to the
Summary Care Record, please find attached a response on behalf of NHS
Hartlepool, NHS Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar and Cleveland and NHS Stockton
on Tees.

Liane Cotterill
Information Governance Manager
Performance & Quality Improvement
NHS Hartlepool, NHS Middlesbrough, NHS Redcar & Cleveland, NHS Stockton
on Tees

Riverside House
18 High Force Road
Middlesbrough
TS2 1RH

Tel: 01642 352397
[mobile number]

If you are sending personal idenifiable information please use my
NHS.net address, [email address]

Visit: www.tees.nhs.uk

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Dr Neil Bhatia left an annotation ()

Information about the NHS Database / Summary Care Record can be found on my site:

www.summarycarerecord.info