Practices uploading to the Summary Care Record - November

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Dear Berkshire East Primary Care Trust (PCT),

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 PCT.

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

• Please could you kindly state the total number of GP practices within your 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 your 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 your 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

FOI - Berkshire East PCT, Berkshire East Primary Care Trust (PCT)

We acknowledge receipt of your FOI enquiry detailed below and anticipate
being in a position to respond within the 20 working day timeframe.

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June Clarke
Quality, Governance &
Freedom of Information Officer
King Edward VII Hospital
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FOI - Berkshire East PCT, Berkshire East Primary Care Trust (PCT)

Please be advised in response to your FOI enquiry below our PCT advised
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Kind Regards
June Clarke
Quality, Governance &
Freedom of Information Officer
King Edward VII Hospital
St Leonards Road, Windsor, Berkshire SL3 4DP

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

www.summarycarerecord.info