Practices uploading to the Summary Care Record

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Dear Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust (PCT),

Thank you very much for 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, the date of your receipt of this request will be 2nd August 2010.

• Please could you kindly state the total number of GP practices within your PCT that are uploading to the Summary Care Record as of 1st August 2010.

• Please could you kindly list the names of those GP practices (if any) within your PCT that commenced uploading to the Summary Care Record between 1st May 2010 and 31st July 2010, together with the date that each practice's upload began.

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 the working day of 31st August 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.

The “return address” (to which the information that I have requested be should be sent ) is the email address that this particular request originates from.

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

I FO (EASTERN AND COASTAL KENT PCT), Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust (PCT)

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Dear Dr Bhatia

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request received 2nd August. Please find attached a copy of our acknowlegement letter.

Jessica Watts
Freedom of Information Act Case Manager
NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
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From: Dr Neil Bhatia [[FOI #43337 email]]
Sent: 02 August 2010 10:32
To: I FO (EASTERN AND COASTAL KENT PCT)
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Practices uploading to the Summary Care Record

Dear Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust (PCT),

Thank you very much for 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, the date of your receipt of this
request will be 2nd August 2010.

• Please could you kindly state the total number of GP practices
within your PCT that are uploading to the Summary Care Record as of
1st August 2010.

• Please could you kindly list the names of those GP practices (if
any) within your PCT that commenced uploading to the Summary Care
Record between 1st May 2010 and 31st July 2010, together with the
date that each practice's upload began.

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 the working day of 31st August 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.

The “return address” (to which the information that I have
requested be should be sent ) is the email address that this
particular request originates from.

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

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Jessica Watts,

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Dear Dr Bhatia,

Please find attached our response to your recent Freedom of Information
request, together with a document outlining your rights if you are unhappy
with our response.

Yours sincerely

Jessica Watts

Jessica Watts

Freedom of Information Act Case Manager

NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent

Legal Department

4th Floor

Kent House

81 Station Road

Ashford

Kent TN23 1PP

DD: 01233 618185

Fax: 01233 618194

Email: [1][email address]

Email: [2][email address]

Have you visited our Freedom of Information disclosure log? Please use
the following link to see previous answers provided under the Freedom of
Information Act:
[3]http://www.easternandcoastalkent.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