Provision of augmentative and alternative communication devices
Dear Leicester City Primary Care Trust (PCT),
I am an academic researcher, attempting to assess the provision of augmentative and alternative communication devices by the NHS. Would you please send me details of augmentative and alternative communication devices supplied/purchased by your trust between 31st March 2006 and 1st April 2011. I would like the information broken down by both product name (So for example Dynavox Xpress, iPod touch with TapToTalk, BigMack) and by year. I would like information for both children and adults, but I don't require a breakdown by age.
I attempting to find out how many people who have poor or no speech have a speech aid, in particular electronic speech aids, and I would like to know how many have been supplied by the trust during the last five years.
Deven PCT have helpfully give examples on a previous request. The format they used was
2005/06
4 X Digital Electronic Larynxes (Servox)
2 x Listen To Me
2 x Lightwriters
1 x Dynawrite
1 x Dynamo
1 x Falck Voice Amplifier
1 x Lions Speech Aid
1 x Go Talk
1 x Little Mack
2006/07
9 x Digital Electronic Larynxes (Servox)
2 x Lightwriters
1 x mini Printer
2 x The Grid software
2 x Falck Voice Amplifiers
1 x Listen To Me
1 x Textphone
1 x Talking Symbols Notepad
and this would do nicely for me. Other excellent formats were provided by:
Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT
(http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...)
Bromley PCT (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...)
Bristol PCT ( http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...)
and Central Lancashire PCT
(http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/au...)
Just to make the process more efficient for you guys - it would be great to clarify a couple of things at this stage - I am aware that some trusts make use of commissioning trusts to do the actual purchase of the devices; when I have contacted the commissioning trusts I've been often redirected back to the PCT because the paperwork for previous years have been stored at the PCT - this redirection must be causing additional work for both trusts in the long run and it would be great to avoid it (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/au...
is an example of the problem)
Also, and again to make life easier for you, I should point about that since this request is being made via whatdotheyknow.com - email addresses are stripped out of replies to protect your privacy (because the responses are all available to public view- if you are to redirect my request to another body then it's ideal to just give the name of the body rather than just an email address
Yours faithfully,
Dr Joseph Reddington
Dear Sir
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request, which NHS Leicester City FOI team received on 11 November 2011. We will respond to your request within the 20 working day deadline.
If you have any questions or queries relating to this particular request then please quote the following number on all correspondence back to the FOI Team : R111111LC
Yours sincerely
Karen Bunn
FOI Officer, Corporate Governance
Dear Dr Robinson
Thank you for making a request under the Freedom of Information legislation.
Please find attached the FOI joint final response letter from NHS Leicester City & NHS Leicestershire County & Rutland which details how to redirect your request to the relevant organisation.
If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to make further contact with me.
Kind Regards
Karen Bunn
FOI Officer, Corporate Governance
Dear Leicester City Primary Care Trust (PCT),
So having made another freedom of information request and waiting the appropriate amount of time, I received the following response...
"The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust does not hold information regarding this FoI request. I am advised that this information is held by the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT)"
Would you mind explaining to me what has happened?
Yours faithfully,
Joe
Dear Sir
Please find attached a further copy of our final response letter dated 17 November 20111 reference the above request and your subsequent email dated 28 January 2012 below.
At the time the FOI Team were advised that the Trust did not hold the records or data you required relating to the provision of augmentative and alternative communication devices either from NHS Leicester City and NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland hence our redirect to our counterparts whom we were advised would be in a better position to help you.
However, please be rest assured that I shall make further contact with my colleagues to double check the information we have on record for you Dr Reddington and will be back to you shortly.
If you have any questions or queries relating to the above then please quote reference code: R111111LC and R151111LCR on all return correspondence.
Yours faithfully
K Bunn
FOI Officer, Corporate Governance
Dear Leicester City Primary Care Trust (PCT),
It's been over a year since I last heard anything from you about this request - has there been any progress?
Yours faithfully,
Joe
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