Referrals to specific departments within Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,

Please provide data for the following:

1. Number of referrals to hospitals or secondary care provider in your trust

2. Number of referrals to cardiac departments or cardiologists within hospitals in your trust

3. Number of referrals to neurology departments or neurologists within hospitals in your trust

4. Number of referrals to paediatric departments or paediatricians within hospitals in your trust

5. Number of referrals for Tilt Table Tests or autonomic testing at hospitals within your trust

6. Number of referrals to CFS or CFS/ME services within your trust

7. Number of referrals to psychiatrists, psychologists or mental health services, including CAMHS, at hospitals or secondary care providers within your trust

8. Accident and Emergency visits at hospitals within your trust

Please provide the information as follows:
- by year from 2000 to present
- for girls aged 12-19 at time of referral
- for boys aged 12-19 at time of referral

Please include in the data, all referrals to hospitals and services within your trust, from patients in area and out of area

Please include referrals from primary care eg from GPs and also from within secondary care eg from paediatrician to cardiologist etc

I believe this information should be readily accessible from computerised systems, so I do not anticipate this request exceeding the time/cost limit for FOI requests, however, if the time/cost limit is exceeded, please provide as much information as possible within the time/cost limit, prioritising the requested information from top to bottom of the list and I shall request the remainder of the data after 60 days.

Thank you

Yours faithfully,

Caron Ryalls

Guazzaroni Jamie,

Dear Ms Ryalls

I am writing regarding your request for information, which I received on 16th November . In that request, you asked us for referrals to specific departments within the trust.

We require further information in order to identify and locate the information that you have asked for. I will not be able to take this matter further without extra information from you. In particular, it would be useful to know, in relation to Q 1 and Q8.

1. Number of referrals to hospitals or secondary care provider in your trust - Do you mean number of referrals to the Trust or the referrals from the Trust to other hospitals /secondary care providers??

8. 8. Accident and Emergency visits at hospitals within your trust

Please provide the information as follows:
- by year from 2000 to present
- for girls aged 12-19 at time of referral
- for boys aged 12-19 at time of referral

Is the above for all referrals and all questions or just for question 8??

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards

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Dear Guazzaroni Jamie,

Thank you for the acknowledgement of my FOI request and for asking for clarification of points 1 and 8.

Point 1. - I require data for referrals to hospitals and providers within your Trust and NOT from the Trust to other areas/trusts/hospitals

The requested breakdown refers to all points and all referrals and NOT just to point 8.
- by year from 2000 to present
- for girls aged 12-19 at time of referral
- for boys aged 12-19 at time of referral

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Caron Ryalls

Guazzaroni Jamie,

Dear Ms Ryalls,

Thank you for your request regarding referrals to specific departments within the Trust. Your request dated the 15th November 2015 and clarification was received on the 17th November 2015 . I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, I will let you know. We will issue a formal fees notice before commencing the work, setting out the likely cost against the amount of time anticipated.

If you have any queries about this e mail , please contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number 2825 in any future communications.

Kind Regards

Jamie Guazzaroni

Jamie Guazzaroni
Information Governance Support Officer
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Chauhan Meena,

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Dear Ms Ryall,,

 

Please find attached the Trust’s response to the Freedom of Information
request received on 17^th November 2015.

 

Regards,

 

Meena Chauhan

Information Governance Support Officer

Information Governance

Glebe House| Trust Headquarters

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

 

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Rothwell Road, Kettering, Northants NN16 8UZ Tel: 01536 492000

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Dear Chauhan Meena,

Thank you for your response to my FOI request Ref: 2825

I realise many trusts are only able to provide information from the year the trust was formed, and I'm assuming the absence of information prior to 2013 is for this reason.

Do you have an advice about where I could get the information I requested for the years prior to 2013?

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Caron Ryalls

Chauhan Meena,

Dear Ms Ryalls,

Unfortunately, as we migrated to our current Patient Administration System Medway in February 2013, the referral information prior to that is unavailable to us as we no longer have access to our previous Patient Administration System.

Regards,

Meena Chauhan
Information Governance Support Officer
Information Governance
Glebe House| Trust Headquarters
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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