Right to Choose - accessing contracts for ADHD
Dear NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board,
I wish to make an FOI request, as set out under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I am well aware from other FOI requests across the country, that if you are registered with a GP surgery in England and you are referred by a GP to a consultant or specialist in mental health, you have the legal right to choose the organisation (qualified provider) to whom you are referred, as long as that organisation is providing that service in another part of England.
To enable patients to ask for a referral to be made to one of these organisations, they need to know what organisations have been awarded contracts.
My request is therefore to know what contracts have been awarded by your ICB for
1. ADHD assessments
2. ADHD treatment
as i am aware some external organisations diagnose but do not treat ADHD and so it is important to differentiate between providers.
and for these organisations to be separated into those that provide services for
1. children
2. adults
This request is not seeking any patient numbers referred to the service, nor is it looking for contract values, merely the names the organisation have active ADHD contracts and the therefore the start and projected end date of these contracts.
Yours faithfully,
Pete Jones
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
FOI Reference: 71398
Dear Pete Jones
I acknowledge receipt of your FOI request on behalf of NHS
Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) which we received on 15
August 2023.
A response to your request will be sent within 20 working days after
receipt, the date 13 September 2023.
Yours sincerely
Philip Humphreys
On behalf of NHS Northamptonshire ICB
FOI team Arden & GEM CSU
Engagement, Communications and Marketing
NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit
St. John’s House, East Street, Leicester, LE1 6NB
T: 01246 514965
E: [1][NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board request email]
W: [2]www.ardengemcsu.nhs.uk
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Good afternoon Pete Jones
Further to the below please see the ICB’s response attached.
Kind regards
Philip Humphreys
On behalf of Northamptonshire ICB
From: FOI.NORTHANTS (NHS ARDEN AND GREATER EAST MIDLANDS COMMISSIONING
SUPPORT UNIT) <[NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board request email]>
Sent: 15 August 2023 15:26
To: Pete Jones <[FOI #1015361 email]>;
FOI.NORTHANTS (NHS ARDEN AND GREATER EAST MIDLANDS COMMISSIONING SUPPORT
UNIT) <[NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board request email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Right to Choose - accessing
contracts for ADHD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
FOI Reference: 71398
Dear Pete Jones
I acknowledge receipt of your FOI request on behalf of NHS
Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) which we received on 15
August 2023.
A response to your request will be sent within 20 working days after
receipt, the date 13 September 2023.
Yours sincerely
Philip Humphreys
On behalf of NHS Northamptonshire ICB
FOI team Arden & GEM CSU
Engagement, Communications and Marketing
NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit
St. John’s House, East Street, Leicester, LE1 6NB
T: 01246 514965
E: [1][NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board request email]
W: [2]www.ardengemcsu.nhs.uk
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Dear FOI.NORTHANTS (NHS ARDEN AND GREATER EAST MIDLANDS COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT),
Many Thanks especially the web links
Yours sincerely,
Pete Jones
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