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Senior Personnel Covid19 Vaccinations

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Dear Tayside NHS Board,

Please confirm that senior/executive NHS Tayside have been offered Covid19 vaccinations by your organization.
Please confirm the number of individuals in this group who were given the offer.
Please confirm the number of individuals in this group who accepted the offer.
Please inform me who decided to make this offer.
Please inform me of how this group were selected for priority treatment.

Yours faithfully,

Brian Thorn

TAY informationgovernance, Tayside NHS Board

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Dear Tayside NHS Board,

You have sent me your response to this request under another request I had submitted about Keyworkers.

I will proceed to respond to the Senior Personnel COVID-19 Vaccinations response you have issued under this request.

Yours faithfully,

Brian Thorn

TAY informationgovernance, Tayside NHS Board

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Information Security/Data Protection Act 2018
If your enquiry relates to Information Security or Data Protection, a
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Dear Tayside NHS Board,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Tayside NHS Board's handling of my FOI request 'Senior Personnel Covid19 Vaccinations'. IGTFOISA8630

NHS Tayside's response was issued to the wrong request, however, I will proceed on the basis of the response issued.

You refer to the individuals you are protecting through the use of the small number indicator as patients. That is clearly a copy and paste section that should have been amended.

You state that the invitation to executives was issued 10th December 2020.

The first issue of the Priority groups for coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination: advice from the JCVI was published on 30 December 2020.

If you were indeed relying on JCVI guidance of any date irrespective of when it existed please provide me with a link to or copy of that guidance. Please also refer to the exact part of that guidance that you have relied on.

The use of small number indicators may be relevant to protect sensitive personal information, however, the seniority and apparent criticality of these individuals would lead me to believe that there is a public interest in knowing what key positions have been protected. I, therefore, re-request a list of posts covered in the original invitation and those accepted.

The criteria that you describe as eligible for vaccine here would appear to cover all health and social care patient/client facing professionals so I ask that you provide clear and accurate evidence to support the decision to offer this group vaccinations ahead of any other group of care professionals.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

Yours faithfully,

Brian Thorn

TAY informationgovernance, Tayside NHS Board

Dear Mr Thorn

Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies for sending the response to this request to your wrong 'Whatdotheyknow' request. This was an administrative error and for that we apologise.

NHS Tayside will consider the rest of your email as a request for a review.

Your request is being handled under the terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and a
response will be provided to you by Monday 1 March 2021.

Kind regards

Lynda

Information Governance and Cyber Assurance Team
NHS Tayside
Maryfield House (South), 30 Mains Loan, Dundee, DD4 7BT
Tel: 01382 740074

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Please find attached our response to your request for review to your FOISA
request (IGTFOISA8630).  

  

Kind regards 

 

Lynda 

 

 

NHS Tayside Information Governance Team 

Maryfield House 

30 Mains Loan 

Dundee 

DD4 7BT 

  

Tel Number 01382 740074 

Kind regards
NHS Tayside Information Governance Team
Maryfield House
30 Mains Loan
Dundee
DD4 7BT
 
Tel Number 01382 740074

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From: Brian Thorn <[FOI #715969 email]>
Sent: 31 January 2021 12:42
To: TAY informationgovernance <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Senior Personnel Covid19
Vaccinations
 
Dear Tayside NHS Board,

You have sent me your response to this request under another request I had
submitted about Keyworkers.

I will proceed to respond to the Senior Personnel COVID-19 Vaccinations
response you have issued under this request.

Yours faithfully,

Brian Thorn

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