Sexual health postal testing kits – NHS hospital trusts
Dear Airedale NHS Foundation Trust,
I'm enquiring about sexual health postal testing kits. I would like to know:
(1) the amount spent in pounds sterling on sexual health postal testing kits (which are sent through the post to a patient's home and then returned by them for analysis) in the past three financial years: 2018-19; 2017-18; 2016-17 – up to the latest year for which data is held.
(2) the number of sexual health postal testing kits sent to patients in the past three years (figures for each year)
(3) the number of sexual health postal testing kits returned to the authority in the same years (figures for each year)
Please contact me at your earliest convenience for any clarification and also advise me on my request as per the relevant legislation. Please provide the data in Excel spreadsheet format.
Yours faithfully,
Basia Cummings
Dear Ms Cummings
Thank you for your request for information from Airedale NHS Foundation
Trust which was received on 16^th April 2019. Your request has been given
the Reference Number ANHST REF 4170 .
We will now proceed to process the request. The deadline date for issuing
you with a full response is 16^th May 2019. We will endeavour to
respond to you before this date and we will contact you if we envisage
delays or if we need more information from you.
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With kind regards
Kevin Denham
Information Governance Manager
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Steeton, KEIGHLEY, BD20 6TD
Location: IT Business Centre | Zone C | Department 48
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Dear Ms Cummings,
Further to your application to access information under the Freedom of Information Act (ANHST REF. 4170) please find our response below.
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Yours sincerely
Kevin Denham
Information Governance Manager
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust | Skipton Road | Steeton | Keighley | BD20 6TD | Location: IT Business Centre | Zone C | Department 48
FOI: 01535 294842
Sent on behalf of Kevin Denham by Lucy Short, IG Officer.
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