Site review letter to Dacorum + New and better buildings doc

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

HertsValleysHospital.co.uk

Dear West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust,

Please provide the following information relating to hospital redevelopment
1) We are referring to the letter sent from Deputy CEO Helen Brown to Dacorum Borough Council in response to a request by Dacorum Borough councils "Health in Dacorum" meeting on the 8th of Dec 2021 to conduct a cost comparison between building on a clear site vs in Watford. The communication shows the date of 26th of January 2022, but at the next Health in Dacorum meeting on the 1st of March 2022, the letter had not been received by the committee and the trusts communications director was unable to confirm whether the letter had been sent. As a result the matter cannot be discussed until their next meeting on the 8th of June a whole 6 months since the point was raised.

Please provide a copy of the document together with evidence of the date the communication was sent to Dacorum Borough council by means of (but not only) email audit log or other electronic methods. Please also provide evidence of the PDF files creation date.

2) Please provide a copy of the document entitled "New and better buildings in the shortest possible time" given to the health secretary at the meeting on the 11th of April in the Westminster.
https://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/ne...

3) Please provide a copy of all cost estimates known to the trust to build on a clear site both prior to the approval of the Strategic outline case on the 1st of October 2020 and since then.

4) Please provide a copy of any non cost oriented comparative assessment of the benefits of building on a clear site vs in Watford between October 2020 and today including clinical, access, environmental, employment, travel, health and well being and any other metric used.

5) Please provide evidence that the board of the trust have been provided with each of the above pieces of information in advance of their scheduled meeting on the 31st of May 2022 where they will review the October 2020 decision to not consider a clear site.

In all cases If the information is already elsewhere, please indicate the specific website address to the particular document and the page number.

Yours faithfully,

HertsValleysHospital.co.uk

FREEDOMOFINFORMATION (WEST HERTFORDSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST), West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Dear Sir or Madam

Please provide us with your full name in order to process your request.

Kind regards

Freedom of Information and Communications Administrator
Communications
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Vicarage Road, Watford WD18 0HB

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HertsValleysHospital.co.uk

Dear FREEDOMOFINFORMATION (WEST HERTFORDSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST),

Thank you for your response. In line with the information commissioners guidance, it is not a requirement for the trust to ask for a "full name". We note that once again the trust is adopting a less than helpful approach in being open and transparent. We are an organisation that has spent many dozens of hours of engagement with the trusts redevelopment team. It comes across as rather pedantic to insist on a "full name". Our full name is HertsValleysHospital.co.uk which more than adequately identifies who we are.

May we also remind the trust that we previously advised it of the ICO guidance in December 2020 where the request was successful with the name "Santa Claus". Please see here https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/v...

So in the absence of any meaningful reason not to process this FOI request forthwith, please do so now without the continued overly officious and deliberately time consuming approach.

However if you still insist on this approach please log this FOI as coming from "The Easter Bunny"

Best Wishes
Santa Claus

Yours sincerely,

HertsValleysHospital.co.uk

FREEDOMOFINFORMATION (WEST HERTFORDSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST), West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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We automatically request a name; there are only two requirements for
submitting an FOI which are to give a name and address. The requirement is
clear both in the Act and CIO Guidance. However, given your reluctance to
provide your name, despite your engagement with the Trust, we can proceed
without.

 

Please quote the reference above in any future correspondence.

 

 

Freedom of Information Manager

 

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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FREEDOMOFINFORMATION (WEST HERTFORDSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST), West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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