Statutory Notifications for Holywood Care Home 2019
Dear Public Health Agency for Northern Ireland,
I seek answers to the following questions under the UK Freedom of Information Act, concerning the statutory notifications recorded for Holywood Care Home made in 2019.
1. Please give the precise reasons/cause of each of the Statutory notifications dated 9 April 2019 and 15 July 2019. For example were they due to outbreaks of MRSA, E.coli, Pneumonia etc?
2. Were there no additional other statutory notifications recorded for Holywood Care Home in 2019? If so give the dates and the reasons.
3. If one person contracts an infection, for example Pneumonia in Holywood Care Home within 7-10 days of hospital discharge, which subsequently leads to hospital admission, is this not counted as a Statutory notification? If not, please kindly explain why.
4. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, will the criteria set for the way statutory notifications are reported and recorded be changed? For example, instead of the requirement for two infections reported, one infection in future will be sufficient to generate a statutory notification?
Yours faithfully,
Dr Roger Corder
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Dear Mr Corder,
Ref: Freedom of Information Request No. 36/20
Thank you for your request for information. Your request was received by the Public Health Agency on 29/06/2020. This request will be processed under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, within the statutory timescale of 20 working days. While we will endeavour to provide you with a response within this timescale, in the event of disruption to services due to COVID-19 there may be delays. Should any delays arise, we will endeavour to keep you informed with a revised, estimated date for response. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time.
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Yours sincerely,
Rebecca Murray
OBO
Janine Watterson
Assistant Governance Manager | 12–22 Linenhall Street | Belfast | BT2 8BS | Tel No: 028 9536 2578
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Dear Dr Corder
Ref: Freedom of Information Request No. 36/20
Please find attached PHA’s response to your Freedom of Information Request.
We apologise for our delay in responding, you will appreciate that the PHA is experiencing unprecedented demand on both its personnel and resources at this time and your patience and understanding is recognised and appreciated.
If you have any queries about this communication, please do not hesitate to contact me. It would be helpful if you could quote the reference number above in any future communications relating to this request for information.
Yours sincerely
Janine Watterson
Assistant Governance Manager | Public Health Agency | 4th Floor, 12-22 Linenhall Street | Belfast |BT2 8BS
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