Freedom of Information Team 
Our Ref: FOI/2020.517/JM 
The Oast 
Date: 29 July 2020 
Unit D, Hermitage Court 
 
Hermitage Lane 
 
Barming 
 
Maidstone 
Ms L Smithson 
ME16 9NT 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx 
 
 
Phone: 01622 211900 
 
Email: xxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx 
Dear Ms Smithson 
Web: www.kentcht.nhs.uk 
 
 
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 
 
Thank you for your email dated 14 July 2020, requesting information regarding NHS staff that 
have returned to practice. 
 
Please find detailed below a summary of your request, together with our response. 
 
Summary of your request:  
Under the Freedom Of Information Act, I would like to request data on the number of 
Health Practitioners that have returned to the NHS under your Foundation Trust to support 
it during COVID-19, including retired practitioners who have returned to service and those 
who have rejoined the NHS. 
 
To date the Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust have appointed 3 returners.  One of 
these returners has already left the Trust. 
 
 
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal 
review.  Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of 
the response to your original letter and should be addressed to: xxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx. 
 
Please remember to quote the reference number in any future communications. 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly 
to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner’s offices will be 
closed for the foreseeable future, and are therefore unable to receive correspondence via post 
but can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.  
  
Yours sincerely 
 
Freedom of Information Act Team 
 
  

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