Tier 4 Weight Management
Dear East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust,
What is the Current number of patients on a waiting list for Tier 4 weight management services in your trust?
What was the number of patients on the waiting list 24 months ago?
Thank you for answering these questions.
Yours Faithfully,
Neosypher Ltd
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Subject: **ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ** FOI Request Ref: 2021-546
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Ref: 2021-546
Under the Act, the department is ordinarily required to provide you with a
response within 20 working days.
Please be advised that due to the current unprecedented demands being
placed on the NHS, there may be a delay in answering your questions as
colleagues across the Trust are currently engaged with tackling the
Covid-19 pandemic.
We will write to you in response to your request for information by 23rd
February 2022.
The Freedom of Information Act includes a number of exemptions to
releasing information. Some of these are qualified exemptions which
require us to consider whether it is in the public interest to disclose or
withhold the information. In these circumstances we may need more time to
consider your request, and if this is the case we will write to you by the
date above to inform you of when you can expect to receive a response. If
you have any queries regarding this request please do not hesitate to
contact me, quoting the reference number at the top of this email in all
future correspondence.
Details of how we will process your request are available on our website
at: [3]https://elht.nhs.uk/about-us/freedom-of-...
Yours sincerely
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East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
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