Nicholas Wheatley
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 17)
Requests for a review 2017-18
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Wheatley
RE: Your information request: R0000275
I write in response to your email of 3 October 2018 rega...
Quashing reports - advice from legal team and senior colleagues
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Refused.
Thanks J Roberts. I will bear this in mind if the case gets as far as the Tribunal. I did use your previous observation and recommendation in the appli...
How many caseworkers are employed by PHSO
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Mr Wheatley
Thank you for your email.
Following your query, we requested our HR department review the figures provided for Questions 2 and 3 of...
When is a case regarded as "functus officio"?
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
The PHSO are again not being honest.
They have already provided you with a very small amount of information about functus officio in your request abo...
Complaints about Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust maternity unit
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Wheatley,
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your email dated 7 September, in which you reque...
Staff surveys and pulse surveys for 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by J Roberts on .
Awaiting classification.
'I feel that change is managed well in PHSO'
82% of respondents did not respond positively in 2017.
Upheld review information including the year 2017-18
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Awaiting classification.
The astonishing thing about this information is that it shows how the PHSO has become much more unfair since Rob Behrens took charge. Before Behrens th...
When will the Quarterly Performance Statistics for 2018 be released?
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Successful.
Exemplary.
How many external reviews were carried out during 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18?
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Wheatley
RE: Your information request: R0000128
I write in response to your email of 29 July 2018 regard...
When will the Board Meeting Minutes for 2018 be released?
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Wheatley,
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
In response to your request:
Board minutes for 1...
Pre-action letters for Judicial Review
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by M Boyce on .
Successful.
Nicholas Wheatley
You're request has revealed some interesting information.
Why was there five times fewer pre-action letters in 2017 compared to 201...
Details of compensation paid out by PHSO
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by J Roberts on .
Successful.
The number of payments halved from 28 in 2015 to 14 in 2016.
The average payment also fell, from £188 in 2015 to £135 in 2016.
In 2017 the number...
No of investigations of complaints in which the complainant was represented by an advocacy organisation in 2016/17
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Wheatley,
Re: Internal Review of your Freedom of Information Request (our ref:
274875)
I have considered your previous corresponde...
Upheld reviews and associated information
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by phsothefacts Pressure Group on .
Successful.
I can't really see the point in upholding if you are not going to change the decision. Very few cash payments made so what is the benefit of going thro...
Out of court settlements
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Partially successful.
Dear Mr Wheatley
Your request for information
PHSO reference FDN-274961
Thank you for your email of 20th December 2017 in which you asked for informa...
How many investigations of complaints referred by Bernard Jenkin MP have been upheld?
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Fiona Watts on .
Successful.
Thank you J. Roberts,
You have shown another example of what seems to be an utter farce behind the PHSO & Parliament. What a Pantomime? What a waste...
Statutory responsibility of the Ombudsman
Response by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to Nicholas Wheatley on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Wheatley,
Re: FDN-274798
Thank you for your email of 16 September 2017 to the Parliamentary and
Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) wh...
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Quashing reports - advice from legal team and senior colleagues
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Refused.
Thanks J Roberts. I will bear this in mind if the case gets as far as the Tribunal. I did use your previous observation and recommendation in the appli...
Requests for a review 2017-18
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Awaiting classification.
You have to click on the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet to get the rest of information. Anyone know what "Dynamics" and "MSD 'Non casework' iden...
Quashing reports - advice from legal team and senior colleagues
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Refused.
Thanks M Boyce. I have made a complaint to the ICO and I'm waiting for a caseworker to be allocated. They have a huge backlog and a recent complaint to...
How many caseworkers are employed by PHSO
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Awaiting classification.
Thanks J Roberts. I will amend the request.
Upheld review information including the year 2017-18
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Awaiting classification.
Thanks M Boyce. I'll add a question to try to get some clarification about when they stopped using partly upheld reviews and what a partly upheld revie...
Quashing reports - advice from legal team and senior colleagues
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Refused.
Hi M Boyce. The information is poorly presented. I read it that all the reviews on the partially upheld spreadsheet are partially upheld (even though i...
Quashing reports - advice from legal team and senior colleagues
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Refused.
Thanks for the info and link J Roberts. Very interesting. There seems to be a standard approach taken by public bodies when responding to FOI requests...
Upheld reviews and associated information
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Successful.
And even in the extremely unlikely event that the review is upheld there is only a 1 in 6 or less chance of the decision being changed. Only 5 investig...
Upheld reviews and associated information
Request to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman by Nicholas Wheatley. Annotated by Nicholas Wheatley on .
Successful.
I think they are referring to the total number of reviews upheld over 3 years, which is a pitiful 71 apparently, especially when you consider there wer...