Hi Lyn, Thank you for your email.
I have emailed the requestor this morning and asked for clarification on whether or not they would like us to response to Q1 only.
Kind regards, – —
Legal Services Officer Legal Services. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
Telephone: 0300 421 8357 — Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
From: Sansom Lyn Sent: 08 February 2021 09:42
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: RE: FOI 032-2122 – Response needed by 04/03/21
Hi -,
We will only be able to provide a response to the first question as we do not record whether the patient was discharged prematurely.
Can you confirm that we still need to respond with just Question 1
Thanks
Kind regards
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Subject: FW: FOI 032-2122 – Response needed by 04/03/21
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From: — – Sent: 05 February 2021 11:43
To: BI
Subject: FOI 032-2122 – Response needed by 04/03/21
FOI Email 1
EMAIL 1 | FOI 032-2122 | FOR RESPONSE | Freedom of Information Request
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
REFERENCE: 032-2122 – Mental Health Services Good morning,
Would you be able to help with the below FOI request? I would be grateful if you could kindly arrange for this information to be provided to me as soon as possible or no later than the 4th March 2021. If the information in the freedom of information request is commercially sensitive then please note the same on the response.
FOI Request – Information requested:
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information regarding your mental health services.
Please could you break the information down into the past 5 years, up to and including 2020 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.. Please could you provide:
1. The number of patients who have been referred to your mental health services. 2. The number of patients who have been discharged prematurely from your mental health services. 3. The reason that the patient was discharged i.e. could you group patients who were discharged according to the reason they were discharged, so that you provide the number of patients who were discharged for each reason..
If you are not the correct person to respond to part/all of the request, I would be grateful if you could let me know as soon as possible, and suggest who I need to send it to or forward it onto the person in question and copy me in.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 states that the respondent has 20 working days to reply to the query and if it takes longer than 20 working days to collate the information, the responder can ask the requester to grant discretionary extension of time up to a maximum of further 20 working days. Please let me know if it is likely that you will be unable to provide the relevant information to me by the above deadline.
The act also allows the respondent to reject or charge the requester for the request if it would take 18 or more working hours to deal with the request e.g. locating, retrieving, extracting the information. which would cost the respondent at least £450 charging at £25 per hour.. If you could please let me know whether or not it may take 18 or more working hours to provide the information, so that I am able to send a fee note to the requester, as appropriate.
Please respond for the whole trust if possible
Kind regards,
Legal Services Officer Legal Services. Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Edward Jenner Court, Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AW
FOI Request
To: Freedom of Information
Subject: FOI: mental health services
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-------------------------Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information regarding your mental health services.
Please could you break the information down into the past 5 years, up to and including 2020 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.. Please could you provide:
1. 2. The number of patients
3. who have been referred to your mental health services. 4. 5. 6. The number of patients
7. who have been discharged prematurely from your mental health services. 8. 9. 10. 11. The reason that the patient was discharged i.e. could you group patients who were discharged according
12. to the reason they were discharged, so that you provide the number of patients who were discharged for each reason.. 13. If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email cflillywhite@gmail.com. or phone 07748747677. and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.