FOI 1646 - Care Home Primary Care Networks and GPs

Response

Date: 8 September 2022

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – DECISION NOTICE

Dear Sir / Madam,

FOI Reference Number: 1646

Would you kindly provide the list of Care Homes in your geographical area together with:

1. The designated Primary Care Networks (PCNs)
2. The GP Practices associated to each care home
3. The Clinical Lead(s) (i.e. GP) designated to each care home

Our response:

Please see attached.

Please note that we have withheld individual names under the exemption permitted to us by Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act (2000) – Personal Information. Disclosure of the information requested would be in breach of a Data Protection Act principle requiring personal data to be processed fairly and lawfully.

‘Personal Data’ is defined by s1(1) of the Data Protection Act (Section 40(7)) which defines personal data as:

Data which relate to a living individual who can be identified –
(a) from those data; or
(b) from those data and other information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller, and includes any expression of the opinion about the individual and any indication of the intentions of the data controller or any other person in respect of the individual
Therefore where applicable this information has not been released in accordance with Data Protection Legislation.

I hope that this answers your queries with the information we currently hold, but if I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.

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:

NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB
FOI Team
Scarsdale
Nightingale Close
Newbold
Chesterfield
S41 7PF

Or:

ddicb.foi@nhs.net

If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF, telephone 0303 123 1113, email casework@ico.org.uk.

Yours faithfully,

Kathryn Jacklin
FOI Officer
Derby and Derbyshire ICB

All information we have provided is subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015. Accordingly, if the information has been made available for re-use under the Open Government Licence (OGL) a request to re-use is not required, but the licence conditions must be met. You must not re-use any previously unreleased information without having the consent from the ICB. Should you wish to re-use previously unreleased information then you must make your request in writing (email will suffice) to the FOI Lead via ddicb.foi@nhs.net. All requests for re-use will be responded to within 20 working days of receipt.