FOI1619 - Contact Details for Primary Care

Response

Date: 27 July 2022

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – DECISION NOTICE

Dear Sir / Madam,

FOI Reference Number: 1619

I refer to your email of 11 July 2022 requesting information in respect of Primary Care commissioning information.

I can confirm on behalf of Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), and in accordance with S.1 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) that we do hold the information that you have requested. A response to each element of your request is detailed below:

With the July 1st changes coming into play, I wanted to establish who from your Board and top tiers of your hierarchy is responsible for primary care / general practice? Please may I request their salutation, full name and job title.

Looking at other FOI requests, I am unsure whether asking for a contact email is possible, but if it is possible to have a direct and relevant NHS email address for them, that would be great.
Also, can you confirm the postal address that they report to when needed?

For example you have Dr Buk Dhadda, so would be ideal to have a steer on who is included in their top team(s) that manage any of your relevant GP ‘places’?

Our response:

The following colleagues are responsible for Primary Care and General Practice under the ICB:

Zara Jones, Executive Director of Strategy and Planning
Clive Newman, Director of GP Development

Both Zara Jones and Clive Newman can be contacted via ddicb.enquiries@nhs.net and the postal address is Cardinal Square, as per the header at the top of this letter.

With regards to the example provided in your request about Dr Buk Dhadda, I can confirm that he is a Non Executive Member of the ICB and chairs the Quality and Performance Committee which is a sub-committee of the ICB Board. GP ‘Places’ fall under the remit of Zara Jones and Clive Newman, as above.

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.