AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
FOI-01514

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 2 July 2023 for information about the following:

How many other ex employees are in the same position as I was being totally unaware as I was and thinking their contributions would lead to a pension payout at the time of retirement

##Response

Please be advised that the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) does not hold the requested information. We could provide figures for the number of people who would be entitled to a refund because they were members of the NHS Pension scheme for less than two years, but have not received it. If you’d be interested in these figures, please submit a new FOI request.

In support of the administration of the Scheme, Employers are required to provide employees joining the Scheme with the relevant Scheme Guide:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2015%20Members%20Guide%20%28V11%29%2007.2021.pdf 

They are also required to provide those leaving the Scheme with a Leaving Early and Transferring Out Guide:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2018-11/Leaving%20Early%20and%20Transferring%20Out%20Guide%20%28V16%29%20-%2011.2018.pdf 

This is in accordance with the Employer Charter. Page 8 refers to New Starters (joiners) and Page 14 to Scheme Leavers:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2018-02/Employers%20Charter%20%28V8%29%2002.2018.pdf 

Other sources of help are available to members in respect of their entitlement after leaving the Scheme which can be accessed via our website:

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/member-hub/leaving-or-taking-break-scheme


Tags: NHS Pensions, retirement
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01521

#Request#
1. I have a right to ask for under the freedom of information Act, the documentation that shows how you reached the decision not
 to renew PPCs of people approaching 60, what unintended consequences you considered, and what mitigating actions you decided to take to avoid the unintended consequences.

2. Examples of mitigating actions are:

a. To continue to renew the certificates of those that are approaching 60, and then to
cancel the Direct Debit on the first collection day after the 60th birthday, all of which is within the control and power of the NHSBSA.

b. To highlight in BOLD LARGE LETTERS – PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOUR PRESCRIPTION PREPAYMENT CERTIFICATE WILL NOT RENEW AFTER DD/MM/YYYY. There is little chance
 that I would have missed such a message. 

c. To renew the certificates of those approaching 60, and then to write to those individuals in the month before that they are
 eligible for free prescriptions and therefore suggest cancel the automatic direct debit payment, or suggest the patient requests a refund should unnecessary payments have gone through.

3. I would like to see whether these very simple measures were considered and if so why they were not applied.

4. I would also want to see the justification for choosing 9 months as the time period. Why not 12 months? People turning 60 in
 10 months’ time will pay for 2 months that they don’t need to the way you have applied your rules.

#Response#
Question 1: 
Since the service first started, the decision has always been not to renew certificates for those turning 60 within the following 9 months. This was to give the opportunity to decide whether a 12-month certificate was required or
 whether 3-month certificates were more beneficial and cost effective for the applicant. No documentation is held outlining how these decisions were made.

Question 2: 
We are unable to provide the requested information as this falls outside the scope of a request under the Freedom of information Act for recorded information held by the organisation

Question 3: 
We are unable to provide the requested information as this falls outside the scope of a request under the Freedom of information Act for recorded information held by the organisation.

Question 4: 
All direct debit PPC’s are valid for 12 months however the payments are spread over 10 months. The reason for this is to allow for any missed payments etc to be caught up before the next PPC starts.


Tags: PCN, Penalty Charges
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01475

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 10th October for information about the following:  

The reference number for the previous request is 01378 and we would like a re-run of this for the latest data, i.e. for the month of August 2023, when this is available.  

##Response  

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is has not yet been produced.  

Please see below link to the data release calendar. Please resubmit your query when this data becomes available, which we estimate will be 20 October 2023. 

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/data-release-calendar  

Tags: NHS Prescriptions
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01500

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 18th October 2023 for information about the following:  

•	Disclosure of any guidance, policies, or procedures related to the information governance of NHSmail. 

•	Details on the naming conventions for groups, users, distribution groups, and any other relevant entities within NHSmail. 

•	Information on how NHSmail ensures that users are complying with the aforementioned naming conventions. 

•	Copies of any acceptable use agreements, terms of service, or other agreements that users or guests are expected to agree to before being granted access to NHSmail.  
 
##Response  
  
I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority. NHSBSA no longer uses NHS Mail and so does not have this information. 
 
However it is possible that NHS England may hold some or all of the information you require. They can be contacted at: 

NHS England

PO Box 16738 

Redditch 

B97 9PT 

Telephone 0300 311 22 33 

Email: england.contactus@nhs.net   

Web http://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/foi/ 


Tags: NHS Mail
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01504

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 20 October 2023 for information about the following:

Dear NHS Business Services Authority,

Until recently the weblink below provided details as to how someone who was vaccinated for COVID-19 outside the UK could send their details to an email address (scwcsu <dot> internationalvaccine <AT> NHS <dot> net) and have their NHS records updated and have access to an NHS COVID pass.

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/covid-19-services/covid-19-vaccination-services/tell-the-nhs-about-covid-19-vaccinations-outside-england/

1. Please provide the date the webpage was updated and the information advising how to update NHS records was removed.

2. What is the current procedure for someone who was vaccinated for COVID-19 outside the UK to have their NHS records updated and have access to an NHS COVID pass?

##Response

###Question 1

The requested information is not held by NHSBSA. You may wish to redirect your request to NHS England, who may hold this information, as the Owners of the referenced weblink above.

NHS England

PO Box 16738

Redditch

B97 9PT

Telephone 0300 311 22 33

Email: england.contactus@nhs.net 

https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/foi/ 

###Question 2

The requested information is not held by NHSBSA. You may wish to redirect your request to DHSC, who may hold this information, as the Policy Owners.

Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries Unit

Department of Health and Social Care

39 Victoria Street

London

SW1H 0EU

Contact form https://contactus.dhsc.gov.uk/ 

Tags: No information held
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-25479

##Request

‘Hello, thank you for fulfilling my previous request at https://applications.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/FOI/foiRequestDetail.do?bo_id=11591 Could I please request the same data, but for any newer months for which data is available? i.e. February 2022.’

##Response

Data for December 2021

Under Section 21 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you. The information you requested is available from web link:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-23358 

Data for January 2022 and February 2022

A copy of the information is attached.

NHS Prescription Services process prescriptions for Pharmacy Contractors, Appliance Contractors, Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration with information then used to make payments to pharmacists and appliance contractors in England for prescriptions dispensed in primary care settings (other arrangements are in place for making payments to Dispensing Doctors and Personal Administration). This involves processing over 1 billion prescription items and payments totalling over £9 billion each year. The information gathered from this process is then used to provide information on costs and trends in prescribing in England and Wales to over 25,000 registered NHS and Department of Health and Social Care users.

Data source 
Source System - ISP (National MIS Files)

Time period 
January 2022 and February 2022

The month refers to the month of the report. Please note Appliance Contractors data within the MIS Report shows data for the following month. (E.g. MIS Report for January 2022 will show February 2022 Appliance Contractor data)

This dataset
FOI25450 has 4 files – January and February 2022 MIS Pharmacy and January and February 2022 MIS Appliance Contractor.

This report consists of a management information file detailing monthly Community Pharmacy and Appliance Payments by type of payment and contractor account. 

Payments include all drug costs, fees, patient charges, locally authorised payments, etc. Other details such as the numbers of items dispensed, patient’s charges collected are also included.

The management information file reflects the contractor's payment and prescription data associated with the sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) structure at the relevant payment date.

The data contained within the files can be interpreted correctly by using the ‘MIS Glossary’ available under ‘Management Information Spreadsheet (MIS) Report’ at https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/information-services-portal-isp/isp-report-information .

Disclosure Control
The data in column METHADONE PAYMT and ADD FEE-2E within the Pharmacy dataset have been removed following Information Governance policy.

February 2022 is the latest MIS report that is available

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-25479 


Tags: NHS Prescriptions, Pharmacy Contractors
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01133

#Please note that the data for this FOI has been updated since it was first issued


#Request

How many people are currently receiving an annual pension from the National Health Service Pension Scheme which is higher than thirty three thousand pounds, fifty thousand pounds, and one hundred thousand pounds, before tax or any other deductions? Please include those reaching or having reached the normal scheme pension ages, pensions paid to dependents, surviving spouses or civil partners, and eligible children, ill-health retirement pensions, and pensions paid to former spouses, civil partners of NHS Pension Scheme members as part of pension sharing or divorce orders made by courts? Please provide annual pensions for the three annual pensions outlined above for the years 2015, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023?

##Response

A copy of the information is attached

###Please note

•	The data reflects only those members in receipt of benefits as at 27/10/2023, it does not reflect all the benefits in payment in the respective year, as some of those benefits may have since ceased.

•	Not all members in receipt of benefits at 27/10/2023, will have been in receipt of benefits in previous years

•	All those with an annual rate under £33k are omitted from the provided data as requested

•	The pension rate is based on what the rate in payment was for each member at the respective scheme year end (31/03). It does not necessarily mean the member received that amount of money for the previous 12 months or went on to receive it for the following 12 months, as rates can change throughout the year.


##Data Queries

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing the data please contact nhsbsa.foirequests@nhs.net ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact nhsbsa.communicationsteam@nhs.net. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement:
“NHSBSA Copyright 2023” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated.  Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.


Tags: NHS Pension Scheme, NHS Pensions
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01532

##Request

It's not for me to tell you it's for you to tell me in a format that's accessible to me, which is a menu of choices of what reasonable adjustments I could ask for if I was made aware of them. Your legal duty is to be positive and proactive, so supplying a menu, a list of reasonable adjustments would be a positive and proactive manner.

##Response

The NHSBSA does not maintain a list of reasonable adjustments to select. Adjustments that work for one person may not work for another and everyone’s experiences are different. Our approach is always to speak to the person requiring support to understand what their needs are and how they feel we could assist or make adjustments as a joint approach.

The individuals’ knowledge of themselves and their own health condition is the priority.  
We do not maintain a central record of adjustments because this is personal health information which is sensitive. This information would be held locally where someone has an adjustment.  

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01532 


Tags: Reasonable adjustment
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01479

Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Please provide me with the number of substitute awards you calculate each month. (i.e. sign off) during this 12-month period and the time taken to respond to each request. The mean and the median response figures for each month. thank you

Dates: 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2023

Your request was received on 12 October 2023, and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

##Response

A copy of the information is attached. Please read these notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

A substitute award is a change to a member’s pensions benefits as a result of a change in pay or service. The data shows the number of substitute awards completed with the mean and median time taken to complete a substitute award for the dates requested.

This data reflects all substitute awards successfully completed between 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023 (inclusive). 

The mean and median days are based on the time elapsed between us being notified of a substitute award and it being completed. They are provided in calendar days.

The data provided in this FOI response counts all members who have had a substitute award completed in these dates including those working in clinical and non-clinical roles.

##Data Queries

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing the data, please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data, please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement:
“NHSBSA Copyright 2023” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ 

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.


Tags: NHS Pension Scheme, NHS Pensions
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01717

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 5th February 2024 for information about the following:

Latest figures from NHS England (25 Jan 2024), show the number of midwives has grown by more than 1,100 from last year to 23,396 – the largest number of midwives ever.  Could you please provide a breakdown of the 10 largest NHS Trusts in terms of midwife numbers.

##Response

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority.

However, it is possible that NHS England may hold some or all of the information you require. They can be contacted at:

NHS England

PO Box 16738

Redditch

B97 9PT

Telephone 0300 311 22 33

Email: england.contactus@nhs.net  

Web http://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/foi/


Tags: No information held
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01460

Thank you for your request for information about the following:  

How many S2 approved applications were sent by NHSBSA to patients. Across the UK and in Scotland between 1st April 2022 and 31st March 2023.

Your request was received on 30th September and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  

##Response 

A copy of the information is attached. 

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:  

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01460  

Data Queries  

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on publishing the data please contact dataandinsightsupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk / foidata@nhsbsa.nhs.uk / foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.  

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.  

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:  
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/   

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement:  
“NHSBSA Copyright 2023” This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence:  

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/   

Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.  

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated.  Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.  


Tags: OHS
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01469

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 3 October 2023 for information about the following:

I'm a student at the University of York and I have proposed to undertake an MSc research project using the following data items from the following NHS datasets for the aforementioned time period:

Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency (HES A and E) dataset for a single hospital within the Gloucestershire health board:

- Duration to conclusion
- Duration to treatment
- Arrival time

COVID-19 SGSS First Positives (Second Generation Surveillance System) dataset:

- County Description

This information will be used for my MSc research project, and the results can be shared with the NHS.

##Response

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHS Business Services Authority.

###Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency - Gloucestershire

It is possible that the information you require may be held by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust or NHS England. They can be contacted at:

Trust Freedom of Information Lead

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Edward Jenner Court

1010 Pioneer Avenue

Gloucester Business Park

Brockworth

Gloucester

GL3 4AW

Email FreedomofInformation@ghc.nhs.uk

###COVID-19 SGSS First Positives

It is possible that the information you require may be held by NHS Digital, who are now part of NHS England. They can be contacted at: 

NHS England

PO Box 16738

Redditch

B97 9PT

Telephone 0300 311 22 33

Email: england.contactus@nhs.net  

Web http://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/foi/

Please see the following link for more information:

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/dars-products-and-services/data-set-catalogue/covid-19-second-generation-surveillance-system-sgss


Tags: No information held, covid-19
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log