AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
FOI-02286

##Request

How frequent and what dates and times has the website been down for applying for a GHIC card
 
Date Range: 01/01/2024 -01/10/2024

##Response

II can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested.

Table 1 - Dates and times are when the GHIC application process was not available due to planned system maintenance. Maintenance includes introducing new functions and improving the user experience.
 
 Table 2 – Dates and times are when the GHIC application process was affected for unplanned reasons. We have indicated below whether the GHIC application process was partially available or not available at all. If partially available, GHIC application processing was either partly working or fully working for intermittent periods.
 
Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data.

•	The GHIC application system can be accessed via an NHS landing page Applying for healthcare cover abroad (GHIC and EHIC) - NHS (www.nhs.uk). The availability of the NHS website containing this landing page and local internet conditions are not included as they are not in the control of the NHSBSA.  
•	The outage information provided covers the GHIC application process available at Get healthcare cover for travelling abroad - NHSBSA

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02286

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.
Reusing the data and copyright

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 2024” 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: GHIC
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02260

##Request

Dear Sir/Madam Wondering if you can help me please. I head the medical workforce unit at the Royal College of Physicians. I am interested to see how many physician associate posts have been advertised on NNHS jobs over the past two years, and have these numbers split by months as interested to see if there is any seasonality with vacancies. Is this something you can provide please, happy to discuss further if that helps. 

##Response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested, and a copy of the information is attached.

Search terms

The data shows the number of published adverts per month where job title contained “Physician Associate” and were published between August 2022 and August 2024 

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02260

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.
Reusing the data and copyright

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 2024” 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 Jobs, Physician Associate, eg. economy, government, mental health
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02378

##Request

Please could you tell me if your records show which of EIBSS registrants are originally MFT registrants. 

##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

Advice and assistance

We do know 921 Beneficiary records were passed to EIBSS in November 2017 from MFT when the scheme was set up as part of the initial data transfer.

EIBSS have not collated any additional data of people joining the scheme after this date.

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02378

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

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 2024” 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: EIBSS, MFT
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02419

##Request

Are there, or have there been in the last 12 months...
any financial payments to London GPs to have patients on their lists with higher than normal blood pressure. 

 any financial support for GPs to identify patients with highercthan normal blood pressure. 

any financial incentives for GP practice based pharmacists to pescribe blood pressure medication.

##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 NHSBSA.

Advice and Assistance

Having reviewed your request, I believe that 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/ 

The information you requested may also be held by your local Integrated Care Board (ICB). They can be found by accessing the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/find-your-local-integrated-care-board/


Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02419

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

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 2024” 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: Blood pressure
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-01799

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, which I received on 4 March 2024 for information about the following:

‘I would like to know under the freedom of information act how many PCNs are sent out to those of us that annually prepay?’

You subsequently clarified that your request as:

‘to find out how many PCNs were sent out due to no automatic renewal of annual prepayments and how many PCNs were sent out due to a human error?’

##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. 

Exemption checking is an automated process and only checks is there is a valid exemption in place at that time. The checks do not show any previous or expired exemptions.

Tags: PCN, Penalty Charges
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02457

Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

We require some information if any Market Entry applications have been made for the site below: 25 Boorman Way, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 3SE

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 17 December 2024. 

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

##Our 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 NHSBSA.

Advice and Assistance

Having reviewed your request, I believe that it is possible that Primary Care Support England (PCSE) may hold some or all of the information you require. 

They can be contacted at:
 
Primary Care Support England

PO Box 350

Darlington, DL1 9QN

Website: https://pcse.england.nhs.uk/contact-us 

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02457 

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Tags: PCSE
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02439

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

‘Documents discussing the turn around time to unlock My NHS Pensions online access after lock out. All documents and operational discussions relating to overseas access to My NHS Pension online for retired NHS pension recipients.’ 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 11 December 2024.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

##Our 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. 

##Advice and assistance 

There are no documents or operational discussions regarding the time to unlock My NHS Pensions online or relating to overseas access to My NHS Pension online. 

For members who are registered to use the service, but their account becomes locked, the service level agreement on the My NHS Pensions email account is 5 to 10 working days. 

##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. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

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 2025” 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: My NHS Pensions online, NHS Pensions
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02389

Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

##Request 

‘Further to the attached email (response to FOI-01983), Agilisys contract expired in August. I would like to know whether this contract is still valid or replaced by another supplier.  

If the contract extended further, please share the latest contract end dates and also confirm other contract information remains the same.’ 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 14 November 2024.  

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

##Our response 

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested. 

Contract has now been procured, and replacement contract is now in place following the expiry of the referenced contract.  

Under Section 21 of the FOIA 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 via this link: 

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0a1eb0e1-cffb-4fa8-89d9-795cc2f05dfd 

Please see the following link to view the section 21 in full - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21 

##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. 

##Reusing the data and copyright 

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 2024” 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: Contract
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02487

I am writing to confirm that I have now completed my search for the information which you requested.

Request

I am requesting your assistance under the Freedom of Information Act and hope that this request is able to be fulfilled reasonably easily. I would like the same query as in FOI Request reference FOI-02364, however I would like this for October 2024 data.

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02364 

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 6 January 2025. 

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

##Our response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds information meeting the description specified in your request. However, I estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the non-central Government limit of £450.

In determining that your request has exceeded the cost threshold we have considered previous requests received by you on a similar theme within the previous 60 working days. 

The previous request, FOI-02364 which you requested on 4 November 2024, took the full 18 hour limit given that new bespoke code had to be written and tested to extract the analysis required. 

The limit has been specified in The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 and represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the NHSBSA holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. 

Under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act, the NHSBSA is not obliged to comply with your request and I am writing to advise that we will not be processing your request further.

Please see the below web link which shows the full exemption:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/12

Advice and assistance

It may be more efficient to request these each quarter, as this would likely avoid you reaching your limit in the amount of time it takes us to produce the data. By asking for the data less frequently you are reducing the proportion of your 18 hour limit which is spent supplying updates.

This may be useful if more bespoke code needs to be written and tested when your analysis of our data leads to more questions.

Any further requests for information made by you before 5 February 2025 would be likely to be refused for the same reason as stated above. If you make no further requests until 5 February 2025 then the full 18 hours will be available to you from that date.

Tags: NHS Prescription Services
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log
FOI-02347

Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

You asked us:

Please be so kind as to advise the following Regarding PCN's issued by NHS Business Authority.

Year Number. issued Number cancelled Number Paid Number outstanding; 2021, 2022, 2023, up to end Sept 2024.

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 30 October 2024.

We clarified this request with the following on 6 November 2024:

Therefore I would be grateful if you would confirm if you require the data for the Prescription Exemption Checking Service (PECS), Dental Exemption Checking Service (DECS) or both?

You responded on 6 November 2024 which we inferred you required the figures regarding to DECS.

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. 

##Our response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds the information you have requested. Please find the data attached to this email.

We issue all letters based on the information supplied by the pharmacy or dental practice. 

The figure of ‘cancelled’ PCNs includes cases where we were able to confirm the patient has a valid exemption, or we were able to remove the PCN. 

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02347 

Your personal details will be removed from the published response.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

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 2024” 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: Penalty Charge Notice
Organization: Freedom of Information Disclosure Log