Our NHS services | Site map | Accessibility Search: HomeAbout us Health services Freedom of Information The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 gives you a general right of access to recorded information held by public authorities. The Act is to make public sector bodies more open and accountable. It also helps you to understand how we carry out our duties, why we make the decisions we do and how we spend public money. The Act gives you the right to request information held by us, unless there are good reasons not to do so. Making an FOI request FOI requests can be made by anyone from anywhere in the world. You may wish to look at our Publication Scheme to see if any of the information we already published is what you require. If you would like to make a request for information that is not contained within the publication scheme you can contact us in one of the following ways: e-mail using the Trusts FOI mailbox bchft.foi@nhs.net by post to the following address: Information Governance and Records Manager Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Europa Boulevard Westbrook Warrington Cheshire WA5 7TY Please remember to include your address and describe in as much detail as you can the information that you require. What happens next? We will acknowledge your request by post or e-mail as soon as possible. There may be times when we need to contact you because it is not clear what information you require. We will provide you with the information that you have requested within 20 working days, however there may be times when we need to consider if the information you are asking for is exempt from disclosure. This can, on a very rare occasion, take a little more time, so we will ask you if this is acceptable. If some or all of the information that you have requested is exempt we will let you know why it is not available. . Most of the information that we provide is free of charge, however if there is a charge we will let you know as soon as possible and you will told how much this will cost. Details of how to pay the fee will be given to you at the time. Sometimes the information that you are requesting may exceed what is known as “the appropriate limit”. This means that we may have to tell you that we cannot provide the information unless you pay the fee. You could however think of modifying your request to bring the cost down and we will try and help you to do that. If you are unhappy with how we have dealt with your request, you can ask for us to review this. We will provide details of this in our reply to you, or you can contact: To Information Governance and Records Manager Bridgewater Headquarters Europa Point, Europa Boulevard Warrington Cheshire WA5 7TY Email: Bchft.foi@nhs.net Contact us Bridgewater Headquarters Europa Point, Europa Boulevard Warrington Cheshire WA5 7TY Email: bchft.enquiries@nhs.net Tel: 0844 264 3614 Quick links Vacancies / jobs Site map Our clinics Board meetings Privacy FOI Infection control Latest tweet Bridgewater NHSFollow Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides community #NHS #health services to areas of the North West. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. 🌈#TeamBridgewater. Bridgewater NHS@Bridgewater_NHS·16h Face coverings will be compulsory in shops and on public transport from tomorrow (30 November), unless exempt 😷 This is one of the new precautionary measures being introduced to prevent the spread of the #COVID19 variant Omicron. More info 👇 https://gov.uk/government/news/government-takes-decisive-act... Reply on Twitter 1465415279618445315 Retweet on Twitter 1465415279618445315 Like on Twitter 1465415279618445315 1 Twitter 1465415279618445315 © 2021 Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. All rights reserved. Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without the permission of the copyright owner. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT