Internal Reference Number: FOI_8657
Date Request Received: 19/05/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 12/06/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: non-medical and medical SAR requests
Request Category: Private Individuals
Question Number 1: How many non-medical and medical SAR requests were responded to strictly within one calendar month of date of submission of request and also the same data by date of Trust acknowledgement of submission in 2023, 2024, and in 2025 until this date (16/5/25). | |
Answer To Question 1: Please see attached HR - Data not held for second part of question To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below: ![]() | |
Question Number 2: What is the range of number of days between SAR submission date and Trust acknowledgement of receipt to SAR requester for 2023, 2024 and 2025 until this date (16/5/25)? | |
Answer To Question 2: PACs response - Majority of requests actioned within 48 hours (working days) and none breached turn around times. Medical records response - Unable to supply as we don’t record date of acknowledgement HR 2023 <5 2024 <5 2025 N/A (No SARS received in 2025) Data not held for second part of question Data not held | |
Question Number 3: How many of these SAR requests (each year - 2023, 2024 and 2025 until this date (16/5/25)) were reported with ‘incomplete’ / ‘partial non-response’ (e.g. one or more individual non-responders to any request that asked for information across multiple people) and/or ‘pending / not yet received’ data. In other words, how many SAR responses were reported back to the SAR requester with instructions that data relating to their question was incomplete due to one or more individuals not responding? | |
Answer To Question 3: Medical records response - None recorded PACs response - Not applicable HR 2023 <5 2024 <5 2025 N/A | |
Question Number 4: For 2023, 2024 and 2025 until this date (16/5/25), for how many of those SAR responses with an ‘incomplete’ and/or ‘pending data’ partial response did the Trust subsequently chase-up a response from the non-responders such that full feedback was eventually provided to the original requester? | |
Answer To Question 4: Medical records response - None recorded PACs response - Not applicable HR 2023 N/A 2024 Data not available 2025 N/A | |
Question Number 5: For how many of those SAR requests (for 2023, 2024 and 2025 until this date (16/5/25)), where there was a delayed and/or incomplete response from individual staff members, did the Trust take formal or informal action against those staff members for failing to provide requested information? | |
Answer To Question 5: Medical records response - None recorded PACs response - Not applicable HR 2023 N/A 2024 Data not available 2025 N/A | |
Question Number 6: For how many cases (2023/2024/2025) whereby action was taken to pursue individual staff members for information did that individual staff member eventually yield the originally requested information to enable it to be passed on to requester? For each such case, what was the range of days that passed before the outstanding information was provided to the requester? | |
Answer To Question 6: Medical records response - None recorded PACs response - Not applicable HR 2023 N/A 2024 Data not available 2025 N/A | |
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