
How to request information under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 requires us to:
Check whether the information you seek is already available. We publish information on this website and you may well find the answer to your question is already here. We have a Publication Scheme setting out what information we currently release or expect to release and a Disclosure Log which details all freedom of information requests we have received over the past two years and our responses to these. If you request information from us that is already published, we will simply refer you to the published source.
Anyone, anywhere in the world, can make a FOI request to us.
You can seek any recorded information that you think we may hold.
If the information is environmental, we will respond according to the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004. You do not have to know whether the information you want is covered by the EIR or the FOI Act. When you make a request, we will decide which law applies.
If the information is your own personal data, then you should make a subject access request under the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998, and not under the FOI Act. See below for how to make DPA requests.
Your request must be in writing and can be either posted or emailed to us.
For postal requests, please send to the following address:
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Head Office
Carew House
Beacon Technology Park
Dunmere Road
Bodmin
PL31 2QN
Telephone: 01208 834495
Email requests should be sent to:
cpn-tr.freedomofinformation@nhs.net
The FOI Act requires certain information to be supplied before we can respond to your request:
Comprehensive guidance on submitting effective requests for information is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office. However, to frame an effective request for the information you need:
The Trust has a legal obligation to reply to your FOI request and must do so within 20 working days of receipt. We will do one of the following:
You can ask us for an internal review of your FOI request. When you write to us requesting an internal review, we will acknowledge your letter and tell you how long we think the review will take. We aim to complete internal reviews within 20 working days, although cases that are complex may take longer. Where internal reviews go over 20 working days, we will keep you informed of progress.
If, after an internal review, you are still not satisfied you can then complain to the Information Commissioner (ICO). Details of how to do this are available at the ICO website.
Full details of how to ask for an internal review will be included in our initial reply to your FOI request. Details of how to complain further to the Information Commissioner will be included in our response to your internal review request.
The Data Protection Act allows you to find out what information we hold about you on computer and in some paper records. This is known as the ‘right of subject access’. We have provided leaflet with a further information around this process
All requests for access to your personal data held by us should be made in writing to:
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Head Office
Carew House
Beacon Technology Park
Dunmere Road
Bodmin
PL31 2QN