Our publication scheme

What is a publication scheme?

This Publication Scheme is a complete guide to the information routinely published by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. It is a description of the information about our Trust that we make publicly available. We will review the Scheme at regular intervals and monitor how it is operating.

It is important to us that this Scheme meets your needs and we have designed it to be a route map so that you can find information about us easily. Under Section 19 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Trust has a legal duty to adopt and maintain a Publication Scheme for the publication of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust information. The purpose of the Act is to promote greater openness by public authorities (of which our Trust is one).

The Publication Scheme will help you to find all the information that the Trust publishes. The Freedom of Information Act does not change the right of service users to protection of their confidentiality in accordance with Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention, the Data Protection Act and at common law. Maintaining the legal right to confidentiality continues to be an important commitment on our part.

To help with this, we have appointed someone who is called a Caldicott Guardian, who has responsibility to ensure the protection of service user confidentiality throughout the Trust in accordance with legal rights.

In South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, our Caldicott Guardian is:
Noreen Young
Director of Nursing, Compliance and Innovation
Fieldhead
Ouchthorpe Lane
Wakefield
WF1 3SP

Information management

Information falling into the Classes will be retained in line with the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s retention and disposal schedules, which comply with circular HSC1999/53 and Public Record Office Guidance.

Information not required for the business purposes of the Trust is stored at the Trust at a place of deposit approved by the Lord Chancellor for the purpose of holding public records.

Rights of access to information

The Freedom of Information Act recognises that as a member of the public, you have the right to know how public services such as the NHS are organised and run, how much they cost and how you can make complaints if you need to. You have the right to know which services are being provided, the targets that are being set, the standards of services that are expected and the results achieved.

In addition to accessing the information identified in this Publication Scheme, you are entitled to request other information about the trust.

We are obliged to respond to requests about the information we hold that is recorded in any form. The rights to request and access this information are subject to some exemptions which the Trust has to take into consideration before deciding what information can be released.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you are also entitled to access your clinical records or any other personal information held about you and you can contact the Head of Legal Services at the Trust to do this (contact details below).

It may not always be possible to provide some or all of the information you request, and we will explain the reasons why not if this happens.

If you are looking for information this is not available in this scheme, please contact:

Customer Services
Fieldhead
Ouchthorpe Lane
Wakefield,
WF1 3SP
or email customer.services@swyt.nhs.uk.

Feedback

Any questions, comments or complaints about this Scheme should be sent in writing to:
Dawn Stephenson
Director of Corporate Development
Fieldhead
Ouchthorpe Lane
Wakefield
WF1 3SP
or by email to customer.services@swyt.nhs.uk.

Page last reviewed on 30 April 2012