Thank you for your request for information about the following: 

1. Could you please provide me with the organisational structure of the IT department including – Names, contact numbers and email addresses of the senior management team.

2. Could you please provide me with details of the current Digital strategy.

3. Could you please provide me with the current Electronic Patient Record/patient administration system that you use and let me know if you have any current plans to implement a new one?  

Your request was received on 3rd July and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

Response

Under Section 21 of the Act, 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 on the following link:

1. Please refer to the Organisation Chart on the NHS Business Services website - https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/what-we-do/our-board

2. Please refer to our NHS Business Services Authority website - https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/what-we-do/strategy-business-plan-and-annual-report

3. We don’t currently use an Electronic Patient Record system and have no plans to implement one.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at: 

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01272  

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