Lothian NHS Board
Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3EG
Telephone 0131 536 9000
Fax 0131 536 9088
www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Date
Our Ref
08/10/12
3360
Enquiries to Richard Mutch
Extension 35687
Direct Line 0131 465 5687
Email
richard.mutch@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Dear
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – LIST CLEANSING
I write in response to your request of 1 October 2012 for information in relation to GP list cleansing
within NHS Lothian.
Question: How many list cleansing exercises has the board conducted in the last three years? (201213 financial year to date, 2011-2012 financial year, 2010-2011 financial year)
 How much has each of the list cleansing exercises cost the health board? Please separate
the cost of each exercise.
 How many patients have been removed from the list in each exercise? Please separate the
amount for each exercise.
 How much money has been saved by the health board for each of these list cleansing
exercises? Please separate the cost of each exercise.
 How many patients who have been removed in these list cleansing exercises have had to
be re-registered as new patients? Please separate the information for each exercise.
Answer:I am advised by Ms Alison McNeillage, Primary Care Contracts Manager NHS Lothian that this
information should be obtained from the Practitioner Services Division (PSD) of NHS National
Services Scotland as it is not held by NHS Lothian. As per Section 17 of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 formally I must inform you that NHS Lothian do not hold this
information.
PSD can be contacted via:NSS Practitioner Services
Gyle Square
1 South Gyle Crescent
Edinburgh EH12 9EB
http://www.psd.scot.nhs.uk/professionals/about/feedback.html
I hope PSD can help further with your request.
Headquarters
Waverley Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EG
Chair Dr Charles J Winstanley
Chief Executive Tim Davison
Lothian NHS Board is the common name of Lothian Health Board
612939946
If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review
it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply
within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain
dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information
Commissioner.
If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to Mr I Whyte, FOI Reviewer
at the address at the foot of this letter. The review will be undertaken by Mr Whyte as he was not
involved in the original decision-making process.
FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian’s
Freedom
of
Information
website
at
:http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/YourRights/FOI/Pages/default.aspx
Yours sincerely
ALAN BOYTER
Director of Human Resources
and Organisational Development
Cc: Chief Executive