2026/1928

Unless otherwise stated, the request concerns the position as at 30 June 2026.

Please provide the existing monthly or quarterly contract-monitoring dataset/dashboard export held by NHS GM for NHS-funded Tier 3 community dermatology, covering 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2026.

Please provide the data for each of the following ten NHS Greater Manchester localities, and by lead provider where this is already recorded in the dataset: Bolton; Bury; Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR); Manchester; Oldham; Salford; Stockport; Tameside; Trafford; and Wigan.

Where the existing dataset groups two or more localities, please identify the localities included in each grouping and provide any locality-specific fields already held. I am not asking NHS GM to disaggregate grouped data or create a new locality-level analysis where this is not already held

 Please include the following fields where they already exist in the monitoring record:

• referrals received, accepted and rejected/redirected;
• Advice and Guidance requests and outcomes;
• teledermatology referrals/reviews;
• new and follow-up appointments;
• minor-surgery/procedure activity and histology cases;
• discharges, PIFU and step-up to acute/Tier 4;
• DNA and provider/patient cancellation rates;
• waiting-time measures reported under the contract;
• complaints, incidents and missed-diagnosis indicators where reported only in aggregate; and
• monthly or quarterly expenditure/activity payment.

Please provide the data in its existing format. I am not requesting patient-level information or new calculations. Small numbers may be suppressed in accordance with the authority’s disclosure-control policy.

Earlier comparative period, if readily available

If the equivalent dataset is readily available for 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 without materially increasing the cost of compliance, please also provide that period.

Alternative if the dataset cannot be released

Please provide copies of the existing locality/provider contract-performance reports or dashboard packs for the same period, with patient-level and genuinely commercially sensitive information redacted.

Refusal Notice – Section 12

NHS GM does hold the information requested the cost of collating the information in order to respond to this section of your request would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.  As a result, we are refusing this part of your request under section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

In estimating the cost of complying with a request for information, an authority can only take into account any reasonable costs incurred in:

“(a) determining whether it holds the information,
(b) locating the information, or a document which may contain the information,
(c) retrieving the information, or a document which may contain the information, and
(d) extracting the information from a document containing it.”

For the purposes of estimate the costs of performing the above permitted activities all public authorities should calculate the time spent at the flat rate of £25 per person, per hour. Due to the information requested and the number of people that would be required to work on the response, we estimate that it would take a minimum of 18 hours to respond to this request.

If you wish to refine your request to narrow the scope, we would be happy to take a look at the new request.