Responses to Cancer, Care Homes, Covid and Mental Health Consultations: FOI release

Information requested

The total number of responses (including numbers of individuals and organisations) to the following consultations:

• Cancer care: Review of Head and Neck Cancer Quality Performance Indicators
• Adult care homes: strengthening Health and Social Care Standards
• Cancer Care: Review of Cutaneous Melanoma Quality Performance Indicators
• Cancer Care: Review of Bladder Cancer Quality Performance Indicators
• Wellbeing and living with COVID protection measures
• Scottish Mental Health Law Review consultation
• Scottish Mental Health Law Review - Additional Proposals

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

Please see information below regarding the following consultations:

Cancer care: Review of Head and Neck Cancer Quality Performance Indicators

Total Responses	Responses from Individuals	Responses from Organisations
8	8	0

Cancer Care: Review of Cutaneous Melanoma Quality Performance Indicators

Total Responses	Responses from Individuals	Responses from Organisations
6	6	0

Cancer Care: Review of Bladder Cancer Quality Performance Indicators

Total Responses	Responses from Individuals	Responses from Organisations
4	4	0

Some of the information you have requested is available from the below web addresses. Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the websites listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

Consultation	Published Responses
Adult care homes: strengthening Health and Social Care Standards	annes-law-consultation-analysis-responses-part-1- strengthening-health-social-care-standards-part-2-deliveringannes- law-final-report.pdf (www.gov.scot).
Wellbeing and living with COVID protection measures	Coronavirus (COVID-19) and society: what matters to people in Scotland? - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The reasons why we do not have the information are explained in the Annex to this letter.

Annex A – Reasons for Not Providing Information

The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested

The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for in relation to the ‘Scottish Mental Health Law Review Consultation’ and the ‘Scottish Mental Health Law Review - Additional Proposals’ consultation.

The Scottish Mental Health Law Review (SMHLR) was an independent review and was not subject to FOI. The total number of published responses to the SMHLR consultation and the Additional Proposals are available within the links you provided.

Responses can only be viewed where consent has been given to publish the response and the answers provided can be clearly identified as an individual or an organisation response.

As the SMHLR was an independent review, the Scottish Government does not have access to the responses where no consent was provided to publish the response.

As such, I hereby provide you with formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

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