Heatherwood FT refuses to share data with commissioners

NHS Berkshire, which commissions services from the trust, noted in its board papers for September that to produce its quality report it had to use strategic health authority information on the organisation, along with data from cancer, maternity and stroke networks.

The paper says: “It should be noted that with regard to Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust data is only available to commissioners on key quality indicators contained within the Deed of Variation signed 31 March 2011 and July’s data.

“The trust has refused to release data for the first quarter of the year relating to quality indicators which were not in the original Deed of Variation.”