FOI – 2024-000391 POTS email communications (HTML)

Date received – 25 November 2024 | Date responded – 23 December 2024

Request

Can you please share any emails between Alan Carson and any of the NSS long COVID network / POTS group?

Response

I refer to your freedom of information request that we received on 25 November 2024 requesting the following information.

We have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information:

Please find attached the following appendices detailing all email communications between NSS colleagues’ part of the NSS long COVID network / POTS group and Alan Carson:

• Appendix 1 – email communication 1_Redacted
• Appendix 2 – email communication 2_Redacted
• Appendix 3 – email communication 3_Redacted

Under Section 38 ((2A) (a)) of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act (FOISA) 2002 – Personal Information, some of the documentation being released includes personal data of third parties that was incorrectly released. Releasing this information would further contravene the data protection principles. Where this is the case, these details have been redacted in line with Section 38 of FOISA and Article 5 ((1) (a)) of GDPR – Principles relating to processing of personal data.

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