Lodged with:

• Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust (FOI team; reference awaited)

Copied to the Trust Chief Executive, David Simmonds MP, Andrew George MP, Danny Beales MP, Beccy Cooper MP, and local representatives and campaign supporters as observers.

What the request seeks, in summary:

1. Consultation before the decision: whether local GPs and GP practices, the Devon Local Medical Committee, or GP clinical leads and representative bodies were consulted before the decision to proceed with Gadeon House. If so, the dates of each consultation or meeting, who was consulted, the briefing papers and presentations provided, and copies of any responses, minutes, notes or correspondence recording their views.
2. Clinical information provided: copies of anything given to GPs or the LMC about the clinical consequences of relocating pathology, particularly the arrangements for urgent and time-critical blood, microbiology, haematology, biochemistry, coagulation and other investigations required for patients at Torbay Hospital. Also the professional role and clinical qualification of whoever provided or approved that clinical advice.
3. GP and LMC views, and their influence on the decision: any documented concerns, objections, recommendations or support, and any record showing whether those views were considered by the Trust, the ICB or the decision-making body before the decision was taken.
4. If no consultation took place: explicit confirmation to that effect, plus the identity of the decision-making body and the date on which the decision to proceed with Gadeon House was formally made.

Where information is already public, the request asks for the document title and a direct location rather than a general signpost.

Status

Submitted 13 August 2026 to Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. No reference number has been issued and no acknowledgement has been received. Under Section 10(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the Trust has 20 working days to respond. Counting from the first working day after receipt and allowing for the summer bank holiday on 31 August, that gives a deadline of approximately 11 September 2026.

How this relates to earlier requests: This is a new request rather than a continuation, but it follows directly from two items already on the tracker.

In TSD10513, question 7 sought the full governance and decision-making trail: minutes, board papers, appendices, decision logs, highlight reports and risk registers across the Trust Board, the Finance and Investment Committee, the Quality and Clinical Governance Committees and any Pathology Programme or Network Boards, from 2018 to the present. The Trust refused it under Section 12, estimating the work would exceed the £450 cost limit, and offered Section 16 advice to narrow the request to a shorter date range or a single committee. This request asks for one decision-making body and one date. That is a deliberately narrow question, and the cost limit is a far harder argument to sustain against it.

In the Gadeon House correspondence, the campaign's analysis identified clinical consultation as the first of six gaps in the Trust's 2 June response. That gap concerned clinicians inside the Trust. This request extends the same question to primary care outside it, where nothing has been said at all.

On the decision date: the Trust has already put a chronology on record through correspondence: options appraisal 19 March 2026, email to pathology staff 20 March, business case 25 March, and approval by the Chief Executive and Chair under urgent decision-making arrangements on 26 March 2026, with all staff informed on 5 May and the Board meeting in public on 7 May. Part 4 of this request therefore tests whether the Trust's formal answer under the Act matches the account it has already given informally.