FOI – 2024-000361 POTS Email Communications (HTML)

Date received – 23 October 2024 | Date responded – 20 November 2024

Request

I note in the document "POTS 1 - review group set up_Redacted" Dr Claire Taylor is welcomed. Can you please share any emails between Claire and any of the NSS long COVID network / POTS group?

Response

I refer to your freedom of information request that we received on 23 October 2024 requesting the following information:

I note in the document "POTS 1 - review group set up_Redacted" Dr Claire Taylor is welcomed. Can you please share any emails between Claire and any of the NSS long COVID network / POTS group?

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 Dr Claire Taylor:

• Appendix 1 – email communication 1_Redacted
• Appendix 2 – email communication 2_Redacted
• Appendix 3 – email communication 3_Redacted
• Appendix 4 – email communication 4_Redacted
• Appendix 5 – email communication 5_Redacted
• Appendix 6 – email communication 6_Redacted

Some of the documentation being released include personal data of third parties, specifically, email addresses of individuals which have not been released into the public domain. Where this is the case, these contact details have been redacted in line with exception Section 38 ((1)(b)) of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act – Personal information.

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