Predicting the Internet's potential for disseminating medical information long before it became a familiar conduit, he was an early proponent of its use, terming laymen who did so "e-patients".
Under current freedom of information law anyone can ask for information as long as finding it does not cost a government department more than £600 or another public body £450.
At present, anyone can ask for information so long as finding it does not cost more than £600 in the case of a government department, and £450 for another public body.
In the days that followed, the Iraqi leader showed unusual restraint, at least by the harsh standards of the past, in dealing with family members who had protested in Baghdad's streets for information about long-lost kin who vanished into Mr. Hussein's gulag of prisons and detention centers.
For information on long-term outcomes, a questionnaire was mailed to all surviving patients or to the general practitioners of those patients who had died during the follow-up period.
A copy of the initial holistic needs assessment summary and the complete personalised plan of care will be given to patients, and, with their consent, will be sent to their GP for information and long-term management.
If Mandelson were to hold a weekly televised briefing, he would in effect add "minister for information" to his long list of titles.
She was unsure how her nan would meet a direct request for information, but before long she had the answer: a letter, written in slanting lines on A4, "in which she told me pretty much the whole story".
Another Bafta member, who also wished to remain anonymous, expressed his relief the diversity survey had not asked members for information about how long it had been since their last industry employment.
