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Please could you let me know the answer to the questions below relating to the Trust's internal transport provision for the likes of internal mail, pathology specimens, sterile services department, electro-biomedical engineering, pharmacy, patient records and stores.

1. Who is your current provider?

2. How much do you pay for the services per year?

3. When was the contract/service level agreement last market tested

to ensure best value?

4. Who is the person(s) responsible for such transport and what are

their postal, phone and email addresses.

1. Medirest

2. The cost is embedded in the overall Unitary Payment for our PFI scheme and not a separate contract.

3. Under our current PFI arrangement market testing / benchmarking is to be undertaken in 2012.

4. Justin Woodley

General Manager - Medirest

Larch House

Whiston Hospital

Warrington Road

L35 5DR

[email address]

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161180110

A member of the public via what do they know.com

18.01.2010

Internal Transport

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