AAC Provision

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Dear Dr Reddington

 

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Helen Mills

Head of Quality Assurance

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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Dear Dr Reddington

Within our adult neurological SLT service, we do not issue any assistive communicative devices permanently. We have a small supply of aids to assess and loan out for short periods and these include:

Lightwriter
Advocate
Voice Amplifier

If the aid is required long term then it is sourced through other avenues e.g. loans from the MNDA, purchase funding from MS society etc. We can work with reps and company's direct e.g. Smartbox. In these cases we would provide independent consultation and the patient would purchase these systems privately or through various charitable funding/grants.

Kind Regards

Susan McNab

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McNab Susan (SMCS) would like to recall the message, "FOI No 864 due 20 February 2012".

Dear Dr. Reddington,

 

Please find our response to your FOI request below.

 

Within our adult neurological SLT service, we do not issue any assistive
communicative devices permanently. We have a small supply of aids to
assess and loan out for short periods and these include:

 

·         Lightwriter

·         Advocate

·         Voice Amplifier

 

If the aid is required long term then it is sourced through other avenues
e.g. loans from the MNDA, purchase funding from MS society etc. We can
work with representatives and company's direct e.g. Smartbox. In these
cases we would provide independent consultation and the patient would
purchase these systems privately or through various charitable
funding/grants.

 

Please find below details of purchases made by the Trust in the last five
years for the above medical devices.

 

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Device | Manufacturer | Model |Purchase|
| | | | Date |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Lightwriter (mains) |Toby Churchill |SL35 |Pre-2007|
| | | | |
|  | | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Lightwriter Scanning Module |Toby Churchill |Compatible with |Pre-2008|
| | |SL36 | |
|  | | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Tape recorder |Phillips |D6280/05 |2008 |
|(mains)           | | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Echo voice amplifier |Hearing Products International |EV3 / EV4      |2007 |
|(EV4)                       | | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Freiburg voice amp |Pulch+Lorenz (Supplied by |Freiburg |2008 |
|(x3)                     |Easiaids Ltd) | | |
|            | | | |
|                        | | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|TypeTalkText Phone |  |  |2009 |
|(currently on loan so | | | |
|unavailable)               | | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Talkstar digital amplifier |Guagdong Talkstar Electroics Co |DA-523          |2009 |
|(mains)            |Ltd            | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Advocates (x2) |Toby Churchill |AdVOCate |2007 |
|(battery)         | | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|MegaBee (x4)             |E2L Products Ltd |  |Pre-2007|
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Sound level meter           |CEM    |DT-805 |2009    |
| |Radioshack                       | | |
|----------------------------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------|
|Tuner (battery) |Korg |OT-120 |2009 |
|X2                        | | | |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

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Kind regards,

 

Syma Dawson

 

Information Governance Manager

The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust

London

SW3 6PP

FOI Email: [2][The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust request email]

 

 

From: Joe [mailto:[FOI #101173 email]]

 

Sent: 20 January 2012 23:14

 

To: Patient Information Centre

 

Subject: Freedom of Information request - AAC Provision

 

 

 

Dear Sir,

 

I am an academic researcher, attempting to assess the provision of
augmentative and alternative communication devices by the NHS. Following
redirection from a previous FOI
request([3]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pr...)
Could you please send me details of augmentative and alternative
communication devices purchased by, or on behalf of your trust between
31st March 2006 and 1st April 2011?

 

    

I would like the information broken down by both product name(So for
example Dynavox Xpress, iPod touch with TapToTalk, BigMack)and by year. I
would like information for both children and adults, but I don't require a
breakdown by age.

 

    

 

     Deven PCT have helpfully given examples on a previous request. The
format they used was

 

     2005/06

 

     4 X Digital Electronic Larynxes (Servox)

 

     2 x Listen To Me

 

     2 x Lightwriters

 

     1 x Dynawrite

 

     1 x Dynamo

 

     1 x Falck Voice Amplifier

 

     1 x Lions Speech Aid

 

     1 x Go Talk

 

     1 x Little Mack

 

    

 

     2006/07

 

     9 x Digital Electronic Larynxes (Servox)

 

     2 x Lightwriters

 

     1 x mini Printer

 

     2 x The Grid software

 

     2 x Falck Voice Amplifiers

 

     1 x Listen To Me

 

     1 x Textphone

 

     1 x Talking Symbols Notepad

 

    

and this would do nicely for me. Other excellent formats were provided by:
 Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT

 

 

(http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

15#incoming-209176)

 

     Bromley PCT

 

 

(http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

4)

 

     Bristol PCT

 

     (

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

)

 

     and Central Lancashire PCT

 

 

(http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/au...

4)

 

    

Just to make the process more efficient for you guys - it would be great
to clarify a couple of things at this stage - I am aware that some trusts
make use of commissioning trusts to do the actual purchase of the devices;
when I have contacted the commissioning trusts I've been often redirected
back to the PCT because the paperwork for previous years have been stored
at the PCT – this redirection must be causing additional work for both
trusts in the long run and it would be great to avoid it

 

 

(http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/au...

4

 

is an example of the problem)

 

Also, and again to make life easier for you, I should point about that
since this request is being made via whatdotheyknow.com - email addresses
are stripped out of replies to protect your privacy(because the responses
are all available to public view- if you are to redirect my request to
another body then it's ideal to just give the name of the body rather than
just an email address

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Dr Joseph Reddington

 

    

 

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