Overseas visitor management teams in NHS trusts

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Dear East London NHS Foundation Trust,

I write to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 on how you have instituted overseas patient charging and the costs of your overseas visitor management team at your trust, if you have one. Please can you tell me:

1) Whether you have an overseas visitor management team or a similar team? If NOT, who then is in charge of overseas patient charging in your trust in line with changes advised in the Department of Health's Draft guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations, 2017?

2) What is the cost of the current team for the preceding year, or if established only recently following the changes in 2017, its cost of set up and estimated costs for 2017/2018? (Note: this cost could include salaries, but also overheads including facilities and equipment used).

3) What, if any, charges have been levied to overseas patients in your trust by this team, and how much of this has been recouped?

Yours faithfully,

Sarah Steele

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Governance & Risk Department

The Green

1 Roger Dowley Court

Russia Lane

London

E2 9NJ

 

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Email [2][email address]

Website: [3]http://www.elft.nhs.uk/

9^th October  2017

 

 

Sarah Steele

By Email: [4][FOI #431522 email]

 

 

Our Ref:  FOI DA2517

 

Dear Ms Steele

 

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request received by the
Trust on 13^th September 2017, unfortunately this was mislaid and I
apologise for the delay in acknowledging your request.

 

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