Internal Transport

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Dear South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

Please could you let me know the answer to the five 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 did you pay for the service in the last financial 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 within your organisation and what are their postal, phone and email addresses?
5. If your transport service is provided in-house, do you offer the service to any other organisation(s), what are the names of the organisations, the names, job titles, phone numbers and addresses of your point of contact?

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Oliver Mason

Freedom of Information (RTR) South Tees NHS Trust,

Dear Mr Mason,

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 which was dated the 10^th May 2011 and received by
the Trust on the 10^th May 2011.

Your request will be processed within a maximum of twenty working days
from when we received your request unless otherwise informed.

As this is only an acknowledgement of your request, at this moment we are
unaware of any fees, charges or exemptions that may be applied to your
request. If during the course of processing your application it becomes
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costs are applicable, no information will be provided unless the fee is
paid within three months of us informing you. In the event that some or
all of the information you have requested is exempt from disclosure, we
will notify you of this.

We will also contact you if during the process to locate and supply the
information it emerges that we do not have sufficient detail to locate the
information or we are unclear exactly what it is you have requested.

We will keep you up-to-date with any other developments.

Yours sincerely

Christine Bell
Information Governance Specialist
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Tel 01642 850850 ext 53593

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Freedom of Information (RTR) South Tees NHS Trust,

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Dear Mr Mason,

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information

You have recently requested access to information held by South Tees
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In response to your request under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, please find attached the information you
have requested.

If for any reason you are not satisfied with the information that we have
provided or you feel we have dealt with your request unfairly, you have a
right to complain. Please send your complaint by email to
[1][South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust request email] or by post to: The Head of Information Governance,
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The James Cook University
Hospital, Marton Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 3BW

If you are still not satisfied, further information about your right to
complain under the Freedom of Information Act is available from the
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AFand on The Information Commissioner's website
[2]www.ico.gov.uk.

Any information we provide following your request under the Freedom of
Information Act will not confer an automatic right for you to re-use that
information, for example to publish it. You are free to use any
information supplied for your own non-commercial research or private study
purposes. The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed
by a limitation or exception in copyright law, such as news reporting.
However, if you wish to re-use the information that we provide, for
example by publishing it in analogue or digital form, then you must make a
further request for its re-use as per the Re-Use of Public Sector
Information Regulations 2005 by contacting the Head of Information
Governance using the email address above .

Yours sincerely

Christine Bell
Information Governance Specialist
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Tel 01642 850850 ext 53593

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Dear Freedom of Information (RTR) South Tees NHS Trust,

Thank you for the information provided.
This site will not allow me to respond to your survey on line but i will say that the response has been complete and on time.

Yours sincerely,

Oliver Mason