AAC Devices

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Dear Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust,

I attempting to assess the provision of augmentative and alternative communication devices by the NHS. This work is a repeat of a study carried out in 2012. Information about the previous study can be found here: http://joereddington.com/wp-content/uplo...

Would you please send me details of augmentative and alternative communication devices supplied/purchased by your trust between 1st April 2011 and 31st March 2016. 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.

I attempting to find out how many people who have poor or no speech have a speech aid, in particular electronic speech aids, and I would like to know how many have been supplied by the trust during the last five years.

Deven PCT have helpfully give 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.

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Yours faithfully,

Dr Joseph Reddington

Lockwood Venita, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Joseph Reddington

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Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Team
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
[Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust request email]

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Lockwood Venita, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Dr Reddington

 

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  Please find attached as a PDF document, our
response to your request.

 

Please also accept our sincere apologies for the delay.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Freedom of Information Team

Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

[Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust request email]

 

 

 

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