Information relating to Patient Feeding and Retail Catering

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Dear Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust,

I would be grateful if you could provide me under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contracts below.

Retail Catering Services / Patient feeding services
1. The name and contact details for the Chief Executive?
2. The name and contact details for the Director of Finance?
3. The name and contact details for the Director of Estates and Facilities?
4. The name and contact details of the Procurement Director?

Retail Catering
5. The name(s) of the company(ies) who currently provides retail catering at the hospital?
6. Is this a single service contract or part of an IFM contract? If so, who is the FM provider and what other services are included?
7. How many of each type of outlet are there e.g. coffee shop, restaurant etc
8. When does the contract expire?
9. What is the average sales turnover per annum for all the outlets combined?

Patient Feeding
10. Who provides patient feeding within the hospital?
11. If this is run in house is the trust willing to consider outsourcing?
12. If outsourced, is this a single service contract or part of an IFM contract? If so, who is the FM provider and what other services are included?
13. When does the contract expire?
14. What is the annual turnover per annum for patient feeding?

Additional Questions
15. How many beds are there in the hospital? If there is more than one hospital in the trust, please can you breakdown the number of beds per hospital building?
16. How many staff work in each hospital?
17. Do you use a framework for catering? If so, which framework do you use?
For clarity, the details of the successful and unsuccessful suppliers are kept in the strictest confidence. All these details are only used to help in potentially bidding for these contracts. I would be very grateful if you would provide the details which gives us more information about how the hospital operates.

Yours faithfully,

David Roberts

FOIEnquiries (DERBYSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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FOIEnquiries (DERBYSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Our sincerest apologies for the delay in responding.

Please see below.

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Freedom of Information Office
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Ashbourne Centre
Kingsway Site
Kingsway
Derby DE22 3LZ
Tel 01332 623700

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Dear FOIEnquiries (DERBYSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST),

Are you in a position to respond to my FOI request now?

Yours sincerely,

David Roberts

FOIEnquiries (DERBYSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Mr Roberts,
Thank you for your email.
The Trust responded on the 4 October 2021, copy attached for convenience. Within that response, next to each of your questions (in the original email you sent), sits the answer, where held.
Kind regards

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