Insourcing

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, East London NHS Foundation Trust should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear East London NHS Foundation Trust,

1. Do you insource any clinical services and which ones?
2. Do you have a contract with any company and who is that and for which insourcing services?
3. Did you procure this under any current framework and if so which one?
4. How is this charged for by the third party service provider per patient/per tariff
5. Are you currently being charged below, on or above NHS tariff?
6. Do you use substantively employed Trust staff to delivery all or part of the insourced service?
7. The total number of procedures completed by each supplier (named) in the following categories:
• Endoscopy
• Ophthalmology
• ENT
• Neurology
• Dermatology
• All Other
8. The total spend completed by each supplier (named) per service area
9. Please give an annual breakdown per annum of insourcing services per service area:
• 15/16
• 16/17
• 17/18
• 18/19

Yours faithfully,

Sarah James

Foi (EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), East London NHS Foundation Trust

Information Governance Department

The Green

1 Roger Dowley Court

Russia Lane

London

E2 9NJ

 
Email: [1][East London NHS Foundation Trust request email]

 

 

Our Ref:  FOI DA3327

  

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request received by the
Trust on 13th December 2019.

 

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.  For
your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions which may prevent
release of the information you have requested. There will be an assessment
and if any of the exemption categories apply then it will not be released.
You will be informed if this is the case.

 

If the information you request was obtained from or relates to a third
party then they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on
whether or not to release the information to you.

 

In some cases there may be a fee payable for the information requested.
This will be considered and you will be informed of the fee payable if
this is the case. In this event the fee must be paid before the
information is processed and released. The 20 day time limit for responses
is put on hold until receipt of the payment. If you have any queries about
this request do not hesitate to contact us. Please remember to quote the
reference number above in any future communications.

 

Yours sincerely, 

 

FOI Team
East London NHS Foundation Trust

 

If you are dissatisfied with the Trust’s response to your FOIA request
then you should contact us and we will arrange for an internal review of
this decision. If you remain dissatisfied with the decision following our
response to your complaint, you may write to the Information Commissioner
for a decision under Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Tel: 0303 123 1113

Web: [2]www.ico.org.uk

show quoted sections

Foi (EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), East London NHS Foundation Trust

1 Attachment

Dear Ms James

 

Please see attached our response to your FOI request.  

 

Yours sincerely 

 

FOI Team 

East London NHS Foundation Trust

 

show quoted sections