NHS Wheelchair Services

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Dear NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group,

1. Who provides your current Wheelchair Service
a. Is your provider an NHS organisation or a contracted-out, non-NHS organisation?
b. What is the name of your current provider?
c. What is the name of the Wheelchair Service Manager?

2. How your wheelchair services are provided
a. Do you combine your Wheelchair Service with any other service, such as Prosthetics or Community Equipment? If so, please provide a list of the other services.
b. Is your Wheelchair Service exclusive to your CCG?
c. If you service is combined with another please provide a list of the CCGs that share this Wheelchair Service and confirm who is the lead CCG?
d. Is the Repair and Maintenance element of the service “integrated” or contracted out to a 3rd party Approved Repairer?
e. If you have an externally provided Approved Repairer, what is the name of your current provider?

3. About your wheelchair service
a. What is the size of the population covered by your Wheelchair Service?
b. How many registered service users are served by the Wheelchair Service?

4. About the Integrated (Combined service and Repair & Maintenance) contract with your provider
a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the Integrated Wheelchair Service?
b. Please state the dates of your last financial year.
c. When was the Integrated Wheelchair Service last tendered?
d. When does the current contract expire? Please provide details of any potential contract extension?
e. Please provide the date this Wheelchair Service will be next tendered

5. About the Repair and Maintenance (R&M) sub-contract with your wheelchair provider (where appropriate)
a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the R&M Wheelchair Service?
b. Please state the dates of your last financial year.
c. When was the R&M Wheelchair Service last tendered?
d. When does the current R&M sub-contract expire? Please provide details of any potential contract extension
e. Please provide the date that R&M Wheelchair Service sub-contract will be next tendered

Yours faithfully,

Mr N Douglas

GMCSU, Foi (NHS GREATER MANCHESTER COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT), NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group

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Ian

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GMCSU, Foi (NHS GREATER MANCHESTER COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT), NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group

Dear Mr Douglas

Your request for information is now being processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. It is hoped that a response will be provided to you by no later than 17 November 2017. However, if this is not possible and additional time is required, we will contact you to explain.

Kind Regards

Ian

Patient Services Support Officer
Greater Manchester Shared Services (hosted by NHS Oldham CCG)

Phone: 0161 212 6270 Email: [email address]
Ellen House, Waddington Street, Oldham OL9 6EE

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Dear Mr Douglas,

 

INFORMATION REQUESTED UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

 

This email is to inform you of the progress made with your recent request
for the supply of information from NHS Bolton CCG.

 

The information you requested is attached.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the way your request has been handled, please
contact us at the email address above with the specifics of your concerns
and we will conduct an internal review.

 

If you are still dissatisfied with the outcome of the internal review, you
can contact the Information Commissioner at the following address:

 

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

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Alex

Patient Services Officer

Greater Manchester Shared Services (hosted by NHS Oldham CCG)

 

Phone: 0161 212 6270 I Email: [1][Bolton CCG request email]

Ellen House, Waddington Street, Oldham OL9 6EE

 

Please note that any form of web-based email communication (gmail.com,
Hotmail.com, yahoomail.com) has no guaranteed security on the personal and
confidential information you have sent and received via this method. 
Therefore by using this method to send and receive your personal data you
will be accepting the risk associated to any potential confidentiality
data breach as a result from communicating via the web-based email
communications system. Please refer to the data security policy of the
email service provider if in doubt.

 

This email has been scanned for viruses, however we are unable to accept
responsibility for any damage caused by the contents. The opinions
expressed in this email represent the views of the sender, not Greater
Manchester Shared Services unless explicitly stated. If you have received
this email in error please notify the sender. The information contained in
this email may be subject to public disclosure under the NHS Code of
Openness or the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is
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your reply cannot be guaranteed.

 

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