NHSI pathology reconfiguration

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

Dear Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,

NHS Improvement wrote to the chief executives of all non-specialist acute trusts in England on or around 7th September 2017 in relation to their proposal for pathology hubs and spokes, which divided English NHS hospitals into 29 groups. Chief executives were required to reply by September 30th 2017, either agreeing to commit resources to forming a pathology hub and spoke with the other trusts defined for them by NHS improvement, or to submit an alternative proposal. In relation to this, please answer the following questions:

a. Has the chief executive of your trust written to confirm their acceptance of the proposal from NHS Improvement

b. If the answer to a) is ‘no’, do they plan to and if so by when?

c. If the answer to a) is ‘no’, has the trust submitted an alternative proposal

d. Are the trust considering (either in alignment with the NHS Improvement proposal, or as an alternative) any solutions which would involve partnerships with or outsourcing (we are excluding the sending of low volume specialist tests to these companies from the definition of outsourcing) to private sector laboratory companies (defined as companies which manage laboratories such as TDL, Sonic, HSL, synlab, Labco, Viapath, and not companies which provide equipment such as Siemens, Abbott laboratories, or Roche)

e. Have the trust, either individually, or collectively with the other trusts in its group, ruled out any form of partnership or outsourcing the management of their laboratories as defined above, for the foreseeable future.

Yours faithfully,

J Graham

Accesstoinformationoffice (WIRRAL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Sir/Madam

 

 

We do apologise profusely for the delay in responding to your request for
information

 

Please be advised your request is currently being processed but we are
still awaiting information from the department supplying the response on
behalf of the Trust. We have sent a reminder to them today.

 

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respond.

 

Hopefully a full and final response should be with you shortly

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Jan Taylor

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Data Protection Officer and Copyright Lead

With responsibility for Data Quality, Clinical Coding & Information
Security

Information Governance Department

Direct Dial: 0151 604 7120

Main Switchboard: 0151 678 5111 Ext 8477

Fax: 0151 604 7394

Email: [2][Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust request email]

 

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