Outsourced Radiology Reporting Services

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Dear Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust,

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

The details we require are:

• Does the Trust make use of outsourced tele-radiology reporting services for either overnight on-call (emergency) or routine radiology reporting (or both)?

• If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting, please provide the names of the providers of each service (on-call and elective)?

• If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting services, please provide the annual volumes for both 2019 and for 2020 sent to each provider, broken into the following:

o Overnight on-call
o Elective Reporting (MRI, CT)
o Plain Film Reporting
o Split into each hospital within the Trust

• Start date, duration and end date of any contracts with tele-radiology providers?

• Was the contract procured via a framework (direct award, which framework?), mini-tender, or ITT procurement process?

• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract?

Thank you for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Mr J Hetfield

FOI Request - Portsmouth - Group Mailbox, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

 

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Dear Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust,

Hello. By law, you should have responded to my FOI request many weeks ago.

Can you please supply the requested information ASAP to avoid escalation.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. J. Hetfield

FOI Request - Portsmouth - Group Mailbox, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Dear Mr Hatfield,

Thank you for your email.

Please accept our upmost apologies for the delay in presenting you with our response to your Freedom of Information Request and for any additional distress this may have caused.

Unfortunately, the Freedom of Information Team are unable to locate your request on our system. Would you kindly forward us your request?

I would like to assure you that we will work as quickly as we can to respond to you, whilst still completing a full and thorough response. I would like to thank you for your ongoing patience regarding this matter.

Freedom of Information Team 
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Queen Alexandra Hospital
De La Court House
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham, Portsmouth
Hampshire PO3 6LY
02392 286000 Ext. 3708

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Dear FOI Request - Portsmouth - Group Mailbox,

Hi there, I've reposted my initial request below:

Dear Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust,

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

The details we require are:

• Does the Trust make use of outsourced tele-radiology reporting services for either overnight on-call (emergency) or routine radiology reporting (or both)?

• If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting, please provide the names of the providers of each service (on-call and elective)?

• If you do make use of tele-radiology reporting services, please provide the annual volumes for both 2019 and for 2020 sent to each provider, broken into the following:

o Overnight on-call
o Elective Reporting (MRI, CT)
o Plain Film Reporting
o Split into each hospital within the Trust

• Start date, duration and end date of any contracts with tele-radiology providers?

• Was the contract procured via a framework (direct award, which framework?), mini-tender, or ITT procurement process?

• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract?

Thank you for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Mr J Hetfield

Dear FOI Request - Portsmouth - Group Mailbox,

Just to clarify, my initial request was made on the 13th of May 2021, almost 3 months ago.

Looking forward to your prompt response.

Yours sincerely,

Mr J Hetfield

FOI Request - Portsmouth - Group Mailbox, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Dear Mr Hetfield,

Please can I apologies for the delay in providing you with a response to your request.

We are currently pulling your response together and will have it with you soon.

Your sincerely

Freedom of Information Team 
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Queen Alexandra Hospital
De La Court House
Southwick Hill Road
Cosham, Portsmouth
Hampshire PO3 6LY
02392 286000 Ext. 3708

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Dear Mr Hetfield,

 

Thank you for your enquiry requesting information under the Freedom of
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Yours sincerely

 

Freedom of Information Team 

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Queen Alexandra Hospital

De La Court House

Southwick Hill Road

Cosham, Portsmouth

Hampshire PO3 6LY

02392 286000 Ext. 3708

 

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