Outsourced Radiology Reporting Services

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Dear Royal Free London NHS Foundation 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 separately please)?

• 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, Rf (ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Mr Hetfield

Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act. The reference for this request is noted in the subject header above.

You will receive a response from us within 20 working days of receipt or an explanation as to why this is not possible.

Yours sincerely,

The Freedom of Information Team
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear FOI, Rf (ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST),

By law you should have responded to my FOI by the 24th of May 2021.

Can you please send me the information requested immediately please.

Yours sincerely,

Mr J Hetfield

Dear FOI, Rf (ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST),

Hello. This FOI request is now, by law, very overdue for a response.

Can you please respond straight away to avoid an internal review.

Yours sincerely,

Mr J Hetfield

FOI, Rf (ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Mr Hetfield

 

Thank you for submitting a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  Please find the response below.  This response
covers the hospitals and services managed by the Royal Free London NHS
Foundation Trust, namely the Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and
Chase Farm Hospital and associated group services.  

 

The response

 

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

 

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

 

 

• 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  

 

  2019 2020
CT 6926 6003
MRI 460 163
Radiology 10 5
TOTAL 9415 8191

 

 

o Elective Reporting (MRI, CT)

 

Row Labels CT MRI Grand Total
2019 2358 7995 10353
BARNET HOSPITAL 596 1935 2531
CHASE FARM HOSPITAL 769 1875 2644
FINCHLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 88 88
HADLEY WOOD HOSPITAL 653 715 1368
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL 340 3382 3722
2020 1039 3582 4621
BARNET HOSPITAL 247 753 1000
CHASE FARM HOSPITAL 280 912 1192
FINCHLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 18 18
HADLEY WOOD HOSPITAL 165 248 413
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL 329 1669 1998
Grand Total 3397 11577 14974

 

o Plain Film Reporting   Not currently outsourced

 

o Split into each hospital within the Trust

 

Total CT MRI Nuclear Medicine Radiology Grand Total
2019 10000 9691 3 11 19705
BARNET HOSPITAL 8036 2457 2 11 10506
CHASE FARM HOSPITAL 848 2256 3104
FINCHLEY MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL 109 109
HADLEY WOOD HOSPITAL 704 1208 1912
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL 412 3661 1 4074
2020 7542 4093 8 11643
BARNET HOSPITAL 6661 986 8 7655
CHASE FARM HOSPITAL 318 1015 1333
FINCHLEY MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL 19 19
HADLEY WOOD HOSPITAL 192 334 526
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL 352 1758 2110
Grand Total 17542 13784 3 19 31348

 

• Start date, duration and end date of any contracts with tele-radiology
providers?   Everlight formerly Radiology Reporting Online:

Start date 1/4/2018, duration 48 months, end date 31/3/22

 

• Was the contract procured via a framework (direct award, which
framework?), mini-tender, or ITT procurement process?   Procured via EoE
CPC Framework direct award OJEU ref: 2014/s 015-022993

 

• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this
contract?   Keira Saxton is the Senior Operations Manager – Imaging.

 

Your appeal rights

 

I hope that this response deals with your enquiry to your satisfaction,
however if not you have two options:

 

·        If you do not feel that we have provided you with the information
you requested, you may contact us again and state what information you
still require.  However if you ask for additional and/or different
information this will be dealt with as a new request.

 

·        All applicants have the right of appeal and can request an
internal review.  The internal review must be focused on the original
request and should identify how the trust’s response failed to answer your
information request and explain what you would like us to review.  Appeals
should be made in writing, within 40 working days of the date of the
response, and addressed to Ms Emma Kearney, chief communications officer,
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust at [2][email address] .

 

If you are not satisfied with the internal review, you can appeal to the
Information Commissioner.  The contact details are: Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF, telephone 01625 545 700 or see [3]www.ico.org.uk

 

Open Government Licence

 

The trust allows you to reuse this information under the Open Government
Licence found at the following [4]link. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

The Freedom of Information Team

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

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