Public Health/Welfare Funerals

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Dear Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

I am undertaking a study on the numbers of Public Health/Welfare Funerals undertaken by NHS Trusts. I would appreciate it if you would provide answers to the following FOI request.

1.The total number of public health funerals (where the deceased has no relatives or there is no one else willing to pay) that your Trust has undertaken for the financial years between 2007 and 2010
2.The number of public health funerals that your Trust has
undertaken by gender for the past 3 financial years
3.The number of public health funerals that your authority has undertaken by age for the past 3 financial years
4.Since April 2009, how many cases have there been where family and friends refuse to finance or make arrangements for their relatives funeral?
5.How much have the burials/cremations cost the trust broken down by year for the last three financial years?
6.How much does your trust typically (average cost) pay for a Public Health Funeral?
7.What does your Trust provide at a Public Health Funeral?
8. what relationship do you have with your local council(s)
regarding funerals of this nature?

Yours faithfully,

Paul Ogden

Dear Mr Ogden

Thank you for your request for information that is being processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

This Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the 20 working days specified by the Act, ie 21 June 2010.

For your information the reference number that relates to your application is FOI.10.106.

We will contact you again in due course.

Yours sincerely

Sally Maine
Information Access Co-ordinator
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Mr Ogden

Please see this Trust's response to your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Yours sincerely

Sally Maine
Information Access Co-ordinator
Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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