Termination of Pregnancy Service (TOP)

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Dear FOI Team,
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.

Provision of an Integrated Sexual Health Service

The details we require are:

1. Please confirm the organisations commissioned by the CCG to provide Termination of Pregnancy Services to your patients?

2. Please confirm the end dates of currently commissioned contracts?

3. Are any providers currently within an extension period of their contract?

4. Were contracts awarded through a competitive tender process?

5. What is the form of contract: AQP or sole provider?

6. At what percentage of tariff is each provider delivering services?

7. What activity numbers were delivered by each provider, by HRG code, over the past 12 months?

8. Please confirm the annualised actual contract values for each provider for 2019/20?

9. Please confirm who (if any) providers are providing ToP services to patients without a
contract where a patient has exercised their right to choose a provider? What are the activity numbers delivered per provider?

10. What were the average wait times for providers over the past 12 months? (broken down by month and surgical/medical)

11. Do any of the contracted providers sub-contract any parts of the service to an alternative provider? If so, who and what?

12. Does ToP feature on the CCGs commissioning intentions?

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

Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely
Ryan Brown

FOITEAM (NHS MIDLANDS AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT),

Dear Ryan,

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Thank you for your request for information received on 5th August 2020, under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We will be processing your request on behalf of the following CCGs:

•NHS Cannock Chase CCG
•NHS South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsula CCG
•NHS North Staffordshire CCG
•NHS East Staffordshire CCG

We aim to respond to your request within 20 working days, the latest of which is 3rd September 2020, however, should any delays be anticipated we will contact you in advance to advise you of this.

Please note that during the current pandemic, many of our colleagues have been redeployed to support the wider NHS with their response to the coronavirus outbreak and as a result delays are expected and we kindly ask you to bear with us during this time. Again we will contact you where we are notified of expected delays as soon as possible.

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If you require an update on the progress of your request, please contact the Freedom of Information service, by email [NHS South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular CCG request email] or by telephone on 01782 872648

Yours sincerely

Access to Information Team

(01782) 872648
[NHS South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular CCG request email]

Midlands and Lancashire CSU

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