Trust losses and special payments: FOIA

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Dear Sir or Madam,

This is a FOIA request. The Trust is required to provide information on losses and special payments in its annual report. I am writing to request additional, more detailed information regarding these losses and payments. I am making this request because I believe there is a clear and compelling public interest in understanding more about the types of losses and special payments the Trust makes.

1. Losses and special payments

Please provide a copy of your losses and special payments register or database for the year 2016-17. I would expect this information to include, but not necessarily be limited to:

a) Category of loss or special payment (e.g. bad debt, fruitless payment, compensation payment made under legal obligation) as defined in relevant losses and special payments policy or procedure documents.
b) A summary of the loss
c) Amount paid out in £ Sterling (or other currency)
d) Debtor name (where that debtor is a company or disclosure of a person’s name is permitted by the data protection provisions of s.40)

2. Bad debts

a) Please state how much bad debt was written off in the year 2016-17.
b) If, and only if, you hold the information in an easily retrievable format, i.e. not in individual case files, please state how much of this bad debt was non-NHS and/or private patient debt write offs and/or overseas visitors related.

This request is only concerned with information which is easily exportable and does not require the Trust to review individual case files, which might trigger the cost threshold (s.12). I am interested in any and all relevant information which is easily exportable and that provides greater clarity on how losses were accrued and special payments were made, but which is not published in your annual report. The information I am requesting should not, therefore, be caught by s.21 or s.22.

If you consider that some information is exempt from disclosure please cite the section of the FOIA you are using to redact information. Please also ensure any redactions you make are sufficiently granular and do not withhold information on a 'blanket' basis. When applying exemptions which contain a public interest test, please also explain, in line with the guiding principles of the Information Tribunal, how the public interest would be, or would be likely to be, materially prejudiced by disclosure.

I would be grateful if you could be mindful of your statutory duty to provide advice and assist to requesters (s.16) when responding to this request. I would prefer to receive all information electronically and in machine-readable formats (such as .xls) where applicable. I would also be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt of this request.

Thank you for the time you will invest in providing a response.

Gratefully,

Lucas Amin

FOI, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Amin

 

Thank you for your request under section 1a of the Freedom of Information
Act.

 

We have begun to process your request and will send a response to you
within 20 working days.

 

Regards

 

Graham Lewis

Information Assurance Support Officer

Telephone: 0151 706 2677

E-mail: [email address]

 

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FOI, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Amin,

Unfortunately we were unable to facilitate your request within the 20 day
working day time frame.  Some of the reasons for this is due to the volume
of requests received into the Trust and heavy workloads within the
organisation.

We apologise for not yet responding to you and would appreciate it if you
could confirm you still require this data

 

Regards

 

Graham Lewis

Information Assurance Support Officer

Telephone: 0151 706 2677

E-mail: [email address]

 

Our values: Patient centred | Professional | Open and engaged |
Collaborative | Creative

 

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FOI, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Amin,

Apologies for the delay in response. Please see the attached in response to your recent FOI request.

We have also attached a brief questionnaire which we hope you could answer and return to help us evaluate and improve our service.

Kind regards
Erin Brown
Information Assurance Support Officer
Telephone: 0151 706 2677
E-mail: [email address]

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