Audit costs, purpose and services
Dear NHS England,
1. How much has NHS England or Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (ECCCG) (or some other agency) spent on external auditors (Deloitte now and PWC (or other auditors)in the past) in respect of the internal audits of Eastern Cheshire CCG?
2. What specific services at ECCCG, is NHS England looking at stopping or curtailing?
3. Is our local East Cheshire NHS Trust - whose funding largely derives from ECCCG - going to lose services?
4. If so, which ones?
5. Where from? ie
i. Macclesfield Hospital,
ii. Congleton War Memorial Hospital,
iii. Knutsford Cranford Lodge Hospital,
iv. Community Health Services,
v. Commercial Services,
vi. Charitable or other services.
6. Will NHS England be curtailing any services which ECCCG currently buys in from other hospital services outwith this ECCCG area?
7. What is the current ECCCG debt?
8. How does it vary from previous years since the inception of ECCCG?
Under these circumstances of a looming General Elecxtion, I would be grateful for your expedition in answering these questions.. and am happy to receive your response into this page, with notification by email. I would be grateful if your response arrived within the next 10 days, since this is pertinent to the future of our local NHS.. and I am aware that you would like to be helpful.
Should there be anything in my request which you feel is unclear, I would be grateful if you would come back to me straight away, so that your response is not held up.
Yours faithfully,
Charlotte Peters Rock
Dear Ms Rock,
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Dear Ms Peters Rock,
Re: Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI-053519)
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 19 May 2017.
Your exact request was:
“1. How much has NHS England or Eastern Cheshire Clinical Commissioning
Group (ECCCG) (or some other agency) spent on external auditors (Deloitte
now and PWC (or other auditors)in the past) in respect of the internal
audits of Eastern Cheshire CCG?
2. What specific services at ECCCG, is NHS England looking at stopping or
curtailing?
3. Is our local East Cheshire NHS Trust - whose funding largely derives
from ECCCG - going to lose services?
4. If so, which ones?
5. Where from? ie
i. Macclesfield Hospital,
ii. Congleton War Memorial Hospital,
iii. Knutsford Cranford Lodge Hospital, iv. Community Health Services, v.
Commercial Services, vi. Charitable or other services.
6. Will NHS England be curtailing any services which ECCCG currently buys
in from other hospital services outwith this ECCCG area?
7. What is the current ECCCG debt?
8. How does it vary from previous years since the inception of ECCCG?”
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NHS England
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