Contracts for Independent Scanning Services
Dear Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust,
Please could you supply me with the following information:
Are you currently contracting an independent provider to provide a managed service for MRI?
Definition: A contract between the Trust and a third-party organisation to install and operate, with its own radiographic staff, an MRI scanner or scanners within the hospital with a fee per patient or per scanned patient area.
If the answer to question above is yes
a) Was the contract agreed after a formal procurement process? Where was it advertised?
b) Was it commissioned via a procurement framework? If so, which one?
c) What are the start and end dates of the contract?
d) Is there a contractual mechanism for the Trust to extend the contract? If so, what is the process used to extend the term and what was the term of the extension?
e) Please provide the total annual cost (previous 12-months)to the Trust for the MRI and/ managed MRI service
f) Please provide details of the number of patients scanned under this contract in the last twelve months.
Yours faithfully,
Denise Holmes
Dear Denise,
Re: FOI request ref: F23/0245
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Dear SWBH-GM-FOIREQUESTS (SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS NHS TRUST),
I submitted a request for information on 13th July 2023 but have not received a response, please find a copy of the request below.
The deadline for this was 10th August 2023, could you please advise when we can expect to receive this information.
Yours sincerely,
Denise Holmes
Denise Holmes 13 July 2023Delivered
Dear Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust,
Please could you supply me with the following information:
Are you currently contracting an independent provider to provide a managed service for MRI?
Definition: A contract between the Trust and a third-party organisation to install and operate, with its own radiographic staff, an MRI scanner or scanners within the hospital with a fee per patient or per scanned patient area.
If the answer to question above is yes
a) Was the contract agreed after a formal procurement process? Where was it advertised?
b) Was it commissioned via a procurement framework? If so, which one?
c) What are the start and end dates of the contract?
d) Is there a contractual mechanism for the Trust to extend the contract? If so, what is the process used to extend the term and what was the term of the extension?
e) Please provide the total annual cost (previous 12-months)to the Trust for the MRI and/ managed MRI service
f) Please provide details of the number of patients scanned under this contract in the last twelve months.
Yours faithfully,
Denise Holmes
Dear Denise,
Re: FOI request ref: F23/0245
Thank you for your freedom of information request.
Pease see attached.
I hope that the information provided in this email answers your query.
However, if you are dissatisfied with the response please contact the
Trust in the first instance with the details of your complaint so the
Trust can conduct an internal review. Please address such requests
to [1][Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust request email] or in writing to Kam Dhami,
Director of Governance, Trust Headquarters, Sandwell Hospital, Lyndon,
West Bromwich, B71 4HJ. Alternatively, if you remain unhappy with the
outcome you can appeal directly to the Information Commissioner at the
following address: [2]www.ico.gov.uk
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Office
[3][Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust request email]
+ Trust Headquarters, Health and Wellbeing Centre, Sandwell General
Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich B71 4HJ
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