Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

 

Our Reference: HS/FOI/24804

 

9 September 2015

 

Mary Atkinson

[1][FOI #290548 email]  

 

 

Dear Ms Atkinson,

 

Request for Information

 

Thank you for your request for information, which was received via email
by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 7 September 2015. 
Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed
centrally by the Trust Administration Team, and I confirm that your
request is now being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20
working-day deadline.  I will, of course, keep you informed should this
not prove possible for any reason. If we require any clarification on your
request, we will contact you as soon as possible.

 

All requesters are advised that the Trust may make a charge for providing
the information to them, to cover the cost of photocopying, postage and
packaging etc – I confirm that where these costs are below £5.00 in total,
no charge will be made.  All requesters are also advised that there may
also be a charge payable to cover costs of locating the information they
have requested, as laid down in the Freedom of Information Act Regulations
published by the Government in December 2004.  Naturally, if such a charge
is to be applied to your request, you will be informed as soon as
possible.

           

Yours sincerely,

 

Helen Stokes

Senior Trust Administrator

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Tel: 0116 258 8590

 

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Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

 

Our Reference: HS/FOI/24804

 

5 October 2015

 

Mary Atkinson

[1][FOI #290548 email]  

 

 

Dear Ms Atkinson

 

Request for Information

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act request, as received via
email on 7 September 2015 and acknowledged on 9 September 2015.  For
information, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the
largest and busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country incorporating the
General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital and Royal Infirmary.  The three
hospitals are staffed by almost 11,000 people serving around one million
people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to
three million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for the
specialist services we provide.  During 2014/15 Leicester’s Hospitals
treated 1,229,500 (3,368 patients per day) – 97 more each day than in
2013/14.

 

Following discussion with colleagues within the Trust’s Finance
Directorate, I confirm that UHL NHS Trust holds information covered by
your request.  Your request is set out in bold below, followed by the
Trust’s response:-

 

I would like information regarding how much money overseas visitors
managers (OVMs) with the Trust have recouped from overseas visitors,
between 01 October 2014 and this date, 07/07/2015.

£275,729 – this is based on amounts paid to the Trust by overseas visitors
between the two dates in your request.

 

 

I would also like to know a figure, possibly an estimate figure, as to how
much

the establishment of an OVM team has cost the Trust between those dates.

£49,500 - this is an estimate due to the period in question not relating
to full months and relates to staff who were in post for the whole of this
period. I am advised that the Trust’s OVM team has been established for
several years.

 

 

I hope that this information is helpful. If you require any further
assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are dissatisfied
with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and
Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom
of Information Act complaints procedure.

 

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust
has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you
of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so
subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2005.  Accordingly you must not re-use this information
without having the consent of the Trust.  Where the Trust is prepared to
provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you
wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in
writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together
with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the
information is to be re-used.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Helen Stokes

Senior Trust Administrator

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Tel: 0116 258 8590

 

Information contained in e-mails may be subject to disclosure under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, and confidentiality cannot therefore be
guaranteed.  Please ensure that all e-mails are accurate and appropriate,
and are retained/deleted in accordance with good practice and any policies
of the Trust.  If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail,
please inform the sender, delete the e-mail from your system and destroy
any copies you may have made.

 

 

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