Ensuring financial efficiencies

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Dear Birmingham Women ’s NHS Foundation Trust,

I am researching the financial efficiency of the NHS. Under the FOI act, please provide all of the information that you are able to supply:

1. Which VAT advisor does the trust use? (E.g. Berthold Bauer, CRS, Liaison, EY, KPMG, etc.)
2. When did the contract start, and when does it end?
3. What % fee or day rate do you pay?
4. How much did you pay for VAT advisory services in 2014/15?
5. Do you use a provider for VAT re-reviews? If so, which one?
6. What % fee or day rate do you pay for a re-review service?
7. How much did you pay for this service in 2014/15?

8. Do you use any external provider to identify payments for duplicated invoices (please state name)?
9. When did the contract start, and when does it end?
What % fee or rates do you pay for the service?
10. How much did they invoice the trust in 2014/15?

11. How much bad debt (UK) was written off in 2014/15?
12. How much overseas debt was written off in 2014/15?
13. Do you use any external provider to assist with debt collection (please state name)?
14. What % fee or rates do you pay for the service?
15. How much did they invoice the trust in 2014/15?

16. Do you use any external provider to ensure invoices correlate to the contract charges i.e. checking volume discounts have been applied (please state name)?
17. What % fee or rates does the trust pay for this service?

Yours faithfully,

J Taylor

Donna Dallaway,

Dear Ms Taylor

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

I acknowledge receipt of your request on 22 July 2015 as detailed below and confirm that it is being handled appropriately under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request has been forwarded to the relevant department/s and I will write to you again as soon as such information as we hold and are able to disclose is forthcoming. In any event this will be on or before 19 August 2015.

If in the meantime you have any comment or further query to make in relation to this matter, please contact me quoting the above reference number.

Yours sincerely

Donna Dallaway
Information Governance Manager
Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Tel: 44 (0)121 472 1377 Ext 7026
E-mail: [Birmingham Women ’s NHS Foundation Trust request email]

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Request Details :-

Dear Birmingham Women ’s NHS Foundation Trust,

I am researching the financial efficiency of the NHS. Under the FOI act, please provide all of the information that you are able to supply:

1. Which VAT advisor does the trust use? (E.g. Berthold Bauer, CRS, Liaison, EY, KPMG, etc.)
2. When did the contract start, and when does it end?
3. What % fee or day rate do you pay?
4. How much did you pay for VAT advisory services in 2014/15?
5. Do you use a provider for VAT re-reviews? If so, which one?
6. What % fee or day rate do you pay for a re-review service?
7. How much did you pay for this service in 2014/15?

8. Do you use any external provider to identify payments for duplicated invoices (please state name)?
9. When did the contract start, and when does it end?
What % fee or rates do you pay for the service?
10. How much did they invoice the trust in 2014/15?

11. How much bad debt (UK) was written off in 2014/15?
12. How much overseas debt was written off in 2014/15?
13. Do you use any external provider to assist with debt collection (please state name)?
14. What % fee or rates do you pay for the service?
15. How much did they invoice the trust in 2014/15?

16. Do you use any external provider to ensure invoices correlate to the contract charges i.e. checking volume discounts have been applied (please state name)?
17. What % fee or rates does the trust pay for this service?

Yours faithfully,

J Taylor

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Donna Dallaway,

Dear Ms Taylor

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

 

Further to my acknowledgement of 22 July 2015, the Trust has reviewed your
request and is now able to respond as follows:

 

Request and response:

 

1.            Which VAT advisor does the trust use? (E.g. Berthold Bauer,
CRS, Liaison, EY, KPMG, etc.)

                                The Trust does not directly employ a VAT
advisor as VAT services for the Trust forms part of wider a Service Level
Agreement with another NHS Foundation Trust for the provision of financial
services.    I understand they use KPMG as advisors.

2.            When did the contract start, and when does it end?

                                N/A

3.            What % fee or day rate do you pay?

                                N/A

4.            How much did you pay for VAT advisory services in 2014/15?

                                N/A

5.            Do you use a provider for VAT re-reviews? If so, which one?

                                The Trust used Liaison for a re-review of
the VAT work undertaken by the NHS shared service provider and their
advisors.

6.            What % fee or day rate do you pay for a re-review service?

                                20% of any under-recoveries identified

7.            How much did you pay for this service in 2014/15?

                                £6k

8.            Do you use any external provider to identify payments for
duplicated invoices (please state name)?

                                No

9.            When did the contract start, and when does it end?

                                N/A

What % fee or rates do you pay for the service?

                                N/A

10.          How much did they invoice the trust in 2014/15?

                                N/A

11.          How much bad debt (UK) was written off in 2014/15?

                                £266

12.          How much overseas debt was written off in 2014/15?

                                £127

13.          Do you use any external provider to assist with debt
collection (please state name)?

                                Credit control services are included in
the Trust's wider financial services service level agreement with another
NHS Foundation Trust.

14.          What % fee or rates do you pay for the service?

                                N/A

15.          How much did they invoice the trust in 2014/15?

                                N/A

16.          Do you use any external provider to ensure invoices correlate
to the contract charges i.e. checking volume discounts have been applied
(please state name)?

                                No

17.          What % fee or rates does the trust pay for this service?

                                N/A

 

I trust that the above is helpful. If however, you wish to complain about
the handling of your request or the content of this reply, please do not
hesitate to contact me again and I will try to assist further.  It would
be helpful if you could explain the reasons for your dissatisfaction and
quote the above reference. Should local resolution fail, you may request
an independent internal review and ultimately you may appeal to the
Information Commissioner's Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Donna Dallaway

Information Governance Manager

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

 

Tel: 44 (0)121 472 1377 Ext 4720

E-mail: [Birmingham Women ’s NHS Foundation Trust request email]

 

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