FOI Request - Patient access to internet
Dear FOI Officer,
I am writing to make a Freedom of Information Request for details about the cost and provision of internet access (over wifi) to patients within the Trust's hospitals.
More specifically, please provide the following:
1. The name, or names, of the organisation/s currently used to provide wifi access to patients within the Trust's hospitals. Please state whether these organisations are private companies, charities, government bodies, etc. If private companies, please provide the company number. Please specify which organisations operate in which hospitals and or wards.
2. Please provide a copy of the current pricing plan for patients and visitors wishing
to access wireless internet within the Trust's hospitals? If there is more than one
pricing plan, please supply information on all, making a note of which hospitals and wards they
apply to.
3. Please provide the current pricing plan/s in place for each of the following specific wards:
a) Intensive / critical care - adult, paediatric and neonatal
b) Oncology, both adult and paediatric
c) Emergency department, adult and paediatric
d) Specialist trauma centre
4. For the current financial year 2018/19 so far, up to today's date, 30 September 2018:
a) Please provide a breakdown for each hospital showing the total revenue from the provision of wifi internet access for patients. Please also show how much of this revenue was paid to / retained by the organisation providing the internet access, and how much of this revenue was retained by the Trust. If any set payments are paid to, or received from, the organisation to the Trust, by way of a licensing agreement or similar, please also provide details of that contract.
b) The same for the financial year 2017/18
c) The same for the financial year 2016/17
If you require any further information, please do no hesitate to contact me.
If my request is denied, either in whole or in part, I ask that you make specific reference to exemptions under the Act.
Yours faithfully,
Guy Basnett
Dear Guy,
Your Request for Information [FOI-692-18]
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The Information Governance Manager,
c/o Archives and Records Centre,
Barts Health NHS Trust,
Lower Ground Floor,
9 Prescot Street,
Aldgate, London E1 8PR
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Yours sincerely,
Samir Kamil
Freedom of Information (FOI) Lead
Barts Health NHS Trust
9 Prescot Street
London E1 8PR
Email: [email address]
Website: www.bartshealth.nhs.uk
Dear Guy,
Your Request for Information [FOI-692-18]
Thank you for your request for information and the available information
is attached below.
1. The name, or names, of the organisation/s currently used to provide
wifi access to patients within the Trust's hospitals. Please state whether
these organisations are private companies, charities, government bodies,
etc. If private companies, please provide the company number. Please
specify which organisations operate in which hospitals and or wards.
Our response: Barts Health NHS Trust
2. Please provide a copy of the current pricing plan for patients and
visitors wishing to access wireless internet within the Trust's
hospitals? If there is more than one pricing plan, please supply
information on all, making a note of which hospitals and wards they apply
to.
Our response: There is no current pricing plan.
3. Please provide the current pricing plan/s in place for each of the
following specific wards:
a) Intensive / critical care - adult, paediatric and neonatal
b) Oncology, both adult and paediatric
c) Emergency department, adult and paediatric
d) Specialist trauma centre
Our response: There is no current pricing plan.
4. For the current financial year 2018/19 so far, up to today's date, 30
September 2018:
a) Please provide a breakdown for each hospital showing the total revenue
from the provision of wifi internet access for patients. Please also show
how much of this revenue was paid to / retained by the organisation
providing the internet access, and how much of this revenue was retained
by the Trust. If any set payments are paid to, or received from, the
organisation to the Trust, by way of a licensing agreement or similar,
please also provide details of that contract.
b) The same for the financial year 2017/18
c) The same for the financial year 2016/17
Our response: There has been no revenue as there is no current pricing
plan.
If you are dissatisfied on how your request has been handled, you can
complain in writing to: The Information Governance Manager, Barts Health
NHS Trust,
Email: [1][Barts Health NHS Trust request email]
Postal address:
The Information Governance Manager,
c/o Archives & Records Centre,
Barts Health NHS Trust,
Lower Ground Floor,
9 Prescot St,
Aldgate,
E1 8PR
If, after we have addressed your complaint, you remain dissatisfied with
how we have responded, you are entitled to appeal to the Information
Commissioner (Tel: 01625 545 745). Details are shown at
[2]www.ico.org.uk
Yours sincerely,
Samir Kamil
Freedom of Information (FOI) Lead
Barts Health NHS Trust
9 Prescot Street
London E1 8PR
Email: [3][email address]
Website: [4]www.bartshealth.nhs.uk
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