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 Mr Basnet,
Freedom of Information Act Request Acknowledgment
Thank you for contacting the Freedom of Information Office at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We confirm that we have received your correspondence.
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With best regards,
Alan Larn.
Alan Larn | communications officer (Freedom of Information) | communications department
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Nethermayne | Essex | SS16 5NL
01268 524900 ext 2992
[Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust request email]
Dear Mr Basnett,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 30 September 2018, which has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Your request and our responses are as follows:
Your request:
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.
Our response:
Internet access is not provided over wifi to patients in this trust. There are screens over individual beds on the wards, by which patients can access radio, tv, stores of films , etc. and the internet. The internet in wards is only accessible from these fixed screens. There is no wifi provision on the wards. This trust does not own the over-bed devices and receives no money for their use.
As all of your questions concern the provision of internet access to patients by wifi, there is no information that we can provide in response to them.
I hope that the response that the Trust has provided is satisfactory. However, if you are dissatisfied with the way in which your Freedom of Information request has been dealt with you can request an internal review. Please email [email address] within 40 working days with clarification of what you would like to be reviewed. We will aim to provide a review response within 20 working days.
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Kind regards,
Alan Larn | communications officer (Freedom of Information) | communications department Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Nethermayne | Essex | SS16 5NL
01268 524900 ext 2992
[Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust request email]
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