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Dear Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust,

I am undertaking a study on the numbers of Public Health/Welfare
Funerals undertaken by NHS Trusts. I would appreciate it if you
would provide answers to the following FOI request.

1. The total number of public health funerals (where the deceased
has no relatives or there is no one else willing to pay) that your
Trust has undertaken for the financial years 2010/11, 2011/12,
2012/13?

2. The number of public health funerals that your Trust has
undertaken by gender for the past 3 financial years?

3. The number of public health funerals that your Trust has
undertaken by age for the past 3 financial years?
Since April 2010, how many cases have there been where family and
friends refuse to finance or make arrangements for their relatives
funeral?

4. How much have the burials/cremations cost the Trust broken down
by year for the last three financial years? This cost information
does not need to include administrative or staff costs, and before
any costs are claimed back by the local authority from the
deceased’s estate

5. How much does your trust typically (average cost) pay for a
Public Health Funeral?

6. What does your Trust provide at a Public Health Funeral?

7. What relationship do you have with your local council(s)
regarding funerals of this nature?

8. Have you observed any of the following over the last three
years?

• Higher numbers or people dying without any income or assets
• Higher numbers of people dying with family or friends unable to
contribute to the costs of a funeral
• Higher numbers of people dying with family or friends unwilling
to contribute to the costs of a funeral
• Higher numbers of people dying with no friends or family

Yours faithfully,

paul ogden

Southall Rebecca,

I am out of the office and will not return until Friday 5th April 2013. In
my absence please contact my colleagues Clare Foxall-Rush or Donna
Marie-Britton.

Foxall-Rush Clare,

Dear Mr Ogden,
I am in receipt of your request for information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. I will be dealing with your request and will endeavour to respond to you for 2nd May 2013.

Should you have any queries in the meantime then please do not hesitate to contact me.

With thanks
Clare Foxall-Rush
Deputy Trust Secretary
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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Foxall-Rush Clare,

Dear Mr Ogden,
I would like to apologise for the delay in responding to your request for information. I am awaiting confirmation of two points from the relevant service personnel. On receipt of this information I will forward the full response to you, as a priority.

With thanks
Clare Foxall-Rush
Deputy Trust Secretary
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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The information contained in an email may be subject to disclosure as required by law including under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Data Protection Act 1998. Unless the information requested is legally exempt from disclosure, we cannot guarantee that we will not provide the whole or part of an email to a third party making a request for information about the content of the email.
Internet e-mail is not a secure medium. E-mails sent via the Internet could be intercepted and read by someone else. Please bear that in mind when deciding whether to send material to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, partner organisations or the NHS in general.
The principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Caldicott guidelines should be adhered to at all times. NB. Emails containing patient identifiable data must be exchanged using the encrypted National NHS Mail email service (NHSnet).
Incoming and outgoing email messages may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications Regulations 2000 and Human Rights Act 2000.

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Foxall-Rush Clare,

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Dear Mr Ogden,
Please find attached our organisational response to your request for information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. I trust this is the information which you are seeking but should you have any further queries then please do not hesitate to contact me.

I would like to apologise for the delay in forwarding this information to you.

With thanks
Clare Foxall-Rush
Deputy Trust Secretary
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.
Computer viruses can be transmitted by email. Messages and any attached files will have been checked with virus detection software before transmission, however we advise you to check emails and any attachments for the presence of viruses as neither the Trust nor the sender accept responsibility for any viruses transmitted by this email and/or any attachments.
Confidentiality
The information contained in an email may be subject to disclosure as required by law including under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Data Protection Act 1998. Unless the information requested is legally exempt from disclosure, we cannot guarantee that we will not provide the whole or part of an email to a third party making a request for information about the content of the email.
Internet e-mail is not a secure medium. E-mails sent via the Internet could be intercepted and read by someone else. Please bear that in mind when deciding whether to send material to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, partner organisations or the NHS in general.
The principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Caldicott guidelines should be adhered to at all times. NB. Emails containing patient identifiable data must be exchanged using the encrypted National NHS Mail email service (NHSnet).
Incoming and outgoing email messages may be monitored in accordance with the Telecommunications Regulations 2000 and Human Rights Act 2000.

Please note that I do not monitor my nhs.net account.  If you wish to send a secure email then please notify me using this address.

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