Health consultancy services expenditure

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Dear Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,

Please can you provide me with further information of an
itemised list of projects/contracts containing health consultancy
services/projects over £500 between financial years:

April 2014-March 2015
April 2013-March 2014

For each of these financial years, please also give a brief
indication of what the payments were for (contract name/project
title).

For each of these contracts, please state the supplier name.

I refer to the term 'consultancy' with regards to 'consultancy on
the health sector' in areas including but not limited to:
- evaluating health care policy including their impact on health
care delivery and spending
- evaluating clinical practice including their impact on health
care delivery and spending
- projects aimed to improve the efficiency and sustainability of
health care systems
- health economics and outcomes research
- measurement and understanding of patient reported outcomes
- health technology assessments (appraising medical technology for
NICE approval)
- statistics in health and healthcare

Please supply this in a excel/cvs format, thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Katie M

Dear Katie M,

Thank you for your request which we received on 20th July 2015.

We are responding to your request for information in line with the Freedom of Information Act (2000). We will endeavour to provide you with the information you require within 20 working days if we have it and are able to provide you with it.

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Yours sincerely,

Information Governance, RA & FOI Team
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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