In-patient mental health beds spend by provider
Dear Sir or Madam,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please can you provide me with:
The total spent on private in-patient mental health beds broken down by provider for the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24
For each of the providers in (1) please list the name of the hospital or clinic used.
If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad, I would be grateful if you could contact me by email on [email address], and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request.
Thank you,
The EveryDoctor team (www.everydoctor.org.uk)
Julia Patterson
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Dear Julia,
Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies for the delay in providing a response.
Please see the figures below which is for non-NHS Acute OOA only and excludes stepdown.
2019 £2,170,369
2020 £2,495,885
2021 £709,462
2022 £671,392
2023 £2,464,108
2024 £4,938,256
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Freedom of Information Office
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The Ashbourne Centre
Kingsway Site
Kingsway
Derby DE22 3LZ
Tel 01332 623700
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