Information relating to Patient Feeding and Retail Catering

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Dear Stockport NHS Foundation Trust,

I would be grateful if you could provide me under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contracts below.

Retail Catering Services / Patient feeding services
1. The name and contact details for the Chief Executive?
2. The name and contact details for the Director of Finance?
3. The name and contact details for the Director of Estates and Facilities?
4. The name and contact details of the Procurement Director?

Retail Catering
5. The name(s) of the company(ies) who currently provides retail catering at the hospital?
6. Is this a single service contract or part of an IFM contract? If so, who is the FM provider and what other services are included?
7. How many of each type of outlet are there e.g. coffee shop, restaurant etc
8. When does the contract expire?
9. What is the average sales turnover per annum for all the outlets combined?

Patient Feeding
10. Who provides patient feeding within the hospital?
11. If this is run in house is the trust willing to consider outsourcing?
12. If outsourced, is this a single service contract or part of an IFM contract? If so, who is the FM provider and what other services are included?
13. When does the contract expire?
14. What is the annual turnover per annum for patient feeding?

Additional Questions
15. How many beds are there in the hospital? If there is more than one hospital in the trust, please can you breakdown the number of beds per hospital building?
16. How many staff work in each hospital?
17. Do you use a framework for catering? If so, which framework do you use?
For clarity, the details of the successful and unsuccessful suppliers are kept in the strictest confidence. All these details are only used to help in potentially bidding for these contracts. I would be very grateful if you would provide the details which gives us more information about how the hospital operates.

Yours faithfully,

David Roberts

FOI, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Mr Roberts,

 

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Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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Stockport

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Dear FOI,

Please can you respond to my FOI request of 11th February 2022 as it is very long overdue.

Yours sincerely,

David Roberts

FOI, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Dear David,

Please accept our apologies for the delay in our response. I will chase the team who are handling this request, as soon as I receive any information I will be sure to process our response and get this sent straight away. Hopefully I will have your response by the end of this week.

Again I apologise due to current pressures the Trust is facing we are trying our best to comply with FOI deadlines.

Kind regards

Laura Sillitoe
Freedom of Information and Information Governance Support Officer
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Stepping Hill Hospital
Poplar Grove
Stockport
Cheshire. SK2 7JE
Tel: 0161 419 4160 type ext. 11 7225 when prompted

Email: [Stockport NHS Foundation Trust request email]

*Please note I am currently working off site, if you need to speak to me directly, please email me and I will call you.

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FOI, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Mr Roberts,

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Laura Sillitoe

Freedom of Information and Information Governance Support Officer

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stepping Hill Hospital

Poplar Grove

Stockport

Cheshire. SK2 7JE

Tel: 0161 419 4160 type ext. 11 7225 when prompted

 

Email: [1][Stockport NHS Foundation Trust request email]

 

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