Insourcing

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Dear Bedford Hospital NHS Trust,

1. Do you insource any clinical services and which ones?
2. Do you have a contract with any company and who is that and for which insourcing services?
3. Did you procure this under any current framework and if so which one?
4. How is this charged for by the third party service provider per patient/per tariff
5. Are you currently being charged below, on or above NHS tariff?
6. Do you use substantively employed Trust staff to delivery all or part of the insourced service?
7. The total number of procedures completed by each supplier (named) in the following categories:
• Endoscopy
• Ophthalmology
• ENT
• Neurology
• Dermatology
• All Other
8. The total spend completed by each supplier (named) per service area
9. Please give an annual breakdown per annum of insourcing services per service area:
• 15/16
• 16/17
• 17/18
• 18/19

Yours faithfully,

Sarah James

Dear Ms James,

I acknowledge receipt of your request under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, and you can expect the Trust’s response on or by 13/01/2019.

Yours sincerely,

IG/FOI Coordinator

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust
Kempston Rd | Bedford | MK42 9DJ

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Dear Ms James,

 

I write in response to your request under the Freedom of Information (FOI)
Act. 

 

Please see the Trust’s replies below.

 

 

1.            Do you insource any clinical services and which ones?

no

 

2.            Do you have a contract with any company and who is that  and
for which insourcing services?

 

no

 

3.            Did  you procure this under any current framework  and if so
which one?

N/A

 

4.            How is this charged for by the third party service provider
per patient/per tariff

N/A

 

5.            Are you currently being charged below, on or above NHS
tariff?

N/A

 

6.            Do you use substantively employed Trust staff to delivery
all or part of the insourced service?

N/A

 

7.            The total number of procedures completed by each supplier
(named) in the following categories:

•             Endoscopy

•             Ophthalmology

•             ENT

•             Neurology

•             Dermatology

•             All Other

N/A

 

8.            The total spend completed by each supplier (named) per
service area

N/A

 

9.            Please give an annual breakdown per annum of insourcing
services per service area:

•             15/16

•             16/17

•             17/18

•             18/19

N/A

 

 

 

 

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Bedford Hospital NHS Trust and subject to any existing Intellectual
Property and Database Rights.  Any commercial application or use of this
information may be subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public
Sector Information Regulations 2015 (RPSI).  This means that if you wish
to re-use the information provided for commercial purposes for any reason
you must ask the Trust for permission to do so.

 

I hope that this information is of help to you but if you are not
satisfied with the Trust’s response, or want to complain about the way in
which your request has been handled, you are entitled to request an
internal review.  To do so, please contact Data Protection Officer and
Information Governance Manager [1][email address]
and should your complaint not be upheld you have the right to appeal
against the decision by contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5AF.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

IG/FOI Coordinator

 

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

Kempston Rd | Bedford | MK42 9DJ

 

 

 

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