Dear George Eliot 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 Freedom of Information,

What was meant by Insourcing is where the Trust's premises and equipment are used to offer extended services to reduce waiting times or offer more flexible appointments but the staff and resources are provided by a third party.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah James

Dear Freedom of Information,

I was meaning full times rather than just one person.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah James