Insourcing

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Dear Pennine Acute Hospitals 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

PennineFOI atSalford, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Good morning Sarah,

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PennineFOI atSalford, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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Good afternoon,

 

The Trust has now completed collation of data to support a response to
your recent Freedom of Information requests for Pennine Acute NHS Trust
and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

 

Details requested have been attached to this email.

 

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We trust these details will assist with your enquiries.  If we can be of
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