Insourcing

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Dear Hull University Teaching 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

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Dear Sarah james

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request.

Before we can proceed with the request we need clarity on:-

Is it about insourcing - what services have we brought into the trust that we had previously outsourced?
Or outsourcing - where we have used an external provider to complete our activity?

If we do not receive a response within 2 months of this email, we will cancel the request.

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Freedom of Information Team
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Castle Road
Cottingham
HU16 5JQ

Dear Freedom of Information Requests,

Thank you for your reply.

What was meant by Insourcing was where services are provided on the Trusts Premises using the trusts equipment but the staffing and resources are provided by a Third Party.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah James

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