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Dear Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust,

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act with respect to your Non- Emergency Patient Transport Services:

1) Do you currently subcontract any of your non-emergency patient transport services?
2) If so, please provide the name of the current provider(s) of the service together with the scope of work subcontracted to each provider.
3) Please provide the approximate number of patient journeys per annum undertaken by subcontractors.
4) Please provide the approximate cost of the annual charges paid to the provider for the service i.e. the annual cost of the service.
5) When do these contracts with subcontractors for non-emergency patient transport expire?

Yours faithfully,

Anna Woodward

Blake, Victoria, Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust

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Dear Anna

Re: Request under Freedom of Information Act 2000

Further to your recent request we are now in a position to respond as follows:

Q1. Yes, although all sub-contracts are based on an Any Qualified Provider (AQP) approach and there are no guaranteed volumes of activity.

Q2-4. See attached spreadsheet.

Q5. The AQP contracts will expire end of September 2012.

I hope you find this information helpful and if there is anything on which you need clarification, or if we can be of any further assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of your enquiry, you have the right to appeal by writing to:

Chief Executive
Great Western Ambulance NHS Trust (address as above).

If you are still not satisfied with the outcome, you can write to:

The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545700.

Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Co-ordinator

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Manky thanks for your prompt response and the information enclosed.

Kind regards,

Anna Woodward