NHS Adult Hearing – Private Practice & Non-NHS Revenue
Dear FOI Team,
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the below.
NHS Adult Hearing – Private Practice & Non-NHS Revenue
The details I require are:
1. Does your NHS Adult Hearing service receive any Non-NHS revenue either directly from patients, in commission or in products or discount from manufactures, third party sellers online or otherwise? For the avoidance of doubt this should include hearing aids or devices, Bluetooth enable devices, TV streamers, hearing aid remote controls or any other peripherals. If yes, then please list volumes/values per annum or if this is not available, then please provide the budgeted value in your trusts financial forecast for years 2023/24 and if available 2024/25.
2. Do any of the professional audiologists delivering NHS services on behalf of the Trust work in private practice? If yes, have they declared to the Trust that this is a potential conflict of interest?
3. Have you received any patient, customer or service user complaints that mention the purchase or supply of any of the following? Hearing aids or devices, Bluetooth enabled devices, TV streamers, hearing aid remote controls or any other peripherals. If yes, please list the number and nature of the complaint/complaints.
Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely
Dear Zorina,
Further to your Freedom of Information Request below, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is commissioned to provide mental health services in Lincolnshire. We can confirm that we are not commissioned to provide Hearing Services, therefore it may be more appropriate to redirect your request to United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to request for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to: FOI Department, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Trust Headquarters, Long Leys Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN1 1FS. If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Kind regards,
FOI Department
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Headquarters, St George’s, Long Leys Road, Lincoln, LN1 1FS
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