NHS Wheelchair Services
Dear NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group,
Please may I request the following information with regard to NHS Wheelchair Services, to be provided under the Freedom of Information Act.
1. Who provides your current Wheelchair Service
a. Is your provider an NHS organisation or a contracted-out, non-NHS organisation?
b. What is the name of your current provider?
c. What is the name of the Wheelchair Service Manager?
2. How your wheelchair services are provided
a. Do you combine your Wheelchair Service with any other service, such as Prosthetics or Community Equipment? If so, please provide a list of the other services.
b. Is your Wheelchair Service exclusive to your CCG?
c. If you service is combined with another please provide a list of the CCGs that share this Wheelchair Service and confirm who is the lead CCG?
d. Is the Repair and Maintenance element of the service “integrated” or contracted out to a 3rd party Approved Repairer?
e. If you have an externally provided Approved Repairer, what is the name of your current provider?
3. About your wheelchair service
a. What is the size of the population covered by your Wheelchair Service?
b. How many registered service users are served by the Wheelchair Service?
4. About the Integrated (Combined service and Repair & Maintenance) contract with your provider
a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the Integrated Wheelchair Service?
b. Please state the dates of your last financial year.
c. When was the Integrated Wheelchair Service last tendered?
d. When does the current contract expire please provide details of any potential contract extension?
e. Please provide the date this Wheelchair Service will be next tendered
5. About the Repair and Maintenance (R&M) sub-contract with your wheelchair provider (where appropriate)
a. What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the R&M Wheelchair Service?
b. Please state the dates of your last financial year.
c. When was the R&M Wheelchair Service last tendered?
d. When does the current R&M sub-contract expire please provide details of any potential contract extension
e. Please provide the date that R&M Wheelchair Service sub-contract will be next tendered
Yours faithfully,
Mr N Douglas
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Nursing and Quality Directorate
East, Leicestershire & Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group
Leicestershire County Council
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Dear Mr Douglas
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Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group received by email on 14 November
2017. We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information
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Good Afternoon,
Thank you for your Freedom of information request received on 14 November
2017.
East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG) are
currently collating the information requested and apologise for the delay
in sending the response which was due today, however an extension of a
week is required to ensure we collate the relevant information.
Please accept our apologies and we will send you the response as soon as
the information has been made available to us.
Kind regards,
East, Leicestershire & Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group
Leicestershire County Council
Room G30, Pen Lloyd Building
County Hall, Glenfield
Leicester LE3 8TB
Dear Mr Douglas
Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to you.
I enclose our response to your FOI request.
Kind regards
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Kulbinder Gill
Patient Experience Officer
East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG
Leicestershire County Council
Room G30, Pen Lloyd Building
County Hall, Glenfield
Leicester LE3 8TB
T: 0116 295 3405 (reception)
Fax: 0116 295 1390
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