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Overseas visitor management teams at NHS mental health trusts

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Dear Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust,

I write to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 on how you have instituted overseas patient charging and the costs of your overseas visitor management team at your trust, if you have one. Please can you tell me:

1) Whether you have an overseas visitor management team or a similar team? If NOT, who then is in charge of overseas patient charging in your trust in line with changes advised in the Department of Health's Draft guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations, 2017?

2) What is the cost of the current team for the preceding year, or if established only recently following the changes in 2017, its cost of set up and estimated costs for 2017/2018? (Note: this cost could include salaries, but also overheads including facilities and equipment used).

3) What, if any, charges have been levied to overseas patients in your trust by this team, and how much of this has been recouped?

Yours faithfully,

Sarah Steele

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Sarah Steele

Many thanks for your email below requesting information from Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

If you have any queries about this request, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

FOI Officer

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Headquarters
St George’s Site
Long Leys Road
Lincoln
LN1 1FS
Email: [Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust request email]
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DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addessed. Therefore if the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is strictly prohibited. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in this E-Mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure, the confidentiality of this E-Mail and your reply cannot be guaranteed.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Ms Steele,

Further to your Freedom of Information Request as per your original email below. Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is commissioned to provide mental health and learning disability services. In response to your request, the Trust do not have a team for overseas patients and can confirm that the Trust has not invoiced any foreign nationals for services it is commissioned to provide. The demographic profile of the county perhaps accounts for Lincolnshire receiving fewer overseas visitors (non-EU) than many other parts of the country. As a provider of mental health and learning disability services, it is less common for overseas visitors to use our services (compared to acute trusts). Therefore your request maybe more appropriate to re-direct to United Lincolnshire Hospital 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, Units 8 & 9, The Point, Lions Way, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 8GG. 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 Officer

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Headquarters
St George’s Site
Long Leys Road
Lincoln
LN1 1FS
Email: [Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust request email]

CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addessed. Therefore if the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is strictly prohibited.  Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated.  The information contained in this E-Mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  Unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure, the confidentiality of this E-Mail and your reply cannot be guaranteed. 

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