Overseas visitor management teams at NHS mental health trusts
Dear North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS 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then is in charge of overseas patient charging in your trust in line with changes advised in the Department of Health's Draft guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations, 2017?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
Dear Sarah Steele,
Please accept this as acknowledgement of receipt of your request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We are processing your request and a response is due to you by 12^th
October 2017 in accordance with the 20 working days deadline stipulated by
the Act.
Kind Regards,
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Marie Pass
Receptionist
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Lawton House
Bellringer Road
Trentham
ST4 8HH
Website: [2]www.combined.nhs.uk
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Telephone: 0300 123 1535 extension 6661
Internal extension: FN6661
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Dear Sarah Steele,
Further to your recent FOI request, I am writing to apologise for the
delay in responding and to advise that a response is currently being
finalised.
Kind Regards,
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Marie Pass
Receptionist
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Lawton House
Bellringer Road
Trentham
ST4 8HH
Website: [2]www.combined.nhs.uk
Follow us on Twitter [3]@CombinedNHS
Follow us on Facebook [4]here
Telephone: 0300 123 1535 extension 6661
Internal extension: FN6661
[5]http://i7.cmail19.com/ei/d/E8/06C/E36/23...
References
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2. http://www.combined.nhs.uk/
http://www.combined.nhs.uk/
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4. https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Sta...
Dear Sarah
Please find attached a response to your FOI
Sincere apologies for the delay
Many thanks
Lisa Wilkinson
Acting Corporate Governance Manager / Assistant Trust Board Secretary
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Lawton House, Bellringer Road, Trentham Lakes South
Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 8HH
Telephone: 0300 123 1535 extension 2030
Internal extension: FN 2030
Website: [1]www.combined.nhs.uk
Follow us on Twitter [2]@CombinedNHS
Follow us on Facebook [3]here
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3. https://www.facebook.com/pages/North-Sta...
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