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James Sturgeon

Dear University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust,

I am looking for help with the following information/questions on pressure area care/negative pressure equipment contracts currently in place with the trust.

Section 1

1) What are the Hospital names and locations that form part of the Trust? (Please provide details)

2) Which framework is utilized for purchasing such as SBS, NHS Supply Chain or other (please provide details of all that are used)

3) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Section 2

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to provide Topical Negative Wound Therapy Treatment for each hospital location?

*Smith-Nephew

*KCI

*Talley

*Other (please provide names)

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

3) Is this equipment provided via Hire agreement, Purchase or other? (Please provide details)

4) Is the provision of this equipment contracted? Yes or No

5) If contracted is the service and maintenance of this equipment included as part of the contract? Yes or No

6) If No - How is service & maintenance of this equipment dealt with - 3rd party provider or in-house?

7) If 3rd party provider please state company name

8) Is the 3rd party service & maintenance contracted? Yes or No

9) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

10) What is the expiry date of this contract?

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of Topical Negative Wound Therapy to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (If Yes please provide name of previous supplier)

2) What date did your current contract start?

3) How long is the current contract? (Including any extension periods)

4) When does the current contract expire?

5) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

6) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

Section 3

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to provide pressure relief alternating dynamic surface air mattresses to the trust?

*Hill-Rom

*Smith-Nephew

*Talley

*Direct Healthcare

*Karomed

*Other (please provide names)

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

3) What is the total number of dynamic mattresses on-site?

4) Is this a managed service? Yes or No

5) Is the provision of dynamic surfaces contracted? Yes or No

6) If Yes is the service and maintenance of this equipment included as part of the contract? Yes or No

7) If No - How is service & maintenance of this equipment dealt with - 3rd party provider or in-house?

8) If 3rd party provider please state company name

9) Is this 3rd party service contracted? Yes or No

10) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

11) What is the expiry date of this contract?

12) How is the decontamination of these products managed? In-house or 3rd party provider

13) If 3rd party provider please state company name

14) Is this 3rd party service contracted? Yes or No

15) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

16) What is the expiry date of this contract

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of dynamic alternating air surface mattresses to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) Which method is used to tender the contract? (Please provide details)

2) What date did your current contract start?

3) What is the term of the contract? (including any extension periods)

4) When does the current contract expire?

5) Is the contract purchase, hire or other (please provide details)

6) If contracted, when did you last tender the contract?

7) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (if Yes please provide previous supplier)

8) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

9) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

Section 4

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to supply profiling bed frames?

*Hill-Rom

*Sidhil

*Invacare

*Linet

*Huntleigh

*Other (please provide details)

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

3) Which products are used? (Please provide details)

4) What is the total number of hospital bed frames on-site?

5) Is the supply of bed frames contracted?

Yes or No?

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of profiling beds to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) What date did your current contract start?

2) How long is the current contract? (Including any extension periods)

3) When does the current contract expire?

4) When did you last tender the contract?

5) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (if Yes please state previous supplier)

6) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

7) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

I look forward to hearing from someone in reply and appreciate any help and information that can be supplied

Yours faithfully,

James Sturgeon

FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

Our Reference: GB/FOI/33208

9 May 2017

Dear Mr Sturgeon

Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information, as received via email by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 8 May 2017. Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed centrally by the Trust Administration Team, and I confirm that your request is now being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20 working-day deadline. I will, of course, keep you informed should this not prove possible for any reason. If we require any clarification on your request, we will contact you as soon as possible.

All requesters are advised that the Trust may make a charge for providing the information to them, to cover the cost of photocopying, postage and packaging etc – I confirm that where these costs are below £5.00 in total, no charge will be made. All requesters are also advised that there may also be a charge payable to cover costs of locating the information they have requested, as laid down in the Freedom of Information Act Regulations published by the Government in December 2004. Naturally, if such a charge is to be applied to your request, you will be informed as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Gill Belton
Trust Administrator
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

Our Reference: GB/FOI/33208

6 June 2017

Dear Mr Sturgeon

Request for Information

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, as received on 8 May 2017 and acknowledged on 9 May 2017. For information, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country incorporating Leicester General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary. Our three hospitals have around 14,000 staff serving around one million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to three million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for the specialist services we provide. During 2015-16 we treated 1,577,200 patients (that’s 4,321 patients per day) – 347,700 more than in 2014-15.

Following consultation with colleagues from the Finance and Procurement Directorate, I confirm that the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI request. In your Freedom of Information Act request, you asked for the following information and the Trust’s response is provided below following each section of your request:-

FOI REQUEST:-

Section 1

1) What are the Hospital names and locations that form part of the Trust? (Please provide details)

Leicester Royal Infirmary (Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WW)
Leicester General Hospital (Gwendolen Road, Leicester, LE5 4PW) and
Glenfield Hospital (Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP).

2) Which framework is utilized for purchasing such as SBS, NHS Supply Chain or other (please provide details of all that are used)

NHS Supply Chain, Health Trust Europe, North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, ESPO, Crown Commercial Services.

3) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Please see specific responses provided below.

Section 2

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to provide Topical Negative Wound Therapy Treatment for each hospital location?

*Smith-Nephew
*KCI
*Talley
*Other (please provide names)

KCI / Acelity.

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Framework agreement.

3) Is this equipment provided via Hire agreement, Purchase or other? (Please provide details)

The units are via a lease agreement and the Trust purchases the consumables.

4) Is the provision of this equipment contracted? Yes or No

Yes.

5) If contracted is the service and maintenance of this equipment included as part of the contract? Yes or No

Yes.

6) If No - How is service & maintenance of this equipment dealt with - 3rd party provider or in-house?

Not applicable.

7) If 3rd party provider please state company name

Not applicable.

8) Is the 3rd party service & maintenance contracted? Yes or No

No.

9) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

Not applicable.

10) What is the expiry date of this contract?

Not applicable.

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of Topical Negative Wound Therapy to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (If Yes please provide name of previous supplier)

No.

2) What date did your current contract start?

1 December 2014.

3) How long is the current contract? (Including any extension periods)

2 years initial contract with the option to extend for up to 3 years.

4) When does the current contract expire?

31/5/2017 – following this, the Trust will transfer to the national framework.

5) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

£243,556.61 (2016/17).

6) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

£268,168.40.

Section 3

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to provide pressure relief alternating dynamic surface air mattresses to the trust?

*Hill-Rom
*Smith-Nephew
*Talley
*Direct Healthcare
*Karomed
*Other (please provide names)

Hill-Rom and Medstrom Healthcare.

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Hire
Fixed Period Rental

3) What is the total number of dynamic mattresses on-site?

Primo – 446 mattresses; Duo – 80 mattresses
Dolphin Therapy – Fixed Period Rental Agreement

4) Is this a managed service? Yes or No

Yes.

5) Is the provision of dynamic surfaces contracted? Yes or No

Yes.

6) If Yes is the service and maintenance of this equipment included as part of the contract? Yes or No

Yes.

7) If No - How is service & maintenance of this equipment dealt with - 3rd party provider or in-house?

Not applicable.

8) If 3rd party provider please state company name

Not applicable.

9) Is this 3rd party service contracted? Yes or No

Not applicable.

10) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

Not applicable.

11) What is the expiry date of this contract?

Not applicable.

12) How is the decontamination of these products managed? In-house or 3rd party provider

By Medstrom Healthcare.

13) If 3rd party provider please state company name

Please see response to question 12 above.

14) Is this 3rd party service contracted? Yes or No

Yes.

15) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

15 years.

16) What is the expiry date of this contract

2020.

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of dynamic alternating air surface mattresses to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) Which method is used to tender the contract? (Please provide details)

OJEU tender.

(Bed and Equipment Management Contract
Contract Reference: TUHL/02/2002/167
OJEU Tender – 2005)

2) What date did your current contract start?

1 May 2005.

3) What is the term of the contract? (including any extension periods)

15 Years.

4) When does the current contract expire?

2020.

5) Is the contract purchase, hire or other (please provide details)

Hire.

6) If contracted, when did you last tender the contract?

Not applicable.

7) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (if Yes please provide previous supplier)

Not applicable.

8) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

Not applicable.

9) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

£1,062,039.00 plus VAT.

Section 4

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to supply profiling bed frames?

*Hill-Rom
*Sidhil
*Invacare
*Linet
*Huntleigh
*Other (please provide details)

Hill-Rom, Sidhil, Huntleigh, Medstrom and Montcalm.

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Lease, capital.

3) Which products are used? (Please provide details)

Hill Rom – Evolution 150
Hill Rom – Avantguard 1200
Hill Rom – HR900
Hill Rom – Affinity Birthing Bed
Hill Rom – Total care Sport
Huntleigh Contoura
Sidhill – Innov8 Low Bed
Montcalm Low Bed
Medstrom – MMO5000 Low Bed

4) What is the total number of hospital bed frames on-site?

1972.

5) Is the supply of bed frames contracted?

Yes or No?

Yes.

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of profiling beds to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) What date did your current contract start?

1 May 2005.

2) How long is the current contract? (Including any extension periods)

15 years.

3) When does the current contract expire?

2020.

4) When did you last tender the contract?

Not applicable.

5) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (if Yes please state previous supplier)

Not applicable.

6) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

Not applicable.

7) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

£1,062,039.00 plus VAT.

I hope that this response is satisfactory and provides you with the information requested (where available). If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are dissatisfied with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom of Information Act complaints procedure.

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. Accordingly you must not re-use this information without having the consent of the Trust. Where the Trust is prepared to provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the information is to be re-used.

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely,

Gill Belton
Trust Administrator
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Information contained in emails may be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and confidentiality cannot therefore be guaranteed. Please ensure that all emails are accurate and appropriate, and are retained / deleted in accordance with good practice and any policies of the Trust.

If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please inform the sender, delete the email from your system and destroy any copies you may have made.

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FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Trust Administration

Our Reference: GB/FOI/33208

6 June 2017

Dear Mr Sturgeon

Request for Information

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, as received on 8 May 2017 and acknowledged on 9 May 2017. For information, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country incorporating Leicester General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary. Our three hospitals have around 14,000 staff serving around one million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to three million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for the specialist services we provide. During 2015-16 we treated 1,577,200 patients (that’s 4,321 patients per day) – 347,700 more than in 2014-15.

Following consultation with colleagues from the Finance and Procurement Directorate, I confirm that the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI request. In your Freedom of Information Act request, you asked for the following information and the Trust’s response is provided below following each section of your request:-

FOI REQUEST:-

Section 1

1) What are the Hospital names and locations that form part of the Trust? (Please provide details)

Leicester Royal Infirmary (Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WW)
Leicester General Hospital (Gwendolen Road, Leicester, LE5 4PW) and
Glenfield Hospital (Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP).

2) Which framework is utilized for purchasing such as SBS, NHS Supply Chain or other (please provide details of all that are used)

NHS Supply Chain, Health Trust Europe, North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, ESPO, Crown Commercial Services.

3) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Please see specific responses provided below.

Section 2

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to provide Topical Negative Wound Therapy Treatment for each hospital location?

*Smith-Nephew
*KCI
*Talley
*Other (please provide names)

KCI / Acelity.

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Framework agreement.

3) Is this equipment provided via Hire agreement, Purchase or other? (Please provide details)

The units are via a lease agreement and the Trust purchases the consumables.

4) Is the provision of this equipment contracted? Yes or No

Yes.

5) If contracted is the service and maintenance of this equipment included as part of the contract? Yes or No

Yes.

6) If No - How is service & maintenance of this equipment dealt with - 3rd party provider or in-house?

Not applicable.

7) If 3rd party provider please state company name

Not applicable.

8) Is the 3rd party service & maintenance contracted? Yes or No

No.

9) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

Not applicable.

10) What is the expiry date of this contract?

Not applicable.

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of Topical Negative Wound Therapy to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (If Yes please provide name of previous supplier)

No.

2) What date did your current contract start?

1 December 2014.

3) How long is the current contract? (Including any extension periods)

2 years initial contract with the option to extend for up to 3 years.

4) When does the current contract expire?

31/5/2017 – following this, the Trust will transfer to the national framework.

5) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

£243,556.61 (2016/17).

6) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

£268,168.40.

Section 3

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to provide pressure relief alternating dynamic surface air mattresses to the trust?

*Hill-Rom
*Smith-Nephew
*Talley
*Direct Healthcare
*Karomed
*Other (please provide names)

Hill-Rom and Medstrom Healthcare.

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Hire
Fixed Period Rental

3) What is the total number of dynamic mattresses on-site?

Primo – 446 mattresses; Duo – 80 mattresses
Dolphin Therapy – Fixed Period Rental Agreement

4) Is this a managed service? Yes or No

Yes.

5) Is the provision of dynamic surfaces contracted? Yes or No

Yes.

6) If Yes is the service and maintenance of this equipment included as part of the contract? Yes or No

Yes.

7) If No - How is service & maintenance of this equipment dealt with - 3rd party provider or in-house?

Not applicable.

8) If 3rd party provider please state company name

Not applicable.

9) Is this 3rd party service contracted? Yes or No

Not applicable.

10) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

Not applicable.

11) What is the expiry date of this contract?

Not applicable.

12) How is the decontamination of these products managed? In-house or 3rd party provider

By Medstrom Healthcare.

13) If 3rd party provider please state company name

Please see response to question 12 above.

14) Is this 3rd party service contracted? Yes or No

Yes.

15) If Yes what is the contract term? (Including any extension periods).

15 years.

16) What is the expiry date of this contract

2020.

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of dynamic alternating air surface mattresses to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) Which method is used to tender the contract? (Please provide details)

OJEU tender.

(Bed and Equipment Management Contract
Contract Reference: TUHL/02/2002/167
OJEU Tender – 2005)

2) What date did your current contract start?

1 May 2005.

3) What is the term of the contract? (including any extension periods)

15 Years.

4) When does the current contract expire?

2020.

5) Is the contract purchase, hire or other (please provide details)

Hire.

6) If contracted, when did you last tender the contract?

Not applicable.

7) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (if Yes please provide previous supplier)

Not applicable.

8) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

Not applicable.

9) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

£1,062,039.00 plus VAT.

Section 4

1) What is the name of the manufacture used to supply profiling bed frames?

*Hill-Rom
*Sidhil
*Invacare
*Linet
*Huntleigh
*Other (please provide details)

Hill-Rom, Sidhil, Huntleigh, Medstrom and Montcalm.

2) By which method is this procured? (Please state all that applies)

Lease, capital.

3) Which products are used? (Please provide details)

Hill Rom – Evolution 150
Hill Rom – Avantguard 1200
Hill Rom – HR900
Hill Rom – Affinity Birthing Bed
Hill Rom – Total care Sport
Huntleigh Contoura
Sidhill – Innov8 Low Bed
Montcalm Low Bed
Medstrom – MMO5000 Low Bed

4) What is the total number of hospital bed frames on-site?

1972.

5) Is the supply of bed frames contracted?

Yes or No?

Yes.

The following questions are only applicable if the supply of profiling beds to the hospital trust is contracted.

1) What date did your current contract start?

1 May 2005.

2) How long is the current contract? (Including any extension periods)

15 years.

3) When does the current contract expire?

2020.

4) When did you last tender the contract?

Not applicable.

5) As a result of the tender did you change provider? Yes or No (if Yes please state previous supplier)

Not applicable.

6) Please provide the financial value of the contract in the last 12 months of the previous contract including total value and periods covered.

Not applicable.

7) Please provide the financial value for the first 12 months of the current contract in place.

£1,062,039.00 plus VAT.

I hope that this response is satisfactory and provides you with the information requested (where available). If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are dissatisfied with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom of Information Act complaints procedure.

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. Accordingly you must not re-use this information without having the consent of the Trust. Where the Trust is prepared to provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the information is to be re-used.

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely,

Gill Belton
Trust Administrator
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Information contained in emails may be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and confidentiality cannot therefore be guaranteed. Please ensure that all emails are accurate and appropriate, and are retained / deleted in accordance with good practice and any policies of the Trust.

If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please inform the sender, delete the email from your system and destroy any copies you may have made.

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