Public Health/Welfare Funerals

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Dear United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust,

I am undertaking a study on the numbers of Public Health/Welfare Funerals undertaken by NHS Trusts. I would appreciate it if you would provide answers to the following FOI request.

1.The total number of public health funerals (where the deceased has no relatives or there is no one else willing to pay) that your Trust has undertaken for the financial years between 2007 and 2010
2.The number of public health funerals that your Trust has
undertaken by gender for the past 3 financial years
3.The number of public health funerals that your authority has undertaken by age for the past 3 financial years
4.Since April 2009, how many cases have there been where family and friends refuse to finance or make arrangements for their relatives funeral?
5.How much have the burials/cremations cost the trust broken down by year for the last three financial years?
6.How much does your trust typically (average cost) pay for a Public Health Funeral?
7.What does your Trust provide at a Public Health Funeral?
8. what relationship do you have with your local council(s)
regarding funerals of this nature?

Yours faithfully,

Paul Ogden

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Dear Mr Ogden

Please find attached the response to your FOI.

Sandra Cascoe-Bell
PA to Richard Lendon, Interim Director of Performance and Information,
Mike Napier - Board Secretary
and Ernst & Young Team
Membership Administrator, Foundation Trust Office

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Trust Headquarters, Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 4AX

T: 01522 573850/572301 F: 01522 573991
[email address]
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www.ulh.nhs.uk

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