Public Health/Welfare Funerals

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Dear University Hospital of North Staffordshire 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

Knowles, Jacqueline, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

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Good Afternoon

Please find attached an acknowledgment to your Freedom of Information
request.

Kind regards

Jackie

Jacqueline Knowles
Information Governance Secretary Clinical
Governance, Audit and Risk Department

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

Computer Building, Royal Infirmary, Princes Road, Hartshill,

Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7LN

Tel: 01782 55(5349)

Fax: 01782 746991
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Knowles, Jacqueline, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

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Good Afternoon

Please find attached a response to your Freedom of Information request.

Kind regards

Jackie

Jacqueline Knowles
Information Governance Secretary Clinical
Governance, Audit and Risk Department

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

Computer Building, Royal Infirmary, Princes Road, Hartshill,

Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7LN

Tel: 01782 55(5349)

Fax: 01782 746991
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