Dear West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information.

Please could you provide responses to the following:
1. Please state the number of private patients who received treatment using equipment, resources or facilities owned by your NHS Trust in the period 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.
2. Please state of those private patients who received treatment using equipment, resources or facilities owned by your NHS Trust, how many were operated on using general or local anaesthetic?
3. Of those who underwent an operation please state the relevant speciality?
4. Of those patients who underwent an operation, how many received post operative care in (a) an NHS ward or (b) a separate ward specifically for private patients?
5. Please state the numbers of medical and non-medical staff involved in the provision of treatment (eg including the cleaning, catering, hotel facilities and administration etc)?
6. Please state the whole cost to your NHS Trust of providing the treatment above?
7. Please state the amount billed to the private health provider(s) for provision of this treatment?

Please provide the information in the form of a written response.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested because it exceeds the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under your Section 16 obligations, as to how I can refine my request to be included in the scope of the Act.

In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this.

I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act.

If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for. My details are outlined below.

Yours faithfully,

Sasha Pearce

Dear FOI,

Thank you for acknowledging my request, but I am disappointed to note that the deadline for providing the information I requested is now 2 days past and so I am requesting an urgent response.

Yours sincerely,

Sasha Pearce