Trust Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers from 1st Jul 2019 to 30th Sep 2019

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Dear Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),

I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information act for all transactions over £500 from JUL 2019 to SEP 2019 (3 months). Please provide the data in a machine readable format (preferably CSV). As a minimum, please be sure to include the date, value, recipient and the procurement category of each transaction.

For avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response within 20 working days.

Yours faithfully,
Nikhil Prabhu

Governance, Info, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

Thank you. Your email has been received by the Information Governance Department and will be responded to in due course.

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Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

Dear Nikhil, I acknowledge receipt of your request below.

Your request is being processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Kind regards.

Irene Jardine
Information Governance Officer
Tel: 028 276 61415 (ext 363415)
Causeway House
8e Coleraine Road
BALLYMONEY BT53 6BP

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Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Nikhil, please find attached as requested.
 
Kind regards. 
 
Irene Jardine
Information Governance Officer
Tel:  028 276 61415 (ext 363415)
Causeway House
8e Coleraine Road
BALLYMONEY    BT53 6BP
 
 
 
 
 

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Dear Jardine, Irene,

Thank you for your response Ms. Jardine!

May I enquire whether Fostering and Adoption agency costs paid to independent agencies are included in the sheet provided? I cannot seem to locate any. Also, does "Supplier xxx" refer only to Individual payments or also to agencies?

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

I am on annual leave until Monday, 6 January 2020. Please direct your email to [Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland) request email] or contact 028276 61293, if urgent.

My working week is Monday, Wednesday, Friday, outside of these days please direct your email to [Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland) request email] or contact 028 276 61293 if urgent.

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Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

Dear Nikhil, in response to your queries, please see below.

Yes fostering and adoption agency costs are included in the information provided.

Unfortunately, due to the volume of information request, the Trust's Finance Department have had to use the “Supplier classification” NOT the “financial coding classification” used to classify each invoice. This has meant that ALL costs for each supplier are categorised the same. Most of the suppliers that relate to Fostering and Adoption agency costs are anonymised as they are part of a category “Foster Care”. As this category contains details of payments to individuals we have anonymised ALL the suppliers within it.

To only anonymise the payments to individuals would be extremely time-consuming and labour intensive given the volume of information requested; therefore, all payments under this classification have been anonymised.

I trust this is helpful.

Kind regards.

Irene Jardine
Information Governance Officer
Tel: 028 276 61415 (ext 363415)
Causeway House
8e Coleraine Road
BALLYMONEY BT53 6BP

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Dear Jardine, Irene,

Thank you for your response.

I would like to appeal against the Trusts decision to refuse information as they feel the cost would exceed the threshold.

All Trusts/Councils now have a sophisticated accounting system which enables information to be downloaded using the in-built software. This software should have filters to enable data without compromising any sensitive information. As an accountant myself I use this facility extensively.

We feel the cost in downloading and assessing the data should not exceed £450 as much of the work would be done by the machine itself. We therefore would like to appeal against the Trusts refusal to provide information as they feel the cost will exceed the threshold.

If it would help, we are looking for itemized transactions for all suppliers who provide a service in Health and Social Care ONLY from JUL 2019 to SEP 2019 (3 months), preferably in a CSV format. This would include all suppliers falling under the following categories :-

1. Payments to suppliers who provide fostering and adoption services to the Trust
2. Payments to suppliers who provide care services to the Trust. This
would include suppliers who provide care under each of the categories below
a. Children's Residential/ Nursing Care Providers
b. Adult Residential/ Nursing Care Providers
c. Elderly Residential/ Nursing Care Providers
d. Domiciliary Care Home Providers
e. Supported Living Care Home Providers
f. Care at Home Providers
g. Providers who carry out Homeless Services
3. Payments to suppliers who provide Special Education Services

To narrow my scope -- We are looking for payments to suppliers who provide a service in Health and Social Care ONLY.

I sincerely hope the Trust may now accommodate my request.

Thank you very much & Kind Regards,
Yours Faithfully,
Nikhil Prabhu

PS: All the other 4 NI Trusts have provided us with this information. Along with this JAN-SEP 2019 data, we kindly request the Trust to please un-redact the Supplier names previously provided as well (unless the Trust shall require me to respond on those particular e-mail threads instead, we apologize, we didn't catch that the Trust had redacted Supplier names previously as well!).

Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

My working week is Monday, Wednesday, Friday, outside of these days please direct your email to [Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland) request email] or contact 028 276 61293 if urgent.

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Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

Dear Nikhil, I acknowledge receipt of your email below.

I have referred your request to the Service and will be in touch with you again.

Kind regards.

Irene Jardine
Information Governance Officer
Tel: 028 276 61415 (ext 363415)
Causeway House
8e Coleraine Road
BALLYMONEY BT53 6BP

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Dear Jardine, Irene,

I beg your pardon, I need the Trust to un-redact Fostering agency names ONLY for this tranche (Jul-Sep 2019). The Trust had obliged and un-redacted the names previously in the file "FOI NP180219 080819 Fostering Adoption Agency Costs April 17 to J....pdf 394K" from April 2017 to June 2019; with the accompanying message "Dear Nikhil, please find attached fostering and adoption agency costs paid to independent agencies. Please accept my sincere apologies that this was omitted from the Trust's response. This information was not readily identifiable from the Trust's Finance systems."

So, to summarize, we need Fostering agency names un-redacted ONLY for this tranche (Jul-Sep 2019).

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

My working week is Monday, Wednesday, Friday, outside of these days please direct your email to [Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland) request email] or contact 028 276 61293 if urgent.

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Dear Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland) / Jardine, Irene,

I beg your pardon, I need the Trust to un-redact Fostering agency names ONLY for this tranche (Jul-Sep 2019) file -- "20191220 NP201119 Response Attachment IJ.pdf"

The Trust had obliged and un-redacted the names previously in the file "FOI NP180219 080819 Fostering Adoption Agency Costs April 17 to J....pdf 394K" from April 2017 to June 2019; with the accompanying message "Dear Nikhil, please find attached fostering and adoption agency costs paid to independent agencies. Please accept my sincere apologies that this was omitted from the Trust's response. This information was not readily identifiable from the Trust's Finance systems."

So, to summarize, we need Fostering agency names un-redacted ONLY for this tranche (Jul-Sep 2019), which is the file -- "20191220 NP201119 Response Attachment IJ.pdf"

Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

Governance, Info, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

Thank you. Your email has been received by the Information Governance Department and will be responded to in due course.

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Jardine, Irene, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Nikhil, please find attached, as requested. Independent Fostering Agencies have been highlighted yellow for ease of reference.

I trust this concludes your request.

Kind regards.

Irene Jardine
Information Governance Officer
Tel: 028 276 61415 (ext 363415)
Causeway House
8e Coleraine Road
BALLYMONEY BT53 6BP

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