Wheelchair Service

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Dear NHS Swale Clinical Commissioning Group,
I would be most grateful if you would kindly furnish the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

1) Is your Wheelchair service procured as a separate service, or is it combined with other services such as Community Equipment, Prosthetics etc. If so, which services is it combined with?

2) Is your wheelchair service procured as an integrated wheelchair service (i.e. Assessments and approved repair in one contract) or separately as different contracts?

3) Is your provider / providers an NHS organisation or a contracted out non NHS organisation?

4) What is the name of your current Wheelchair Services provider – or if Approved Repair and Assessments are provided separately, what are the names of the providers for each service?

5) Is your wheelchair service exclusive to your CCG?

6) If your service is combined with another CCG please provide a list of the CCGs that share this wheelchair service and confirm who is the lead CCG?

7) When was each part of your wheelchair service (Assessment, Approved Repair, or integrated) last tendered?

8) When does the current contract expire. Please provide details of any potential contract extensions?

9) Please provide the date this Wheelchair service will be next tendered?

10) What is the size of the population covered by your wheelchair service?

11) How many registered users are served by the Wheelchair Service?

12) What is the contract spend in the last financial year for the integrated Wheelchair service?

Many thanks,

Yours faithfully,

Neil Douglas

VALENTINE, Mary (NHS SWALE CCG), NHS Swale Clinical Commissioning Group

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Ref:    SW-19-092

Date:  9 October 2019

 

Dear Mr Douglas

 

Thank you for your email dated 8 October 2019 addressed to NHS Swale
Clinical Commissioning Group relating to wheelchair services.

 

You will receive the information you  have requested within 20 working
days unless the  Clinical Commissioning group does not hold the
information or there is a reason for it to be withheld. In some
circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case I will let you
know.   A fees notice will be issued to you and you will be required to
pay before I proceed to deal with your request.  I will write to you in
any event.

 

If you have any requirements regarding the format any information should
be supplied e.g. the language to be used, large print and so on, then
please let me know. 

 

Further information about your rights is also available from the
Information Commissioner at:

 

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If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

 

Yours sincerely,

                 
                                                                                                                                                                                             

Mary Valentine

 

Mary Valentine Business Co-Ordinator

 

Direct line: 03000 424901

Email: [email address]

Base: NHS DGS CCG (Gravesend)

 

NHS Swale and NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning 
Groups

 

NHS DGS CCG, 2nd Floor, Gravesham Civic Centre, Windmill Street, Gravesend
Kent DA12 1AU  www.dartfordgraveshamswanleyccg.nhs.uk

 

NHS Swale CCG, Bramblefield Clinic, Grovehurst Road, Kemsley,
Sittingbourne Kent ME10 2ST [2]www.swaleccg.nhs.uk

 

For information on how to make a complaint or submit a Freedom of
Information Request for NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG and NHS
Swale CCG please see the relevant CCG website:
[3]www.dartfordgraveshamswanleyccg.nhs.uk or [4]www.swaleccg.nhs.uk

 

Please send all re quests for copies of personal data (Subject Access
request/Data Protection Act) to [5][email address]  or by
post to SECSU – Information Governance, Kent House, 81 Station Road,
Ashford TN23 1PP.

 

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VALENTINE, Mary (NHS SWALE CCG), NHS Swale Clinical Commissioning Group

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Ref:    MED-19-143

Date:  9 October 2019

 

Dear Mr Douglas

 

Thank you for your email dated 9 October 2019 addressed to NHS Medway
Clinical Commissioning Group relating to wheelchair service.

 

You will receive the information you  have requested within 20 working
days unless the  Clinical Commissioning group does not hold the
information or there is a reason for it to be withheld. In some
circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case I will let you
know.   A fees notice will be issued to you and you will be required to
pay before I proceed to deal with your request.  I will write to you in
any event.

 

If you have any requirements regarding the format any information should
be supplied e.g. the language to be used, large print and so on, then
please let me know. 

 

Further information about your rights is also available from the
Information Commissioner at:

 

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, |
| |
|Wilmslow, Cheshire |
| |
|SK9 5AF |
| |
|Telephone: 08456 306060 or 01625 54 57 45 |
| |
|[1]www.ico.gov.uk |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

 

Yours sincerely,

                 
                                                                                                                                                                                             

Mary Valentine

 

Mary Valentine Business Co-Ordinator

 

Direct line: 03000 424901

Email: [cyfeiriad ebost]

Base: NHS DGS CCG (Gravesend)

 

NHS Swale and NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning 
Groups

 

NHS DGS CCG, 2nd Floor, Gravesham Civic Centre, Windmill Street, Gravesend
Kent DA12 1AU  www.dartfordgraveshamswanleyccg.nhs.uk

 

NHS Swale CCG, Bramblefield Clinic, Grovehurst Road, Kemsley,
Sittingbourne Kent ME10 2ST [2]www.swaleccg.nhs.uk

 

For information on how to make a complaint or submit a Freedom of
Information Request for NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG and NHS
Swale CCG please see the relevant CCG website:
[3]www.dartfordgraveshamswanleyccg.nhs.uk or [4]www.swaleccg.nhs.uk

 

Please send all re quests for copies of personal data (Subject Access
request/Data Protection Act) to [5][cyfeiriad ebost]  or by
post to SECSU – Information Governance, Kent House, 81 Station Road,
Ashford TN23 1PP.

 

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intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the
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error please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this email
or take any reliance on its contents: To do so is strictly prohibited and
may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation.

 

 

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we can not guarantee the safety of any sensitive or confidential
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VALENTINE, Mary (NHS SWALE CCG), NHS Swale Clinical Commissioning Group

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Dear Mr Douglas

Further to your FOI request addressed to NHS Swale Clinical Commissioning
Group, I now have pleasure in attaching formal response.

With best wishes

 

Mary Valentine

 

Mary Valentine Business Co-Ordinator

 

Direct line: 03000 424901

Email: [1][email address]

Base: NHS DGS CCG (Gravesend)

 

NHS Swale and NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning 
Groups

 

NHS DGS CCG, 2nd Floor, Gravesham Civic Centre, Windmill Street, Gravesend
Kent DA12 1AU  [2]www.dartfordgraveshamswanleyccg.nhs.uk

 

NHS Swale CCG, Bramblefield Clinic, Grovehurst Road, Kemsley,
Sittingbourne Kent ME10 2ST [3]www.swaleccg.nhs.uk

 

For FOI requestrs please contact:

Mary Valentine, Business Co-Ordinator

03000 424901

 

Email [4][NHS Swale CCG request email]

 

For Complaints please contact

 

Sharon Davies, Corporate Governance Officer

01634 335177

Email [5][email address]

 

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