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E-mail: freedomofinformation@ghc.nhs.uk Website: www.ghc.nhs.uk
DATE: 09/03/2021
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 034-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response attached as a separate PDF document. Should you have any queries in relation to our response in this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:-
Associate Director of Corporate Governance Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
FOI Request
I hope this finds you well. My name is David Maasdorp and I am an EM middle grade doctor currently working in London. I am hoping you might be able to assist me with a Quality Improvement Project I am currently involved in.
We are doing a national multi-centre QIP looking into the cost-saving potential of reducing single-use items in the NHS, in particular cups, cutlery and crockery. As part of this, we are collecting procurement data from all the NHS acute trusts.
With this in mind, I would be so grateful if you could provide spend data for FY 2019 - 2020 for the whole trust for the following items: plastic cups, paper cups, styrofoam cups, plastic forks, knives, spoons, plastic teaspoons, plastic straws, plastic stirrers, wood stirrers, disposable plates, disposable bowls, and any other single use catering items. Quantity used and amount spent for each item if available, or if not for individual items, then overall amount spent would be useful as well.
For administrative purposes, please consider this email as a Freedom of Information request. I look forward to hearing back from you.