Freedom of Information request 260-2023

am writing with a Freedom of Information request regarding the use of healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust. To better understand how your trust deals with healthcare and specialised transport services, please clarify whether your trust provides these services in-house, outsources them all, or uses a mix of both approaches. Additionally, please provide the following data for your Trust and for each financial year 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23: 1. What was the spend £ value. on in-house healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust, and the respective volumes of patients / transportations that you realised with in-house capacity, split by: - High Dependency critically ill. patients - Neonatal newborn / premature. patients - Non-Emergency patients - Other patients, not included in previous splits. - Other non-patients, such as equipment and medication. 2. What was the spend £ value. on independent sector providers for healthcare and specialised transport services within your Trust, and the respective volumes of patients / transportations that you realised with contracted independent sector providers, split by: - High Dependency critically ill. patients - Neonatal newborn / premature. patients - Non-Emergency patients - Other patients, not included in previous splits. - Other non-patients, such as equipment and medication.